David Lamm

I was born in 1978. I started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, at which time I was into all sorts of bluesy stuff, from B.B.King to Jimi Hendrix. During my highscool years I became interested in jazz and a few years later I started my studies with Gyula Babos at the Kőbánya Music Studio. Between 1999 and 2004 I was a pupil of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. After finishing my studies I worked for the Hungarian National Theatre, wrote tunes for several film and dance projects and played with a number of musicians in Budapest. I have worked with the reggae group Koala, blues band Spo-Dee-O-Dee, ethno-based groove gang HaGesher, trip-hop project Sadant. Played the music of Jimi Hendrix with Freedom Haze, jewish music with the newly formed Shkayach group, jazz with the Linda Kovács Quartet, and with composer and saxophone player László Dés. In the past few years I have been playing and recording with the Elemér Balázs Group (BEG) (Best Of, 2006, Early Music feat. Nuria Rial, 2007.), Agi Szalóki (Hallgató, 2006.- which won the "Jazz Record Of The Year" prize) and formed the Dávid Lamm Trio, with which we are mostly playing my own compostions. In 2008., I have been awarded the Ablakos Lakatos Dezső scholarship for jazz-performers.