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Miklós Lukács

Miklós Lukács is a cimbalom player, composer, improviser, and educator whose work connects jazz, contemporary composition, orchestras, and folk traditions.

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Career Overview

About Miklós Lukács

Lukács’s official biography describes a cimbalom practice spanning jazz, contemporary composition, orchestral work, and several folk traditions. It documents works written for him, international orchestra appearances, jazz collaborations, and a catalog of more than fifty recordings.[1]

The official discography separates solo projects, Cimbiosis groups, cimbalom duos, chamber works, and collaborative jazz recordings. That chronology shows how Lukács uses the instrument in both composed and improvised settings rather than treating every orchestral appearance as a leader project.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, cimbalom player, and composer

Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio

The trio and later Ligeti Ensemble project provide a recurring setting for Lukács’s written and improvised music.[2]

Co-leader and cimbalom player

Cimbalom duo

Recordings with Kálmán Balogh explore two-cimbalom arrangements outside Lukács’s trio and solo formats.[2]

Soloist and interpreter

Contemporary and orchestral commissions

The biography documents concertos and chamber works written to feature Lukács with international ensembles.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2016

Cimbalom Unlimited

Leader and cimbalom player

The trio with Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland places the cimbalom in an open contemporary-jazz format.[2]

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2020

Music from the Solitude of Timeless Minutes

Cimbiosis Trio leader and composer

The official chronology identifies this as a Cimbiosis Trio project in Lukács’s leader catalog.[2]

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2024

Timeless

Solo artist and cimbalom player

The later recording returns the focus to Lukács’s own cimbalom voice in an artist-authorized edition.[2][3]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Sep 19, 8:00 PM

BMC 30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU)

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sat, Sep 19, 8:00 PM

BMC30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU)

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sat, Sep 19, 8:00 PM

BMC30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU) – Dedicated to the Memory of András Kégl

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sat, Sep 19, 8:00 PM

Sold Out | BMC30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU) – Dedicated to the Memory of András Kégl

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sat, Sep 19, 9:00 PM

BMC 30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU)

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sat, Sep 19, 9:00 PM

BMC30 | Moment's Notice Quartet (HU)

Opus Jazz Club · Budapest

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, commissions, and performance history

    Miklós Lukács

  2. [2] Official solo and collaborative discography

    Miklós Lukács

  3. [3] Artist-authorized recording catalog

    Miklós Lukács