Péter ZOMBOLA was born in Budapest in 1983. From 1997 to 2001 he attended the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music as a pupil of Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky, then he studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest with Zoltán Jeney and György Orbán. He received the Zoltán Kodály Scholarship of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture in 2007. In 2006 he took his degree of composition and teaching with distinction and a year later his diploma as a teacher of analysis also with honours. Several works by Zombola have been premiered at foreign and Hungarian music festivals while he composes film and theatre music as well. He was a composer and music theory DLA student of the School of Doctor’s Degree of the Liszt Academy between 2006-2009, became a doctor in 2010. Between 2004-2013 he taught at the Faculty of Singing and Music of the University of Dramatic and Film Arts Budapest. He was the artistic leader of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir between 2012-2017. He works as an associate professor at the Eszterházy Károly University since 2009, as well as at the University of Debrecen since 2018. The prizes he was given includes but not limited to: Junior Prima Prize (2012), Erkel Prize by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture (2015), For Hungarian Science’ prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017), Bartók-Pásztory Prize (2020). Further information: www.peterzombola.com peterzombola@gmail.com