Gábor Presser

Gábor Presser (born 27 May 1948) is a Kossuth Prize winner and a Hungarian musician, composer, singer. He is member in Locomotiv GT and was member in Omega, a prominent personality of the Hungarian pop music.

Childhood

Born in Budapest in 1948, his parents are Geza Presser Uhrman Elvira. His father worked as a poultry dealer in the Great Market hall at Klauzál square. After school his son, Gabor went out to help him. Gábor Presser started playing the piano at age four, the pianist Imre Antal also acknowledged the child's talents and predicted that it will be a great artist. He finished the primary school in the Kertesz street, and subsequently started his studies at the Music High school, meanwhile the played piano at a street dancing school in Kapás street for 14 HUF hourly rate. He started to deal with composing as a teenager. The family lived at Dob street 46/B on the first floor, above the second floor Rezső Seress composer and pianist. Presser was already a teenager often talk up Seress who showed him records and sheet music as well. Seress was listening every day from 2 pm to 6 pm different arrangements of the Gloomy Sunday, which were broadcast to the surrounding homes. Presser later reflected to these memories in his song Plafon, which Lajos Parti Nagy wrote the text.

• Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (1994)
• Kossuth Prize (2003)