Hungarian organist László
Attila Almásy was born in Budapest in 1962. His late father, László,
was a pianist, composer and teacher, and his mother,
Lily, is a retired health professional. His first piano teacher was
Mrs. Tibor Gáspár, and he started learning the organ with József
Kárpáti and István Baróti. In 1980, as a pupil of Edit Hambalkó at
the Béla Bartók Music School in Budapest, he won first prize at the
Hungarian National Music Schools Piano Competition. Later, at the
Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest he studied piano with István
Lantos and Edit Hambalkó, graduating in 1986, and organ with Gábor
Lehotka, qualifying the following year.
He won second prize in the 1988 Budapest International Liszt Organ
Competition, and was a finalist in the Bruckner International Organ
Competition in Linz, Austria in 1990. His career as an organ
recitalist has taken him to all five corners of the globe: he has
performed to acclaim in no fewer than thirty countries. He has
played the organ in Budapest, Prague, Salzburg, Frankfurt, Rome, The
Vatican, Barcelona, The Hague, London, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen,
Tomsk (former Soviet Union), Singapore, Sydney, Guanajuato (Mexico),
Montevideo, Buenos Aires, as well as Whangarei, Auckland, Onehunga,
Timaru, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin in New Zealand,
Pretoria and Port Elizabeth in South-Africa; he has also performed
as a pianist in Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands and the former
Soviet Union.
With the Hungarian Chorale Quintet, in which he was the organist, he
appeared in Singapore, Finland, Estonia and Spain. He has worked
with such world class conductors as Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and Antal
Doráti. He was awarded an Artisjus Prize in 2007. He is currently
active as the organist of the Lajos Bárdos Choir at the Church of
the Sacred Heart in Városmajor, Budapest: he regularly plays
for services at St. Anne's Church in the Upper Water Town District
of the city. From 1986 to 2011 he was accompanist and taught piano
and organ at the Bartók Béla Music School, Budapest. Between 2013 and 2021
he taught piano at Weöres Sándor school in Gyömrő, Hungary. Since 2020
he has been teaching piano at music school in Vecsés, Hungary.
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Organ recital of Ferenc Liszt from 1988 videos
Lajos Bárdos: Missa Tertia
Participated: László Attila Almásy
Recital in Budapest - Felsővizivárosi
Szent Anna
church
Recital in Budapest, Capuchin Church
Blessing of an organ in Palotás
An interview for Hegyvidék TV
Organ recital in Páduai Szent Antal catholic church
"The pleasant and quality made music raise us" - László
Attila Almásy organist at the Vác Cathedral
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