SAKER MUSIC COMPANY - Key Persons
Trombonist Csaba Wagner was born in Szentendre in 1980. He started taking music lessons in Pomáz and in Szentendre, at the Tihamér Vujicsics Music School. After completing studies at the Béla Bartók Music Secondary School in Budapest, he earned his degree at the Liszt Academy in Budapest as a student of Ferenc Steiner and András Fejér.
While still in school, he was the participant of several competitions and master classes in Hungary and abroad, both as a soloist as well as a chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Budapest Corpus Trombone Quartet, founded in 1999. In 2001, he won first place at the Balogh-Zilcz trombone competition in Budapest; in 2003 he finished first in competitions in Helsinki and Guebwiller; and in 2004, he was the winner of the international trombone competition held in Jeju City, South Korea. He was awarded the Junior Prima Award in 2011. Since 2005, he has been sponsored by the British instrument manufacturers Michael Rath.
Starting the same year, he has taught regularly at master courses and performed at concerts all over the world. Between 2010 and 2012, he was an assistant professor at the Liszt Academy; since 2017, he has been an assistant professor at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of the Hungarian State Opera House Symphony Orchestra; between 2006 and 2009, he was a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Staatsoper. Between 2015 and 2017, he played bass trombone in the Gewandhaus Leipzig. He has been a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra since 2017.
As a guest musician, he performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra in Milan, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the German Brass ensemble, as well as at the German state opera houses in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg and at the Maggio Musicale opera house in Florence.
Over the course of his career, he has worked with such figures as Iván Fischer, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannik Nézet-Seguin, Vladimir Jurowsky, Daniel Harding, Semyon Bychkov, Andris Nelsons, Ricardo Chally, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski or Simone Young.
Job Titles:
- Captain Jack Sparrow for Trombone Ensemble
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János Sutyák, one of the Principal Trombones at the Hungarian State Opera, in 2006 was awarded full scholarship to pursue a double Bachelor's Degree at New York's Bard College and Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance in 2013.
Mr. Sutyák also completed a one semester exchange program at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a two-year Advanced Performance Studies program at The Bard Conservatory before starting his Artist Diploma at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2015.
Mr. Sutyák has played numerous concerts as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer in the USA, Venezuela, Russia, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and 20 countries in Europe. As a soloist, Mr. Sutyak has performed twice with the Bard College Conservatory of Music Orchestra and once each with the Jenaer Philarmonie and the Hong Kong Performing Arts Center Orchestra.
Mr. Sutyák is no stranger to the international competition circuit: he won first prize at the Slider Asia International Trombone Competition in Hong Kong, first prize and special prize of the board at the International Brass and Percussion Competition in Hungary, first prize at the Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition in New York, and third prize at the International Low Brass Competition of the Czech Republic. He is also a recipient of the Zoltán Kodály Prize and an Honorary Cultural Embassador of Tachira county in Venezuela.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founding Member of the Szeged Trombone Ensemble
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Mr. Áron Simon was born in 1987, in Békéscsaba, Hungary. Mr. Simon started his early musical studies in his hometown, then attended the Béla Bartók High School of the Arts, where he was a student of Csaba Szűcs.
After finishing high school, Mr. Simon was accepted to György Gyivicsán's trombone studio at The University of Szeged's Faculty of Music in Hungary and received his degree in trombone performance in 2012. Mr. Simon has been the trombone teacher at the István Vántus Secondary School of Music in Szeged since 2010 and has been a member of the Szeged Symphony Orchestra since 2012.
Mr. Simon is a founding member of the Szeged Trombone Ensemble and dedicates a number of his arrangements to the group.
In addition to his busy career as a teacher and orchestral musician, Mr. Simon works as one of the most active arrangers of our time.
His arrangements for various brass chamber music ensembles are very popular and can be heard all around the world performed by some of the world's best players.
In 2016, Mr. Simon made a step towards his dreams and started his own publishing company: Saker Music Company.
Job Titles:
- Social Media and Marketing
- the Social Media and Marketing Manager
Ms. Csilla Katona was born in 1988, in Mátészalka, Hungary, she lives now in Debrecen.
Csilla Katona is the Social Media and Marketing Manager of Saker Music Company with over a decade of successful experience in communication and knowledge dissemination. Besides working in these fields, Csilla also teaches communication practices and creative writing at the University of Debrecen.
Her educational background includes a PhD in Linguistics from University of Debrecen. She has a graduate certificate in PPC and Social Media Marketing from Webbyskill.
Ms. Katona started her early musical studies in her hometown, Csenger. Before her education at the university, Csilla studied as a soprano classical singer at Zoltán Kodály Secondary Music School in Debrecen.
Csilla enjoys trying new sports as sailing or HotIron and making creative projects.
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Máté Fűzy is a native of Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts program on french horn at the University of Pécs in 2006, and in 2012 received his master artist degree from there as well.
While Mr. Fűzy was teaching in music schools and enjoying a freelance career in music theatres, he recognized the opportunity that American brass music could bring him. In 2011, he founded the first Hungarian brass band, "Band Of StreetS". As a vivid arranger, band leader, and conductor, Mr. Fűzy participated in many jazz projects with his father, Gábor Fűzy (beloved Hungarian jazz pianist). Máté also performed on Hungarian TV shows, and in well known festivals such as Sziget and VOLT. His arrangements for wind orchestras, brass bands, and big bands are very well received today in the professional music world.
Apart from his professional career, Máté enjoys spending time with his wife and kids.
Mr. Fűzy joined the Saker Music team in 2019.