Lajos Dudas

Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet Quintet, Glazunow: Concerto for Altosax...)

He won international recognition, above all, with his successful composition URBAN BLUES at the International Jazz Competition in Monaco 1982. Joachim-Ernst Berendt writes in his THE GREAT JAZZBOOK : “Dudas is a stylist highly regarded in Europe for the tenderness and lightness of his free-tonal playing.” — “...and he can also plays the good old american blues.” CKCU-FM / Ottawa. In the 1980s he was ranked high year after year in the 'Top People Poll' the famous International Jazz Forum. After his period as a freelance musician (1963-73) Dudas has been a lecturer (School of Music in Neuss/GER) and also taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Rheinland College of Education. In addition, since 1976, after a short concentrating on classical music, he worked with well-known musicians on recordings, Radio-, TV-productions and tours : they include Albert Mangelsdorff, Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Tom van der Geld, Attila Zoller, Howard Johnson, Philipp van Endert, Tommy Vig, Charles Tolliver, Leonard Jones, Theo Joergensmann, Vitold Rek, etc... CREATIVE WORKS: over 65 Singles/LPs/CDs — Numerous Radio- and TV- Productions : ORF/Vienna, Bavarian Radio/Munich, West German Radio & Television/Cologne, Jazzmeeting Baden-Baden/SWR, Hungarian Radio/Budapest, Frankfurt Radio Jazz Group...

For many years he has appeared at major European festivals, such as in The North Sea Festival/Netherlands, Kato Days in Berlin, East-West Jazzfestival / Nuremberg, Toulouse in France, in Leverkusen, in Muenster, in Viersen and also in the USA, Rhiene-Mississippi-Gala / Minneapolis-Saint Paul... Between 1996 and 2006 Dudas was Artistic Director for Concert Series in Neuss/GER. He also written works for clarinet, woodwind chamber music and a Clarinet Method in 2 volumes. He is available on JazzSick Records, Pannon Jazz/Classic, Konnex Records, Double Moon/Challenge, Edition Musikat. In the series < Neusser Kuenstler im Portrait > a documentary about the jazz clarinetists was produced in 2018 by Film:Kultur https://www.facebook.com/flmkltr. GEAR : Selmer/Paris Clarinets, ESM Mouthpiece, model 'Lajos Dudas' LD 1, Vandoren/Paris reeds 2-2,5 Lajos Dudas lives in Überlingen/Lake of Constance, South-Germany.

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