Sáry Bánk

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.