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Mirkó Milán Milosevits (born January 7, 1982) is a Hungarian musician, recording and performing artist, producer, composer, songwriter, jazz pianist, keyboardist, sound designer, remixer and lyricist, considered one of the finest keyboardists on the Hungarian music scene. He is known for his usage of vintage synthesizers, extreme stage appearances and almost clockwork precision. ''“Rhythm, sound, harmony and melody are the four dimensions of musical space and time. Rhythm is like the foundation of a house that is built up by the sound. Harmony turns this house into a home using melody as its decoration. These dimensions are all important to keep this home alive, but, for me, rhythm and sound play the most important role, because if the foundation of the house is not as sure as life, the wind can – and sooner or later is gonna – blow it away, no matter how that home looked like or how carefully it was decorated inside.”''

First steps
His mother, Ágnes Bokor, was a school principal who taught Russian and history. His father, Peter Milosevits PhD, is an author, poet and teacher at the Eötvös Lóránd University, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1985, Mirko already showed interest in music at the age of 3 - his parents could barely separate him from the piano.

In 1987, using miscellaneous objects, he assembled a 'drum set' on which he tried to play and mimic almost all songs his family had at home on vinyl records.

Spreading wings
From 1988 to 1994 Mirko was a pupil of the Tihamér Vujicsics Music School where he studied classical piano from Márta Schrett. He performed at several events during his elementary school years at Kalász Suli. In this period he also served as an altar boy at the local Greek-Orthodox church.

He started playing around with electronic instruments as early as the age of 6. His very first synth was a Yamaha KB-2000. During the years, his loyalty towards Yamaha has never decreased; most of his instruments today are all Yamahas.

In 1993 he started “working” as a DJ at school fests, and also hosted a weekly chart list of actual hits.

In 1994 he created his first feature length remix of his favorite songs with his fellow musician cousin Péter Bokor.

After six years of classical training, he had thought about learning drums, but soon he changed his mind to develop himself as a pianist; he became acquainted with the world of jazz.

From 1995 to 1999 Mirko was a student of János Nagy at the jazz department of the Teleki-Wattay Art School in Pomáz. His classical teacher in this period was Mónika H. Kürtösi.

From 1996 to 2000 Mirko attended Óbudai Gimnázium High School in Budapest, concentrating on mathematics and computer sciences. “On an interstellar scale, Earth is our cradle, on a planetary one, it is Africa. It’s quite obvious to me either I approach this subject geologically or evolutionary. Africa is the oldest continent and the African San is the most ancient tribe on this planet. Therefore the oldest music must originate from Africa. Musical “ancientness” in general is a type of energy that can be injected into modern-day music as well. I can feel this energy, I resonate with it, that’s why styles that contain tribal rhythms, vocal techniques with harmonic and melodic worlds developing from them, attract me the most. Basically everything that I call ‘the heart of South’.”

Early career
In 1997 Mirko formed his very first band called Vászonmellény with his classmates. The band played a few concerts.

With his classmates, he wrote a full length movie script under the title Tropelet.

In 1998 Mirko formed his first mainstream jazz combo called Seven Lakes fronted by his childhood friend, a well-known singer now, Veronika Harcsa. On a monthly basis, the group played sold-out concerts at the Károly Kós Cultural Center (formerly known as Faluház) in Budakalász.

After pondering both astrophysics and cinematography, he finally decided to become a student of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

In 1999 Mirko became acquainted with African music. He played in two native African bands in Budapest for three years: Africa Molatako Band with musicians from Kameroon and Malagasy Taxibrousse with musicians from Madagascar. These bands performed regularly at Café Mediterran, Pesti Est Café and Sziget, one of Europe’s biggest festivals. Playing with these bands was a great learning curve.

In 2000 Károly Binder became Mirko’s master who later remained his teacher through the university years.

Mirko played solos and duets as well (for example with Veronika Harcsa and saxophone player Eszter Pozsár).

Berényi Group was his second jazz combo, in which he played intensely for several months.

He joined fusion group Sunday Punch (formerly know as Groove Asylum), in which he experimented with sound design for the first time in a professional environment.

In 2001 Mirko became a member of indie rock band Pocsolyás és barátai, where he played together with several famous musicians, for example Gergő Borlai (a world-renowned drummer now), Viktor Tóth, János Vázsonyi and the members of Djabe. They released their self-titled album Pocsolyás és barátai later that year, and continued gigging in Hungary and in England for a couple years.

At the end of the year he became a singer of the only Serbian church choir and singing society in Budapest called Hor Javor. They often performed together with word-renowned folk bands Söndörgő and Vujicsics.

