Pierre Csillag was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied piano with Klára R. Chitz and composition with Rezsõ Sugár at the Béla Bartók Conservatory. In 1956 he immigrated to France, where he studied piano with Vlado Perlemuter and conducting with Eugène Bigot at the Paris Conservatory. He attended conducting master-classes with Alexandre Siranossian and electroacoustic music master-classes with Guy Reibel and Jean Schwartz.
After his musical studies, he learned electronics engineering in Toulouse, France, where he currently teaches digital electronics and error-correcting codes at the ENSEEIHT, ENSAE and ENAC technical universities.
Besides his scientific career, Pierre Csillag conducted the Toulouse University Orchestra for 24 years, and he participated in hundreds of concerts as a piano soloist, accompanist or chamber music pianist. He was also pianist with the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra for about twenty concerts. He gave conferences and radiobroadcasts about Hungarian music (mainly on Béla Bartók) and links between music and mathematics.
Most of his flute pieces were composed for his wife Véronique Csillag, and her pupils. She studied with Edouard Deuuez, Philippe Boucly and Pierre-Yves Artaud. She is currently a flute professor at the Arpège des Coteaux music school in Vieille Toulouse. Véronique and Pierre frequently give flute and piano concerts together.
Additional information on publications by Pierre Csillag
may be obtained at csillag@Len7.enseeiht.fr
Other information about Pierre Csillag may be found at his other website.
7 June 2004