"The American born German Franz Halász ... began his career in 1993, winning first prizes at the „Andres Segovia Competition“ in Spain and the „Seto Ohashi“ Competition in Japan." "Franz Halász is professor at the „Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg“. His many CDs for BIS - always rated as reference recordings - include among others the complete guitar music by Joaquin Turina and Toru Takemitsu." "For NAXOS Franz Halasz is recording recently the complete works for guitar by Hans Werner Henze.