In 2002 Mirko joined the Serbian Theater of Hungary, where he used to perform in several productions. He worked with such actors as Patrizio Bayeza from Argentina and Ljubiša “Šurda” Samardžić, who played the title character in Hot Wind, a Yugoslavian TV-series. They played together in The Rose of Sombor at the National Theater.

He sang with Hor Javor on the double album called The Holy Liturgy of the Metamorphosis of the Lord, which was recorded live at the biggest Serbian church in Szentendre.

He appeared on the record of Teleki-Wattay Art School called 10 éves a Pomázi Zeneiskola.

He played in the collective performance called Space Opera – Everything’s the Same in a Different Way by István ef Zámbó. During this one of a kind musical phenomena, he could jam with several well-known musicians at Heroes Square in Budapest. “Observing the Universe or creating music are almost the same territories to me; both activities require a similar state of mind, increase power of conception and deal with rhythm.”

University
In 2003 Mirko started attending the Jazz Faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He was taught by the most acclaimed professionals of the Hungarian music industry (Mária Fekete – classical piano, Károly Friedrich and László Gőz – jazz & classical music history, Béla Faragó – music theory, Mihály Borbély and Attila László – band practice).

He produced the Hypp O’Drom Project with Sándor Petrovity, and they recorded a space-jazz album called Let’s Go to the East (and the South as well). Lucia Pártai and István ef Zámbó also appeared on this record. The album tells the story of the ‘Rainmakers’ who travel across the continents of the Earth with their spaceship.

In 2004 Mirko started playing in the big band of the Jazz Faculty, giving many performances, such as the one at the Marble Room of the Hungarian Radio.

He joined the Weininger Acoustic Jazz Band, fronted by Veronika Harcsa.

He became a member of ImpressEve (formerly known as Taste of ’57). The band played modern jazz with experimental, cosmic overtones fronted by singers Brigitta Borbély and Bea Munkácsi.

He formed his first fusion jazz trio with guitarist Zsolt Barta and bassist Dávid Torják.

His friend and classmate, Mujahid Zoli invited him to join his band called The Blue Tigers. They did a tour together as well as performed at Sziget.

He created an album called Time Again and World which contained his solo piano repertoire. He would release the album later on his own label.

He was invited to join Piccolo Inn, in which his bandmates were Szilárd Banai, Dániel Mester, Szabolcs Oláh and the band leader Balázs Szendőfi.

In 2005 his teacher Attila László asked Mirko to be the band leader of the winner of the first series of Hungarian Idol, Vera Tóth’s band. His partners were Miki Birta, Péter Kaszás Jr., Zoli Mujahid and Barbi Schmidt. During the last leg of the tour, he had the chance to perform with Ferenc “Rózsi” Demjén at the Palace of Arts.

He joined freak!, a band that played modern soul and funk, touring the whole country with guest stars such as Laci Gáspár, Tamás Somló and Jamie Winchester.

Following the success of his first duo concert with opera singer Katalin Dónusz that year, they continued performing their Classical and Jazz show for years.

He joined his schoolmate’s, István Megyaszay’s band called MB Group, performing at several venues including the French Institute with guest artists like Tamás Mohai and Sándor “Zsömi” Zsemlye Jr..

At the end of the year, he started singing in the choir of theater Vígszínház for three years in a production called It's a Family Affair - We'll Settle It Ourselves directed by one of Hungary’s most active actresses and directors, Enikő Eszenyi. He had the chance to work with such performers as György Bárdy, Enikő Börcsök, Attila Epres, Vera Pap, Ádám Rajhona, Géza Tordy and Péter Vallai.

In 2006 Mirko played in the theatrical piece Médeia with Lajos Cs. Németh and Zsuzsa Töreky at Kamaraszínház in Budapest for a year.

He gave a concert with his master Károly Binder and his schoolmate Máté Lachegyi in the series entitled Masters and Pupils.

He created Midnight Fashion with his friend and drummer Jávor Delov. They played 80s contemporary RnB, with guest artists such as Darnell Gill, former vocalist of The Temptations.

He went on a two-year tour with Ibolya Oláh, runner-up of Hungarian Idol 1.

He also played in Star Jam Session, which was led by Bálint Bársony and Gábor “Nemo” Németh, the band leaders of Back II Black and Club 54.

Dunapark Coffee House contracted him for a year as regular jazz-pianist where Andy Vajna and countless other celebrities could watch Mirko play the piano.

He became a substitute keyboardist for the band FunKing.

