Farkas Bence

In August, 2022, Bence Farkas was commissioned to compose orchestral music for the grand opening ceremony of the Hungarian National Day event series.

Premiere of a new dance performance “Máskép(p)”, directed by Imola Tőkés, music by Bence Farkas

Premiere of a new performance, based on Robin Hanson’s theory, written and directed by Mihály Schwechtje, music by Bence Farkas

From 2021. Bence Farkas teaches at Liszt Academy of Music‘s composition department.

Bence Farkas’ work was the award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s 2020 competition for composers, in the film music category.

In addition to composing he also works as musical director / arranger for media productions and feature films. (Lajko – Gypsy in Space, Tall Tales, Cream, Captives, The Story of My Wife, The Grandson)

During the season he also worked for Bartók Theatre, Comedy Theatre of Budapest, National Dance Theatre, Noir Theatre of Budapest.

He cooperated in creating numerous hungarian pop band’s “Symphonic Live” events.

In 2020 Bence Farkas was invited to present a live scoring session in front of an audience in the program of BLEND 2020.

He completed his Master’s Degree in 2019 with excellent qualifications at Liszt Academy of Music. It is here that he was under the tutelage of Judit Varga and Hollywood film composer Adam Balazs, in the areas of contemporary music, applied composition, orchestration and film scoring.

In 2016 Mr. Farkas has been shortlisted for FMF Young Talent Award for one of his film scores, and has been selected to the top 10 out of 222 competitors at Oticons Faculty.

After ten years of studying piano at music school, Bence Farkas relocated to Budapest, where, for six years, he studied sound and electrical engineering, in parallel with music.

He commenced his piano pedagogy at the age of six, under the famous Kodály Method.

Bence Farkas was born in the town of Várpalota in Hungary, the third child of László Farkas (violinist) and Marianna Szász (music theory teacher).