Zoltán plays a 5 string violin and a custom-built 5+16 sympathetic string violin (Tarangini) created by Ricardo Margarit. Zoltan Lantos received his degree in classical violin from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Being drawn towards experimental and eastern music from early on, he travelled to India on a scholarship to study classical Indian music in 1985 and returned in 1994. He went on developing his own unique way of improvising on the violin, rediscovering his musical roots and blending them with his knowledge of Eastern music and his experiences in the field of contemporary European jazz. Since then he has been performing and recording with his own band and as a soloist on international jazz- and world music festivals with various musicians from his native Hungary as well as Charlie Mariano, Dave Liebman, Ramesh Shotham, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Lars Danielsson, Dhafer Youssef, Markus Stockhausen, Achim Tang, Patrice Heral and others.
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Zoltán plays a 5 string violin and a custom-built 5+16 sympathetic string violin (Tarangini) created by Ricardo Margarit. Zoltan Lantos received his degree in classical violin from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. Being drawn towards experimental and eastern music from early on, he travelled to India on a scholarship to study classical Indian music in 1985 and returned in 1994. He went on developing his own unique way of improvising on the violin, rediscovering his musical roots and blending them with his knowledge of Eastern music and his experiences in the field of contemporary European jazz. Since then he has been performing and recording with his own band and as a soloist on international jazz- and world music festivals with various musicians from his native Hungary as well as Charlie Mariano, Dave Liebman, Ramesh Shotham, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Lars Danielsson, Dhafer Youssef, Markus Stockhausen, Achim Tang, Patrice Heral and others.
