Péter Tornyai – A Composer's Evening A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Péter Tornyai has performed in numerous contemporary music ensembles as a violinist and violist. In 2013 he graduated from the composition faculty of the Liszt Academy, where he was a student of Zoltán Jeney. In 2011 he won the chamber music first prize awarded by the New Hungarian Music Forum and in 2013 he came second. In 2012 he won first prize at the Vienna Konzerthaus Towards the Next 100 Years composers' competition. “Composition is an inner need for me”, he said in an interview and, though when asked about what shaped his musical style he responded with two negatives (he is not interested in popular music influences or in post-modernist neo-romanticism), his music certainly has a positively elemental effect on both musicians and audiences.