Rudolf Tomsits (12 May 1946 - 11 June 2003) was a Hungarian

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musician who played the

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and the flugelhorn.

Biography

After a year in Sweden where he worked with

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, Jan Johansson und Egil Johansen, Tomsits became soloist, composer and arranger of the ''Stúdió 11'' band of

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. He played with his own Rudolf Tomsits Quartet, at the

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in 1968 and 1969 as well as festivals in Bled, Vienna, Palermo and Warsaw, among others. In 1971, they toured Europe as the opening act for the ''Jazz Giants'', a band that included Dizzy Gillespie,

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and Art Blakey. From 1977 to 1980 he conducted a sextet and from 1980 to 1992 he worked for the Yugoslav Radio and Television Association as leader of its Novi Sad big band. In 1995, he formed the ''Take 4'' quartet with Gyula Babos,

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and Imre Kőszegi, which published three CDs. He was also active as an educator, teaching trumpet at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music from 1994 to 1999, and later as an associate professor at the

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for two years. In 2003 he was awarded the ''Gábor Szabó Award'' of the Hungarian Jazz Association.

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1946 births 2003 deaths Hungarian jazz trumpeters Flugelhorn players Musicians from Budapest {{jazz-trumpeter-stub