Career
In 1937 he obtained the concertmaster"s position in the Bachelor of Medicine Symphonic Orchestra, Budapest. Parallel to his work, he was accepted to the National Hungarian Academy of Music, continuing his studies under the tutorship of Béla Katona. In 1940 he was conscripted into the Royal Hungarian Army"s Orchestra.
He surrendered in 1945 in Hungary to the Red Army, to be held in captivity for four more years.
In 1950 he was released and able to carry on with his studies under Béla Katona, at the Academy of Music. In 1955 he moved to Kaposvár, gaining a department head position in the Franz Liszt Music School.
Besides this work, he also taught in the Teacher Training College of Kaposvár. Outside of teaching, he fulfilled concertmaster duties in the Gergely Csiki Theatre.
In 1958 he became the soloist and leader of the orchestra of the Symphonic Orchestra of Kaposvár.
In February 1976, he applied for a position mentioned in an advertisement published in the magazine "Das Orchester" a position for concertmaster in the concert orchestra "Pfälzische Philharmonie, Staatsorchester Rheinland-Pfalz" (See more here). He counted this as one of his greatest successes, that despite being 48 years old, he was selected from among seventeen other applicants, with an age-rebate and a sample material doubled by himself. He played here from February 1967 to September 1987.
From 1982 onwards, in addition to his position in the philharmonics, he was also a teacher and later department head at the Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz, where after finishing his orchestral career, he could continue teaching for some time with special ministerial allowance.
In September 1998 he retired and moved back to Hungary. After a short period of illness, deceased on 15 July 2015.
Khatchaturian Violin Concerto Doctorate-minor
Beethoven Violin Concerto Doctorate-major
Tschaikowski Violin Concerto Doctorate-major
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Doctorate-minor
Sánta Ferenc junior (since 1945), gypsy musician, violinist, leader of the National Gypsy Orchestra.
Later he continued his studies at Pécs.
Dinu Hartwich (since 1964), violinist, chamber musician. He received a "comprehensive violin education" from Dezső Lehota, and later he taught (and teaches currently) at multiple schools of music László Csupor (1933-2008), woodwind musician, and a former principal of the School of Music of Kaposvár - Dezső Lehota recognized him as a concertmaster and he aided in his studies later on.