He participated in Bálint Bársony’s and Dániel “Bebe” Abebe’s song “Funky Baby”.

He joined Zsola és a Vad Orchideák for a couple gigs.

He toured for a short period with Romantic, and he formed a showband called Discovery with Zsuzsi Völgyi, one of the singers of the band, touring in Hungary for a year.

Mirko contributed as a substitute keyboardist to Réka Farkasházi’s children show called Tintanyúl (formerly know as SamuBand).

In the finale of Hungarian Idol 3, he played several songs on the stage of Papp László Budapest Sportaréna in front of 17,000 people. Later he went on tour with Feri Varga, the male winner of Hungarian Idol 3.

Appeared on the album Jól vagyok of Éliás Jr, then joined the singer’s live band. “There are two different ways to play music in a band: the first one is when band members practice a lot in order to perform a previously written music piece as flawlessly as the can. The other one is called collective improvisation (or jam session), which is most common in the world of jazz. Of course, there are overlaps between these methods. I enjoy both ways, but if someone wanted me to choose the approach that attracts me the most, I’d definitely go for collective improvisation, because, everything that happens during a jam session has different kinds of weight, consequences and outcome. In situations like a jam, we produce a myriad of tastes, feelings, states of minds, ideas, creative and mechanical solutions that, of course, merely or entirely rely on the power of phantasy, mental state, energy of attention and technical skills of each individual involved. The highest level of a jam session is very similar to telepathy. The way I feel in these situations is almost impossible to describe with words. And if I jam regularly, and I do, I can get into a state of mind where I can reach a level of consciousness and openness never experienced by doing anything else. I can become friends immediately not only with previously unknown musicians but with complete strangers coming from different fields of study and work. Besides the musical joy, the most attractive aspect of jamming is the aforementioned openness and mental state that comes from practicing jazz or any kind of improvisative music and its philosophy.”

After the Academy
In 2007 Mirko started touring as a session keyboardist all around the country.

Piccolo Inn released their debut album, The First Spider in a New House with him playing the piano and synthesizers in each song of the record.

He was a guest artist in two songs on the album Ébredni valakiért by Feri Varga and Betty Balássy.

Electric bass star Robert Kramers from the Netherlands invited him to play in his group Jamsterdam, which played funk and soul. They had several gigs together.

With his musician partners – one of whom is vibraphonist legend Tommy Vig – he gave a degree concert at the Palace of Arts in Budapest. On this event, he was the pianist of his classmate, the great Hungarian singer, Juli Fábián.

Mirko established his own company, Fight4Future Enterprises, which included his recording and post-production studio, Fight4Future Recording Lab, as well as his own label, Fight4Future Productions.

He joined inde hip hop band Anna & The Barbies, appearing in the group music video “Tango”, as well as on stage, and also performing on their debut album Medallion.

Mirko performed with Péter Somos as a unique duo collaboration a Sziget, where he had been playing for 7 consecutive years in a row.

He supported Barabás Lőrinc Eklektric as a substitute keyboardist.

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He joined the folk-rock band Ghymes, and went on an international tour with them for almost one and a half years. Their work together resulted in countless TV recordings and two DVDs of stadium concerts.

Was a lead actor in the music video of Anna & The Barbies’ song “Álmatlan”.

At the end of the year he joined another Hungarian band called Hooligans for a two-year tour in the country, having the opportunity to perform with legendary Hungarian bass player Károly Frenreisz at Petőfi Csarnok.

In 2008 Mirko gave a concert with Hungarian singer Delhusa Gjon’s band at the Palace of Arts, then went on club tours with them.

Director Gábor Honti-Molnár asked Mirko to compose the title music of his thriller called Assignment and he was offered a lead role in the film alongside actor Lajos Kovács as well.

He and Jávor Delov quit Anna & The Barbies and formed their own group called Midnight Fashion. The band released two singles (“I Wanna Make You” and “You’re My Destiny”), featuring their long-time friends and colleagues, singers Sophie Cairo & Zoli Mujahid, saxophonist Tamás Stencli and one of Hungary’s top producers Zoltán Dandó. Soon after the singles, they produced an album length material under the name Streetwave.

He joined Trio 3PO, a band that played a unique, free-flowing space–jazz. His band mates were jazz musicians Viktor Hárs on double bass and Zsolt Madai on drums.

He was a model for costume designer Herczeg and appeared on the designer’s gala show with a dozen Hungarian musicians and models.

He participated in several videos of Anita Sárközi and her band plus a concert at Duna Palace with her.

Fashion designer Laarka did a feature length interview with Mirko for her series A vizuális kultúra világképe.

