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musician, composer, digital artist "For me life is a shelter where I must linger until the carriage of the abyss calls to collect me. I sit at the door and fill my eyes and ears with the colours and sounds of the landscape and slowly sing, just for myself, indistinct songs that I compose while I wait." Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet András Hamary was born in Budapest on 13 June 1950. Following studies at the Bartók Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he trained as a concert pianist under Hans Leygraf at the Hanover University of Music. He has also attended master classes taught by Alfred Brendel, Géza Anda, Nikita Magaloff, Yvonne Lefébure, Jörg Demus and Carlo Zecchi. As a pianist he won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize in Berlin and the First Prize of the International Debussy Competition in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Beginning in 1970 Hamary toured extensively in many European countries, the USA, Mexico and Korea. Mozart, Schubert and Debussy play an important role in his repertoire, which ranges from Bach to contemporary music. Since 1986 he has held a professorship in piano and chamber music at the University of Music in Würzburg. For eight years he also conducted that university's Ensemble for New Music. He was awarded the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart for Timor - Fragmente zur Angst ("Timor: Fragments about Fear"), five pieces for orchestra written while he was still studying composition under Milko Kelemen. Since the late 1970s, Hamary has written compositions in an extremely varied range of genres, including the opera Seid still ("Be Still"), which was commissioned by the Second Biennale in Munich; the performance piece Regenzeit ("Rainy Season") in collaboration with the Frankfurt-based choreographer Christian Golusda on a commission from Germany's Südwestrundfunk (SWR); and the ballet Der Welt Lohn ("The World's Reward") for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra, which was composed for the 200th anniversary of Würzburg's Mainfranken Theater. In contrast to his work as a pianist, Hamary has focused his attention as a conductor (studies under Thomas Ungar in Stuttgart) entirely on new music. In Stuttgart he founded "ensemble avance", a group of young musicians dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary music. With them he has made numerous recordings for radio and premiered the works of celebrated composers.