Bence Farkas is a Hungarian composer, musical director, and instructor at the composition department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as well as at the film departments of Eötvös Loránd University and Budapest Metropolitan University. He primarily engages in composing music for films and theater productions, having also completed the symphonic orchestrations and musical direction for numerous major motion pictures. In 2020, he was awarded in the film music category of the autumn music competition at the Palace of Arts.
September, 2023
International Cello Competition
For the opening ceremony of the 10th International David Popper Cello Competition, Bence Farkas composed a new piece for five cellos and string orchestra.
September, 2023
Clownfish
Clayton Henderson’s film titled “Clownfish” won the Founder’s Circle award at the Louisiana Film Prize. Cast: Josh Munds, Melissa Munds, Chris Alan Evans, SheilaVA
Music: Bence Farkas
August, 2023
Athletics World Championships
The composer and orchestrator of the closing event of the 2023 Athletics World Championships in Budapest was Bence Farkas.
January, 2023
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light
Farkas Bence served as the music director for Filip Posivac’s European co-production film titled “Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light,” and the composer is credited with the original music for several scenes.
István Örkény Theatre, 2022
Premiere of a new performance, based on Robin Hanson’s theory, written and directed by Mihály Schwechtje, music by Bence Farkas
September, 2021
Instructor: Liszt Academy of Music
Since 2021, Bence Farkas has been instructing in the composition department at the Liszt Academy of Music.
2020 – 2021 / Movies
Music driecting
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)
2020 – 2021 / Theatre
Theatre Works
During the season he also worked for Bartók Theatre, Comedy Theatre of Budapest, National Dance Theatre, Noir Theatre of Budapest.
2020 / 2021 – pop
Symphonic Live
He participated in the development of several Hungarian pop bands’ “Symphonic Live” events.
March, 2020
Live Session @ BLEND
In 2020, Bence Farkas received an invitation to conduct a live scoring session before a live audience as part of the BLEND 2020 program.
2019
Master’s Degree
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.
2016
Young Talent Award
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.
2008 – 2014
Conservatoire
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.
2000 – 2008
He commenced his piano pedagogy at the age of six, under the famous Kodály Method.