For a short period he worked with Póka Angéla & The Chieffoundation, having the opportunity to open for The Brand New Heavies.

He went on a club tour with Orsi Kozma, a singer from the group Cotton Club Singers.

In 2009 Mirko was asked to collaborate with the singer of Nox, Szilvia Péter-Szabó on Duna TV.

He started to work in the studio with Trio 3PO on their album Cheat, cooperating with several guest artists, such as Mihály Borbély, Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Zita Gereben and Gábor Winand.

He was one of the original line-up members of the Random Trip concert series, fronted by Jávor Delov and DJ Q-Cee, With this project, Mirko had the opportunity to jam without any rehearsal or band practice on a weekly basis featuring Hungarian musicians, such as Lőrinc Barabás, Juli Fábián, Balázs Fehér, András Kállay-Saunders, Viktor Király, Tibi Kiss, Janka Koszi, Péter Sárik, Iván Vitáris, Csaba Walkó, to name a few, as well as international artists such as Andrew Hefler, Kasai, Peter Legat (Count Basic), Valerie Malcolm (Groove Armada), Vula Malinga & Brendan Reilly (Basement Jaxx), Big John Whigfield and so on. During these trips, Mirko had the opportunity to perform regularly in Budapest at A38 Ship, Belfeszt, Instant and Winter Magic, the Bori Jazz Festival in Cegléd, Dunaföldvár, the Strand Festival in Zamárdi and in Vienna, Austria.

He and the formation freak! were invited to the Gronau Jazz Fest in Germany where they opened for Candy Dulfer, the sax player of Prince & The New Power Generation.

Together with his longtime friend Sophie Cairo, he had the opportunity to open for Lenny Kravitz at Főnix Csarnok in Debrecen.

He participated in the tour Csináljuk a fesztivált!, with András Csonka, Ildikó Keresztes, Zoltán Miller and Péter Szolnoki.

With Midnight Fashion, he performed at the gala held for Budakalász becoming a city.

He put on a concert with Željko Bebek, frontman of the Bosnian band Bijelo dugme, featuring vocalist Tamara Bencsik.

He supported progressive rock band Turbo’s live radio performance in MR2 Akusztik as a guest keyboardist.

He both composed the music and played one of the main characters in Vujicsics Blues, a piece written and directed by his father, Peter Milosevits PhD. In the musical, Mirko and Milán Rusz summoned the spirits of Tihamér Vujicsics and his brother, Sztoján Vujicsics.

In 2010 Mirko started an intense collaboration with his friend and colleague Szilárd Banai on a project that resulted in the band Silhouette.

He joined dance group Groovehouse on their country-wide tour.

He composed the title music for a Serbian TV-series, Srpski Ekran.

He succeeded János Nagy in the Teleki-Wattay Art School where he taught jazz-piano, music theory and band practice from 2010 to 2014, His colleagues were Hungarian jazz musicians, such as György Frey, Sándor Horányi, György Jeszenszky, Júlia Karosi and Eszter Pozsár.

Mirko supported Headline showband for a short period.

He was one of the founding members of Garami Funky Staff, a group playing 70s disco music. He had done a lot of club gigs, concert tours, TV appearances and radio shows with the band for two years. He contributed to their album Jazzy Funky Feeling with artists such as Gyula Babos, Gitano, Nika, Barna Pély and Tibor Tátrai as well as in the music videos for songs “Péntek éjszaka”, “Say You Remember” and “Kacsintunk!”. The highlight of their long-time collaboration was an appearamce in Malta with guitarist Manny Busuttil and the chance to be the opening act for Matt Bianco and Brian Culbertson at Millenáris Teátrum.

He worked in the group Starfaces as a keyboardist.

He was last to become bandleader for multiple award-winner Kati Kovács for a series of concerts.

Mirko joined a showband called Retrocelli.

He toured with Zoli Mujahid and appeared in the singer’s music video “Túlélő”.

He performed with Django Free at Papp László Budapest Sportaréna.

For a few performances he joined Hungarian Idol 2 winner Caramel and his band.

In 2011 Mirko toured the country with Attila Kökény, the male winner of Hungarian Idol 5. He also contributed to the singer’s album Nincs semmi másom as an arranger and keyboardist.

He joined the band of Veca Janicsák, finalist of TV-series X Factor. They gave a concert introducing their new album called Veca világa at Papp László Budapest Sportaréna. Later he went on a Hungarian tour with the band.

He became the band leader of Hungarian Idol 6 finalist Adri Nagy, giving several club concerts with her.

