Programs
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2025 July09 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Jazz PH: Weisz – Komjáti – Hock – Sárvári Kovács (HU)
20:00 PROGRAM CHANGEPROGRAM CHANGEJazz PH combines the energy of classic swing with a sophisticated performance style to showcase the lighter, more accessible and tradition-oriented side of the genre. Their songs draw from the world of jazz and swing between the 1940s and 1960s, with a repertoire of lesser-known tunes from this period, including pieces by Ike Quebec, Duke Ellington, Stanley Turrentine, and Gerry Mulligan. All members are committed to evoking an acoustic sound and playing style that is true to the era. In addition to harnessing their musical interests and strengths, they aim to lead themselves and their audiences to (re)find a state of calm through songs with a pleasant atmosphere, acting as an anchor to counterbalance the rush of our world.Details -
2025 July10 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Geröly Space Mood (HU)
20:00The concert of one of the most characteristic percussionists of our country, Tamás Geröly and his friends promises to be a real treat for fans of contemporary free music with complex structures. The outstanding Hungarian masters of the genre – representing two generations of musicians – have been playing together for three years in this band, where the astonishingly live electronics of Bálint Bolcsó, and the exciting guitar playing of Ádám Czitrom are organically interwoven with the stylistic characteristics of the acoustic-avant-garde Geröly trio, which has been performing for 14 years. The spirit of the music dances in this new, colourful guise in the space between the artists, to which the name of the ensemble refers.Details -
2025 July11 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Salamon Tűzkő Quintet & Lukas Gabric (HU/AT)
20:00The Salamon Tűzkő Quintet was formed by members of the younger generation of musicians, whose commitment and talent have also been recognised by awards. They enjoy enriching their musical world with guest artists, and this time they are preparing a special evening with Austrian tenor saxophonist Lukas Gabric. Gabric's tone and virtuosity brought him numerous awards since the beginning of his career, including the Best Soloist and Audience Award at the Getxo Jazz Festival in 2014. He appears on over 15 recordings, including a Grammy-nominated album. Their programme draws mainly on the gems from the golden age of hard bop, like the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Sextet, as well as original arrangements by the band – appealing to music lovers and fans of hard bop alike.Details -
2025 July12 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
I-Jazz | Marco Centasso – Um/Welt (IT/TN)
20:00Um/Welt is a developing musical research project conceived by double bassist and composer Marco Centasso. The German word Umwelt corresponds to “environment”, literally meaning “surrounding world”. The particular salience of this concept caused biologist Jacob Uexküll to adopt it to denote the particular perspective of any organism as it relates to the world. In this way, each person’s Um/welt is not merely his or her environment, but his or her subjective universe, his or her horizon of interaction with the world, continuously determining and transforming the subject’s way of being, experiencing, and communicating in relation to the surrounding world. The Um/Welt project investigates the creation of worlds in interaction with each other through sound. By creating a space for dialogue between band members, the project asks questions on the interaction between different worlds, in a quest to create new ones that can give possibilities to communicate through sound beyond the barriers of human communication.Details -
2025 July16 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Bendegúz Varga Quartet, Guest: Júlia Karosi (HU)
20:00The second album of Bendegúz Varga's band, Chasing Your Dreams, released on Tom-Tom Records, is the follow-up to Goldmund, with perhaps an even more sophisticated sound and a clearer commitment to experimental contemporary jazz. The compositions and arrangements of the band leader and members are carefully crafted, with consistent emotional and atmospheric characteristics, and their playing is of a high quality and sensitivity. The material on the album is varied yet coherent, and offers an accessible musical world even for those new to the jazz genre. This evening, the quartet will give us a taste of their most recent material and upcoming new album, featuring iconic grunge jazz songs in a jazz guise. They also welcome a special guest on stage, singer Júlia Karosi, who enriches the performance with her unique artistic world.Details -
2025 July17 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Eszter Lukács Jazz Core (HU)
20:00For many years, singer Eszter Lukács and guitarist István Gyárfás have played their favourite jazz standards in a duo, taking advantage of the air and freedom of the most intimate chamber line-up. They have since been joined by Árpád Dennert on saxophone and Márton Soós on double bass, but this expanded ensemble still aims to preserve the atmosphere of the original duo, which is also emphasised by the absence of percussion instruments. The members of the Eszter Lukács Jazz Core are highly regarded and successful players on the Hungarian jazz scene, contributing to some of the most sought-after bands in the country.Details -
2025 July18 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Tribute to Füsti Balogh Band (HU)
20:00Gábor Füsti Balogh (1958–1988) was a prominent Hungarian jazz pianist and composer who learned the piano on his own, studying at the Béla Bartók Conservatory for only six months and briefly under Béla Szakcsi Lakatos. His bands, such as Kis Rákfogó and Füsti Balogh Ensemble, greatly promoted jazz-rock and modern mainstream jazz in Hungary. Prize-winning double bassist János Egri, a member of Füsti's Crazy Trio, founded a quintet in 2022 to pay tribute to his work. The band brings together the best musicians from three generations of Hungarian jazz to preserve and promote the legacy of Füsti. In their concerts, they perform original compositions inspired by the jazz legend's music, and breathe new life into his works. Their first album, The Big Things (Tom-Tom Records, 2024), with guest appearance by Tony Lakatos, features many of the compositions recorded by Füsti for his 1981 album Cream, in the spirit of the present day.Details -
