Passionate about making music, these are just some compositions

The classically trained Hungarian pianist-composer, Tamás Vághy took the decision some years ago to share his work with the public under the name vaghy, a work arranged to piano, synths and other vintage instruments and that is in many ways different from rock music. 

First came a video series featuring strings and vocalists under the title vaghy ensemble, while running the pianoset project with Edina Palkovics and Máté Halász. In recent years, albums-worth of tracks have been gathering on virtual shelves, all products of intense musical experimentation. Besides his other activities (such as being the keyboardist of the well-known Hungarian rock band, Anna and the Barbies), vaghy has also been playing an important part, as one of the main organisers, in Piano Day Budapest. His first official release arrived at the end of 2018: Blue Spiral Records of Italy featured "Invisible Touch" as the opening song in its The Minimal Piano Series, a compilation album of minimalist piano pieces. These years saw vaghy sharing the stage with names like Lubomyr Melnyk, Lisa Morgenstern, Simeon Walker, James Gillespie and iamyank. The live program consists of a healthy dose of improvisation, and instruments frequently shuffled for these live acts. 

His  new single called "abandoned forest" is out now. Vaghy plans to release his debut album called "minimalism" in the second half of 2020.

As a young child, a long road trip compelled me to peruse my parents’ CD collection, where I discovered the emotional depth of the piano. Inspired, I learned my first piece by ear and began composing. It became my sanctuary of peace and introspection.

Far from the conventional wisdom of hustle and bustle, I’ve embraced the gentle touch of minimalism and neoclassicism. My music is simple and pensive, a measure of peace in a weary world, yet it reflects an acute inner struggle.

I’m eager to share my musical discoveries with you. I hope my work inspires greater calm and reflection in your life.

Thanks for having me along on the journey.

A new piano sound is here to be explored: the Vertical Concert Grand Klavins M450i. An Everest of sound, a friend commented - she may be right... :-)

Our Una Corda piano has been sampled and is available as a VSTi at Native Instruments - they did a great job, it's fascinating! Also take a look at The Giant from NI, the VSTi of our Model 370 vertical concert grand piano...

Love to express myself on the keyboard now and then, only improvising... sometimes it works out, sometimes not - like real life... :-) Actually I'm a piano builder, not a pianist... ;-)

I'm recording mostly using the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88 keyboard, Reaper for DAW, and various Native Instruments sound libraries, sometimes live on the Una Corda.

Wish I had more time to explore all the fine musicians here - it's fascinating, always something new and inspirational to find, within the infinite world of music..!

Please be patient with me in case I'm not replying on your comments short term - I'm extremely busy building pianos... I definitely appreciate your remarks, ideas, suggestions, and will get back to you as I can afford..!

Having been on SC since April 2012, I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributes to this wonderful world of music - all the friends I've made here, and the SC-Team as well..!!

Dave

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

All pieces are absolute improvisations and always first take. I travel through Europe as a freelance piano technician to assist workshops. And when comes the night, I record in the dark my fears and my gratitude to this life. Mistakes and noises are part of the music since I refuse to hide the imperfection of my skills. My goal is to throw as raw as possible extremes emotions until I run out of breath. Thank you to make my music exists.

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