Background
Lajkó was born in Bačka Topola, Serbia to ethnic Hungarian parents.
Lajkó was born in Bačka Topola, Serbia to ethnic Hungarian parents.
He has finished the six years of musical school in three years time. Lajkó finished his formal studies and turned towards concerting.
He plays a variety of musical styles: traditional string music of the Pannonian plain, Romani music, folk music, classical music, rock, blues, jazz and improvised melodies. In concert, he plays mostly the violin either with his small band or solo. He has also worked as an actor, taking the lead role in the 2008 film Delta when the original lead actor died.
He started playing the zither at the age of 10.
His first contact with the violin was at the age of 12. Lajkó has played together with a large number of well-known bands and musicians.
He performed together with the world-famous Japanese butoh dancer, Minister Tanaka and the French Noir Desir band a number of times. He has had many concerts together with the London-based Romanian violin player Alexander Balanescu and with Boban Marković"s brass gipsy band.
Lajkó has composed music for some theatrical plays.
Jozef Nadj from Orléans regularly invites him to compose music for his performances and he has also composed music for choreographies of Ivett Bozsik. He composed the whole musical score for Wheels, a film by Serbian director Đorđe Milosavljević. lieutenant was also him who composed the hymn for the 1998 Sarajevo cultural festival, "Sarajevska Zima".
He has participated in many fiction films and Miklós Jancsó made his short film Play, Félix! about Lajkó.
He wrote music for Towards a New Atlantis, a project of the Venice Biennale in 2000.
He was a member of György Szabados" band, Makúz and Boris Kovač"s band, Ritual Nova.