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Curriculum Vitae
Introduction
David Zsolt Kiraly, born in Novi Sad in 1964 (then Yugoslavia, now Serbia) is a Hungarian composer based in Hungary since 1984. He began composing in early childhood; Radio Novi Sad first broadcast his music when he was eight, and at eleven he created his first electroacoustic work. At thirteen, he founded Cluster, a youth ensemble that performed his experimental compositions inspired by the contemporary avant-garde. Between 1977 and 1980, the ensemble gave regular concerts in several cities. At fourteen, Kiraly appeared at the 15th Yugoslav Music Tribune in Opatija—then one of Yugoslavia’s leading forums for contemporary music—as the youngest composer-performer in the event’s history.
Education
He studied at the Isidor Bajić Secondary School of Music in Novi Sad and later with Attila Bozay at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, graduating with distinction in 1994. He continued to consult privately with Bozay until 1999. Király attended the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music on a scholarship in 1984 and participated in a seminar led by Zygmunt Krauze in Grožnjan in 1988.
Accomplishments
In 1993, he won third prize in the Vienna Modern Masters International Composition Competition. The resulting recording of his orchestral work was released in the United States in 1994 and distributed internationally. In 1995, composer Henry Wolking invited him to present his music at the University of Utah. The one-act version of his ballet Pinocchio was performed twice at the Lancaster Festival in 2011.
Artistic Focus
Kiraly’s output spans orchestral, choral, stage and multimedia genres. His large-scale a cappella work Planetae Cantemus is conceived for soloists, eight equal-voice choirs and a mixed choir. Since 2012, he has been developing Cosmorama Octology, an eight-part multimedia cycle of operas and ballets.