vaghy

The classically trained Hungarian pianist-composer, Tamás Vághy took the decision some years ago to share his work with the public under the name vaghy, a work arranged to piano, synths and other vintage instruments and that is in many ways different from rock music.

First came a video series featuring strings and vocalists under the title vaghy ensemble, while running the pianoset project with Edina Palkovics and Máté Halász. In recent years, albums-worth of tracks have been gathering on virtual shelves, all products of intense musical experimentation. Besides his other activities (such as being the keyboardist of the well-known Hungarian rock band, Anna and the Barbies), vaghy has also been playing an important part, as one of the main organisers, in Piano Day Budapest. His first official release arrived at the end of 2018: Blue Spiral Records of Italy featured "Invisible Touch" as the opening song in its The Minimal Piano Series, a compilation album of minimalist piano pieces. These years saw vaghy sharing the stage with names like Lubomyr Melnyk, Lisa Morgenstern, Simeon Walker, James Gillespie and iamyank. The live program consists of a healthy dose of improvisation, and instruments frequently shuffled for these live acts. His new single called "abandoned forest" is out now. Vaghy plans to release his debut album called "minimalism" in 2022.