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Toth Zoltan (Zoli) was born on the 25th of November 1976 in Timisoara (sign of Sagittarius). At present, he is the Managing Director of the ‘Star Management’ Company .
He is the upholder of the unconventional percussion music in Romania and it is actually he that introduced this music style for the first time in Romania.
In 1995, he graduated from The ‘Ion Vidu’ Music High School in Timisoara and in 2000 from the ‘Gh Dima’ Conservatoire of Cluj-Napoca.
In 1997 he founds Hands’n’Feet Quartet and later on, he also sets up SENSOR, a percussion group.
His professional experience is very impressive indeed: in 1994 he was one of the representatives of Romania in the Olympic Competition, in Los Angeles, USA. Moreover, he has gradually acquired notable experience in solo performing in concerts around the country or abroad: Timisoara, Deva, Oradea , Cluj, Tg. Mures, Bucharest, Budapest, Koln. On these occasions, he presented for the first time, as first hearings, pieces of music signed by Peter Szego and Ede Terenyi. In addition to that, together with his first group Hands’ n’ Feet Quartet he has given various concerts in Brasov, Bistrita, Miercurea-Ciuc, Costinesti and Cluj.
Zoltan had the opportunity to study with Therry Miroglio (The Paris Conservatoire) and with Mircea Ardeleanu (Music Academy – Lausanne, Switzerland). In 2000 he won a music scholarship to the Music Academy of Koln, Germany, having Christoph Caskel as one of his Professors. In the same year he became Bachelor of Arts of The “Gh. Dima” Music Academy with excellent qualifications. He has played and worked with prestigious groups, such as: Marimbas Quartet, Ars Nova, Pro Muzica Nova, Anonimus (being included on four CD-s) and he was also member of The Percussion Ensemble conducted by Professor Grigore Pop. In 1999 he went on a tour in Germany, and in 2000 he became a member of the Ensemble “Neue Musik” – Koln. He was Principal in The International Orchestra “Elbe Wesser”, Germany (1993-1998) as well as in The International Orchestra Nyrbator, Hungary (1997) and in The “Kolner Simphony Orchestra”, Germany (2000). He received a lot of awards, such as: The 3rd Prize in The National Olympic Competition-Timisoara (1994), The 1st Prize in The National Olympic Competition-Constanta, The 2nd Prize in The National Olympic Competition-Baia Mare (1995), The 2nd Prize in The National Contest of Solo Percussion-Bucharest (1998).
Between 2000 and 2002 he worked as a percussion teacher at the “Sigismund Toduta” Music High School, Cluj-Napoca. As a teacher, he still won many first prizes in national Olympic contests (2001,2002).

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