Félix Lajkó ( sr, Феликс Лајко, ''Feliks Lajko''; born 17 December 1974 in

Bačka Topola Bačka Topola ( sr-Cyrl, Бачка Топола, ; hu, Topolya, ) is a town and municipality located in the North Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The municipality is composed of 23 local communities and has a po ...

SR Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

ist,

zither Zithers (; , from the Greek word ''cithara'') are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat ...

player and composer. He plays a variety of musical styles:

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(traditional string music of the

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, Romani music), world music, classical music, integrating

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, blues,

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trance Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...

genres and improvised melodies. In concert, he plays

and zither either with his small band, solo and other artists. He has also worked as an actor, taking the lead role in the 2008 film ''

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'' when the original lead actor died. His first zither played 2013 album "Mező" had been led Word Music Charts Europe for 2 months.

Biography

Lajkó was born in

, Serbia to ethnic Hungarian parents. He started playing the

at the age of 10. His first contact with the violin was at the age of 12. He has finished the six years of musical school in three years. Lajkó finished his formal studies and turned towards concerting.''Biography section''
from the Lajkó Félix Official Web Site

Collaborations and work

Lajkó has played together with a large number of well-known bands and musicians. He was a member of György Szabados' band, Makúz and Boris Kovač's band, Ritual Nova. He performed together with the world-famous Japanese

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dancer, Min Tanaka and the French

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band a number of times. He has had many concerts together with the

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-based

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n violin player Alexander Balanescu and with Boban Marković's brass gipsy band. Lajkó has composed music for some theatrical plays. Among others, he wrote the complete music material for the Subotica Teatre's ''

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'' production. Jozef Nadj from

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Ivett Bozsik. He composed the whole musical score for ''

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'', a film by Serbian director Đorđe Milosavljević. It was also him who composed the hymn for the 1998

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cultural festival, "Sarajevska Zima". He has participated in many fiction films and

Miklós Jancsó Miklós Jancsó (; 27 September 192131 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including '' The Round-Up'' (''Szegénylegények'', 1965), '' ...

made his short film ''Play, Félix!'' about Lajkó. He wrote music for '' Towards a New Atlantis'', a project of the

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in 2000. Lajkó also composed music for and acted as the main character of

Kornél Mundruczó Kornél Mundruczó (; born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 18 short and feature films between 1998 and 2020. His film ''Johanna'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2005 Cannes Film Fest ...

's film ''Delta'' - a film which won a small prize in

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, and was nominated for the

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. It was the Hungarian Film Festival's winning film, and Lajkó was awarded the best original soundtrack award at the Festival. 2016-2017 Lajkó collaborated with Hungarian dub-

duo Óperentzia in a folk-trance project fusioned his zither music and psychedelic electronic music.

Discography

*
Lajkó Félix & Volosi
' (2019) *
Lajkó Félix: Most jöttem...
' (2016) *
Lajkó Félix: Mező
' (2013) *
Lajkó Félix: Makovecz turné
' (2011) *
Lajkó Félix: A bokorból
' (2009) *
Lajkó Félix: Remény
' (2007) *
Lajkó Félix 7
' (2005) *
Félix
' (2002) *''Lajkó Félix and his Band'' (2001) *''Boban Marković Orkestar Feat. Lajkó Félix'' (2000) *''Lajkó Félix and his Band: Concert ’98'' (1998) *''Lajkó Félix– Attila Lőrinszky: Live at the Academy'' (1997) *''Lajkó Félix and his Band'' (1997) *''

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666.667 Club CD
' (guest musician) (1996) *''Samaba Trió: Opus Magnum CD'' (guest musician) (1996) *''Lajkó Félix and his Band'' (1995) *'' Mihály Dresch Dudás
Zeng a lélek
' (1993)

References

External links

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Óperentzia & Felix Lajkó playing folk-trance music live at Dombos Festival, 2017
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