János Tamás

János Tamás [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈtɒmaːʃ] (24 May 1936 – 14 November 1995) was a Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.^[1][2]

Tamás studied in his home town Budapest. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Switzerland in 1956 and completed his studies at the Bern and Zurich Conservatories. From 1961, he worked as Solorepetitor at the Zürich Opera House, and from 1963 as First Kapellmeister of the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn.^[3] In 1969 he was granted citizenship of Schönenwerd. Tamás worked as a teacher at the Old Cantonal School Aarau from 1971. He also conducted the Orchesterverein Aarau [de] and left behind about 120 compositions.^[4]

Tamás died in Aarau at the age of 59.

Tamás' compositional estate is administered by the Paul Sacher Foundation [de] in Basel.^[5]

• Andreas Kotte, ed. (2005). "János Tamás". Theaterlexikon der Schweiz / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer [Theater Dictionary of Switzerland]. Vol. 3. Zürich: Chronos. p. 1790. ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3. LCCN 2007423414. OCLC 62309181.
• Michael Schneider: Der Komponist János Tamás. Ein Porträt anhand seiner Kompositionen für den Instrumentalunterricht. In Schweizer Musikpädagogische Blätter 2 (1990).
• Förderverein János Támas (ed.): Feuerbilder – Schattenklänge – János Tamás. Komponist, Dirigent, Pädagoge.^[6] Müller & Schade, Bern 1997, ISBN 3-9520878-0-7.

• Literature by and about János Tamás in the German National Library catalogue
• János Tamás discography at Discogs