He also performed with Fluor (of WellHello fame) at VIVA Comet Awards, where he played a “space church organ” during the show.

He started his biggest project to date with Zoltán Hetényi and Péter Bokor called the Real Giana Brothers. The trio covers music of video games with a unique visual show and LED-costumes, in a postnuclear cyberpunk atmosphere.

Appeared in Gitano’s music video “Üzen a szél”.

He worked as a guest artist on Occam’s debut album My Rorschach.

At the end of the year he associated with 90s girl group Bestiák, which was revived for a TV-series called Álomépítők. Soon afterwards, he formed Bestiák Showband with two girls from the original line-up and toured the country with them.

In 2012 he founded Hollywood Nights with his long-time friend saxophonist András Jász. They cover the soundtrack of popular films and TV shows. At their concerts, the audience can enjoy the biggest B&W, smoky-romantic classics of the 20th century as well as the title songs of well-known TV-series.

From this year Mirko has been a regular guest of Kalász Jazz Band with guest artists such as Béla Gyenes and Rozina Pátkai.

He became a regular member of Pesty Party Showband, one of the prize-winning cover bands of Hungary. They performed in England, Germany, Norway, Djibouti, Tunisia, Austria and Romania as well.

He worked together with András Jász as producer for Reni Tolvai, the winner of Hungarian Idol 5. The first song they wrote together was “Playdate”, which topped the charts for months.

Mirko started working as an arranger and producer for Tibor Tarján’s project called PianoWonder.

He gave a sold out, all-nighter solo piano concert at the Program Alma Mater in Szentendre.

He accompanied Athina Papadimitriu at Budai Vigadó.

In 2013 Mirko reconnected with African music again, not with its authentic style this time but the modern, electronic one. The upcoming Nigerian rapper B Best asked him to be his associate producer and sound engineer.

He worked as a composer on Reni Tolvai’s debut album Do! with Sean Darin, Todd Williams, András Jász and Krisztián Szakos.

Mirko produced Delhusa Gjon’s and rapper MC DC‘s summer hit “Lájkolj, Baby!”.

Through András Jász, he met Brad Vee Johnson, a singer from New York City, former member of Boney M. They played several jazz and blues concerts together. Through the following years, they have become friends as well.

He performed with Kari Paavola, drummer of world-renowned group Womack & Womack.

He mastered the debut album of András Jász called Kultúrfunk.

Mirko worked intensely with the Serbian Theater of Hungary in a number of productions as musical director.

He became a substitute pianist of Bea Bősze’s HangKépző vocal studio.

In 2014 Mirko gave two mini concerts for the Hungarian Television in his studio.

Appeared as a guest keyboardist at a gig of István Alapi, the guitarist of Hungarian cult band Edda.

His good friend and musician partner, trumpeter Áron Koós-Hutás asked him to join his group the ET Project with members Gergely, Kolta Gábor Oláh and Zoltán Zana. They were the opening act for Joss Stone and Patti Smith at Jazzablanca Festival in Morocco.

He appeared in the music video for Reni Tolvai’s “Playdate” with András Jász, but their scenes were deleted.

He appeared in the music video for Reni Tolvai’s “Playdate” with András Jász, but their scenes were deleted.

Gulli Briem, drummer of world-renowned group Mezzoforte asked Mirko to cooperate on his solo album.

Ildikó Keresztes asked him to join her new band as a pianist. Within a week, the band played a 50th birthday concert honoring the singer at SYMA Concert Hall, Budapest.

He appeared in Reni Tolvai’s music video “Behind the Scenes”.

Áron Koós-Hutás and Mirko performed their own arrangement of “Il Silenzio” in Fábry Show, the most-viewed primetime television talkshow in Hungary.

Mirko made a guest appearance in Martina Király’s jazz combo.

He joined the band of singer Károly Nyári as a keyboardist substituting a symphonic orchestra.

Since this year, he has been a substitute pianist for Hungary’s biggest jazz big band, the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, where he had the opportunity to perform with Charlie and Andrea Szulák.

Hungarian musical equipment distributor ChromaSound asked Mirko to become their endorser. The beginning of this collaboration was the Budapest Music Expo 2014 where he introduced the Novation MiniNova synthesizer to the masses.

He composed a single for Reni Tolvai called “Christmas Time” with András Jász, accompanied by a music video.

In 2015 Mirko toured with Ildikó Keresztes, Attila Kökény, ET Project, Pesty Party Showband and Random Trip.