2025 July19 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
BMC Records Goes Live | Evi Filippou – Robert Lucaciu (GR/DE)
20:00The dynamic collaboration between the Greek vibraphonist and the German-Romanian double bass player has birthed an artistic partnership that defies the constraints of rigid genre categorizations. Their musical journey is an exploration that draws sustenance from a myriad of sources, ranging from the intricate compositions of 20th and 21st-century classical music to the spirited rhythms of jazz and the evocative tales woven within folklore traditions. This union of sonic exploration transcends the limits of predefined labels, for the essence of their work lies in the realm of boundless creativity. The intertwining of their unique backgrounds results in an exquisite tapestry of sound, where the vibrancy of Balkan heritage converges with the cosmopolitan influence of contemporary European musical landscapes. Like a delicate thread of free improvisation, their performances unfold in an unscripted dance that mirrors the flow of life itself. In this tapestry, notes cascade like rivulets of emotion, merging and diverging, encapsulating moments of sorrow, joy, and the indefinable spaces in between. The duo's exploration resonates with a shared pursuit of personal expression. In a world colored by their diverse influences, they craft an auditory experience that is both timeless and contemporary – a testament to the way musical traditions and innovations intermingle at the rhythmic core of human experience. Next to the leading jazz venues and festivals in Europe, the duo which is really dedicated to building community and sharing the artistry, also performs in schools, community centers, back yards and everything that serves the purpose. Before the concert, they are also recording a new album for BMC Records.Details -
2025 July22 Tuesday16:00 Concert Hall
Festival Academy Budapest | Kaddish – To remember and remembered “80”
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2025 July23 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Frankie Látó Quartet (HU)
20:00Frankie Látó, a violinist working on the borders of classical music and jazz, formed his new quartet in 2023. Their work focuses on jazz-rock and fusion jazz, with an improvisational approach and purely instrumental arrangement. Their repertoire consists of original compositions, most influenced by the electronic bebop era of Miles Davis and the work of Joe Zawinul and Weather Report. The quartet's performance style resurrects the sound of American and European jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, innovatively complementing it with the musical demands and technical possibilities of our time. Through this reimagined chamber jazz playing, their aim is to create an exciting, virtuosic atmosphere that is enjoyable for all ages.Details -
2025 July24 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Kat and the Devil: Bad Advice (HU/US/UK)
20:00“Be more open, universal, more cosmically oriented. Sooner or later, when one has achieved this consciousness, one will travel there as a cosmic tourist and by that show that everything exists at once.” – Karlheinz Stockhausen Kat and the Devil is a genre-bending quintet of improvising classical and jazz musicians using spoken and sung texts to explore wide-ranging themes. Their performances are comedic, melodic, pan-idiomatic, theatrical, and full of surprise (for the audience and also for the performers themselves). Previous evenings have explored Witches, Basho, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Hallucinogens, Communing with the Dead, Architecture, Satire, and Crime. The group takes its name from their first project: a concert based on James Joyce’s short story The Cat and the Devil. Each concert dives into a new theme. This evening, they turn their attention to bad advice – drawing from the world of internet life hacks, quick fixes, and misguided guidance. Text and musical material may be drawn from László Krasznahorkai, Jenny Offill, Noémi Kiss, Rumaan Alam, Noémi László, Dave Eggers, and Karlheinz Stockhausen – the classical music emblem of artistic risk and questionable philosophies. Join the ensemble for a night where bad advice never sounded so good.Details -
2025 July25 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Dániel Serei – Refrection (HU)
20:00Refrection is the first project by drummer Dániel Serei as a bandleader. The quintet is a musical reaction to the experience of the first decades of the 21st century, to the joyful and traumatic moments lived every day. The contradiction of sometimes frolicking in a world of technological developments and communication networks, and at other times wanting to hide from everything and everyone. Refrection, while pushing genre boundaries and mixing musical styles, focuses on the musical representation of everyday beauty and harmony. The bandleader has previously performed with the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Pankastic and the Krisztián Oláh Quartet, among others. In 2015, he was named Best Soloist in the Hungarian Jazz Combo Competition.Details -
2025 July26 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Virág Czakó Quartet (HU)
20:00Virág Czakó is one of the promising talents of the new generation, who founded her current band 3 years ago, and although she has been performing less often in Hungary due to her studies abroad, she is time and again back on stage at Opus. She has been inspired by great artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae and Diana Krall, but she is also influenced by young singers who are exploring new paths, including Samara Joy. This evening will feature popular American jazz standards, with Latin bossa nova and some groovy arrangements. The songs are orchestrated with characteristic ease by the excellent guitarist Attila Rieger, complemented by his harmonious guitar playing. The band includes excellent young drummer Zoltán Fekete, and Péter Czakó, an experienced musician from the older generation, who is well versed not only in jazz but also in Hungarian folk music.Details -
2025 July30 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Sitmob: Tálas – Klausz (HU)
