Szabó, András

Born into a musical family in Budapest in 1978, his father was a tutor at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music and his mother a cellist at the Hungarian State Opera House. Between 1992 and 1996 he was a student of Tibor Beleznay at the Béla Bartók Music Secondary School, and from 1997 a student at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where his tutor was TiborTarjáni. He has won prizes at several international competitions (Munich, Markneukirchen, Beijing), and has taken part in master courses run by Peter Damm, Timothy Jones, Frank Lloyd, David Jolley, Eric Terwilliger and Eyal Vilner. He has been a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra horn section since October 2001.