Over de auteurs

Over de auteursSándor Berkesi (1944) Kossuth Prize-winning conductor (2018), music teacher, retired college associate professor, Honorary Citizen of Debrecen (2007).A key representative and shaper of the Hungarian Reformed church music, founder of several choirs and reviver of the cantor training.He developed the Kántus, the school choir of the Reformed College of Debrecen, into a four-part mixed chorus, and won numerous Hungarian and international awards with them.He has published numerous Hungarian curiosities of musical history and Christian themed CDs; thus, the premieres of pieces of music written for the Kántus are linked to his name, e.g. the premiere of a piece of music composed for the remembrance celebration of the galley slaves in 1973.