Lajos Sárközy Jr. & Band

Lajos Sárközy Jr. was born in Budapest in a family of musicians. He started playing the violin when he was only three years old. His first teacher was his father, who is also a violinist. He later attended a music school, and at the age of thirteen he continued his studies in a class for the gifted at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he was taught by Eszter Perényi.

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He boasts several awards in competitions, including international awards - in 2005 he won the international competition in Poland, and in 2006 he won the Gábor Radics International Jazz Competition. He got to know Hungarian Roma music in his father's ensemble, and then founded his own band called Lajos Sárközy Jr. and Banda. The members of the group are Lajos Sárközy Jr. (first violin), Lajos Sárközy st. (second violin), Gyula Bóni (viola), Rudolf Sárközy (double bass) and Gyula Csík (dulcimer). For six years they performed in the oldest restaurant in Budapest, called Százéves Étterem (Century Restaurant), where famous artists came just to hear their music (among them were members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Gidon Kremer, Nigel Kennedy and many actors, professors and world artists and travelers). The group traveled around the world and performed in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and the USA, among others. Their ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS | 87's musical partners were world-renowned musicians such as Kristóf Baráti and Andreas Ottensamer, and they also performed with the Hungarian Radio Orchestra. The group strives to cultivate Hungarian and classical music and present new nuances that no Hungarian Roma group has performed before.

Performance at the Maribor Festival

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General Maistra Hall, Narodni dom, Maribor