József Bazsinka Jr.

Tuba player József Bazsinka Jr. was born in Budapest (Hungary) 1985, in a musician family. His mother is a cello player, his father (József Bazsinka) is an international tuba soloist, member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the first teacher of József Jr.
He graduated in 2010 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest in the class of László Szabó. He spent a semester at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hanover in 2008, where he studied from Jens Bjørn-Larsen. He earned DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts) doctoral degree at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2018. From 2012 he also took four semesters at the Baptist Theological Academy, Budapest.
He had got first prizes on the national tuba competition in Hungary, 2007, on the international tuba competition in Brno (CZ), 2008, and in Jeju, South-Korea, 2010. In 2010 he is a founding member of In Medias Brass Quintet, which – just a bit more than three years into its existence – has won five first prizes and two second prizes on seven noted international chamber music competitions in South-Korea, Germany, Slovenia, Japan, Italy, France and the USA. In November 2011 they were given the „Junior Prima” award, which is the highest award for young and talented people in any field of art in Hungary. Beside Hungary and several European countries, they had recitals in South-Korea, Japan and the USA until now.
He is a regular contributor in Klangforum Wien since 2005, in UMZE (Hungarian contemporary ensemble) since 2013. He played in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo with Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg) in 2014-2015 (Amsterdam, Zürich and Paris). He is member of Ensemble Experimentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg) since 2016.
From 2015 till 2021 he was the tuba and brass chamber music teacher of the St. Stephen King Secondary Vocational School of Music, Budapest, since 2021 he is adjunct at the Béla Bartók Music Faculty of Szeged University.