Árpád Solti, born in 1986, is a Junior Prima
Award-winning composer, pianist, and organist,
and a recognized figure in Hungarian as well as
international music life. He has studied music in
Budapest, Brussels, and Gothenburg, where he
currently resides. He is also an organist for the
Swedish Church in Borås. His compositional
style is characterized by his knowledge and
respect for tradition, as well as a simultaneous
integration into his music of innovative com
positional techniques. He incorporates Grego
rian chant, baroque, and jazz idioms into
his works, that merge seamlessly alongside
elements from progressive metal and electronic club music – for example,
techno and dubstep. In 2013, his one-act opera, La Violetta, was premiered by
the Hungarian State Opera House and has been released on CD. His works
have been performed by prominent figures within the Hungarian music scene,
such as the Hungarian National Philharmonic, Concerto Budapest, Pannon
Philharmonic, Óbuda Danubia Orchestra, Budafoki Dohnányi Orchestra, to
name a few. He is also a member of the Studio 5 Composers’ Group, together
with Máté Bella, Bence Kutrik, Roland Szentpáli, and András Gábor Virágh.
His works have been published by Editio Musica Budapest and Bo Ejeby
Förlag. He was awarded the Göteborg Freemasons’ Music Scholarship in
2015 and again in 2018, and he also received the Kungliga Vetenskaps – och
Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg Music Prize. In 2019, his first Portrait of a
Composer’s album, Shut It Down, was released by MZK Publishing. Alongside
his compositional work, he is also active as a performer and regularly plays as
a pianist and organist in solo and chamber concerts. The Swedish label Lalliox
has so far released three solo piano albums with him performing gems from
the Swedish romantic musical canon.
STAGE WORKS
La Violetta – Opera (2013), soloists, chbr. orch. Lib: András Almási-Tóth
Az ígéretek földje/The Land of Promises – Musical (2016), soloists, pno.
Lib: Beatrix Németh
CONCERTOS
Piano Concerto (2009), pno., 2 tr., hn., trb., tuba, 2 perc.
Nakonxipán (2012), perc., symph. orch.
Concertino (2017), timp., str. orch.
Piccolo Concerto (2018), picc., symph. orch.
Harpsichord Concerto (2019), harps., str. orch.
ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Aktok/Nudes (2010), symph. orch.
Wien (2012), symph. orch.
CHAMBER WORKS
Elégia/Elegy (2006), vl., vcl., pno./hn., vcl., pno./org.
Suite (2006), 2 cl.
Sonatina (2006/2008), 4 timp. Pub: UMP EMB
Father, Forgive Them/Vater vergib ihnen (2010), 2 vl., vla., vcl.
En Garde! (2011), snare drum (2 players)
At Liszt’s Grave (2011), 2 vl., vla., vcl., pno., harp
Az én mérges macskáim/My Angry Cats (2012), 2 vl.
Kindergarten Songs (2012), fl., cl., vl., vcl., pno., perc.
Cooltrain (2013), cl./vibr., electronics
Boszorkányszombat/Witch Sabbath (2014), picc., pno.
In This Weather (2014), voice, 2 vl., vla., vcl., pno. Lib: Friedrich Rückert
Sewing Machine (2018), voice, 8 trb. Lib: Dániel Varró
Shut It Down! (2018), fl, B cl., electronics
A I3 I3 A (2019), 2 vl., vla., vcl.
Rontás elleni imádság/A Prayer Against Curse (2019), picc., pno./harp
E-flat Earth (2019), timp., pno.
Jesus Walks on the Water (2019), voice, electronics Lib: David E. Molnár
CHORAL WORKS
Ave Maria (2007), male chr.
La Loreley (2015), SATB Lib: Guillaume Apollinaire
Last Statements (2016), 3 SATB Lib: Biblical Texts and Last Statements by
Executed Offenders of Texas Death Row Pub: UMP EMB
Gloria (2017), female chr., 2 perc./SATB, org.
Tavasz kezdetével /The Spring is Here/Våren är här (2018), female chr., pno.
Lib: Eszter Forgács Pub: Bo Ejeby Förlag
Télapó/Santa Claus/Jultomten (2018), female chr., pno. Lib: Eszter Forgács
Zengjen a dal/Let’s Sing (2018), SATB Lib: Zoltán Szabó Pászti
Your Sun Rises for Evil and God/Din sol går opp för ond och god (2020),
SATB, pno. Lib: Liturgical
The Word of the Lord is to be Trusted/Herrens ord är att lita på (2020), STB,
pno. Lib: Liturgical
Karácsony éjjelén/Christmas Eve/Julnattens glädje (2020), female chr., pno.
Lib: Eszter Forgács
Kossuth téren/At Kossuth Square (2020), SATB Lib: Eszter Forgács
Lidércnyomás/Nightmare (2020), female chr., pno. Lib: Composer
VOCAL WORKS
Trois chansons – Song Cycle (2011), voice, pno./voice, fl., cl., bs., guitar,
harp, pno. Lib: Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire
Six Nursery Rhymes – Song Cycle (2012), voice, pno. Lib: Beatrix Németh
Amit szívedbe rejtesz/What You Hide in Your Heart – Song Cycle (2019),
voice, pno. Lib: Attila József, Endre Ady, Frigyes Karinthy
SOLO WORKS
Bagitell (2008), pno.
Quasi cadenza (2010), cl./fl./A fl.
Trois valses (2010), pno.
What was it like…?/Milyen volt…? (2010), pno.
Seven SitCom Episodes (2015), pno.
P-cock fun tas(t)y!-frOmmage à Co-die (2015), mar.
Decaf Coffee (2019), mar.
Christmas Eve (2020), org.
Arietta (2020), org.
