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Márton

Márton Wirth was born in Hungary in 1984.
He attended piano classes from the age of 6 in the Music School of Pécs, thereafter studied composition and choir conducting in the Conservatory of Pécs until 2003. Meanwhile He also studied both on the University of Music and Theatre in Vienna as an orchestra conductor and composer between 2002 and 2008 and on the Academy of Music in Budapest as a choir conductor from 2004 to 2006.He worked in many different positions through the years from the age of 13 when he became a composer and conductor in a Children’s theatre in his hometown. He wrote music for the plays for 8 seasons not just for that but also 3 other Children’s theatre around Hungary.

In the same time he also founded and lead the Chamber Opera Pécs as a chief conductor and music director. Beside he was also a conductor of 2 chamber orchestras in Győr and Budapest.

He also conducted some of the best choirs and orchestras in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Poland as a guest conductor. He also recorded music for different European documentaries and TV films.

He became a teacher of orchestral material, chamber singing and corepetition on the University of Pécs for 2 years where he met Bernadett Hegyi and involved her in some of his productions.
Despite that his eternal passion was always the opera but he has been engaged with choir music when he was just 14. At that time dod he have his first concert as a composer and choir conductor. Since then he has been choir master of 8 different choirs in 3 countries.
Beside his career as a composer and conductor, he is also working as an organist, private teacher, choir master and often plays as a jazz pianist and session musician at different events with different singers and bands.

His works as a composer have been performed in 12 countries worldwide.