KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Third Stream, Post Bop • Hungary

Kornél Fekete-Kovács a Budapest based composer, arranger and trumpet player. He was born in 1970,  and graduated at the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. He is in great demand as a musician, and has worked on albums as a soloist or a session musician. As a composer and arranger he is very much present in the contemporary classical and jazz music scene not only in Hungary. He is the founder of the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, where from 1998 to 2005 he was artistic director and soloist. Since 2005 he has been the leader of the Modern Art Orchestra, and in 2006 he established the Fekete-Kovács Quintet. During his career he has played in renowned international projects and bands such as the IASJ Big Band (Copenhagen), the EBU Big Band (Amsterdam-Budapest), Brande International Music Workshop Orchestra (Denmark), the UMO Jazz Orchestra (Finland), East European Artsemble, Veni Academy Ensemble, read more...