Soma Salamon

Photo: F. Fekete

Education:

2017 – present: Doctoral programme of Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest                     

Field of doctoral research: multicultural and areal relations inthe flute recordings of Bartók’s Transylvanian field trip in 1914  

2012 – 2017: Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest – BA and MA studies in Folk Music

MA thesis: Analysis and possible educational uses of the playing technique of native csángó-Hungarian caval player András Hodorog of Klézse village.

2001 – 2004: Béla Bartók Secondary Music School, Budapest – Classical Piano

Folk Music Collection Field Trips:

2017 – present: field trips in Romanian and Gipsy communities of Görgény/Gurghiu region of Transylvania

2014: field trip in the Andean regions of Ecuador                                                       

2005 – present: field recordings of András Hodorog, native informant on flute

2004 – present: field trips in Transylvanian Hungarian communities                            

As a folk musician and ethnomusicologist Soma is one of the most active members of the young generation in his fields in Hungary as well as on the international scene. 

As a player of Hungarian Ethnic Flutes and Accordion he has been invited by various folk ensembles to perform, including Buda Folk Band (2008-2017), Tűz Lángja (2003 -), Fanfara Complexa (2010 -), Enyedi Ágnes és a Bandárium (2017 -), Enyedi – Salamon Quartet (2016 ), Erdőfű zenekar (2016 -), Magos együttes (2017 -).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRHj8KdUY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPLTjI55JoU 

As a performer and composer, he contributed to the following events:

- Muzsikás 40: Anniversary Concert of Muzsikás Ensemble (2013)
- A tilinkótól a tárogatóig – Művészetek Palotája (2013)
- Hungarian National Radio – Espace 2 (Svájc): a népdal útja (2014) Magyar Menyegző – Papp László Sportaréna (2015)
- Édesanyám sok szép szava – Enyedi Ágnes műsora (2016)
- ifj. Zsuráfszky Zoltán és Tókos Attila: Testvér – composer (2016)
- Bartók-sources – Művészetek Palotája, Bartók Béla National Concert Hall (2017)
- Instinctive improvisation in Hungarian Folk Music – Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, USA (2019)
- Festival Extensión (FEX) 2010, Granada, ES
- Euroradio Folk Festival 2014, Rattvik, SE
- Etnokrakow 2015, Kraków, PL
- Womex 2015, Budapest, HU
- Czech Music Crossroads 2016, 2017 Ostrava, CZ
- Ritmo Festival 2016, Budapest, HU
- Madison World Music Festival 2016, Madison WI, USA
- Atlantic Music Expo 2017, Praia, Cabo Verde
- New Year’s Gala, Liszt Academy of Music, 2019, Budapest,  HU

Discography:

Buda Folk Band:

- Sűrű Vándor (2010)
- Magyar Világi Népzene (2013)
- Szegelet (2015)
- Saját gyűjtés (2015)

Tűz Lángja Zenekar:

- Tovafelé (2010)

Fanfara Complexa:

- Radio Popular (2011)
- Tánc alá (2016)

Magos: https://magosfolkband.hu/en/ 

- Forgatós (2018)

Mihó Attila és zenekara:

- Összehegedült Kárpátok (2019)

Korzenszky Klára és zenekara:

- Szerelemcsütörtök, dobszerda (2012)

As an ethnomusicologist his fields of study and research comprise:

- Ethnic flutes in the Carpathian Basin
- Methodology and comparative analysis in Hungarian ethnomusicology
- International relations of Hungarian ethnomusicology
- Typology of Hungarian folk melodies
- Transylvanian field recordings of Béla Bartók
- Historical and multicultural relations of stylistic strata in Hungarian folk music

Important conference papers, lectures:   

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, US, 2019
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, US
Lecture title: Methodology of the “Hungarian School” of Ethnomusicology
Lecture title: Performing style of native Csángó-Hungarian fluter, András Hodorog https://video.ibm.com/recorded/120023743 

Central European University, Budapest, HU, 2019
Summer School: Music as Heritage: From Tradition to Product
Lecture title: Methodology of the “Hungarian School” of Ethnomusicology

45th ICTM World Conference Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH, 2019
Lecture title: Practice-Based Analytic Approach in Ethnomusicology Through the Transylvanian Flute Tradition

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, UK, 2018
Pedagogies, Practices and Future of Folk Music in Higher Education Conference
Paper title: How to Perform and Teach Béla Bartók's Earliest Peasant Flute Recordings from Transylvania

Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, HU, 2017
XXXIII. National Students’ Association Conference – awarded a 1st prize
Paper title: Analysis of Giusto Caval Melodies of Native Csángó-Hungarian Fluter, András Hodorog

Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, PL, 2017
Kodály Conference 2017
Paper title: Traditional Instrumental Music in Hungary

Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, HU, 2015
XXXII. National Students’ Association Conference – awarded a 2nd prize
Paper title: The Singing Flute: Relations Between Repertoires and Performing Manners of Native Fluters and Singer Informants

Teaching experience:

2017 – present: Liszt Academy of Music – as a Lecturer he teaches Folk Music Analysis, Folk Music Theory (course in English), Instrumental Studies, and Folk Music Repertoire

2016 – present: the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music – as a Lecturer he teaches Folk Music, International Folk Music, and Folk Music Analysis

2015 – 2017: Hermann László Secondary School of Music, Székesfehérvár – Instrumental Studies and Folk Music Theory

Membership:

He joined the International Council of Traditional Music in 2019. 

Prizes, awards:

- „Fölszállott a Páva 2014” Television Folk Music Talent Show: Special Prize (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2wgSLVxtis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Y87WpP5Fg
- Bezerédj-prize – as the member of the Buda Folk Band (2015)
- Young Master of Folk Arts National Award (2015)
- Junior Prima Award for Folk Arts (2015)