K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Berkes graduated from the clarinet faculty of the Franz Liszt Music Academy, where his teachers were B\u00e9la Kov\u00e1cs, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, Andr\u00e1s Mih\u00e1ly, Albert Simon and Frigyes S\u00e1ndor. He also studied conducting with J\u00e1nos Ferencsik and Giuseppe Patan\u00e9. In 1972, he won the silver medal at the Geneva International Competition, and was a prize winner at chamber music competitions in Belgrade in 1974 and Munich in 1975.<\/p>\n
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From 1972 to 1993, he was the principal clarinettist of the Hungarian Opera House, the Philharmonia Society Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. From 1973 to 1983 he was a member of the Budapest Chamber Ensemble. In 1982, K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Berkes founded the Budapest Wind Ensemble where he is its artistic director, and from 1988 to 1992, was conductor of the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He has held master classes in the United States, Canada, England, Holland and Finland. Since 1992 he has been a teacher at the Musashino Music Academy in Japan and is principal conductor of its symphony orchestra.<\/p>\n
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From\u00a02004 to 2006, K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Berkes was\u00a0permanent guest conductor of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly performs in Europe, North and South America, as well as Japan and is a frequent guest at major music festivals. His chamber music partners have included Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis, Dezs\u0151 R\u00e1nki, Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Jen\u0151 Jand\u00f3, Mikl\u00f3s Per\u00e9nyi, Maurice Andr\u00e9, James Galway as well as the Tak\u00e1cs and Keller Quartets. He has made numerous CD recordings for the Naxos, Decca, Telefunken, Harmonia Mundi and EMI labels. In 1995, he was the joint recipient with Gy\u00f6rgy Pauk and Jen\u0151 Jand\u00f3 of a Grammy Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-86634","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["hu","en"],"languages":{"hu":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":{"old_id":"399","rovid_nev":"K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Berkes","katalogus_nev":"K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Berkes","kiemelt_kep":{"ID":103907,"id":103907,"title":"Berkes K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.","filename":"Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2..jpg","filesize":8620355,"url":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2..jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/artists\/berkes-kalman\/berkes-kalman2\/","alt":"","author":"951582","description":"","caption":"","name":"berkes-kalman2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":86634,"date":"2017-10-10 10:19:23","modified":"2017-10-10 10:19:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":4964,"height":3356,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-300x203.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":203,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-768x519.jpg","medium_large-width":640,"medium_large-height":433,"large":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-1024x692.jpg","large-width":640,"large-height":433,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2..jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1038,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2..jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1385,"person-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-165x165.jpg","person-size-width":165,"person-size-height":165,"person-size-2":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2..jpg","person-size-2-width":165,"person-size-2-height":112,"album-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-263x263.jpg","album-size-width":263,"album-size-height":263,"news-lead-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-360x203.jpg","news-lead-size-width":360,"news-lead-size-height":203,"director-index-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-359x450.jpg","director-index-size-width":359,"director-index-size-height":450,"person-lead-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-555x555.jpg","person-lead-size-width":555,"person-lead-size-height":555,"slider-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Berkes-K\u00e1lm\u00e1n2.-1600x722.jpg","slider-size-width":1600,"slider-size-height":722}},"bevezeto_szoveg":"","hangszerek":"","szemely_kategoria":"{:hu}karmester{:}{:en}conductor{:}","oldal_megjelenes":[],"videok":false,"szolamvezeto":false,"kiemeles_menube":false},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/86634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}