Kárpáti Dódi

Biography

Kárpáti Dódi is a Hungarian trumpet player, teacher and artist. He was born in Budapest on the 22nd of April, 1958, in Budapest. He got his first degree as a teacher at the Teacher Training College of Eger, and after that he earned his second degree at the University of Art in Budapest. He is working now as a teacher of painting at the Nádasdy Art- and Elementary School. He is dealing with arts, too. In 2000 he joined the band Quimby, which is very famous nowadays in Hungary. He has also worked with several other bands such as Realistic Crew and Kamu. His own band is called Pékség. They have released two albums so far: Senkiföldje (in English: "Wasteland") and Imago. Nowadays he's playing with guitarist Attila Décsi in the psychedelic ambient project called Schmerzen Unbekannt.

Dódi's thoughts on pedagogy: "Pupils are motivated in their own creative producing by the learning-teaching influences, which is brought by the teacher. Knowing that, I have the task to make possible being there of an own ways possibility and honor. In my opinion, this is an area of the practical pedagogy where our knowledge and capabilities have to be helped. I try to collect the up-to-date knowledge of other sciences (for example, alternative pedagogy) and I try to set it in my own experiences in the field of pedagogy, to make wider the way of collecting more knowledge: I do it for me as for my pupils, too."

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