Composer · Pianist · Film Music Composer

Music that
moves between
worlds.

Orchestral, chamber, vocal and screen music shaped by colour, rhythm and a strong dramatic instinct.

About

Judit Varga

Vienna-based composer with an international concert and film music practice, whose work spans orchestral, chamber, solo and vocal compositions, with performances in international concert halls and festivals.

Her music moves naturally between classical tradition, experimental currents and the dramatic worlds of film and stage. Recurring loops, kinetic energy and shifting perspectives shape a language that feels at once familiar, playful and unmistakably contemporary.

Based inVienna
FieldsComposition · Film music · Piano · Teaching

Work catalogue

Music

Loops, kinetic energy and shifting perspectives animate music that moves freely between classical tradition and experiment—from a single instrument to the full force of the orchestra.

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Selected works

FILM+ Stage

Film scores, television, documentary, experimental moving image and works for the stage.

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Selected upcoming performances.

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LOCATION

Vienna-based, with concerts worldwide. See where Judit is next in the UPCOMING section!

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Zankend – Stille, stumm, still

Alternative titleVeszekedős – Csend, néma csend
Year of composition2021/22
Duration20'
Instrumentation
flute (doubling piccolo); B-flat clarinet (doubling B-flat bass clarinet); bassoon (doubling contrabassoon); horn in F; trumpet in C; trombone; percussion (2 players); piano; 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass

About the work

Hommage à M. Kurtág, commissioned by UMZE Ensemble Budapest and dedicated to the memory of Márta Kurtág. The final work grew out of an abandoned piano-concerto idea and treats forgetting and remembering as a kind of musical palimpsest. Five continuous sections evoke phases of grief.

Background / credits

CommissionCommissioned by UMZE Ensemble Budapest
DedicationHommage à M. Kurtág

Premiere / performances / awards

Premiere6 March 2022 · Budapest Music Center, Concert Hall · UMZE Ensemble · Gergely Vajda, conductor · world premiere

Materials / releases / sources

Score / materials
Recording / release
ORF CD 3267 · UMZE Ensemble · Gregory Vajda, conductor · 18:07 · recording of the world premiere: 6 March 2022 · Budapest Music CenterÖ1 portrait CD / playlist ↗

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