20:00Sitmob, an unusual keyboard-drum duo by Áron Tálas and Ádám Klausz perfectly combines the pulsating grooves of modern hip-hop, funk or drum'n'bass with the harmonic and melodic world of jazz. The band was born out of the idea of street music, with a hidden intention of bringing this kind of music to people who would probably never encounter it otherwise. Pianist-drummer Áron Tálas has shown in the Borbély Quartet and in his own trio, among many other projects, that professional knowledge and a mischievous sense of humour strengthen rather than cancel each other out when it comes to creation, while Ádám Klausz has demonstrated his versatility and openness as drummer with Co Lee and Emma Nagy Quintet.Details -
2025 July31 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Chris Devil Trio (HU)
20:00The Chris Devil Trio is driven by the combined energy of members with diverse musical tastes. The band leader, Krisztián Ördögh, is interested in the tradition of jazz saxophone playing as well as in folk musics, bassist Viktor Paczári seeks the impulses of rock and heavy metal, while Dániel Serei, in addition to technical jazz drumming, also immerses himself in the field of free music. Formed more than ten years ago from first-year jazz students, the band is a workshop of three creative minds, as each member contributes to the sound with their own compositions. Their repertoire is largely made up of these pieces, but their concerts also feature evergreens with a unique approach. This time, they perform songs from their upcoming album which experiments with the possibilities of a lineup without harmony instrument, sometimes using the devices of traditional or fusion jazz, sometimes those of free music.Details -
2025 August01 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ármin Jámbor Quartet (HU/DE/AT/UA)
20:00Ármin Jámbor has already demonstrated his refined musical personality, virtuosity and compositional talent on the Opus stage on multiple occasions. Since his highly successful album launch concert last year, the young saxophonist has worked tirelessly on new compositions, which are lyrical but also energetic. He presents these pieces together with exceptional colleagues: Urs Hager, a German pianist with an impressive technique, recently toured with Vincent Herring, Philipp Zarfl has been on tour with Ari Hoenig and Seamus Blake, while Oleg Markov is one of the most sought-after drummers on the Vienna jazz scene. In November 2024, the band gave an exclusive preview of their new album at the Austrian ORF headquarters, and will finalise it in the studio this autumn after a week-long tour of Austria and Germany.Details -
2025 August02 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Andi Malek – Soulistic (HU)
20:00The Malek Andi Soulistic band was formed in 2016 by the collaboration between award-winning singer-actress Andrea Malek and pianist, composer and producer Bandi Jáger. This special project combines jazz and Latin styles with Hungarian folk music. Their repertoire includes ancient Hungarian songs, original compositions and folk song arrangements. The two renowned founders are joined by equally seasoned and well-respected musicians, bassist György Orbán and drummer András Lakatos “Pecek”. Their chosen name, Soulistic refers to the close ties between soul and music.Details -
2025 August06 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Less is More 4 (HU/UK)
20:00The ‘Less Is More’ trio has been involved in the Budapest free music scene for over fifteen years. Now renamed ‘Less Is More 4’ to reflect the addition of Bálint Bolcsó’s electronics, and with Attila Gyárfás having recently replaced longstanding drummer Zsolt Sárvári Kovács, their basic concept remains unchanged: total improvisation. 100% spontaneously-created vibraphone, double bass and acoustic drum sounds are manipulated live and in real time by Bolcsó’s arsenal of effects, creating genre-bending atmospheric soundscapes. Future jazz of the highest order.Details -
2025 August07 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Mohamad Zatari – Ferenc Ségercz – Lehel Vitályos (SY/HU)
20:00A joint project from Ferenc Ségercz, Mohamad Zatari and Lehel Vitályos, born of their tireless search for common rhythms and dialogues in traditional repertoires from different regions of the world, kicked off in a workshop in a small village in Transylvania. The three musicians use deep-rooted timbres and improvisational concepts to build coherent new, organic sound textures. Ferenc Ségercz is a musician and music folklore collector, performer and instrument maker whose traditional wind instruments (flute, kaval, telenka) hail from Moldova, Gyimeș and other Transylvanian regions. He mostly performs tunes based on his own ideas, dressing traditional songs in new clothes, combining the vein of traditional musical improvisation with harmonies borrowed from the vocabulary of jazz. Mohamad Zatari is an improviser and sonic storyteller, whose artistic work is dedicated to decolonizing sound and deconstructing Western perspectives on non-Western music scenes. He has been active with the AL.Ehtifal Project, a flexible body of musicians creating layered soundscapes through improvisation. Lehel Vitályos is a tireless traveller in the world of jazz, currently playing both bass guitar and double bass. He has played in several jazz, rock, folk and electronic music bands, collaborating with Luiza Zan, Nicolas Simion, Jazzpar Trio, and sZempöl.Details -
2025 August08 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Linda Kovács – Tamás Balázs Duo (HU)
20:00The duo of Linda Kovács and Tamás Balázs brings together two distinctive musical approaches, finding expression in original compositions and jazz standards. Linda Kovács is active as a jazz singer, songwriter and arranger, interested in improvisation, personal voice and free roaming between genres. She has released several solo recordings, among them a big band album Sunflower, recorded with the Budapest Jazz Orchestra in 2019. The other member of the duo, Tamás Balázs, is an award-winning composer, arranger and solo pianist who graduated from the jazz faculty of the Graz Academy of Music. Since 2014, he has been living in Budapest, leading a trio with Hungarian musicians, and is an active participant in the Hungarian jazz scene. His music is characterized by a sensitivity to form, harmonic subtlety and the spirit of contemporary jazz. As a composer he has also been commissioned for film music.Details -
2025 August09 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Károly Gáspár Trio: Peace - Time - Album Premiere (HU)
