ARON SEBESTYEN
composer - songwriter - producer
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SONGWRITERS' DAY 2023
To celebrate Artisjus Songwriters' Day 2023, we were curious about the capabilities of AI programmes. As producer and brainstormer, I compared the songwriting skills of a pair of live human composers and AI in a special programme. In a vote, the audience had to guess which song used AI. The result was surprising, and it raises new questions about the modernisation of the music market. I think it's very important to have these kinds of issues, because it's a way to find answers to the next challenges of the music industry.
LORD OF THE WILD MUSICAL 2021
In October 2021, we presented Lord of the Wild, a family musical produced with the creative team of Tesla Musical. With the creative team, we created a captivating story about a true hero's journey, a sincere love and the diversity of animals. I wrote 15 great songs and 17 musical covers for the musical. Musically, it's in the pop-Disney style, with catchy tunes and film soundtrack interludes. The musical's format is suitable for international presentation, and its style and structure could be suitable for presentation outside Hungary.
TESLA MUSICAL 2020
We presented a full evening Musical Show about the life of Nikola Tesla. The show features 16 pop songs and 38 additional musical interludes, with symphonic orchestrations. Nearly 2,500 pages of sheet music and 2,000 soundtracks were completed in time for the premiere, and after mixing, we were able to release the full musical score of the show online and on CD during the opening weekend.We have also produced an English version of the production, as there is a great international interest in the play. Negotiations have started with the delegation of the Teatro Brancaccio musical theatre in Rome to localise the play.
bio
Áron Sebestyén is an Artisjus and Fonogram Award-winning Hungarian media and theatre composer, songwriter, symphonic arranger and pianist. After earning his degree in jazz piano from Kodolányi János University, he became a sought-after arranger and music director, contributing to major stage productions across Hungary.
He has collaborated with artists such as Desmond Child, Irma Pany, and Amr Mostafa. His Eurovision entry Wars for Nothing (with Boglárka Csemer) represented Hungary internationally, while their song Parfüm reached No. 3 on the Billboard World Music Chart.
Sebestyén co-founded the Pannonia Film Orchestra, producing symphonic recordings for international films and work with films from Netflix, HBO, Sky, Universal Music, and Disney. He composed official music for global events like the 2017 FINA World Championships and developed the full audio branding for AMC's JIM JAM channel.
His musical theatre works include Nikola Tesla (2020), Lord of the Wild (2021), and The Magician (2024), which has already attracted international attention. In 2025, Tesla was invited to open the DIMF (Daegu International Musical Festival), one of Asia’s leading musical theatre events.
Beyond the stage, he created and conceptualized an interactive music motif composition tool for Hungary’s Museum of Ethnography, blending tradition with digital creativity. He is currently working on a new musical about the young Leonardo da Vinci (Leo).
