Károly Binder (born 2 April 1956) is a Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and educator.
Binder was born in Budapest on 2 April 1956.[1] He was five years old when he started playing the piano and studied jazz in Budapest at the Béla Bartók Musical Training College from 1976 to 1979.[1]
From the early 1980s Binder led quartets and quintets that appeared at festivals in Europe.[1] He performed and recorded with the free-jazz musician György Szabados in the middle of that decade and near its end played in duos with Theo Jörgensmann, Laszlo Sűle and others.[1] Many of his frequent recordings from the early 1980s and into the 1990s have been reissued on Binder Music Manufactory, his own label.[1] He is the head of the jazz department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.[2]
"Binder's style of world music mingles elements of Japanese, lamaist, gamelan, Indian, and African music with the diatonic harmonies of classical music and the improvisational freedom of jazz."[1]
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