He produced ET Project’s first self-titled album with guest artists such as Ghanaian female rapper and singer Sena (of Irie Maffia fame) and Hungarian slam poetry master MC Zeek (of Brains fame). ET Project got the opportunity to open for world-renowned saxophonist Kenny Garrett at MOM Kult, Budapest.

Jávor Delov asked him to join his solo project as a keyboard player as well as to compose and produce for Grammy Award winner Zalon, the London-based vocalist of Amy Winehouse as well as for New York-based MC named IllSpokinn. Their work resulted in “Fight For Love”, which was accompanied by a music video as well.

He went on tour with Avala Express, a project of the Serbian Theater of Hungary that covers the songs of Tamás Cseh & Géza Bereményi in Serbian, translated by Peter Milosevits PhD. The highlight of this tour was a milestone performance in the Tamás Cseh Archívum at Országos Levéltár.

He joined Uptown Funk, a pop/soul/disco band fronted by Barna Pély and Dániel “Bebe” Abebe.

He contributed as a substitute keyboardist for the Glamorous Company.

During two meetings and a chat with 3-time Academy Award Nominee Ridley Scott, the director became interested in listening to his works and personally asked Mirko to send him his music.

He gave a sold-out all nighter at the Music Academy of Budapest with András Jász, Áron Koós-Hutás, his private life partner and Hungarian Idol 6 finalist Timi Kullai, Milán Rusz and his supporting band Trio 3PO.

At the end of the year, he decided to stop working as a session player and – except Reni Tolvai and Uptown Funk – he quit all other groups he was regularly or occasionally involved with, such as Ildikó Keresztes, Attila Kökény, Károly Nyári as well as ET Project, Pesty Party Showband and Random Trip.

In 2016, Mirko started focusing on his own studio and put all his creative energy into his own stage projects as well as into his composer career.

He performed with Real Giana Brothers at a dozen gigs in Hungary’s biggest clubs (A38 Ship, Akvárium), and opened for groups such as Anna & The Barbies (one of Mirko’s ex-groups) and WellHello. They performed on the International Star Wars Day as well.

Attila László asked him to be the co-producer and sound designer of his music written for Macbeth. They worked a lot together throughout the year, with guest artist Mihály Borbély as well.

He appeared on Ildikó Keresztes’s gold-certified album Most.

Mirko performed as a guest artist on István Megyaszay’s album Tales on Bass.

Sophie Cairo asked him to be the producer of world-renowned group La Bouche.

He appeared as a guest keyboardist at a gig of CAFB.

Mirko was asked for a role in the movie Jupiter’s Moon, but due to communication conflicts of the production management, the collaboration never realized.

He did a performance with Silhouette, playing their original songs which Szilárd Banai and Mirko had written in the last decade. For this event, they hired Grammy-Award winner and former Berklee School of Music teacher Vinx (of Cher, Herbie Hancock, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Cher fame) as a special guest star.

He gave a solo concert at Károly Kós Cultural Center featuring Timi Kullai and Trio 3PO.

Jávor Delov asked Mirko to appear on Random Trip’s debut album called Zenehíd, but due to scheduling conflicts, the collaboration has never realized.

In 2017 Mirko started producing Timi Kullai who had quickly become one of the rising stars of the European EDM scene.

He started producing Washington, DC native, Billboard No.1 rapper Bernard Greene (AKA B.G. The Prince of Rap), and also started working as a remixer and co-producer for German label DMN Records.

He was the composer of the documentary about the life of Tapavica.

He started a philosophical documentary film project about the connection of language, society and humanity with his longtime friend and colleague, Tius, called TheTiusTapes, which is currently in post-production status.

He started working as producer for NYC native Will Williams (AKA Will G), finalist of The Voice of Switzerland 2014 competition.

With Real Giana Brothers, he performed at Brain Bar Budapest, an event series in Europe dealing with future and technology, held in Akvárium. The band also played as a special guest act for Video Games Live, one of the biggest symphonic music stage acts playing music of videogames, led by California-based composer and guitarist Tommy Tallarico. Later that year Real Giana Brothers released their first EP called The Bottom Line by Fight4Future Productions.

He continued producing for La Bouche, becoming the lead producer of their upcoming 2018 album. He also started producing for La Bouche singer Lane McCray Jr.’s solo project. During the works their professional relationship evolved into a friendship.

Appeared on Hungarian bassists’, Berci Temesi’s album III as a guest keyboardist.

Mirko joined the band of Vera Tóth for a gig.

He supported Abrakazabra as a keyboardist on their gigs with original members of LGT, János “James” Karácsony and János Solti.

