Oskar Török is a Slovak jazz trumpeter, singer and composer who also works with electronics. He was born in 1980 in Humenné, studied at the conservatory in Bratislava and at the Jaroslav Ježek College in Prague, and then graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of Piotr Wojtasik. He is a founding member of the Czech-Slovak band Vertigo (formerly Vertigo Quintet), which won Anděl awards for the albums Vertigo Quintet, Metamorphosis and Daleko. Since 2009 he has played in the Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, as well as in Sato-San To and NUO, and has worked with Beata Hlavenková and Ondřej Štveráček. He also plays in the Jazz Dock Orchestra big band. Amplión Records released the albums Vertigo Quintet (2005), Live U Staré paní (2006), Dixie and The Gang with NUO (2007) and Balance with the Zuzana Dumková Band (2007). More at oskartorok.com.