20:00Peace in the literal sense and peace of mind is important for human beings at all times, but it is especially important to seek it out today. Jazz pianist and composer Károly Gáspár, a well-known figure on the Hungarian jazz scene, has dedicated a new five-movement work entitled Peace – Time to this theme, using motifs from the folk music of Hungary and other nations, and tastefully blending the stylistic features and atmospheres of classical music, jazz standards and sophisticated pop songs. The music on the album Peace – Time will be performed live in its entirety for the first time.Details -
2025 August13 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ágoston Béla QRtet (HU)
20:00Béla Ágoston's quartet is made up of seasoned musicians who are finely tuned to each other, and extremely open to the joy of spontaneous music-making. The bandleader usually plays C-melody saxophone, but this time he expands the musical horizon of the ensemble by using Hungarian bagpipes. These pieces are part of the forthcoming bagpipe book Ipolyphonia. They will also introduce new pieces from the album Joculator City, which will soon become available on Youtube. A joint “update” will also give the audience an insight into the joyful and free musical communication of the musicians, who have previously created a sonic imprint of their shared experiences in bands such as Kerub, Knutdut Men, Zuboly and Bélabábend.Details -
2025 August14 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Sámuel Baló Trio, guests: Laura Zöschg and Luka Zabric (HU/IT/SI)
20:00The repertoire of the Sámuel Baló Trio consists mainly of the band leader's own compositions, inspired by impressions, moods, experiences and memories, and often drawing from the world of modal jazz and folk music. The ensemble's concerts emphasise freedom and spontaneity, while their playing draws on musical traditions – making each performance a born-in-the-moment, yet not shoreless, musical exploration, with plenty of room for improvisation and musical dialogue. Formed in the spring of 2020, the band is happy to invite guests into this dialogue; this time they are joined by two experimenting young artists who share years of friendship and music-making with the trio.Details -
2025 August15 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Guitar Madness (HU)
20:00The collaboration of three top jazz guitarists is a real curiosity in the Hungarian music scene: István Gyárfás, Attila Rieger and Gábor Szalay are not only excellent players of their instruments, but also outstanding bandleaders, composers and music teachers. Márton Soós (bass) and Balázs Cseh (drums) are also among the most sought-after jazz musicians in Hungary. Last year, the band released a new album, Hommage à Gábor Szabó, which pays tribute to the unique work of the most famous Hungarian jazz musician of all time. The music consists of original compositions by the members, the titles and mood of which refer to the stages of the guitar legend's extraordinary life – from the beginnings, through the height of his success, to his return home, his illness and his premature death. The album strongly indicates that the band is not just offering guitar treats, but their primary goal is to focus on and keep alive the musical legacy of Gábor Szabó.Details -
2025 August16 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
BMC Records Goes Live | Gábor Gadó – Veronika Harcsa Quartet (HU)
20:00Gábor Gadó and Veronika Harcsa are known primarily as jazz musicians, yet their work is increasingly shifting towards classical and contemporary music. Their musical encounter is already documented in two albums for BMC Records, and in July they will record a third one – this repertoire forms the backbone of the concert. The dialogue between classical and jazz musicians breaks down the dichotomy of melody and accompaniment by omitting the rhythm section, and the boundaries between composition and improvisation are blurred in an open creative process. In this organic polyphony, the sound characters melt into a single instrument just as the approach of the four musicians dissolves into an astonishingly personal, ever-evolving musical universe.Details -
2025 August21 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Dezső Oláh – Vibratone Quartet (HU)
20:00The Oláh Dezső Vibratone Quartet aims to make the vibraphone more widely known, hoping that through the discovery of the instrument the audience will also be brought closer to the world of contemporary jazz and collective improvisation. The orchestra, developing its repertoire through in-depth workshop, was formed during the pandemic with the expansion of the Dezső Oláh Trio and has since played at prestigious venues and festivals. The members of the quartet are regularly invited to many important cultural events in Hungary and abroad, but in this orchestra they combine not only their musical qualities but also the best of their composing skills – their compositions have been successful in the Müpa Budapest Music Competition, among others.Details -
2025 August22 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Bendegúz Németh Quartet (HU)
20:00The starting point of Bendegúz Németh's music is the raw power of blues and rock, combined with improvisation, formal freedom and sensitivity towards instrumentation in the spirit of jazz. The guitarist-composer released his first album, All Over The Place, in the spring of 2024, providing the musical basis and spiritual compass for the quartet’s current repertoire. The backbone of the programme is made up of original compositions that range from groove-oriented funk-rock influences to deeper, conceptual pieces. The band's playing alternates simple, well-defined themes with open spaces and thoughtful compositional structures. Improvisation plays an important role throughout the concert, not as virtuosity for itself, but as a living dialogue that the musicians build together. The quartet's music features both reflective lyricism and an attraction to dynamic energies. Some of the pieces evoke almost cinematic atmospheres, while others are more gritty and playful. The aim is always to find a personal voice – one that is both connected to and transcends tradition.Details -
2025 August23 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Márton Stummer – Afrosamba Trio, guest: Dominik Kosztolánszki (HU)
