
Dr. Levente Puskás
saxophone
- Clarinet and saxophone artist and teacher,
- Professor of saxophone at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Professor of saxophone at the Egressy Béni Conservatorium, Budapest, Hungary
- Alt saxophone player of the Budapest Saxophone Quartet
- Vice President of the Hungarian Clarinet and Saxophone Society
He was born in 1972 in Budapest, Hungary. He was 7 years old when he started learning piano and 11 years old, when started clarinet.
From 1991 to 1993 he studied clarinet at St. Stephan Conservatoire, Budapest and he was the solo clarinet player in the St. Stephan Symphony Orchestra from 1991 until 1996.
From 1993 until 1998 he studied clarinet at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, where his teacher was prof. Tibor Dittrich. He graduated in 1998 as a clarinet and chamber music artist and clarinet teacher.
In 1994 he won second prize at the „Young Artist Competition „ in Chicago (USA).
In 1995 he established with three fellow musicians the Budapest Saxophone Quartet. They won six prizes at national and international competitions (1995. and 1996. Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Chamber Music Competition – I. Prize, 1996. International Chamber Music Competition Osaka, Japan – Special Prize, 1997. International Chamber Music Competition Trapani, Italy – IV.Prize, 1998. International Chamber Music Competition Caltanisetta, Italy – III.Prize, 2000. Gustav Bumcke Wettbewerb Dortmund, Germany – II.Prize)
Between 2002 and 2004 he studied chamber music along with the Budapest Saxophone Quartet at the CNSMDP in Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris) under the guidance of prof. László Hadady.
In the year 2006/2007 he also obtained a degree as a saxophone performer and teacher from Conservatoire National de Musique et de Dance, Montreuil under the guidance prof. Jean-Pierre Baraglioli.
He participated in several master courses (Michiel Oldenkamp – Netherland, Eugéne Rousseau – USA, Thomas Friedli – Suisse, Oto Vrhovnik – Austria) and with the quartet he represented the hungarian saxophonists at the World Congress organized in Montreal (Canada) 2000 , in Minneapolis (USA) 2003 and in Strasbourg (France) 2015.
Between 2009 and 2014 he studied at the Academy of Music, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia ( Akadémia umeni v Banskej Bystrici) , where he got the DLA degree in June of 2014. His theacher was Prof. Alexander Stepanov.
He worked with numerous world famous artists:
Zoltán Kocsis, Iván Fischer, Ádám Fischer, Andrea Rost, Péter Eötvös, Tamás Vásáry, Heinz Holliger, Marek Janowski, Leonidas Kavakos,Vadim Gluzman, Aldo Ceccato, Alexander Vedernikov, György Vukán, Gergely Vajda, Yevgenij Kitajenko, Gergely Bogányi, Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Christian Wirth, Nobuya Sugawa, Lars Mlekusch, Hans de Jong, Mario Giovannelli, Jérome Laran, Rodrigo Vila, Nicolas Arsenijevic, etc.
From 2000 he teach saxophone in the Béni Egressy Conservatoire, Budapest and from 2007 in the Music Faculty in the University of Debrecen.
He has 10 CDs with the Budapest Saxophone Quartet and 2 solo CDs( Saxon, Tetra)
