Biography
1943 born in Pécs, son of
Rudolf Maros, composer and Klára Molnár,
violinist. Studies at the Béla Bartók Music Conservatoire
in Budapest
with Rezsö Sugár
1963-67 composition studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in
Budapest with Ferenc Szabó
1968-72 composition studies at the College of Music in Stockholm with
Ingvar Lidholm and György Ligeti
1971-73 Composition teacher at the Stockholm secondary school of music
in Stockholm
1971-78 Teacher at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm (EMS)
1976-80 Lecturer in electronic music at the College of Music
in Stockholm
1980-81 Scholarship at the Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD in
Berlin (West) (Berlin Artist's Program)
1981- Freelance composer
1990- Lifetime-Artists’ Award of the Swedish Government
1971 Performances in London (ISCM - World music days), Zagreb
(Biennale), concert and broadcast performances in Scandinavia,
Europe, the USA, Canada, South America (Argentina, Brazil,
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uruguay), Australia and Asia (Japan,
South Korea)
Also active as a conductor of his own chamber orchestra, the MAROS
ENSEMBLE, which has, among other works, performed ca. 150
premieres of contemporary music in Scandinavia, Holland, Austria,
Hungary and Germany.
Besides the MAROS ENSEMBLE, has directed the following ensembles
and orchestras: : Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Györ
Philhamonic Orchestra, Regionmusiken in Sweden, Helsingborg
Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Chamber
Orchestra, Kammersveit
Reykjavikur, Stockholm Nya
Kammarorkester, Umeå Sinfonietta,
Komorni Ansambl Europhonie Zagreb
1975-80 Member of the board of the Society of Swedish composers
1981-91 Vice-president of the Society of Swedish composers
1998 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