He gave an interview with Izsák Farkas, Timi Kullai, Márton Lombos and Erika Náray for the TV-series MüpArt reviewing his colleague’s, David Hodek’s gig at the Palace of Arts.

Brad Vee Johnson made Mirko the leader of his band named Soul Attraction and they started performing in Budapest on a monthly basis with guest artists such as Telma Lincoln, Johnny K. Palmer and Herby Shaw.

He started producing for world-renowned breakdancer Michael “Turbo” Chambers (AKA Boogaloo Shrimp), personal choreographer of Michael Jackson, and lead actor of cult movies Breakin’ (1984) and Breakin’ 2 – Electric Boogaloo (1984).

Influences
Throughout the years, his piano expression has been shaped largely by the styles of Chick Corea, George Duke and Herbie Hancock. His biggest influence and greatest idol ever has been Prince, his favorite group ever is Earth, Wind & Fire. Miscellaneous musical idols include film composers Angelo Badalamenti, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner and Mark Snow. During his career, he has had the chance to meet, attend master classes, exchange ideas or even collaborate with artists such as Don Alias, George Benson, Dave Brubeck, Gary Campbell, Stanley Clarke, Steve Coleman, Chick Corea, Snoop Dogg, George Duke, David Friesen, Kenny Garrett, Matthew Garrison, Trilok Gurtu, Herbie Hancock, Kenya Hathaway, Scott Henderson, Scott Kinsey, Lenny Kravitz, Kevin Mahogany, Christian McBride, Bobby McFerrin, Marcus Miller, Gary Novak, Maceo Parker, Nicholas Payton, David Sanborn, Oscar Seaton Jr., Omar Sosa, Joe Zawinul.

Style
His musical style derives from experimental electronica, ambient, new age through various African-American genres to synthwave, eurodance and trap, but contemporary RnB, soul and modern jazz made the biggest impact on him.

Albums (as leader)
Mirko – Time Again and World [2004]

Midnight Fashion – Streetwave [2008]

Real Giana Brothers – The Bottom Line [2017]

Albums (as sideman)
Pocsolyás és barátai [2001]

10 éves a Pomázi Zeneiskola [2002]

Hor Javor – The Holy Liturgy of the Metamorphosis of the Lord I [2002]

Hor Javor – The Holy Liturgy of the Metamorphosis of the Lord II [2002]

Hypp O’Drom Project – Let’s Go to the East (and the South as well) [2003]

Éliás Jr. – Jól vagyok [2006]

Feri Varga & Betty Balássy – Ébredni valakiért [2006]

Piccolo Inn – The First Spider in a New House [2007]

Anna & The Barbies – Medallion [2007]

Trio 3PO – Cheat [2009]

Attila Kökény – Nincs semmi másom [2011]

Occam – My Rorschach [2011]

Garami Funky Staff – Jazzy Funky Feeling [2012]

Reni Tolvai – Do! [2014]

Áron Koós-Hutás ET Project [2015]

Ildikó Keresztes – Most [2016]

István Megyaszay – Tales on Bass [2016]

Random Trip – Zenehíd [2017] (cancelled)

Berci Temesi – III [2017]

Albums (as producer)
Koós-Hutás Áron ET Project [2015]

La Bouche – Unknown Title [2018]

Albums (as sound engineer)
András Jász – Kultúrfunk [2013]

Singles (as leader)
Midnight Fashion – I Wanna Make You [2008]

Midnight Fashion – You’re My Destiny [2008]

Real Giana Brothers – Catmando [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Axel Sisters in Europe [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Michael Dragon [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Moulder Dash [2017]

Real Giana Brothers – The Bottom Line [2017]

Singles (as sideman)
Feri Varga & Betty Balássy – Randevú [2006]

Feri Varga & Betty Balássy – Lépned kell [2006]

Feri Varga & Betty Balássy – Somebody to Love [2006]

Éliás Jr. – Nevet a hold [2006]

Éliás Jr. – Soha nem elég a jóból [2006]

Anna & The Barbies – Tango [2007]

Anna & The Barbies – Álmatlan [2008]

Anna & The Barbies – Nyuszika [2008]

Anna & The Barbies – Az ördögre kacsintva [2008]

Victory – Tele a ház [2008]

Garami Funky Staff – Péntek éjszaka [2011]

Garami Funky Staff – Say You Remember [2011]

Garami Funky Staff – Kacsintunk! [2011]

Attila Kökény – Nincs semmi másom [2011]

Attila Kökény – Nem számít már [2011]

Attila Kökény – Ez majdnem szerelem volt [2011]

Szilard Banai – Above & Beyond [2014]