20:00The repertoire of Márton Stummer's acoustic trio consists of songs from Brazilian guitar music and original compositions. Afrosamba combines elements of Brazilian samba and Afro-Brazilian jazz. In addition to this style, Márton Stummer's compositions draw on classical, jazz and contemporary music, while leaving room for free improvisation. The main source of inspiration for the trio's sound comes from Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell. For their concert titled Ilusões de grandes fenômenos, the group will be joined by Dominik Kosztolánszki, one of the most accomplished saxophonists of his generation, who is at home in many styles.Details -
2025 August27 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Mihály Dresch String Quartet (HU)
20:00Mihály Dresch founded his String Quartet a few years ago to create an exciting mix of genres this time from a more decidedly folk music perspective, of course with the trademark Dresch sound. Their first studio album, entitled Forrásból, was released in 2017 by Fonó Records, born as the first imprint of new musical qualities created at the intersection of jazz and Hungarian folk music traditions. The second album of the band, Ongaku, was released in 2021. As Mihály Dresch said about the recording: "In Japanese, ongaku means music. In Chinese, this character differs with one single sign from the character of medicine. On the occasion of a rehearsal, when this composition had not yet been assigned a final title, we felt the atmosphere of the oriental cultures. These two concepts can be easily connected with Hungarian thinking as well. The relationship between music and the soul is not a novel idea, its beneficial effects have already been recognized by the ancient Greeks. I hope this album approaches these two meanings."Details -
2025 August28 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Máté Drippey - Máté Szabó Duo (HU)
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2025 August29 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Symbiosis 5, guest: Bálint Gyémánt (HU)
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2025 August30 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Elsa Valle & Afrocando (HU)
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2025 September03 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
j(A)zz! | Schmack (AT)
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2025 September04 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
BMC Records Goes Live | András Dés Quartet (HU/AT/JP)
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2025 September05 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Clara Barry Trio (FR/HU)
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2025 September06 Saturday19:30 Concert Hall
Georg Philipp Telemann: Pimpinone – or the unequal marriage
19:30Georg Philipp Telemann’s Pimpinone was first performed exactly 300 years ago, on September 27, 1725, in Hamburg. Originally conceived as an interlude for Handel’s opera seria Tamerlano, this three-part intermezzo soon gained independence and quickly became popular with audiences. Regarded as a forerunner of opera buffa, the piece is set to a libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius. At the center of the story is Vespetta, a cunning and charismatic maid, and Pimpinone, an aging and somewhat clumsy merchant. Vespetta enters the household as a servant, gains power through marriage and eventually takes full control of her husband by manipulating him with his own tools. The work offers a satirical portrayal of social and gender roles, particularly addressing the institution of patriarchal marriage and the concept of social mobility. Musically, Telemann masterfully blends Italian and German stylistic elements: the recitatives are lively, while the duets and arias are humorous and full of character. His music precisely reflects the emotional states of the characters and the mood of each scene, often heightening the comedy through exaggerated musical gestures.The themes of power dynamics, social ascent and gender roles remain relevant today, making Pimpinone more than just a light-hearted interlude – it is also a sharp social commentary that reveals the complexity of human relationships with humor and musical ingenuity. Thanks to its small cast, historically informed performance style, and music that is both light and sophisticated, the piece continues to offer a fresh and captivating experience for both professional audiences with a deep appreciation for music and the broader public alike. Between the acts of the intermezzo, movements from the Ouverture Suite in B-flat major (TWV 55:B1) will be performed. This production was staged by KúlArt Produkció.Details -
2025 September06 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Lilla Orbay Quintet (HU)
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2025 September09 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music (HU)
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2025 September10 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Dániel Varga 6 (HU)
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2025 September11 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Barnabás Négyessy Quartet (HU)
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2025 September12 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Kálmán Oláh Septet: Return to Pangea - album premiere (HU)
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2025 September13 Saturday18:00 Library
Compass - Compositions by Balázs Horváth
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2025 September13 Saturday19:30 Concert Hall
George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea
19:30George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea is one of the most lyrical and beloved works of Baroque music. Having been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral opera or "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), it is a transition between Italian opera and English oratorio. The mythological tale tells the idyllic love story of the nymph Galatea (lit. she who is milk-white) and the shepherd Acis. Their harmony is shattered by the jealousy and rage of the one-eyed giant Polypheme, who, upon discovering the couple, hurls a massive rock torn from Mount Etna at Acis. Galatea transforms the blood of her slain lover, seeping from beneath the stone, into a gently flowing stream – a mythical origin of the river Aci in Sicily.The music flows between playful lightness and heart-wrenching drama: Handel brings the characters’ emotions – joy, desire, fear, and grief – to life with unparalleled sensitivity, seamlessly weaving together images of nature and the inner world of the characters in the musical texture. Composed in 1718, Acis and Galatea became one of Handel’s most successful English-language works. Its melodical freshness, rich contrapuntal writing, finely drawn musical character portraits, and subtly layered emotional depth continue to captivate audiences to this day. Acis and Galatea is not only a musical masterpiece but also a deeply human story of love, loss, and nature’s eternal cycle. It offers a rewarding experience not only for fans of Baroque music but for anyone who appreciates emotionally rich yet accessible storytelling on stage. This production is staged by KúlArt Produkció.Details -
