Margaréta Lakner
Margaréta Lakner standing with her classical guitar in an autumn park

About

I am a Hungarian guitarist based in Dresden, where I am completing a Master of Music in Artistic Performance at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music. I perform solo and with the Aeres Guitar Quartet. In 2024, I received the Audience Award at the 6th European Guitar Award and won the composition competition of the Hanse Guitar Cup in Hamburg. My award-winning composition Zenosyne has been published by Acoustic Music Books.

I was raised in the Hungarian countryside, and my musical journey began at the age of nine. The accordionist Tibor Kollár encouraged me to take my first guitar lessons. That experience sparked a lifelong passion for the instrument.

After several years of playing guitar as a hobby, I decided to pursue music more seriously and moved to Szeged to attend the SZTE Vántus István Secondary School of Music. There, I studied with Andrea Bozóki and Dávid Pavlovits and graduated in 2018.

At nineteen, my musical path took me abroad to Dresden, Germany, where I began studying Acoustic Guitar at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden. Throughout my studies, I have had the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by distinguished musicians such as Thomas Fellow, Stephan Bormann, Jule Malischke, Nora Buschmann, Daniel Wirtz, and Petr Saidl. Their diverse artistic perspectives have shaped my musical identity and approach to the instrument. Over time, this exploration has led me increasingly toward composition, resulting in a steadily growing repertoire of original music.

Alongside my studies, I have regularly participated in national and international festivals and attended masterclasses with some of the world's leading guitarists, including Reentko Dirks, Sönke Meinen, Paolo Pegoraro, Anders Miolin, Mak Grgic, Margarita Escarpa, and many others. In 2024, I graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Pedagogy and am now pursuing a Master of Music in Artistic Performance at the same university.

Teaching beginner and intermediate students has also been an important part of my musical life for more than six years. I consider teaching to be an essential part of my life, finding the same sense of purpose in helping others discover music as I do in performing and composing.