PAVLOVITS Dávid

Dávid Pavlovits is one of the most prominent guitarist-composers of his generation. He attended the guitar and composition classes of the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Szeged and he graduated from the Darmstadt Academy of Music in guitar with distinction. Later he graduated from the Gutenberg University in Mainz and from the Musikhochschule in Munich. His teachers for his guitar studies were Tilman Hoppstock, Olaf Van Gonnissen and Walter Schumacher. He also studied piano with Lajos Huszár, Heinz-Wieland Kurz and Grigory Gruzman. His musical development was mostly influenced by the great Russian piano school founded by Neuhaus, and also by pianists like Schnabel, Cortot and Michelangeli. Master classes with Leo Brouwer played an important role in his development as a composer. Since 1993 Dávid Pavlovits has been a laureate at several guitar competitions and he gives solo concerts and does recordings for radio and TV broadcasts in many European countries as well as the USA. He directs master classes worldwide in English, German, French, Russian, Italian and Spanish, and he is regularly invited to join juries of international music competitions. In1999 he founded the Szeged International Guitar Festival of which he is also the artistic director. His 11 Amethysts for guitar (Ricordi, 1999) is played throughout Europe. Fingerprints, a cycle inspired by Hungarian folk music is in preparation with the same publisher. The musical language of his compositions contains often polytonal and polyrhythmic elements, and their form is a re-recreation of the classical forms of his great idols Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.