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JENÖ LISZTES

Jenö Liszt was born in Budapest in 1986. At the age of four, he began playing Hungary's most famous instrument, the cimbalom. His father and grandfather also play the cimbalom, so it's a kind of family tradition. Ágnes Szakály was his first teacher at the music school, and later Ilona Szeverényi Gerencsérné at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He graduated as a cimbalom teacher and artist in 2010.

Since 2006, he has been a member of the Roby Lakatos Ensemble and leads his own jazz trio, the "Jenö Lisztés Cimbalom Project." Jenö frequently performs as a soloist with world-renowned symphony orchestras. With various ensembles, he has performed on the most prestigious stages, including the Budapest Palace of Arts, Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

In 2012, he was invited to play the cimbalom part in Hans Zimmer's Hollywood film "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra have invited him to numerous concerts and performed with him as a soloist at the BBC Proms in 2018.

In 2023, he was invited to perform on the International Day of Remembrance in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Also in 2023, Jenö was invited by the world-renowned Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki and the New York Philharmonic to perform three concerts at David Geffen Hall and a recital at Lincoln Center in New York.

Jenö plays on cimbaloms made by Ákos Nagy in Budapest, Hungary.

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