Scheck

Ádám Scheck was born in Győr/Hungary in 1984. He started to play the cello in the local music school (named after Ferenc Liszt), where he was the member of the choir and played the cello in the music school's orchestra, and started to play the double bass and the piano. He began to study composing and double bass in a technical college of music under Attila Reményi and Ákos Cziglényi achieving degrees of double bass and solfeggio chorus‑master at the István Széchenyi University Tibor Varga Music Faculty. Ádám played in the string and symphonic orchestras of the music school, the technical college and the university as well as brass and reed bands. With the orchestra and choir he performed in Japan, South-Korea, China, Brazil, Croatia, Germany, Austria and Finland. In Brazil he was the conductor of the more than 400 yearold Collegium Musicum Jaurinense Benedictine choir from Győr (Hungary) with great success.

Ádám played as a subsidiary double bass player in the Junge Philharmonie Wien and Mannheimer Philharmoniker orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Tatabánya and Szolnok. He has played under the leadership of Ádám Medvecky, Gergely Ménesi, Kálmán Berkes, Michael Lessky, Stephen D'Agostino, Izaki Masahiro, András Ligeti, András Deák and with Agnes Baltsa and Ildikó Raimondi, István Vardai and Gábor Farkas.

He is a very active composer continually producing new works and instrumentations. In 2006 Ádám’s first work, the Dance of Elves was premiered by the Symphonic Band (Hungary). In 2009 his first major work for string‑orchestra, the Modern Scherzo was played by the SZE University Orchestra (Hungary), conducted by Gergely Ménesi. His first musical, called Nyavalyások (based on Ferdinand Bruckner Krankheit der Jugend) was performed in Budapest in 2009.

He moved to Ireland in 2010 and is currently completing a Masters Degree at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. As a member of Academos, Irish World Academy Strings I recently performed in Limerick, Waterford and Clongowes Wood College. In May 2011 he was invited to play several concerts with the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany. Ádám played with Academos at the visit of the Dalai Lama to UL and recently also performed in a quartet with Micheál Ó Súilleabháin. He was the organizer of a charity concert for Japan at the Irish World Academy where his compositions were performed by an international group of classical and traditional musicians. In April 2010 he became a recipient of a RTÉ Lyric fm scholarship.