Mester, Sándor (MS3) – Guitarist, producer & inventor

The 3rd Sandor of Mester (MS3) family began to play the guitar at the age of twelve with his father the second Sandor of Mester family called MS2. MS3 won the Grand Price of Hungarian National Classical Guitar Contest at the age of seventeen. He did a successfull entrance exam for the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy at 1992 started to study as a student of Jozsef Eotvos. He was looking for new sounds, arrangements and musical possibillities during his school years. He played in several classical music as well as couple of pop-rock-jazz productions.

After his great start in the Hungarian music life he stopped his solo carrier because of a hand disease called 'focal distonia'. Then he started to work on computers as a composer and invented a new way of music making and publishing in 1998 and applying for 'Digital Improvisation' (DI) patent that has become world-wide patent sofar. He founded Digimpro Kft. in 2000 in Budapest and Digimpro Ltd. in London in 2003 www.digimpro.com for developing and spreading DI technology that was used by couple of superstars: Robbie Williams, Roots Manuva, Erasure és Moby is. Music network portal for DI lovers: www.yourspins.com.

Thanks to Ede Roth's guitar technic and special guitar-teaching methodology MS3's right hand became heathly again and he restarted his solo carrier in 2003. From that time he played recitals in Feszek-klub (Bp), in churches in small villages close to the lake Balaton and around in Hungary. Then he did his first '150koncert' tour (150 classical guitar solo concerts around the lake Balaton) which could be a record since he did 150 concerts in 90 days and it was never done in classical music. He repeated this tour in 2006 when the '150koncert' tour was done all around in Hungary playing chamber music as well. During the two '150koncert' tours he was playing in cultural centres, cultural houses, schooles basically in small villages and small towns. More than ten thousand people took care of his concerts and couple of thousand kids have heard his guitar playing. One could read a lot about MS3's concerts on his homepage that has become a popular classical music blog (available only in Hungarian): www.150koncert.com.

The third 150koncert tour takes much more time since he has been touring in Hungary, in Transylvania and in Bucaresti as well. MS3 plays solo and chamber music repertoir. In 2007 he played in Sibiu in Romania (European Capital of Culture) and in Cisnadioara in open-air stages, churches, exhibitions of Romanian painters, book launching events of Romanian writers and poets. The Bartok transcriptions of "For Children" was always very popular. In 2008 he did his 400th concert of his 4 year-old tour.

In 2008 MS3 composed music for a very succesfull Hungarian documentary made by Eszter Hajdu called 'The Fidesz Jew, the mother with no sense of nation, and mediation. He was the production manager of the film as well. Eszter Hajdu made a film about Sandor during his Romanian tour at the fall of 2008. This unusual documentary is called "Lullaby".

MS3's solo repertoir is from renaissence until contemporary music. He plays Luis Milan's, Balint Bakfark, John Dowland and Bartok Bela pieces, Spanish (Franisco Tarrega) and South-American classical guitar pieces (Heitor-Villa Lobos, Barrios) as well as his own works. In 2006 MS3 Baroque Trio was founded and lots of musicians played with Sandor: Andras Sturcz, Györgyi Papp, Elvira Budai (violincello), Istvan Rozsa (tuba), Daniel Mester, Janos Vazsonyi (alto saxophon), Andras Somos, Anna Detari (flute), Eva Antal (guitar). In 2006 MS3 played a few classical guitar duo concerts with Eva Antal. They played 15 pieces from Bela Bartok 44 Violin Duos, Romanian Dances and one of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas (D-major) all of them are their own transcriptions. The trio plays the works of Jean Baptiste Loiellet, Evaristo Dall'abaco (1675 - 1742), Jean-Philip Rameau (1683 - 1764), Georg Frederick Händel (1685 - 1759), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750).

The MS3 Baroque Ensemble begins to play from 2009 (flute/saxophone, flute, guitar and violincello). The MS3 Baroque Ensemble playes the works of French baroque composers Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687), Jacques Paisible (c. 1656 - 1721) and Jean Marie Leclair (1697 - 1764). The ensemble playes sonatas, theatre music as well baroque dances. They play these pieces as transcriptions on modern instruments on a traditional way but thinking and playing as free and independent artists.