Béla Koppányi

He was born in Ajka in 1976, where he began his musical studies – a tenor and then a trumpet – at János Vörös. In 1994 he graduated from Ernő Dohnányi Veszprém Music Academy, where Miklós Szuromi was a bachelor teacher. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1999 as a disciple of Ferenc Steiner.
From 1996 to 1998 he was a member of the National Philharmonic Orchestra between 1997 and 2014.
Since 2009 he has been playing in the Brass in the Five brass quintet.