Relaxing tone, with outstanding transcendent technique
Gabor Tarkevi (trumpet)/G á bor Tarkövi,Trumpet
he was born on march 13 1969 in Esztergom, Hungary into a musical family.
He became fascinated by the trumpet while studying the piano and clarinet, and at the age of 9 he started to received tutoring from his father, Istvan Tarkevi. He studied at the Gyor Music School, the Franz Liszt Music School, and then graduated from the Franz Liszt Conservatory. He studied under György Geiger, Hans Gansch, György Kurtag and others, and was greatly influenced by them. In 1999, he became principal player of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra after working as assistant principal player of the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra and principal player of the Konzerthaus orchester Berlin.
From 2004 to 2019, he was the principal player of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2018, he has been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts.
He is also active as a member of ensembles such as Pro Brass, Austrian Brass Connection, Wien-Berlin Brass Quintet, Berlin Philharmonic Brass Trio. As a soloist, he has appeared all over the world including all over Europe, the United States, and Asia.
he has also worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Bach Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic orchestra, Bach Collegium Munich, New Japan Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, etc.
To date, he has released four CDs from Tudor Classics in Switzerland and received critical acclamations for each of them.
