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First I wanted to have a career as a visual artist, but soon I exchanged my pencil and paintbrush for a Commodore 64 and a Russian upright piano. In the middle of ‘80s I was programming music on a C64, beside of that I began to play the piano for myself. At the age of 18 I started to play in a band, we played blues cover versions. After that I kept switching groups and mingling styles through blues, progressive rock and acid-jazz. First real success was the Garderobe project (12†vinyl, Future Sound of Budapest vol 3).
Then I started to contribute on Yonderboi’s debut album Shallow and Profound which was distributed world wide and it won the Golden Giraffe prize in Hungary. As a member of the Yonderboi Quintet I have played on more than 160 concerts all around the continent. We formed another project with Yonderboi called Trevira Modern(10†vinyl maxi). Some tracks of this project were licensed by the BBC and the CHANNEL 4 Television. Presently I am the keyboard player of Yonderboi and the Kings of Oblivion on the Splendid Isolation tour.
Since the beginning of 2001I have been producing own tracks under the name Zagar . Together with guitarist Andor Kovács, scratchmaster DJ Bootsie and drummer Tibor Lázár and the featuring vocalist György Ligeti the Zagar has become a real headliner stage band in Hungary. Our debut album, the Local Broadcast was released in 2002 in Hungary (UGAR/UCMG) and in Austria (Universal Jazz) now it is distributed world wide by the Berlin based MConnexxion. This album was selected for the chart of the 50 all time’s most important Hungarian records by the music magazine WAN2. Presently we are working our new studio album.
I compose music also for feature and short films ( Szezon.Eastern Sugar , Tower, Beautiful Wilds, Monuments, Live…), TV series (Miami, Las Vegas) and theatrical plays (Hungarian National Theater, Csiky Gergely Theatre, TÃP Theatre…) Besides I contribute many artist in the independent music scene in Budapest ( The Puzzle , Erik Sumo, Gábor Deutch, dj Mango, Sena, Albert Márkos, Skeg).
DISCOGRAPHY
COMPILATIONS
VIDEOGRAPHY
Wings of Love 2007 - directed by András Nagy
Three Seasons Fall (werk video) 2007 - directed by Menzkie
Sounds and Lights 2006 – directed by Fabricius
Screen Cowboys 2005 – directed by Sándor Kristóffy
Bossa Astoria (Erik Sumo rework) 2004 – directed by B.A.L
Taste of Snow 2004 – directed by Patyomkim
Eastern Sugar 2004 – directed by Daniel Garas
Bossa Astoria 2003 – directed by Fabricius
Cosmic Disaster 2002 – directed by Fillcell
SOUNDTRACKS
Szezon.Eastern Sugar - feature film (dir. Ferenc Török) 2004
Tower - short film (dir. Fabricius) 2004
Monuments - The Bottle Opener Lady - documentary (dir. Ferenc Török) 2004
Beautiful Wilds - TV film (dir. Ferenc Török) // music by Balázs Zságer and Albert Márkos 2005
Bossa Astoria - animation film (dir. B.A.L.) 2004
Taste of Snow - animation film (dir. Patyomkim) 2004
Live by Fabricius - VJ film about the Sziget Festival (dir. Fabricius) 2006
MUSIC FOR THEATRE
György Spiró - New Year’s Eve 2008 (Hungarian National Theatre 2007)
Ödön Von Horvath - Tales from the Wienna Woods (Hungarian National Theatre 2007)
Nina Umniakov - Henzáp! (Mu Theatre 2006)
PRIZES
Fonogram Prize in electronic music category for Cannot Walk Fly Instead album 2008
Album of the Year 2007 for Cannot Walk Fly Instead Album by Radiocafé Audience Voting
Song of the Year 2007 for Wings of Love by Radiocafé Audience Voting
Zagar as a brand is selected in the CoolBrands Year-Book 2006
Zagar the Best Band of the Year 2005 in Hungary by Antropos Culture Magazin
The Best Hungarian Producer and Band by e-Vote online competition 2005
San Francisco Flashforward Contest Finals in Story for Bossa Astoria video 2005
Brazilian Fluxus Film Festival First Prize for Bossa Astoria video 2005
The Hungarian Film Critics‘ Prize for Szezon.Eastern Sugar Soundtrack 2004
Nominated for Fonogram Prize for the best soundtrack category 2004
Hungarian Flash Animation Tender First Prize for Bossa Astoria video 2004
Hungarian Flash Animation Tender Second Prize for Taste of Snow video 2004
Local Broadcast is selected for the chart of the 50 all time’s most important Hungarian records by the music magazine WAN2 2003
