The Nu Bop Trio - as its name indicates - is a trio that plays music built on bebob foundations, and which features elements of traditional jazz while remaining modern to the core. Its performances are full of an enormous number of free segments, with collective improvisation often in the forefront. The trio's sound is most of all reminiscent of classical chamber music, and its concert lists include, in addition to its own compositions, jazz standards that it also plays in its own completely unique style, giving them an entirely new interpretation and using their themes and melodies as a basis for creating their characteristically modern and innovative music.
Miklós Gányi was born in Budapest in 1989. He was five years old when he took up music, starting on the violin and later moving on to piano. After starting his studies at the Tóth Aladár Music School, where his outstanding talent earned him a national award of excellence, he enrolled at the Béla Bartók High School of Music to continue studying classical music, which he abandoned in Year 10 to study jazz at the Ferenc Erkel Music School. After finishing school, he started work as a musical producer with a number of successful Hungarian pop productions to his name. Vilmos Schildkraut likewise started his training in classical musicbefore being admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music to study jazz bass under Tibor Csuhaj-Barna. Dániel Serei was also a student at the music academy, pursuing a Master's degree as a teacher of jazz percussion. He has played with Tamás Berki, Mihály Borbély and Kálmán Oláh, among others, and is deeply honoured that the Budapest Jazz Orchestra has selected him to serve as its permanent drummer. The trio's guest, 28-year-old Jenő Lisztes, joined the world-renowned band of Roby Lakatos in 2006. With them he performed at some of the world's most famed concert halls, among them Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2010.

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