»The trumpet also can play Belcanto … purest Belcanto with sparkling clean polished top-notes were given off by the Hungarian Boldoczki on his trumpet«. Thus the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung wrote after Gábor Boldoczki’s concert at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt. The Hungarian Gábor Boldoczki with his brilliant playing is the exceptional trumpeter of his generation.
At the age of 14 this young exceptional trumpeter won the first prize at the National Trumpet Competition, Hungary. Following his studies at the Leo-Weiner-Conservatory, the young musician continued at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Budapest and as a master class student under Professor Reinhold Friedrich before starting his international solo career. By winning the internationally renowned music competition of the ARD in Munich, Boldoczki celebrated his final breakthrough. He then received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris at the most distinguished trumpet competition of all – the Third International Maurice André Competition in Paris.
During his European tours he performs with well-known orchestras like the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra as well as with internationally renowned chamber orchestras.
He gives regularly guest performances at the renowned concert halls such as Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Berlin, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, in Paris, KKL Lucerne, Palace of Arts in Budapest and the Great Hall of the Conservatorium Moscow. Furthermore, he follows concert invitations to the United States, to South America and Asia.
During the last years numerous successful CD-productions with the label Sony Classical have been published. For his album »Oriental Trumpet Concertos«, he was honoured with the ICM Award for the best contemporary recording and with the ECHO Klassik Award as Instrumentalist of the Year.
For a considerable time, Gábor Boldoczki has been in demand for contemporary music. With Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, he was part of the world premiere of Georg Pelecis’ »Revelation« at the music festival Les muséiques in Basel. At the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern he premiered the trumpet concert by László Dubrovay and as Artist in Residency he presented the premiere of Fazil Say’s trumpet concerto. Furthermore, Gábor Boldoczki gave the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s first trumpet concerto at the Musikfestspiele Saar.
Gábor Boldoczki was awarded a doctorate by the famous Franz-Liszt Music Academy where he has a professorship, teaching the trumpet.
