Szabolcs Szilagyi

Szabolcs Szilágyi was born to a family of artists. His father was an actor and his mother is a cultural manager, who works as fine art gallery director.

He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where he was a student of the late Tihamér Elek. He then went to London to continue postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Susan Milan. Meanwhile, invited by the maestro, he attended Sir James Galway’s international seminar in Weggis, Switzerland, on several occasions.

Szabolcs Szilágyi has been a member of Concerto Budapest – formerly Hungarian Symphony Orchestra – since 1995. The orchestra’s artistic director is András Keller, leader of the Keller String Quartet and violin professor at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, United Kingdom. Mr. Szilágyi played at the Frankfurt Chamber Opera, and was a regular member of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of pianist/conductor Tamás Vásáry and later of world renowned conductor Ádám Fischer.

Beyond his career as a musician, he has also published articles in Pan, the British Flute Society’s journal, Fuvolaszó, the Hungarian Flute Society’s magazine, as well as Parlando, a journal of music pedagogy in Hungary, the prestigious Gramofon Magazine’s printed version in Hungary and the German Flute Society’s Flöte Aktuell magazine. Also his article released at The Flute View magazine December 2019 issue while he appeared on the front cover of the January issue in 2020 of the same magazine.

Since 2018 he has recorded exclusively for Hungarian record label Hunnia Records. Mr. Szilágyi is the founder and artistic director of the Budapest Flute Academy.

Since 2020 Mr. Szilágyi plays on a 19.5 k custom handmade gold flute and holds the prestigious Haynes Artist title.