Gabor Bolla

Gábor Bolla was born in 1988, Budapest. At the age of ten he started playing the clarinet, at twelve he won first prize in the National Music Schools’ Competition in Hungary. He took up the saxophone in 2003, the same year he made it to the semi-finals of the World Saxophone Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2004 he received the Hans Koller Prize as the Talent of the Year in Austria and in 2005 the Bolla Quartet scooped both the Grand Prix and the Prix du Public at the Avignon Jazz Festival in France.