Born in 1948 in Budapest (Hungary) before fleeing to Belgium and moving to Ethiopia, Eörs Kisfaludy has lived in Switzerland since 1961. In 1963, at the age of fifteen, he was already studying at the Music Academy and the Romande School of Dramatic Art in Lausanne. He began his career as an actor in theatre, radio and television shortly therafter in 1964.

From 1968 to 1970, he taught dramatic arts at the Academy of Kinshasa (Congo) creating a piece "Le Jeu des Vivants" which was presented at the World Festival of University Theatre of Nancy (France) in 1970. That year, he also focused on his professional actor’s career on various theatre scenes in Switzerland, France and Belgium. From 1985 to 1990, he presented a music show on "Space 2", the cultural broadcast of Radio Suisse Romande (French-speaking Swiss radio).

In recent years, he has taken on fewer theatre roles (among them: Sganarelle in "Don Juan" by Molière and Zorba, the hero of Kazantsakis), instead devoting himself to a career as narrator, performing numerous concerts in Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany and the United States under conductors such as Erich Leinsdorf, Michel Corboz, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Helmuth Rilling, Heinz Rögner, Hans Drewanz, Marcello Viotti and James Levine.

His repertoire includes Dance of Deaths, the King David, Nicolas de Flue, Judith, Jeanne au Bûcher (Honegger), the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien (Debussy), Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), Pierre and the Wolf (Prokofiev), Blue Beard’s Castle (Bartok), and many more.

He has appeared in speaking roles and as an actor in several CD recordings. His latest release was "Peer Gynt" by Henryk Ibsen and Edvard Grieg with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the baton of Guillaume Tournière, which received the "Diapason d’Or" award 2005 in Paris.

He collaborates regularly as an author and a librettist on musical projects with the young Swiss composer Thierry Besancon, among them:

 

Satire: Le Prince des Ténèbres, 1999
Tale: Le Coq, la Mouche et l’Autour, 2000
Joke: Dame Helvetia, 2002
Plot: Landwehrland, 2004
Anterequiem: Et natus es, 2005
Ludic and profane mass: Missa Ludus, 2006

2008/09