Sándor Szokolay

Sándor Szokolay studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Training under Ferenc Farkas is recorded. The recorded working language is Hungarian. The field of work recorded is music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize, Meritorius Artist of Hungary and Great Artist of Hungary Award.

Szokolay was born in Kunágota in a Lutheran evangelic family and began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó and Ferenc Farkas. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio music department. Between 1959 and 1994 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron where he lived and worked till his death. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well known all over the world. Szokolay was chairman of the Hungarian Kodály Society (1978) and the Hungarian Music Camera (1991–92), and he was member of the Hungarian Széchenyi Art Academy (1992).

Sándor Szokolay is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation music educator. Classed in the genre opera. Recorded as having received Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize and Meritorius Artist of Hungary. Szokolay received Kossuth Prize, Erkel Ferenc Prize, Meritorius Artist of Hungary, Great Artist of Hungary Award, Hungarian Heritage Award and Prima Primissima Prize.