Sandor Szaszvarosi – Viol and Cello player
As a representative of historical performance practice, Sandor Szaszvarosi (viola da gamba) focuses his attention mainly on the versatile music style eras of the 15-18 centuries. He is the viol solist of Hungaroton Records. In addition to giving regular concerts in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Germany and the Czech Republic, he has also founded several early music ensembles, including the Sonora Hungarica Consort, Custos Consort and Sebastian Consort.
He graduated from the Academy of Music Budapest and at the University of Debrecen with a degree in chamber music and cello artist, then attended the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Wien) in Vienna, this time in the viol class of José Vazquez. Subsequently, he continued his viol studies in Leipzig (at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”), where Irene Klein and Nicholas Parle were his tutors.
He has launched the primary and secondary viola da gamba tuition in Hungary, at Kodaly Zoltán Hungarian Choir School, where he worked as a teacher between 2002 and 2004, then also at the T. Pikéthy Vocational School of Music and the Ward Mária Vocational School of Music. He is currently a teacher at the latter two vocational schools.
Among other events, Sandor has performed at the Budapest Spring Festival, th
e Zemplén Festival, the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, the Hungarian Massala Festival in India, the Five Churches Festival in Győr, the Music Festival in Miercurea Ciuc, the Perla Musica Early Music Festival, the Baroque Art Festival in Cesky Krumlov and the Bratislava Early Music Festival.
His recordings, which are highly acknowledged by critics, include
“Telemann Trio Sonatas”
“Cantabo Domino” baroque countertenor arias
“L’Echo du Danubet” (a Sonata series by Johann Schenk, op. 9)
and the album that introduces “Sonatas of Ruhe”, both of these are published in the care of HUNGAROTON Records
“Buxtehude and His Era”
the solo viol album “From the Spirit of Gamba to Human Voice” – and
“Ars Lachrimarum”, a CD titled “The Art Of Tears”, published in 2018.
