”Where Are You, Mama?” – Composer Péter Zombola's Path from the Orphanage to Worldwide Fame
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”Where Are You, Mama?” – Composer Péter Zombola's Path from the Orphanage to Worldwide Fame
This programme is held in Hungarian.
That music and art heal wounds is by now a cliché – and yet, meeting a living creator whose severe childhood traumas were processed with the help of a new musical world he himself created is a truly unique experience. The protagonist of our concert is Péter Zombola, one of Hungary’s most successful composers, who is gaining increasing international recognition; his uniquely voiced compositions are meeting with success in many places from the United States to East Asia. Few people know, however, that behind the composer’s sombre, archaic sonorities lie years in an orphanage, adoptive parents, and the trauma of a mother who was hidden from him and whom he searched for in vain as an adult. At the concert, Zombola’s works will be interwoven with movements by his favourite master, Franz Schubert, performed by the Danubia Orchestra under the baton of Máté Hámori, the originator of the evening and the composer’s friend. Scenes from a film made from their personal life confession, which unfolds through their conversation, will also complement the musical works.
Péter Zombola was born on 2 March 1983 in Budapest. He pursued his composition studies at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music as a student of Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky, then studied composition at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music under Zoltán Jeney and György Orbán. He received his diploma with honours in 2006, and a year later he was likewise awarded his music theory teaching certificate with honours. Between 2006 and 2009 he was a student of the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music, obtained his doctoral degree in 2010, and habilitated there in 2018. Many of his works have been premiered at the most prestigious Hungarian and international festivals; he is also a regular participant in contemporary music and art courses. He has written several film scores for Hungarian and foreign films, and he regularly composes advertising music, theatre scores and other applied music, and is an active member of professional organisations. In both his creative and pedagogical work he considers it particularly important to involve the younger generation, to engage their intellect and emotions in getting to know the treasures of the musical literature, and to build bridges between music and the other arts. The focus of his creative work is on orchestral and choral pieces, as well as oratorios and stage works, among which the Requiem premiered in 2012, the 2015 Passio, and the opera Echo from 2019 stand out.
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