Roland Szentpali

Saturday, January 28 | 2:30 PM

Roland Szentpali

Roland Szentpáli was born in 1977 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He began his musical studies in his hometown; in 1991 he was admitted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, as the tuba student of József Bazsinka and later of Gábor Adamik. At the age of 16 he won the national “Brasses and Percussion” competition, then wrote and performed his first concerto for tuba and symphony orchestra, recorded and broadcast by Hungarian state television. From here, his career as tubist and composer rapidly gained an international dimension. He entered the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest where he studied with László Szabó, while taking private lessons with Roger Bobo. Since 1998 he has won first prize at seven international competitions: Gdansk, Poland; Munich, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Chéju, Republic of Korea; Brno, Czech Republic; Lieksa, Finland and second prize at the competitions of Guebwiller, France and Markneukirchen, Germany. His opus includes chamber music works, orchestral pieces and concerti for various wind instruments, most of it is published by Editions Bim.

Caryl Conger

Pianist, Caryl Worthington Conger, continues her passion for musical collaboration performing with artists throughout the U. S. and abroad. Her special niche of interest has been her collaboration with low brass artists. She has performed as a staff pianist at the U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference for almost twenty years, the International Euphonium Institute, the International Women’s Brass Conference, and the International Tuba & Euphonium Conferences. Caryl was on the music faculty of Radford University in Radford, Virginia before retiring in 2003. She moved to the mountains outside Estes Park, Colorado where she continues an active career in free-lance music making.