Tamás Schóber (1963- ) Place and date of birth: Pécs, 5 June, 1963
Family Mother: Teréz Füredi Father: János Schóber Elder brother: János Schóber Wife: Márta Kozma
(married in 1990) Son: Soma Schóber, 1995
Daughter: Sára Schóber, 1996
Education and qualifications
1969-1977 Mátyás király Primary School
1977-1981 István Széchenyi Grammar School
1981-1986 Pécs
University, 3 Majors: Music, Trumpet and Self-Education Manager
1987-1993 Choir Conducting and Music Composition Studies
2001- Advisor, Pécs University
2005 graduates from Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Workplace
1986- Teachers
Training Primary School of Pécs University: Music teacher and choirmaster
Professional activities
1987- Mentor at Teachers Training Primary School of Pécs University
1988 Baranya Big Band, his orchestra accompanies
thousands of singers in the Europa Cantat Festival where he cooperates with a number of well-known people of cultural and music life in Hungary and abroad, like Imre Antal the famous Hungarian pianist, TV presenter and comedian, Oscar
Peterson’s successor, Guido Helbling, the Manhattan Transfer Singers’ pianist as well as their tenor singer and many others
1996- school inspector of Baranya county, Hungary
1996-1998 delivers a series of lectures to teachers
and choirmasters on the use of in-class music listening repertoire of Hungarian primary school textbooks all over the country
1980s founding member of Ferenc Liszt Society of Pécs
1980s founding member of Zoltán Kodály
Society of Pécs
1980s joins the Lajos Bárdos Society
1996 founds Schóber LLC – SCHTUDIOTON, his own record publishing company and produces records of famous ensembles
1997- advisor of Hungaroton-Gong Record Company
2001- produces
CDs for Alexandra Publishing House, Hungary
2003- joins the Society Artisjus Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors’ Rights
Composer
Composes more than 150 pieces of music
Composes music for 4 plays:
1993
Lottie and Lisa
1998 Mattie the Gooseboy
2003 Emil
2010 The Bench
Produces and records several CDs:
1998 Baranya Big Band
2001 Pécs, the City of Mediterranean Moods
2006 Children’s Fun
2008
String Rhapsody – String Quartet 1
2009 Mass in November, Missa mosso (with Szekszárd Big Band)
2010 European Capital of Culture: 3 CDs: Moods, Memories; Traditions, Values; Pécs, the Cultural Metropolis
Conductor
1979-
conducts the István Széchenyi Wind Orchestra
1987-1990 conducts the Baranya Big Band Jazz Orchestra
Choirmaster
1986- conducts school choirs
1982-1988 associate choirmaster and singer of the Pécs Summer
Theatre music performances
1986-1998 associate choirmaster of Béla Bartók Male Choir
1994-1998 choirmaster of Szigetvár Tinódi Mixed Choir, Hungary
Member of ensembles
1981-1982 trumpeter of the Regiment
Orchestra of the Hungarian National Army
1980-1984 conductor and bass singer of the Pécs Spiritual Ensemble
1982-1983 trumpeter of the Pécs Spectrum Jazz Ensemble
1982-1987 trumpeter of the Baranya Big Band Jazz Orchestra
Professional tours abroad
Tours all over world with Béla Bartók Male Choir:
Debrecen
and Budapest in Hungary , Torrevijeha, Spain, Karditsa, Greece, Arezzo and Riva del Garda, Italy, Appeldoorn, the Netherlands, Tours, France
International Choral Kathaumixw in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
, Los Angeles, Tucson, Las Vegas, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, USA
Mexico
Tours all over the world with Campanella Children’s Choir:
Budapest, Hungary; Szekszárd, Hungary; Eger, Hungary; Pápa,
Hungary (19-year long partnership with Ferenc Erkel Primary School) ; 2 concert tours in France
International Children’s Choir Competition in Halle, Germany ; China: conducts the Campanella Children’s Choir at the 6th World Choir
Games in Shaoxing, in the Shanghai Expo, in Beijing and at a concert at the Great Wall of China, 2010
Teaching
1985-1987 brass,solfège and music theory teacher and conductor of the Music School of Bóly,
Hungary
Innovation
2007 Listening to Music: Anthologies 1-10, Alexandra Publishing
1996- Performs publisher’s readership of Hungarian elementary songbooks and Teachers’ Books in cooperation with József
Tihanyi
1997-2007 with László Dobos they record, direct and edit the in-class music listening CDs material of the Hungarian Elementary Songbook series, Apáczai Publishing House
1985 founds the Music School of Bóly, Hungary
1985
founds the Junior Wind Orchestra of Bóly, Hungary
Awards, achievement
1982 spring- 1st prize in the talent competition of the Hungarian National Army
1984- the Pécs Spiritual Ensemble appeared in the first
round of Talent Show recorded by the Hungarian National TV Channel (MTV)
5 September, 2007 the Hungarian Elementary Songbook series wins the Hungarian Quality Product Award
Campanella Children’s Choir received several awards,
certificates, special prizes in Pécs as well as international chorus festivals in Budapest:
16 gold awards, 6 gold award with diplomas, 1 silver award, 4 special prizes and four times the Choir of the Year title in the
Singing Youth Qualifying Choir Competition in Pécs
1 silver 10th prize and 1 brass awards in Budapest
1 brass award in the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir Competition in Budapest
1990, 1993, 2010 receives 3 Honourable Mentions
from the President of Pécs University
2007 the Association of Hungarian Record Companies (MAHASZ) awards him 4 gold and 1 platinum records
Wins numerous tenders for composers
His signals appear in European and world
programmes
His music pieces are broadcast by Hungarian TV channels and radio stations in Hungary and abroad
2010 wins silver 7th prize with the Campanella Children’s Choir, the only choir from Hungary in the 6th World Choir Games,
Shaoxing, China
2010 conducts the Campanella Children’s Choir in the Hungarian Pavilion in Shanghai Expo where they meet the Hungarian consul
"Professional perfection, clear movements of melody, endeavour to tune plain
message and his love of life reflect his composer style." (Attila Kovács, Pécs Concerto, p628)
