Félix Lajkó

Lajkó Félix (Serbian: Феликс Лајко, "Feliks Lajko"), (Félix Lajkó), is a Serbian-born violinist, zither player and composer of Roma and Hungarian origin, born December 17, 1974, Bačka Topola, SAP Vojvodina, in what was then Yugoslavia.

Music

Lajkó plays a variation of musical styles: traditional string music of the Hungarian (Pannonian) plain, Romani music, “folk music, classical music, rock, blues, jazz and improvised melodies.” In concert he plays mostly the violin, either with his small group or solo.

Collaborations and work

Lajkó has also played together with a large number of well-known bands and musicians. He was a member of György Szabados's band, Makúz and Boris Kovac's band, Ritual Nova. He performed together with the world-famous Japanese bhuto dancer, Min Tanaka and the French Noir Desir band a number of times. He has had many concerts together with the Romanian violin player living in London, Alexander Balanescu and with Boban Markovic's brass gipsy band. He has composed music for some theatrical plays. Among others he wrote the complete music material for the Szabadka Theatre's Public enemy production, but Jozef Nadj from Orlean also asks him to compose music for his performances regularly and he has also composed music for coreographies of Ivett Bozsik. He composed the whole musical score for Wheels, a film by Ljubisa Samardzic from Yugoslavia. It was also him who composed the hymn for the 1998 Sarajevo cultural festival, Sarajevska Zima. He has participated in many fiction films and Miklós Jancsó made his short film Play, Félix! about him. He wrote music for Towards a New Atlantis, a project of the Venice Biennale in 2000. Lajkó also composed music for and acted as the main character of Kornél Mundruczó's film Delta- a film which won a small prize in Cannes, and was nominated for the Golden Palm. It was the Hungarian Film Festival's winning film, and Lajkó was awarded the best original soundtrack of the Festival.

Discography

*"Remény" (2007)
*"Lajkó Félix 7" (2005)
*"Félix" (2002)
*"Lajkó Félix and his Band" (2001)
*"Boban Markovics 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)
*"Noir Désir: 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)

External links

* [http://www.lajkofelix.hu/english/index.php Official site]
* [http://www.passiondiscs.co.uk/bulgarian_02/balkan_music_09.htm Felix Lajko CDs]
* [http://lajkofelixfan.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ Japanese fanclub of Lajko]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482057/ Félix Lajkó on IMDB]