Birth: 1956
Educated subjcets: jazz saxophone, jazz-clarinet
Studies:
Szentendre State Music School – clarinet, saxophone
Bartók Béla Music Secondary School – Clarinet
Ferenc Liszt Music Academy – clarinet
Bartók Béla Music Secondary School Jazz Department – saxophone
Educational activities:
1979 -1987: Szentendre Vujicsics Tihamér Music School
1986 -1990: Bartók Béla Music School, Jazz Department
Since 1990 Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Department of Jazz – Teacher (Head of Department 1997- 2000)
1992 -1997: Pomáz Music School jazz and folk music teacher
Guest Teacher Training, Master Classes:
1998: International Creative Music Pedagogical Institute, Tatabánya
2000: International Clarinet and Saxophone Camp, Eger
2000, 2002: Szombathely Bartók Seminar
2000, 2004: Royal Academy of Music, London, GB
2002, Conservatoire de Lyon, F
2003, International Clarinet Camp, Esztergom
2003, 2004, 2008: Lamantin Improvisation Camp
2004: Birmingham Conservatory, GB
2004: DISTIL Scotland, GB
2005: DISTIL England, GB
2004-2007: Further training for saxophone teachers
2005: International Tárogatós Festival, Szerencs
2007: Hochschule für Music C. M von Weber, Dresden, D
2007: Morelia Conservatory, MEX
2007: University of Debrecen
2007: László Hermann Music School Secondary School, Székesfehérvár
Major Concerts:
1981: Valencia (E)
1982: Vienna Folk Festival (A)
1983: Roskilde Festival (DK)
1985: Mittagong Festival (Australia)
1987: San Sebastian (E)
1988: Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival (CS)
1988: Pori Jazz Festival (SF)
1989: Brosella Folk Festival, Brussels (B)
1989: WOMAD Festival, London (GB)
1989: Edinburgh Festival (GB)
1992, 1998: Avignon Festival (F)
1992, 1999, 2002: Saint Chartier Folk Festival (F)
1993: Skagen Festival (DK)
1994, 1996, 2000: Nantes (F)
1995, 2007: Dublin (IRL)
1998: Bratislava Jazz Festival (SR)
1999: Zagreb Jazz Festival (HR)
2000: London Jazz Festival (GB)
2000: Paris, Ile de France Festival (F)
2002: Berlin Jazz Festival (D)
2004: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London (GB)
2006: Eurojazz – Mexico City (MEX)
2007: Morelia Music Festival (MEX)
as well as concerts and tours throughout Europe, USA and Australia, Hungarian jazz and folk festivals, etc.
Membership in orchestra:
Previous bands:
Folk, world:
Bokros band
Nikola Parov
Sebő together
Márta Sebestyén
Hungarian World Music Orchestra
Michel Montanaro «Vents d’Est»
Jazz:
Budapest Big Band
Budapest Jazz Orchestra
Modern Art Orchestra
Mihály Dresch
István Grencsó
Imre Kőszegi
Mihály Ráduly
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos
Test Jazz Group
Trio Midnight
Paul Bley
Steve Coleman
Trilok Gurtu
Herbie Mann
Saxophone Summit (Michael Brecker-David Liebman-Joe Lovano)
Arnie Somogyi Improvokation
Jirí Stivín
Zbigniew Namyslowski
Rova Saxophone Quartet
Contemporary music:
Péter Eötvös – National Philharmonic Orchestra
UMZE Chamber Orchestra
Group 180
Current bands:
Borbély Workshop
Quartet B
Balkan Jazz Project
Binder-Borbély duo
László Attila Quintet
Kálmán Oláh Sextet
Vujicsics together
Records:
1981: Vujicsics Southern Slavic Folk Music (Hungaroton)
1987: Hannibal Records, 1988: Vujicsics Serbian and Croatian folk music (Hungaroton)
1997: Vujicsics Just Play (R-eDISC)
1998: Quartet B Signs (Fonó Records)
1999: The Bokros Band’s St Gellért Legends (Periferic Records)
2001: Vujicsics Podravina (R-eDISC)
2001: Bokros band Bourdon Synthesis (Periferic Records)
2003: Quartet B Glass Head (Fonó Records)
2005: Borbély Mihály Quartet / Borbély Workshop Meselia Hill (BMC)
2006: Borbély-Dresch Te + Te (Fonó)
2000: Binder-Borbély Tones (BMM)
2005: Binder-Borbély 7 Duets – Hommage à Bartók (BMM)
2008: Zoltán Lantos Mirrorworld Tau (X-Production)
Composer activity:
jazz compositions, folk music
Awards, honors:
1986: Pro Urbe in Szentendre
1988: Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival – “Best soloist”
1998: Neufeld Anna Memorial Fee
2000: eMeRTON Prize (including Vujicsics Ensemble and Hungarian World Music Orchestra)
2000: State Prize for Minorities (Vujicsics Ensemble)
2002: Artisjus Award
2004: eMeRTon Prize “Jazz Ensemble of the Year” Borbély Workshop
2005: Mihály Borbély Quartet “Meselia Hill” – “Hungarian jazz album of the year” (Gramofon)
2005: Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
2005: The Genius of Pomáz
2012: Ferenc Liszt Prize