| He's a bad mofo.
And the bass is also very nice.
Born in 1982 in Zilina, Slovakia, Roman Patkoló had his first double bass lesson at age thirteen at the Zilina Conservatoire. In 1995 he became a First Prize winner of the Slovak National Competition for double bass in Bratislava. Roman has been living in Germany since 1997 where he studied under Prof. Klaus Trumpf (1997-2003) at the University of Theater and Music in Munich. Roman became a scholar of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 1998 and is the winner of two international double bass competitions as well as First Prize at ISB International Double Bass Contest in Iowa City (USA), First Prize together with five special prizes at J.M. Sperger International Double Bass Competition, the ARD competition in Munich.
Roman Patkoló is a leader of the internationally renowned virtuoso Bass Sextet Bassiona Amorosa. Roman was a “double recipient” of the European Culture Prize from German President, Mr. Johannes Rau along with recognition as an outstanding soloist and leader of Bassiona Amorosa. Mr. Patkoló has performed as a soloist with many orchestras including the Russian Camerata of Moscow. Placido Domingo has praised his virtuosity and he has worked with the world’s famous musicians and conductors such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Andre Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim, James Levine and Zubin Mehta to name an important few.
In 2004, Roman was selected by Young Artists International for the International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles and performed as a soloist and and as a member of iPalpiti Orchestral Ensemble of International Soloists at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Currently, Mr. Patkoló combines his solo career with work as a principal in the Zurich Opera. Roman plays an Antonio Gagliano double bass (1725) given to him by Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2002. | 
