Family D3
Danyi
Danyi Lőrinc Róbert — 100 Tagú
Hungarian Roma — Budapest
Style: Hungarian Romani music / Cigányzene
A named Budapest violin family on the 100 Tagú register. President and artistic director from 2023. Rajkó training. A Lakatos or Sárközi blood line would need a pedigree.
100tagu.hu (English orchestra page): Lőrinc Róbert Danyi, born 26 January 1968 in Budapest, musician family. Violin from age six; first teacher Béla Berki. From 1978 he studied by the Rajkó method (now on Hungary’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage) under Gyula Farkas, later Tivadar Mészáros. Leading primás of the Rajkó Orchestra from 1990. Concertmaster and primás of the 100 Member Gypsy Orchestra from 2010. Elected president in 2023.
Awards the orchestra lists: Lyra 1998; Kodály Zoltán Cultural Award 2003 (as Rajkó primás); honorary citizen of Darjeeling, 2004; Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit, 2007. From 2007, trademark holder of the Rajkó Orchestra and Artistic Ensemble.
His son Richard Danyi, born 9 September 1989 in Budapest. Rajkó school under Sándor Buffó Rigó, then Liszt Academy with Miklós Szenthelyi. Annabál primás competition, Balatonfüred, 2015. With his own orchestra, “Best Orchestra of Europe,” ERIAC online contest, 2020. Primás and concert organiser with 100 Tagú; manager from 2025; deputy concertmaster listed from 2026.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Danyi Lőrinc Róbert
Violin, primás, president 100 Tagú · b. 26 January 1968
Budapest. Rajkó from 1978. 100 Tagú concertmaster from 2010, president from 2023.
Generation 2
Danyi Richárd
Violin, primás, manager 100 Tagú · b. 9 September 1989
Son. Liszt Academy. Manager from 2025.
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1990
New generation leads
Leading primás
Rajkó Orchestra
Rajkó method from 1978 (Farkas, then Mészáros). Leading primás of Rajkó from 1990.
2010
New generation leads
Concertmaster
100 Tagú Cigányzenekar
Concertmaster and primás from 2010. Elected president in 2023.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Veres (Sárközi) — Hungarian Roma → Rotterdam / The Hague
- Lakatos — Hungarian Roma — Budapest (and Belgium, for a time)
- Sárközi / Sárközy — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
- Czinka — Hungarian Roma — Kingdom of Hungary, eighteenth century
- Kalyi Jag — Hungarian Roma — Nagyecsed / Budapest, from 1978
- Járóka — Hungarian Roma — Kisvárda / Budapest
- Boross — Hungarian Roma — Budapest
- Lendvai Csócsi — Hungarian Roma — Ménfőcsanak / Budapest