Miki Birta

Miki Birta jazz-fusion guitarist, composer, arranger, guitar-, jazz theory-, ensemble, ear training teacher at the Kodolányi János University College..... ....Date and place of birth: March 16, 1970, Budapest, Hungary. He started learning to play the guitar when he was a child, at the age of 10........ In 1996 he graduated from the Jazz Guitar Department of the Budapest College of Music. His teacher was Gyula Babos..... .....At first he was influenced by rock music, especially by the lead guitarist of AC/DC: Angus Young. During the course of his studies he started to listen to other kinds of music as well: Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco DeLucia’s album from 1981, “Friday Night in San Francisco” had a profound impact on him – as it also had on other guitar players...... .......He heard about Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson for the first time at the age of 17, and this defined his studies and his later style for a long time. But not only guitar albums had an impact on him: one of the first saxophone jazz albums that he valued very much was Branford Marsalis’ Royal Garden Blues.......... ........In 1987 his changed the tune on his instuments in 4ths: E6, A5, D4, G3, C2, F1. ..........In 1992 he became christian in a Reform church, this changes his thinking basicly about the music and the world as well............... ........His first album came out in 1998 (Next Generation), which is a trio album. It is probably closest to Wayne Krantz’ music........... .....They record their first Hungarian funky evangelistic album ( Creed ) in English. Recordings in Hungary have successfully been finished; unfortunately, however, this is where it stands right now. The project is still waiting to be fully finished (for sponsor).......... . ......... His second album came out in 2004 with the title “Hey Kids!” This time it’s a quartet project. Here he also uses acoustic instruments.............. . ...........Outside of his home country he has had a number of performances and tours in New York , Florida, Germany, Poland, England, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania, Austria, Ukraina and Italy............... ....At home (and in Poland) he has performed on albums or at concerts in PÁL VASVÁRI's project with:-------MIKE STERN,-----------DAVE SAMUELS,--------PACO SERY,----------BERNARD MASELI---------Henrik Gembalski, and Jose Torres, in R'n'B Bop trio with ---------JEFF ANDREWS--------KRZYSZTOF ZAWADZKI------------ .......... in the Péter Szendofi'S solo projct with----------GARY WILLIS,-------- in the Nalanda with---------MIKE MAINIERI---------- ...He performed on an album and at concert (tour) in Poland---------KRZYSZTOF ZAWADZKI's---------- project (also with his own compositions) with the sax player-------- BILL EVANS,--------ERIC MARIENTHAL,---------STEVE LOGAN,---------and---------BERNARD MASELI.------( ZARIBA) and the others hungarian projects with BÉLA "SZAKCSI" LAKATOS, TONY LAKATOS,. ............. .......His work is characterized by versatility. Out of his project, Pop music tours and recordings, contemporary performances with classical orchestras (including his own compositions), movie soundtrack recordings, underground bands, numerous TV- and radio performances, jazz bands at clubs and festivals (acoustic jazz, django jazz, mainstream, fusion, funk, R’n’B, etc.)theater performances,.................. .....He loves travelling to different parts of the world, loves challenges and new music situations, getting to know new styles of music and musicians............ .......He has been teaching at music schools and private since 1992. During this time he makes his own guitar school( 4 books ), “Style Practices”, which is an improvisation school with a bonus CD, guitar chords and chord line book, scoreread practising book, and music improvisation and theory for all instruments book................ .........He taught 120 students in Saulkrasti, Latvia in 2004 at an international jazz camp alongside 11 other teachers who come from 9 different countries........... .......As well as actively playing music, he is also a teacher of guitar, jazz theory, improvisations, and instrument theory at a Jazz Music High School in Hungary.......... .................In 2004 he was a finalist at the 50 years’ Fender Stratocaster Europe Contest in England. .................2007 guitar-, jazz theory-, ensemble, ear training teacher on the Kodolányi János University CollegeYou are now marked on my visitor map!
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