ATTILA GRACZA

Attila Gracza was born in Zenta in the Hungarian-speaking providence of the former Yugoslavia. He received his diploma as a concert-pianist at the Sarajevo Music Academy in 1984.

Since 1991, he has been residing and performing as a musician in Sweden. As a solo artist, he has performed in Hungary, Romania, Germany, Spain, and England. In the year of 2000, he toured with the Tirgu Mures Symphony Orchestra in Romania and also performed piano concerts with Greg, Bach, and Gershwin in Sweden.

He has been touring with the Tiberius Quartet from Tirgu Mures since 2001, the latest being in the May of 2009 in Sweden, when the quartet guest-performed in Scandinavia.

Attila has been collaborating with soprano Margareta Melz for fifteen years and in the October of 2005, they had a jubilant tour of international festivals in Satu Mare and Tirgu Mures in Romania. In Sweden, Attila has approximately forty concerts in a variety of constellations every year.

Some important voices about Attila Gracza:

Attila Gracza is a skilful musician and a individual artist rooted in an European cultural tradition of wich there are few representatives in Sweden.

- Åke Holmquist, Concert Hall director, 1994

He is an absolutely professional musician with an irreproachable technique, a formation thoroughly dealt with, strong will for expression and convincing scenic presentation.

- Prof. Hans Leygraf, 1994

To judge from the great number of concerts he so far has been able to given in Småland region, he is further a person who in his musical relation has responded to the real needs of people and already he made an extensive and highly obvious cultural contribution.

- Bengt Holmstrand, Permanent Secretary, Royal Musical Academy, 1994