ITEC 2001 Artists

János Mazura, a free-lance classical and jazz tuba player was born in 1970 Budapest. By the time He got his diploma at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 1995 He'd already spent two years in Turkey as the Principal Tubist of the Istanbul State Opera. Since that as a free-lance musician he's been playing with the major symphonic orchestras in Budapest, (E.g.: Hungarian Radio Symphony, Hungarian Opera. etc.).

From 1995 (besides the classical orchestral and solo performances) he has more and more "jazz gigs" as well. He plays with an "acoustic blues" band called: "Dr. Valter and the Lawbreakers", and I often appears as jazz soloist in several jazz formations. In 1997 he won second prize in the "Street Music" category at the "Verso il Millenio" international tuba and euphonium conference, in Riva del Garda, Italy. He was also second at the "Rick Mattheson Tuba Jazz Competition" in Regina, Canada in 2000.

He was the first tuba player in Hungary who ever played a solo jazz concert in the Hungarian Radio in 2001.

In 1998 he's got a diploma at the "Hungarian Film Academy", and works as a sound engineer as well in in different film and music projects.

He plays on several classical and jazz recordings, his first solo jazz CD was also released in 1999.

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