Miklós Maroswas born in Pécs, Hungary in 1943. After completing his studies with Ferenc Szabó at the Academy of Music in Budapest, he moved to Sweden to join the composition class of Ingvar Lidholm at Stockholm’s College of Music. His contact to György Ligeti has also played a significant rôle in his development as a composer.
Having been raised in a prominent Hungarian musical family, the combination of a rich cultural heritage and keen artistic interests have helped Miklós Maros to develop a quite individual musical æsthetic. Neither a devout avant-gardist nor a pedantic theorist, Maros sees the ends of composition in music-making itself, seeking always a balance of polished craftmanship, mature formal values and innovative expression. As his vast catalogue of symphonic, vocal and chambre-music abundantly documents, Maros strives after musical originality within its own parameters: structure and sound. He rejects theoretical ideology as musical content, instead carefully cultivating the subtleties of a personal musical language. Despite years of experience with electro-acoustic music, Maros today finds the greatest possibilities of expressive nuance in live performance.
It is therefore understandable that Miklós Maros greatly values direct co-operation with performing artists. The majority of his compositions have been written with particular musicians in mind, focusing on individual playing-styles and specialities; consequently, many of his works have ’biographies’ of their own. An experienced performer himself, Maros founded in 1972 (together with his wife, the soprano Ilona Maros) the Maros-Ensemble, which has since established itself through extensive concertizing and recording as one of Scandinavia’s leading modern-music groups. He has also been active as an educator, having taught in Stockholm at the famous Electro-acoustic Music Studio [ EMS] (1971-78) and at the College of Music (1976-80).
Miklós Maros has received numerous international awards for his music, including the Berlin Artists’ Program [ DAAD ], which entailed a one-year residency in West-Berlin (1980-81) and the Lifetime-Artists’ Award (1990) of the Swedish Government, one of Sweden’s most prestigious gestures of artistic recognition . He is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music . ( John-Edward Kelly )http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/micv5eng.nsf/AllDocumen
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