Certified studies
1972 Graduates Civil Constructions Faculty
in Timisoara.
Career in music
Co-founder of famous Phoenix.
1968 With Phoenix, in Bucharest, in a Palace
Hall concert, 1st Prize in Students’Art Festival.
1969 Political reasons prevent him from
meeting an invitation to record at Adriano Celentano’s
studio.
1970 With Pheonix, 1st Prize in Bucharest
Architecture Festival, with the rock opera 36 Hours Man.
1972 Plays jazz for Gramophone, with Paul
Weiner and Puba Hromadka before the latter leave for Germany.
1973 Invited to play in the San-Sebastian
- Spain Jazz Festival.
1978 Remake of Gramophone, playing guitar-bass;
with Doru Apreotesei - keyboard, Mihai Farkas - drums, Liviu
Butoi - sax,
1981 Plays with Mircea Tiberian and Liviu
Butoi; a new jazz band is born.
1982 Plays in Teophrastus Trio, with Eugen
Gondi and Toni Kuhn.
1983 Brasov Jazz Festival. Johnny Bota,
double-bass, seconds Bela Kamocsa, and Bega Blues Band is
thus born.
1990, 1991, Debrecen - Hungary most prestigious
East-European festival, with Elvin Jones, Charlie Mariano,
Charles Lloyd, Larry Corrywell and N.H.O.Pedersen.
1990 Director of Jazz and Blues Festival
in Timisoara.
1992 In Privas - France music festival;
Most Popular Band Prize.
1994 BBB plays in European festivals and
concerts, such as held in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bensheim, Leverkusen,
Augsburg, Schwabish Hall, Crailseim, Konigsberg, Novi Sad.
2002 Plays in Mamaia Festival, then in two
extraordinary concerts in Romanian Opera House and Sports
Hall, in Bucharest, for Pheonix 40, Jubilee, with Gheorghe
Zamfir and Manni Neumann.
2002, July Plays in a series of concerts
held in Northern Rennania-Westfalia, Germany.
2002, October Plays in Sibiu Jazz Festival,
with famous Jean Toots Thielemans.
2003 BBB’s jubilee, an extra-ordinary
concert, "From Gershwin to Sting", at the Romanian
Opera House in Timisoara, with the Banatul Philarmonic Orchestra
directed by Cristian Orosanu; soloists: Alexandra Gutu - cello,
Mirela Zafiri - soprano, Hungarian Istvan Gyarfas - guitar;
Liviu Butoi - sax; Toni Kuhn - piano; Mircea Bunea - guitar,
Mackie - vocal group. First synthetic - opera, symphony, blues,
rock, jazz - concert in Romania, full house cleared long before
concert day.
2003 August BBB in the guitariade at Garana
Jazz Festival: Johnny Bota, Bela Kamocsa, Mircea Bunea, Bujor
Hariga, Horia Crisovan.
2003 BBB plays in the 1st Jimboblues, an
international blues festival held in Jimbolia.
2003, November 16 2nd From Gershwin to Sing,
same success, for 13th Timisoara Blues and Jazz Festival
2004 BBB plus Istvan Gyarfas, Mircea Bunea
and Mirela Zafiri; and Bucharest Radio Big Band; an extra-ordinary
concert in Bucharest Radio Hall; Best blues-jazz band in Romania
Prize, local equivalent of Grammy; high rating radio and tv
broadcasts, like Taverna and Guaranteed 100% on RTV1 and Andrei
Partos Show.
2004 is awarded by the City of Timisoara with the EXCELENCE PRIZE
2005 - 2007 organizes BLUES FOR TIMISOARA festival
2005 extraordinary concert JIMI HENDRIX - SIMPHONIC with the FILARMONICA BANATUL orchestra
2006 he sings in the opening of the EMERSON LAKE and PALMER, and CHRIS FARLOW GROUP concert at Gastroblues festival in Paks-Ungaria
2007 aniversary concert BEGA BLUES BAND-25 YEARS, special guest MONY BORDEIANU (first soloist of PHOENIX)
He played allong the best romanian jazz singers, like Johnny Rãducanu, Garbis Dedeian, Mircea Tiberian, Anca Parghel, Marius Popp, Liviu Butoi, Dan Ionescu, Eugen Gondi, Toni Kühn dar si cu artisti internationali ca Paul Weiner, Puba Hromadka, Puiu Minda , István Gyárfás, Sylvain Beuf, Manuel Rochemann, István Grencsó, Gyula Molnár.
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