2025 September13 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Vaikus (HU)
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2025 September17 Wednesday18:00 Library
Anita Rákóczy: Beckett, Theatre, Encounters: Interviews and Interpretations
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2025 September17 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Viktor Tóth & Bird Food Market (HU)
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2025 September18 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
BMC Records Goes Live | ARK: Adefris - Riahi - Kranzelbinder (ET/IR/AT)
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2025 September19 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
BMC Records Goes Live | Mozes & Kaltenecker (HU)
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2025 September20 Saturday18:00 Library
Dániel Szabó - Solo recital
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2025 September20 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ava Trio feat. Áron Horváth (IT/TR/NL/HU)
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2025 September24 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Tomeka Reid Quartet ft. Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara (US)
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2025 September25 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Bori Orbán Sextet: Encore une fois (HU/FR)
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2025 September26 Friday18:00 Library
The early history of electronic music in the Cologne WDR Studio 4/4
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2025 September26 Friday19:30 Concert Hall
Concerto Budapest: BARTÓK | Keller Quartet – Klenyán – Berecz
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2025 September26 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Klára Hajdu Quartet feat. Milán Szakonyi: Nostalgia (HU)
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2025 September27 Saturday20:00 Concert Hall
Modern Art Orchestra | THE POEM OF MY POEMS – Nagy László Evening
20:00MAO–XX – The Modern Art Orchestra's 20th anniversary concert series The Modern Art Orchestra began operating twenty years ago and has since become one of Hungary's most innovative and diverse musical workshops. To mark this anniversary, the ensemble is celebrating with a three-part premiere series at the Budapest Music Center concert hall. All three evenings of the series, entitled MAO–XX, will feature new compositions and unique musical worlds, where contemporary jazz, classical tradition and poetry all play a role. The Modern Art Orchestra's series of literary adaptations reaches a new chapter. Continuing the previous program based on the works of Sándor Weöres, the spotlight will now be on the poems of László Nagy, on the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth. The evening's arrangements include such well-known and deeply moving poems as Verseim verse (The Poem of My Poems), Ki viszi át a szerelmet? (Who Will Take Love?), Adjon az isten (God Grant Me) and Himnusz minden időben (Hymn for All Time). The orchestra's composers – Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Gábor Cseke, Kristóf Bacsó, János Ávéd, Gábor Subicz and Attila Korb – once again bring the world of poetry to life with their outstanding talent and unique sound, offering an evening where poetry and music speak to both the mind and the heart. Further concerts in the series:31 October 2025 8 PM Modern Art Orchestra | ERKEL DUETS – A Tribute to Ferenc Erkel29 November 2025 8 PM Modern Art Orchestra | EMERGING ECHOES – An Evening with Young ComposersDetails -
2025 September27 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Makám (HU)
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2025 September28 Sunday19:00 Concert Hall
UMZE Ensemble: Sneakers around the Golden Age
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2025 October01 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Borbély - Dresch Quartet (HU)
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2025 October02 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Vive le Jazz | Impérial Quartet, feat. Csaba Palotaï (FR/HU)
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2025 October03 Friday19:00 Concert Hall
Chopin and Kecskés D. – Preludes and Postludes
19:00A brand new experimental piano piece and a 19th-century classic side by side. How can the genre of the solo piano piece be relevant now, in the third decade of the 21st century? In what new ways can we approach this versatile instrument today, after giants such as Chopin, Liszt and Debussy had written works of lasting value? How do we relate to the piano today? These and similar questions will be explored in a concert by pianist Domonkos Csabay, who will present Chopin's 24 preludes and a new postlude series by young composer Balázs D. Kecskés. During the concert, both Domonkos and Balázs will give the audience an insight into what kinds of music were played in the salons of the 19th century, as well as discussing what the rich piano repertoire means to a contemporary composer. The language of the conversation is Hungarian. This event is supported by the National Cultural Fund.Details -
2025 October03 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Vive le Jazz | Laura Perrudin | Csaba Palotaï (FR/HU)
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2025 October04 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Vive le Jazz | Antoine Berjeaut - Chromesthesia, feat. Csaba Palotaï (FR/HU)
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2025 October07 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Sal Salvador Quintet (HU)
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2025 October08 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Luís Vicente - John Dikeman - William Parker - Hamid Drake (PT/US)
