Gonda János

(January 11, 1932 – March 10, 2021) was a Hungarian jazz pianist. Born in Budapest, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and earned his diploma first at the musicological and then in the piano department. Hungarian music composer and pianist, lecturer of Bartók Béla College of Musicart. He founded the Qualiton Jazz Együttes in 1962. Since 1990, president of Hungarian Jazz Association. He wrote musical, movie soundtrack and book as well.