Miklós Maros
Miklós Maros
composer
composer
Biography
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
2004 Christ Johnson Music Prize
2013 Rosenberg Prize
1971 Performances in London (ISCM - World music days 1971),
Zagreb (Biennale 1971), concert and broadcast performances in
Scandinavia, Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, Asia
and Australia
Also active as a conductor of his own chamber orchestra, the
Maros Ensemble, as he formed 1972 , together with his wife, the
singer Ilona Maros, and has, among other works, performed ca. 150
premieres of contemporary music in Scandinavia, the Netherlands,
Austria, Hungary and Germany.
Besides the Maros Ensemble, has directed a.a. the following ensembles
and orchestras: : Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra,
Györ Philhamonic Orchestra, Komorni Ansambl Europhonie Zagreb,
Regionmusiken in Sweden, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,
Kammersveit Reykjavikur, Umeå Sinfonietta
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