László Vidovszky has been played on NTS shows including The Trilogy Tapes, with Zwölf Streichquartette first played on 24 July 2023.

László Vidovszky was born at Békéscsaba on 25 February 1944. He began his composition studies with Géza Szatmári at the Szeged Conservatory in 1959, and continued them with Ferenc Farkas at the Budapest Academy of Music (1962-67). In 1970-71, he attended courses organised in Paris by the Groupe des Recherches Musicales and composition classes of Olivier Messiaen. In 1970, Vidovszky was co-founder of the Budapest New Music Studio. He has been an active member ever since, both as composer and as performer. He taught music theory at the Teachers’ Training College of the Budapest Academy of Music (1972-1984). In 1984 he was appointed Head of the Music Departement at the University of Pécs in Southern Hungary, a position which h eheld till 1988. In 1996 he was appointed as the first Dean of the recently founded Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at the same university.

László Vidovszky was awarded the Erkel Prize in 1983, the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1992 and was named Merited Artist of the Hungarian Republic in 1996.