Zsolt Gárdonyi

Zsolt Gárdonyi (born 21 March 1946) is a German-Hungarian composer, organist and music theorist. He is the son of Zoltán Gárdonyi. Career Gárdonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied composition, organ, sacred music and theory. At the age of 19 he received an award of the Budapest university competition in organ as well as composition. Aged 24 he became cantor of the Alexanderkirche in Wildeshausen, Germany. Ten years later he was appointed professor for theory of music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in Würzburg. His students include Claus Kühnl, Thomas Hitzlberger, Franz J. Stoiber and Lilo Kunkel. In international organ concerts he presents especially works of his father and his own, in addition to the standard organ repertoire. In a program at the Marktkirche he combined works of his father, the two organ preludes on “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” and “Ich weiß, woran ich glaube”, and the Partita “Veni Creator Spiritus”, with works of his own, the two organ preludes on "" and “In dir ist Freude”, three compositions paying homage to composers (Hommage à J. S. Bach, Hommage à F. Liszt, Hommage à M. Dupré), his jazzy Mozart Changes and EGATOP, an homage to Erroll Garne