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 Mr. József
Kárpáti and Mr. István Baróti. In 1980, as a pupil of Mrs. 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 Mr. István Lantos and Mrs. Edit Hambalkó, graduating in 1986,
and
organ with Mr. 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 Mr. Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and Mr.Antal
Doráti. He was awarded an Artisjus Prize in 2007. He regularly plays
for services at St. Anne's RC Church in the Upper Water Town
District
of Budapest and often in another Hungarian RC churches. 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. Between
2020 and 2022 he taught piano and organ and was an accompanist in
Vecsés. From 2023 he has been an accompanist at the Farkas Ferenc
music school in the 1st district of Budapest.
1993
2011
2013
2014
2015
2018
2020
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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Cell number: +3620/9526250