After graduating in both voice and clarinet at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Szabolcs BRICKNER attended masterclasses at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg with Hans-Joachim Beyer, and Edith Wiens, and took private lessons with Nicolai Gedda, Renata Scotto, Salvatore Fisichella, and Franzisco Araiza. After winning first prizes in national singing competitions, he won the second prize at the 2004 Ferrucio Tagliavini International Singing Competition. In 2008, Szabolcs Brickner was the winner of the first prize (Queen Fabiola Prize) at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, one of the world's most prestigious classical music competitions for young performers.

Szabolcs Brickner has sung at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Frankfurt Oper, Nationaltheater Weimar, Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Hungarian State Opera House, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Gärtnerplatztheater München, and the Volksoper in Vienna.
Szabolcs Brickner works with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, La Petite Bande, the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Orquestra Ciudad de Granada, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Hungary, the Budapest Philharmonic