Tzumo Árpád

Born in 1980 from a Gipsy family, he started playing the piano at the age of seven. He studied classical music at the Weiner Leo Conservatory (Hungary Budapest), after he received a scholarship to the Ferenc Erkel School of Jazz Music. In 2003 he applied and got accepted to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. He has performed with Monk Institute Band, featuring among other Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garret in the United States, Europe and Japan.