Matyas Gayer piano

Matyas Gayer, the Hungarian pianist, first fell in love with the music at the age of five. Gayer has been showing passion to straight ahead, mainstream jazz and has been already performing on various stages such as Palace of Arts, Budapest since the early teenage years. He is a leading figure in the new generation of jazz musicians and is recognised as being one of a handful of young pianists who is successfully forging his own distinctive style and musical voice, out of the great jazz piano tradition.

Gayer founded his first band and won Hungary’s young talent competition, the Golden Ten Award at the age of 14. Then Gayer started his professional music studies under the tutelage of Karoly Binder, head of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

In 2009 Gayer performed at Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, where he won first prize and was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, Boston. He continued his musical studies in Austria, at the University of Performing Arts Graz, under the direction of Olaf Polziehn and he received Bachelor of Arts Degree with honours. In 2018 he received Master of Arts Degree with honours at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Gayer was invited to the prestigious Luzern Piano Festival, where he performed as the youngest participant.

He was a member of Jim Rotondi’s electric band between 2012-2014.

In the years 2014 and 2015 he was finalist at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition.

In 2015 he won the one of the most prestigious Hungarian jazz prize, the Gramofon Award and the Matyas Gayer Trio won first prize at International Zilina Jazz Contest the same year.

In 2018 he received Master of Arts Degree with honour at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Besides being a performer the hungarian pianist plays an important role as an educator in Central Europe. Matyas Gayer held workshops with many talented children in music schools in varying countries such as Austria, Hungary, Macedonia, Italy and Germany.

He has performed Internationally with many of the jazz’s greats such as Jesse Davis, Jim Rotondi, Grant Stewart, Luis Bonilla, Don Menza, Dusko Goykovich, John Fedchock, and more recently in the bands of Rick Margitza and Eddie Henderson.