Márton Illés

Márton Illés (born 12 December 1975 in Budapest), is a Hungarian composer and pianist.

He studied the piano with László Gyimesi at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, completing his solo diploma in 1998.

He studied composition with Detlev Müller-Siemens from 1997 to 2001 in Basel, with Wolfgang Rihm and music theory under Michael Reudenbach at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 2001 to 2005.

[1] In 2006, Illés founded the Scene Polidimensionali chamber music ensemble[2] He won an Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2008,[3] and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in 2009.

[4] His first large scale stage work, Die weiße Fürstin, was given its world premiere in April 2010 at the Munich Biennale in a co-production with Theater Kiel.