Szilard Banai feat. Gulli Briem – Altitude Synergy [2014]

Tolvai Reni – Christmas Time [2014]

Tolvai Reni – Do! [2015]

Javor feat. Zalon – Fight For Love [2015]

Koós Hutás-Áron ET Project feat. Sena & MC Zeek – Milk & Honey [2015]

Silhouette feat. Vinx – Do Ya [2016]

Berci Temesi – Ki ez a lány? [2017]

Singles (as producer)
Bálint Bársony feat. Bebe – Funky Baby [2006]

Delhusa Gjon – Kicsordul majd a szívem [2008]

Midnight Fashion – I Wanna Make You [2008]

Midnight Fashion – You’re My Destiny [2008]

Reni Tolvai – Playdate [2013]

Delhusa Gjon feat. MC DC – Lájkolj, Baby! [2013]

Szilard Banai – Above & Beyond [2014]

Szilard Banai feat. Gulli Briem – Altitude Synergy [2014]

Reni Tolvai – Christmas Time [2014]

Reni Tolvai – Do! [2015]

Javor feat. Zalon – Fight For Love [2015]

Áron Koós Hutás ET Project feat. Sena & MC Zeek – Milk & Honey [2015]

Silhouette feat. Vinx – Do Ya [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Catmando [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Axel Sisters in Europe [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Michael Dragon [2016]

Real Giana Brothers – Moulder Dash [2017]

Real Giana Brothers – The Bottom Line [2017]

Timi Kullai – Eurodance Respect Vol.1 [2017]

La Bouche – Nite After Nite [2017]

Timi Kullai – Eurodance Respect Vol.2 [2017]

Will G – Fuck Those Sad Songs [2018]

La Bouche – 1 Nite in Heaven [2018]

La Bouche – Forgive Me [2018]

Singles (as sound engineer)
B.G. The Prince of Rap feat. Chrizz Morrison & Timi Kullai - Never Give Up [2017]

B.G. The Prince of Rap feat. Timi Kullai – So Special [2018]

B.G. The Prince of Rap feat. Timi Kullai – You’ll Be Mine [2018]

B.G. The Prince of Rap feat. Timi Kullai – Once You Have Me [2018]

Singles (as lyricist)
Chrizz Morrison feat. Timi Kullai & Lightwarrior – Let’s Get Up [2017]

Free 2 Night feat. Timi Kullai – The Phantom of Love [2017]

Timi Kullai feat. Free 2 Night – By the Moon and the Stars [2018]

Movies
Assignment [2008]

The Grunberg Gringos [2009]

Jupiter’s Moon [2017] (cancelled)

Documentaries
Laarka – A vizuális kultúra világképe: Mirko [2008]

Mirko – TheTiusTapes [2018-]

 

Concert Movies
Vera Tóth – Live at Művészetek Palotája [2005]

Ibolya Oláh – Live at Margitszigeti Szabadtéri Színpad [2006]

MB Group – Live at Francia Intézet [2006]

LFZE Jazz Faculty Degree Concert – Live at Művészetek Palotája [2007]

Anna & The Barbies – Live at Morrison’s 2 Music Pub [2008]

Ghymes – Benyovszky – Live at Szegedi Szabadtéri Játékok [2008]

Ghymes – 25 év – Live at Papp László Budapest Sportaréna [2009]

Željko Bebek feat. Tamara Bencsik – Live in Hercegszántó [2009]

Trio 3PO – Live at Take Five [2010]

Veca Janicsák – Veca Világa Szuperkoncert – Live at Papp László Budapest Sportaréna [2011]

Mirko – Live at Alma Mater Program [2012]

Ildikó Keresztes – 50 – Live at SYMA Csarnok [2014]

Áron Koós-Hutás ET Project – Live at MOMKult [2015]

Real Giana Brothers – Live at A38 Hajó [2016]

 

Music Videos (as leader)
Mirko – Soul of the Universe [2007]

Music Videos (as sideman)
Anna & The Barbies – Tango [2007]

Anna & The Barbies – Álmatlan [2008]

Zoli Mujahid – Túlélő [2010]

Garami Funky Staff – Péntek éjszaka [2011]

Garami Funky Staff – Say You Remember [2011]

Garami Funky Staff – Kacsintunk! [2011]

Bestiák – Álomépítők [2011]

Reni Tolvai – Playdate [2013] (scenes deleted)

Gitano – Üzen a szél [2013]

Reni Tolvai feat. Sean Darin – Behind the Scenes [2014]

Reni Tolvai – Christmas Time [2014] Javor feat. Zalon – Fight For Love [2015]