About Me
Kristóf Bacsó was born in Budapest in 1976. He started his saxophone studies at the age of 12. After his graduation from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, he also studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where his instructors were Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Hal Crook and Bill Pierce.In 1999, together with Zoltán Zana, he won the Dezso Ablakos Lakatos Saxophone Talent Contest organized by the Hungarian Radio.For five and a half years he lived in France and the US, performed in most countries of Europe, in the United States and in Japan. In 2003, after obtaining his Bachelors Degree, he moved to NYC and worked as a freelance musician.In 2003 and 2004 he was featured on Gabor Winands albums "Agent Spirituel" and "Different Garden", which received Choc, the highest rank from the well-known French jazz journal, Jazzman.In 2004 he moved back to Europe and since then has worked as a musician, composer and teacher. He has performed with well-known artists like Eddie Henderson, John Pattitucci, Tony Lakatos, Nico Morelli, Giovanni Mirabassi, Kálmán Oláh, Gábor Gadó, and the groups Europlane Orchestra, the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Nigun, and the Imre Koszegi Quartet.With his own group the Kristóf Bacsó 4, which he founded in 2003, he plays his own music, based on traditional jazz and contemporary classical music.Since 2004 he has been a professor at the Béni Egressy Conservatory in Budapest.
