László Hudacsek was born in Hungary. He studied percussion in Debrecen with József Vrana, then in the Karlsruhe College of Music with Isao Nakamura and with Péter Eötvös in his new music ensemble. From 1990–93 he was a percussionist with the Pécser Symphoniker. From 1994–2000 he was an assistant and musical partner of Isao Nakamura.
He presently works as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz, Ensemble Resonance in Hamburg, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, with conductors including Dennis Russell Davies, Heinz Holliger, Péter Eötvös, Mauricio Kagel, Zsolt Nagy and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
He has also performed with Saarland Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), ensemble recherche (Freiburg), Musikfabrik (Cologne), Ensemble Cologne, Stockhausen Ensemble, Israel Contemporary Players and Klangforum Wien.
He was the First Prize winner of the 13th Annual Japan Wind and Percussion Competition in Tokyo in 1996. He has held grants from the International Institute for Music in Darmstadt (1994, 1996, 1998) and from Baden-Württemberg for the project ‘Percussion and Electronics – New Media’ (1995–1997). In 2003 he was a guest artist at the zkm (Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe).
He has been a featured artist at numerous music festivals including the Berliner Festwochen, Musik-Biennale and MaerzMusik (Berlin), Ars Musica (Brussels), Eclat Festival (Stuttgart), Music Triennale (Cologne), Ars Electronica (Linz), Prague Spring, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Tel Aviv Biennale, the Warsaw Autumn, and Wien Modern.
He has had concert appearances in such prestigious venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and Vienna, the Messiaen Hall in Paris, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Jerusalem’s Music Centre, Sala Cecilia Meirelles (Rio de Janeiro) and the Bario Hall in Tokyo.
He has taken part in first performances of many new works including L’Art Bruit by Mauricio Kagel (as Isao Nakamura‘s assistant), Andere Räume by Robert HP Platz, Little Big Bang by Uwe Kremp and Births by Valerio Sannicandro.
László Hudacsek has lived in Karlsruhe since 1993.