Tzumo Trio
Biographie Tzumo Trio
Árpád Tzumo
Tzumo's first success was the shared first prize of the Hungarian (Béla Bartók) Radio's talent competition, which was a scholarship for 5-week summer course at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the summer of 2001, Tzumo received the first prize for the best Trio and for being the best soloist at the "Jazz an der Donau" competition. In September 2001, his Trio took part in the Jazz Hoeilaart International Contest competition. For the first time in the competition, Tzumo won all three of the main prizes: for the best Trio, and for the most creative performance piece, and he also received the prize for best European soloist. In the same year, his first record, "My Time"(EMI), came out. In 2002, he also received the full scholarship and continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Joanne Bracken. In 2003 he applied and got accepted to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. He has performed with Monk Institute Band, featuring Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garret and Clark Terry, Hal Crook ,Terry Lyne Carrington in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 2002, he was also granted the Emerton Award and the prize for the year's Young Jazz Talents from the Hungarian Radio. In 2003 he was selected among the 50 most successful young talented artists. His record, "My Time", received Hungary's musical award, the Gramophone. He graduated from the Monk Institute of Jazz University of Southern California in 2005.
Jozsef Pluto
He started to play the bass guitar at the age of ten, and after two years of intensive learning, he started playing in a self-taught way. He formed a band with his young friends (Trio Heaven), with which he won first place in the first serious competition of his life, the 1998 MAY Jazz Competition. In 2000, Árpád Oláh Tzumo invited him to perform with his band. With this formation, they have achieved great success abroad as well. In the summer of 2001, they won a prestigious professional jazz competition in Wilshofen, Germany. In September 2001, he performed as the best bass guitarist at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Europa music competition in Brussels, and the ensemble won all the main prizes. He has played with such famous musicians as Tony Lakatos, Chico Freeman, John Patitucci, Rick Marticca, Liane Carroll, Kálmán Oláh, Ann Malcolm, Torsten Devinkel, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Gyula Babos and Ferenc Snétberger. He is member of many jazz formations. He recently formed his band, the Pluto Band, representing the jazz-rock genre, in which he performs his own compositions.
Ferenc Nemeth
is a world-renown and versatile musician who continues to push the boundaries of jazz drumming and composition. In 2020, he won the prestigious Independent Music Award, in Jazz Album Category with his latest album ‘FREEDOM’. An exciting performer and imaginative collaborator, Nemeth is well regarded for his work with the Lionel Loueke Trio and GilFeMa and has also travelled, performed and collaborated extensively as a bandleader, co-leader, sideman and educator as well as initiating creative projects of his own. From his early days at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Thelonious Monk Instiute of Jazz in Los Angeles, Nemeth has learned from and worked with the world’s finest jazz musicians and groups including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard, the Billy Childs Trio, Bob Sheppard, Dave Carpenter, John Clayton, Jimmy Heath, The Henry Mancini Orchestra amongst others. Relocating to New York in 2003, Nemeth’s distinctive energy and drive saw his career continuing with many of the same musicians, and also expanding to include the likes of Christian McBride, John Patitucci, Lionel Loueke, John Abercrombie, Dave Samuels, Mark Turner, Hal Crook, David Benoit, Bud Shank, Greg Hopkins, Phil Wilson, Dave Grusin, Eddie Daniels, Eddie Henderson, Ron McClure, Chris Cheek, Aaron Goldberg, Kenny Wheeler, Eli Degibri, Jonathan Kreisberg, John Ellis, Omer Avital, Ilayaraja, the Kenny Werner Coalition and most recently Dhafer Youssef. 2003 was also the start of Nemeth’s involvement with GilFeMa, a trio also featuring Lionel Loueke and Massimo Biolcati. The trio, who had been playing together since the Berklee days continued their creative efforts in this format with all three contributing compositions to the 2004 album, eponymously titled, GilFeMa. His expertise and vast knowledge beyond traditional jazz, has also seen him move effortlessly through contemporary jazz as well as pop, rock, electro-pop, hip hop and increasingly into ethnic and culturally diverse disciplines. Beyond the extensive repertoire of performance and recording, Nemeth has also established his own label, Dreamer’s Collective Records and in 2007, released his debut album of original compositions, “Night Songs” to much accolade and features such luminaries as John Patitucci, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Lionel Loueke and Aaron Parks. A second project for the label “Triumph” was released in the autumn of 2012, sees Joshua Redman, Kenny Werner, Lionel Loueke as contributors, as well as a small wind orchestra. For over 10 weeks the album was among the Top 15 on the CMJ Jazz Charts. Both of his albums were finalist at the Independent Music Awards in 2008 and 2012, respectively. “Imaginary Realm”, the third album for the label was released in 2013 and it features a duo with Javier Vercher, one of Nemeth’s long time friend/bandmate. The fourth album of the label was released on the fall of 2014 and it’s a collaboration with Hungarian legend, guitarist, Attila Laszlo and features two Grammy winning musicians, Jimmy Haslip and Russell Ferrante, besides two incredible vocalists, the Hungarian Charlie Horvath and the Spanish Lara Bello. He participates in workshops and teaching programs in the United States, in India, in Hungary.
