I learnt to play the violin, the cello and the clarinet. My very first clarinet teacher was Ferenc Baritz, who I still consider a truly professional teacher and with whom my relationship was excellent until the day he died. Jancsi Sándor whose memory is always with me introduced me to the Pioneer Railway Orchestra. In the orchestra I played and studied together with Péter Haumann, Zoltán Pásztori, Erzsébet Elek (representative basket ball player) and several others who were just as important to me, because we were good friends. I mentioned those names above because they are the ones who are well known. To help us escape the misery of poverty and the war my father encouraged us to take up music. He said that music was a form of escapism and that musicians always survived political changes. For all these reasons he made me become a military musician on 1st July 1957. I joined the ETI Orchestra. At the same time I was enrolled in a Secondary Music School where Károly Váczi taught me for three years, until his retirement. He is the other clarinet teacher who I also consider as one of the greatest. After he retired his brother Gyula continued my education. On the foundation of Music Sergeant Training Corp I transferred there along with my friend Béla Kiss. We were its very first students. It is ironic that later the school management acted as if we were never there. They never invited us to any reunions or celebrations. I finished my military service with the rank of Sergeant-Mayor as an unexpected opportunity presented itself to me, so I started a new life. During this period I already wrote several pieces music. Among all these pieces there was only one that I considered important and for which I take credit even today. That is the Christmas Symphony that was performed by soldiers during a mass in September 1963. In 1968 I was unemployed for 9 months. However I was teaching as a replacement teacher and I performed in amateur orchestras for 18 HUF per session. In September I was unexpectedly accepted to the Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra. I gave up this position when I was accepted to the clarinet faculty of the Music Academy from which I graduated in 1973 achieving excellent mark. In the mean time, from the 1st April, 1970 I became a member of the MÀV Symphony Orchestra from where professionally retired in 1994. I was teaching constantly. As a replacement teacher I taught on every level possible, in numerous places. For a longer period I taught in the Budapest's 6th district music school and then in the Erzsébet Szilágyi Foster Home where I gained a lot of useful experience in both pedagogical and methodological fields. From here I moved to Szeged in 1979 and started to teach in the University where my Dean was Richárd Weninger. My professional relationship with him is excellent up to date. In 1991 I became tired of travelling and gave up teaching here. After I moved to Csévharaszt I started to teach in the music school of Monor. First I became the Head of Department than progressed to Director. When the appointment to the Director position finished, I did not reapply but continued to teach as the Head of Department. I first learnt composition from Gyula Kiszely. He trained me really well and he was a great help for me. I consider Melinda Kistétényi as my other main mentor in composition. Apart from them I learnt from everyone and from everything. From 1968 I took credit for more and more of my work. Among them the most successful seemed to be the series of solosonata wrote for doublebass. My very close friend showed that piece to Károly Saru who forwarded it to Rome. I received the "Primo segnalato" award from the international judges. Later that piece was judged among many contemporary pieces as "excellent, the best for competitions, festivals and concerts" by the International Doublebass Associations. In 1991 I founded the Associations of Creative Musicians to which I am reelected president every term. I got married in 1968. I have two sons and a daughter.
