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Árpád Vajdovich He was born in 1970 in Budapest. He began his musical education in elementary school, he studied violin for seven years. By his age of sixteen he began playing bassguitar in a schoolband, in the style of punk. Later on he joined a jazz rock band called Egon on the Wall, with which he participated at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland in 1990. The same year he entered the jazz faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as the first bassguitar-student of the institute (the Jazz Faculty being launched that year), his master was Béla Lattmann. During those four years he played many gigs in different bands (Golden Era Jazz – traditional jazz, Birta Trio – jazz-rock, Pepsi Feeling – punkrock, Herfli Davidson – blues), mostly in Hungary. He spent his next four years in the Netherlands, studied bass (both electric and upright), and he earned his second degree at the Jazz Faculty of the Amsterdaamse Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten under the conduction of David de Marez Oyens. |