Péter Kőszeghy

Kőszeghy is a member of the Brandenburgischer Verein Neue Musik, since 2007 of musik21 and since 2009 of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig.

In 2002 he was a lecturer at the promotion course "Jugend komponiert" (Young Composers) at the Rheinsberg Music Academy, in 2008 at the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik [de] and since 2009 at the KlangNetz Dresden [de] and the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.

Since 1999 he has lived in Berlin as a freelance composer and music teacher. His works have been performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, the Ensemble Sortisatio, the Ensemble Zagros and the Ensemble Aleph, among others. Since 2004 his complete works have been published by Edition Juliane Klein. In 2009 he was Composer in Residence of Deutschlandfunk and the St Peter's Church (Cologne).

In 1993 he moved to Germany and studied musical composition with Paul-Heinz Dittrich and electronic music with Andre Bartetzki at the Studio für Elektroakustische Musik (Berlin) (STEAM) of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" until 1999. From 2000 to 2001 he attended the composition class of Hans Zender at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. He attended seminars by Edisson Denissow, Gerhard Stäbler, Mathias Spahlinger and Friedrich Goldmann. He was also a guest at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Péter Kőszeghy (born 2 September 1971) is a Hungarian composer and music eductor.

Kőszeghy was born in 1971 in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. From 1985 to 1989 he attended the Béla-Bartók High School of Music in Miskolc, where he received flute lessons. From 1989 to 1992 he studied flute and music pedagogy at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Győr. He also took private composition lessons with Attila Reményi and Endre Olsvay. From 1992 to 1993 he was a member of the "Group of Young Composers" (Fiatal Zeneszerzők Csoportja (F.Z.CS.)) in Budapest.