After a year in Sweden where he worked with
Arne Domnerus,
Jan Johansson und
Egil Johansen, Tomsits became soloist, composer and arranger of the
Stúdió 11 band of
Magyar Rádió. He played with his own
Rudolf Tomsits Quartet, at the
Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and 1969 as well as festivals in Bled, Vienna, Palermo and Warsaw, among others. In 1971, they toured Europe as the opening act for the
Jazz Giants, a band that included
Dizzy Gillespie,
Thelonious Monk and
Art Blakey. From 1977 to 1980 he conducted a sextet and from 1980 to 1992 he worked for the Yugoslav Radio and Television Association as leader of its Novi Sad big band. In 1995, he formed the
Take 4 quartet with
Gyula Babos,
Aladár Pege and
Imre Kőszegi, which published three CDs. He was also active as an educator, teaching trumpet at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music from 1994 to 1999, and later as an associate professor at the
Franz Liszt Academy of Music for two years. In 2003 he was awarded the
Gábor Szabó Award of the Hungarian Jazz Association. == External links ==