TORNYAI, Péter (HUN)

Péter Tornyai was born in 1987. As composer he graduated in 2012 as student of Zoltán Jeney at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest where he also studied violin and chamber music. In 2012-13 he studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, Italy. In 2021 he finished his doctoral (DLA) program at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music (with a thesis on Salvatore Sciarrino’s music), where he teaches composition, orchestration, analysis and contemporary music. In 2015 he was mentored by Péter Eötvös.

As violinist and violist he often plays classical and contemporary music with chamber ensembles such as THReNSeMBle, Ludium Ensemble (specialized in György Kurtág’s music), Dohnányi Quartet, Classicus Ensemble (Artist in Residence of Central European University), Classicus Quartet, and UMZE.

Since 2013 he has been the artistic director of the Anima Musicae Contemporary Music Workshop. He is a founding member of CentriFUGA contemporary music group, and Hermina Artist Collective.

His music has been awarded in numerous competitions, such as New Hungarian Music Forum (2011, 2013, 2017), Wiener Konzerthaus’s composing competition "Towards the Next 100 Years” (2012), Gerhardus-prize (2011), Junior Prima Prize (2016), Artisjus Prize (2017). His pieces were performed by e.g. JACK Quartet, Stadler Quartet, Asasello Quartett, Benyounes Quartet, Kelemen Quartet, UMZE, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Wiener Kammerorchester, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz in several European countries, the USA and New Zealand.