Bánk Sáry

Bánk Sáry was born in 1973 in Budapest. With
both a father and uncle as composers, he was
destined to start music early, commencing
with lessons in piano and percussion at the age
of seven. In 1994, he undertook composition
studies at the Liszt Academy of Music in Buda
pest, receiving his teachers’ diploma in Com
position and Music Theory Teaching in 1999.
By 1998, he was awarded a fellowship to study in
Italy, and, between 1999 and 2001, he attended
the Giuseppe Verdi Academy of Music in Como,
learning under professor Ivan Fedele. In 2002,
he spent five months in Edenkoben (Germany)
in an Artists’ House (“Herrenhaus”) on the recommendation of Péter Eötvös.
He has also been invited to the “International Ensemble Modern Akademie”
(IEMA) composers’ seminar in Frankfurt. In 2008, he was awarded the Erkel
Prize and went on to twice receive the Hungarian Scholarship Board’s Eötvös
Scholarship. In 2005, he went to Japan for three months to study traditional
Japanese music, and in 2011 spent four months in the United States to study
the culture and traditions of native American Indians. Between 2002 and 2013,
he taught music, following his father’s pedagogical method, at the University
of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. In 2016, he participated as a guest in
the CEEC 16+1 (Central East European Countries and China) program where,
after a month-long study trip to China, he was invited to write orchestral
compositions for ensemble with traditional Chinese instruments. In 2017,
he earned a doctorate degree (DLA) from the Liszt Academy of Music in
Budapest. And in that same year, he was made associate professor at the
Department of Motion Picture Arts and Communication, at the Institute of
Visual Arts at Károly Eszterházy University’s Department of Motion Picture
Arts and Communication in Eger.