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Name
  
Lukas Ligeti

Role
  
Composer

Uncles
  
Gabor Ligeti


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Albums
  
Mystery System, Afrikan Machinery, Pattern Time

Parents
  
Gyorgy Ligeti, Vera Ligeti

Grandparents
  
Ilona Somogyi, Sandor Auer

Similar People
  
Gyorgy Ligeti, Henry Kaiser, Gianni Gebbia, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Massimo Pupillo

Profiles

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Lukas Ligeti (born 13 June 1965, in Vienna, Austria) is a composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics.

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Background

Ligeti is of Hungarian ancestry and is the son of the noted composer György Ligeti (1923–2006). He holds a master's degree from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition with Erich Urbanner.

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He travels frequently to Africa and has performed with musicians from Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Zimbabwe and several other African nations. His group, Burkina Electric, brings together electronica and Burkinabe popular music.

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From 1994 to 1996 he was visiting composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He has worked with Elliott Sharp, George Lewis, Henry Kaiser and Roy Nathanson.

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In 2006 he was visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

He has lived in New York City since 1998 and resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Works

Compositions have been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, the Amadinda Ensemble Budapest, Icebreaker, the London Composers' Ensemble, the Synergy Percussion Sydney, the Ensemble Modern, Kronos Quartet, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bang on a Can and others.

Awards

Ligeti has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1990 Vienna promotion award for composers, a 1993 award of the Republic of Austria and composition fellowships and grants by the Arts Council of Santa Clara County/California and the Austrian state.

Discography (selected)

  • 1997 - Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly
  • 2004 - Lukas Ligeti: Mystery System
  • 2008 - Lukas Ligeti: Afrikan Machinery
  • References

    Lukas Ligeti Wikipedia


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