
Birta Miklós
Miki Birta jazz-fusion guitarist, composer started learning guitar when he was a child, at the age of 10. In 1996 he graduated from the Jazz Guitar Department of the Budapest College of Music. His teacher was Gyula Babos. During the course of his studies he started listening to AC/DC and also other kinds of music as Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco DeLucia’s album from 1981, “Friday Night in San Francisco” had a profound impact on him – as it also had on other guitar players. He heard about Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson for the first time at the age of 17, and this defined his studies and his later style for a long time. But not only guitar albums had an impact on him: one of the first saxophone jazz albums that he valued very much was Branford Marsalis’ Royal Garden Blues. In 1987 his changed the tune on his instuments in 4ths: E6, A5, D4, G3, C2, F1. His first album came out in 1998 (Next Generation), which is a trio album. It is probably closest to Wayne Krantz’ music. They record their first Hungarian funky evangelistic album ( Creed ) in English. Recordings in Hungary has successfully been finished; unfortunately, however, this is where it stands right now. The project is still waiting to be fully finished . His second album came out in 2004 with the title “Hey Kids!” This time it’s a quartet project. Here he also uses acoustic instruments . Outside of his home country he has had a number of performances and tours in New York , Florida, Germany, Poland, England, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania, Austria, Ukraina and Italy. At home he has performed on albums or at concerts in PÁL VASVÁRI's project with:----Mike Stern, Dave Samuels, Paco Sery, Henrik Gembalski.