Károly Binder in 2017

Károly Binder (born 2 April 1956) is a Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and educator.

Early life

Binder was born in Budapest on 2 April 1956.[1] He was five years old when he started playing the piano and studied jazz in Budapest at the Béla Bartók Musical Training College from 1976 to 1979.[1]

Later life and career

From the early 1980s Binder led quartets and quintets that appeared at festivals in Europe.[1] He performed and recorded with the free-jazz musician György Szabados in the middle of that decade and near its end played in duos with Theo Jörgensmann, Laszlo Sűle and others.[1] Many of his frequent recordings from the early 1980s and into the 1990s have been reissued on Binder Music Manufactory, his own label.[1] He is the head of the jazz department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.[2]

Style

"Binder's style of world music mingles elements of Japanese, lamaist, gamelan, Indian, and African music with the diatonic harmonies of classical music and the improvisational freedom of jazz."[1]

Selected discography

  • (1981) Károly Binder Quartet Live at Bátok Terem with Mihály Dresch, Róbert Benkő
  • (1982) Binder Quintet featuring John Tchicai
  • (1985) Károly Binder " In Illo Tempore "
  • (1991) Károly Binder and Ramesh Shotham Dance Music
  • (1993) Károly Binder featuring Theo Jörgensmann Live at Music Academy Budapest

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gábor Simon, Géza (2003), "Binder, Károly", Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J518300
  2. ↑ "Károly Binder". lfze.hu. Retrieved 22 January 2019.


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