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2025 October12 Sunday18:00 Concert Hall
Gábor Csalog Sundays – Dialogues with (the) Music | Schubert and the Beauty
18:00“These are no longer the happy times when we see the glories of youth around every object, but the fatal realisation of a miserable reality which I try to embellish as much as I can with my imagination (thank God for it).” Franz Schubert wrote these lines in 1824 to his brother Ferdinand. That beauty was central to Schubert's compositional thinking hardly needs to be proved to anyone who have heard even a few minutes of Schubert's music in their lifetime. But it was precisely at the beginning of the 19th century that the concept of “sublime” began to take over the place of “beauty” in musical aesthetics, so the ineffable, unearthly beauty of Schubert's melodies was thus an imprint of an earlier era, that of Mozart and Haydn. The Piano Trio in B flat major (B. 898), which Schubert began to compose in 1827 but only completed next year before his death, offers numerous examples of the musical representation of both the concept of “beauty” and the “sublime”. Before playing the piece, Gábor Csalog, his musician friends and music historian Gergely Fazekas will discuss the change in musical aesthetics and show other examples of Schubert’s concept of beauty. The language of the conversation is Hungarian.Details -
2025 October16 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus (CA/NO/DE)
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2025 October17 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ephemere (HU)
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2025 October18 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Petra Várallyay (HU)
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2025 October20 Monday19:00 Concert Hall
Dali Gutserieva, Emmanuel Plasson & the Prague Chamber Orchestra
19:00One of Mozart’s most frequently performed operas is The Libertine Punished, or Don Giovanni, which premiered at the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague on 29 October 1787. The overture itself summarises the key musical motifs and indicates the dramatic character of the opera. The work was composed during 1787, but it is certain that Mozart wrote some of its parts, including the overture, in Prague just before its premiere.Camille Saint-Saëns composed the First Cello Concerto in 1872 for the cello and viola da gamba player Auguste Tolbecque. Instead of the usual three-movement form, the composer wrote the concerto in only one movement, dividing it into three interconnected parts. Saint-Saëns here shows himself to be a master of contrasts – at times stormy and dramatic, at times dreamy and lyrical.Dvořák´s Czech Suite is an expression of the composer’s spontaneous melodic invention and a testament to the delicate instrumentation work with a chamber orchestra. It grows out of the mood of the first series of Slavonic Dances, composed a year earlier. The Prague Chamber Orchestra (PKO) is one of the four oldest chamber orchestras in Europe. It was founded in 1951 and its history has never been interrupted since then. It stands out as an orchestra of the so-called Mozart cast (34 musicians), which is able to perform without a conductor. Other than its European tours, it has completed ten tours of South America, sixteen in the USA and Canada and nine in Japan. Dali Gutserieva was born in 1999 and took up music at the age of 6. She is a winner and laureate of many prestigious musical contests (e.g. Nouvelles Etoiles International Music Competition, Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition in Salzburg, VII. Odin International Contest). During the previous seasons, she has performed with maestro Daniel Oren and Covent Garden Sinfonietta, and David Geringas and Geringas Chamber Orchestra, as well as concerts in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and London. Emmanuel Plasson has established himself as a leading ambassador for French music through his remarkable international career spanning both the symphonic and operatic worlds. He won the Donatella Flick International Conducting Competition in 1994. Soon after, he was invited as Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York for two seasons. Maestro Plasson was principal conductor and artistic director of Hawaii Opera Theatre until April 2020. 2022 marked a new milestone in his career when he performed at the Landesgartenschau Beelitz with his own chamber orchestra: Orchester Voyager. He has performed all around the globe with ensembles such as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Opera Society, Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Melbourne Opera, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Danish Opera and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.Details -
2025 October21 Tuesday19:30 Concert Hall
Liszt Fest | Israeli Chamber Project
19:30Hailed as ‘a band of world-class soloists...in which egos dissolve and players think, breathe and play as one’ (Time Out New York), the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) is a dynamic ensemble that comprises strings, winds, harp and piano, and brings together some of today’s most distinguished Israeli musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programmes. ICP has appeared at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, the Wigmore Hall in London and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and its programs feature both original works as well as new commissions and arrangements of symphonic repertoire created especially for the ensemble.Details -
2025 October21 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Eastern Boundary Trio (US/HU)
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2025 October22 Wednesday19:00 Concert Hall
Adam Gutseriev, Emmanuel Plasson & the Prague Chamber Orchestra
