Márton Illés is a Hungarian composer and pianist.

Illés received musical training in piano, composition and percussion in Győr

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 from 1981 to 1994. In 1993 he spent one academical term at the conservatory of Zurich wit pianist Hadassa Schwimmer. He studied the piano with László Gyimesi at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, completing his solo diploma in 1998. He continued his piano studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who prepared at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover pianists for a career as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted...

 in Hannover. He studied composition with Detlev Müller-Siemens from 1997 to 2001 in Basel, with Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...

 and music theory under Michael Reudenbach at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe's University of Music is a college of music in Karlsruhe, Germany.-Studies:The Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe offers tuition in voice, orchestral instruments, piano, composition and music journalism. The academic degrees go from Bachelors to Artists Diplomas.- External links:*...

 from 2001 to 2005.
In 2006, Illés founded the Scene Polidimensionali chamber music ensemble

He won an Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize

Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

The international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste on behalf of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung , established in 1972. The foundation was established by Ernst von Siemens...

 in 2008, and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....

 in 2009.

His first large scale stage work, Die weiße Fürstin, was given its world premiere in April 2010 at the Munich Biennale

Munich Biennale

The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...

 in a co-production with Theater Kiel. Further performances then took place in Kiel in May and June of that year.

Stage works

Premiere	Title	Description	Libretto and source
02 Feb 2007, Theaterhaus Stuttgart Theaterhaus Stuttgart Theaterhaus Stuttgart is a theatre in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg , Germany.... / ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart	Emily Dickinsons Uhr	Music-theatre for soprano, four clarinets and electronics, 15'	after Unabgelenkte Aufmerksamkeit by Jürgen Muck
28 Apr 2010, Munich Biennale Munich Biennale The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...	Die weiße Fürstin	Music-theatre, 60'	after the first draft of the dramatic poem by Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

External sites

• Márton Illés official website