Lajos Zeke

Musicologist, Instrumentalist & Composer

Lajos Zeke Ph.D., adjunct professor of musicology at the New World School of the Arts of Miami, Florida, is a native of Hungary (b. 1958, Budapest), where he spent the first three decades of his life. A graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Organ Performance 1981, Musicology 1987), he was active simultaneously as a traveling organist (gave recitals in Hungary, Finland, Germany, Austria, the Ukraine, Greece, and Japan) as well as a musicologist (conducted research at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in diverse fields: analytical study of F. Liszt’s music, 19th century music history, organology, experimental music theory). In 1990 he began his doctoral studies in the United States and in 1999 received his degree from the University of Miami. As part of his Ph.D. project, he embarked on a thorough study of certain aspects of philosophy and the history of logic and introduced his new understandings into his approach to theoretical musicology. In the last two decades church musicianship, composing, piano performance and, above all, teaching have eclipsed his musicological activities. However, during this same period – prompted by certain crucial discoveries concerning Plato’s “Pythagorizing” musico-mathematical theories – he has launched a new project. This project is aimed at disclosing aspects of a half-forgotten, yet alive and still unfolding, worldview: a sort of “musical metaphysics,” a participatory science of consciousness.
Available Audio Files:
Aldulindalë (Song of Two Trees), Theme and Five Variations for Flute, Violoncello and Piano