László Sáry

László Sáry (born 1 January 1940 in Györ ( Győrasszonyfa ) ) is a Hungarian composer, pianist and music teacher who lives in Budapest. Sáry is a representative of minimal music ( musical minimalism ).

Life

Sáry studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, among others, Endre Szervánszky. Together with other Hungarian composer Zoltán Jeney as László Vidovszky, Péter Eötvös and Albert Simon he raised 1970 " Új Zenei Stúdió " (Studio for New Music ) one in which he is active as a composer and performing musician.

In 1972 he attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music and met Christian Wolff, who sparked his interest in new techniques of composition and performance methods.

Sáry developed mid-1970s the Sáry method ( " Sáry módszer - Kreatív zenei gyakorlatok "), which " exercises for creative music-making ." The method is to sensitize the students towards the acoustic and musical environment and wants to convey concepts of new music in an intuitively accessible form.

Sáry 's method was introduced in music schools and is also taught at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Sáry has his method in 1994 introduced in the MUS -E project, supported by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Germany Europe-wide artistic program for schools. Sáry represented his method in courses he gave on trips to Japan, France, Italy, Belgium, Estonia. End of 2006 / beginning of 2007, the method was introduced bipolar in Germany at a workshop series of the German -Hungarian cultural project.

In the 1990s Sáry was musical director of the " Katona József Színház " and taught at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest. For the dance opera " Labyrinth", which was set by the choreographer Gerzson Péter Kovács Gábor Mihály and the " Hungarian State Folk Ensemble " (Magyar Nepi Állami Együttes ) in 2008 scene, he has composed the music.

Sáry has over eighty works composed, including three chamber operas. For his compositions, he received the 1979 Kassák Prize, the 1986 Erkel Prize ( Erkel Ferenc díj ), 1993 the Bartók Pásztory Price ( Bartók Béla Pásztory Ditta - díj ). In 1998 he received a third prize at the " International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music " and in 2000 the State Award " Érdemes Művész ". Sáry is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of the Arts ( " Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia " ) since 1998.

His older brother is the composer József Sári.

Works

• Exercises for creative music-making, Edited by Martin Tchiba ( www.tchiba.com ), Saarbrücken: Pfau, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89727-350-4