Félix Lajkó


Félix Lajkó is a Hungarian violinist, zither player and composer. He plays a variety of musical styles: folk music, world music, classical music, integrating rock, blues, jazz, trance genres and improvised melodies. In concert, he plays violin and zither either with his small band, solo and other artists.
He has also worked as an actor, taking the lead role in the 2008 film Delta when the original lead actor died. His first zither played 2013 album "Mező" had been led Word Music Charts Europe for 2 months.

Biography

Lajkó was born in Bačka Topola, Serbia to ethnic Hungarian parents. He started playing the zither at the age of 10. His first contact with the violin was at the age of 12. He has finished the six years of musical school in three years time. Lajkó finished his formal studies and turned towards concerting.

Collaborations and work

Lajkó has played together with a large number of well-known bands and musicians. He was a member of György Szabados' band, Makúz and Boris Kovač's band, Ritual Nova. He performed together with the world-famous Japanese butoh dancer, Min Tanaka and the French Noir Desir band a number of times. He has had many concerts together with the London-based Romanian violin player Alexander Balanescu and with Boban Marković's brass gipsy band.
Lajkó has composed music for some theatrical plays. Among others he wrote the complete music material for the Subotica Teatre's Public Enemy production. Jozef Nadj from Orléans regularly invites him to compose music for his performances and he has also composed music for choreographies of Ivett Bozsik. He composed the whole musical score for Wheels, a film by Serbian director Đorđe Milosavljević. 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 Lajkó. 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 award at the Festival. 2016-2017 Lajkó collaborated with Hungarian dub-trance duo Óperentzia in a folk-trance project fusioned his zither music and psychedelic electronic music.

Discography