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About Kálmán Berkes
- Kálmán Berkes is a Hungarian clarinetist. Berkes was born in Budapest on May 8, 1952.
- He graduated from the Budapest Liszt Music Academy in 1972.
- He won second place at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1974, and his Opera Wind Quintet was a prize-winner in Munich in 1975.
- He was principal clarinetist in the Hungarian State Opera, the Budapest Philharmonic and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and was a member of the Budapest Chamber Ensemble.
- He founded the Budapest Wind Ensemble in 1982.
- His recording of Bartók's Contrasts was a Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice.
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