19:00The court theatre entrepreneur Baron Braun approached Beethoven with an offer to compose music for the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus based on a theme by the then famous Italian choreographer Salvatore Viganò. The overture to the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus was composed in 1800, i.e. even earlier than the better-known Egmont, Leonores Nos. 1–3, Coriolanus, and others.The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor is one of the most performed compositions not only by Grieg, but also of Norwegian music as a whole. The three-movement composition attracts attention with its original Nordic melodies and harmonies, and Grieg projected elements of village folklore into it.Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek was one of the most important representatives of Czech Classicism and at the same time anticipated the arrival of the Romantic style in his work. Symphony in D major was written in 1821 and soon earned the respect of Beethoven himself, to whose early works it is often compared. Although it can be considered somewhat outdated in some respects, we also find passages that point forward towards Early Romanticism. The Prague Chamber Orchestra (PKO) is one of the four oldest chamber orchestras in Europe. It was founded in 1951 and its history has never been interrupted since then. It stands out as an orchestra of the so-called Mozart cast (34 musicians), which is able to perform without a conductor. Other than its European tours, it has completed ten tours of South America, sixteen in the USA and Canada and nine in Japan. Adam Gutseriev was born in 2005 and is a student at the Kalaidos Musikhochschule in Berlin. He started his musical career at the age of 5. When he was 11 he won the 7th AMIGDALA International Contest of Young Pianists (Italy). He is a multi-winner and laureate of prestigious international contests. Adam Gutseriev regularly goes on tours and performs in France, Italy, Belgium, Latvia and other countries. Emmanuel Plasson has established himself as a leading ambassador for French music through his remarkable international career spanning both the symphonic and operatic worlds. He won the Donatella Flick International Conducting Competition in 1994. Soon after, he was invited as Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York for two seasons. Maestro Plasson was principal conductor and artistic director of Hawaii Opera Theatre until April 2020. 2022 marked a new milestone in his career when he performed at the Landesgartenschau Beelitz with his own chamber orchestra: Orchester Voyager. He has performed all around the globe with ensembles such as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Opera Society, Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Melbourne Opera, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Danish Opera and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.Details -
2025 October22 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Rosetta (S)Tone | Szabó - Karosi - Kántor - Barcza Horváth - Dés (HU)
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2025 October24 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Cafuné (HU)
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2025 October25 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Schlippenbach - Gyárfás - Ajtai (DE/HU)
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2025 October27 Monday19:00 Concert Hall
Paganini: 24 caprice | Solo Concert by János Bodor
19:00Niccolò Paganini is the most influential violin virtuoso in the history of music, and he was also a composer who loved to write for his instrument – pieces, of course, that only he could master. His dazzling virtuosity and overwhelmingly passionate performance earned him the title of the Devil's Violinist. The 24 Caprices is a series of character pieces for solo violin, each focusing on a different technical challenge, but also displaying a distinct mood and emotion. Nowadays, one or two of the Caprices is performed mainly as an encore in concert halls around the world; the complete series is rarely heard in one concert, as its performance still demands an almost superhuman level of effort and skill from the violinists even two centuries after its creation. There have been two such occasions in Hungary so far: in the 1970s Miklós Szenthelyi and in the mid-1990s József Lendvay attempted to conquer the Mount Everest of solo violin literature. Following in their footsteps, János Bodor, member and acting concertmaster of the National Philharmonic Orchestra and permanent concertmaster of the Danubia Orchestra, has now set his thrilling expedition to mark the anniversary of Paganini's birth.Details -
2025 October28 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
j(A)zz! | Purple is the Color: Unbemanntes Raumschiff (AT/CZ)
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2025 October29 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Tóth Viktor Arura Trio (HU)
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2025 October30 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Decolonize Your Mind Society (HU)
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2025 October31 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Krisztián Oláh Quartet (HU)
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2025 October31 Friday20:00 Concert Hall
Modern Art Orchestra | ERKEL DUETS – A Tribute to Ferenc Erkel
20:00MAO–XX – The Modern Art Orchestra's 20th anniversary concert series The Modern Art Orchestra began operating twenty years ago and has since become one of Hungary's most innovative and diverse musical workshops. To mark this anniversary, the ensemble is celebrating with a three-part premiere series at the Budapest Music Center concert hall. All three evenings of the series, entitled MAO–XX, will feature new compositions and unique musical worlds, where contemporary jazz, classical tradition and poetry all play a role. With its concert, the Modern Art Orchestra pays tribute to Ferenc Erkel, one of the most influential figures in Hungarian music history. In this latest installment of the “Tradition Living with Us” series, the opera composer’s most beautiful duets are presented in a new light. In addition to well-known operas such as Bánk bán and Hunyadi László, lesser-known works such as the arias from Dózsa György and Sarolta are also performed in fresh, contemporary arrangements. The arrangements were created based on Kornél Fekete-Kovács' concept and the work of the orchestra's composers – János Ávéd, Kristóf Bacsó, Gábor Cseke, Gábor Subicz and Attila Korb. Two outstanding soloists from the Hungarian State Opera House are participating in the production: Lilla Horti (soprano) and Tibor Szappanos (tenor). Further concerts in the series:27 September 2025 8 PM Modern Art Orchestra | THE POEM OF MY POEMS – Nagy László Evening2025. november 29. 20:00 Modern Art Orchestra | EMERGING ECHOES – An Evening with Young ComposersDetails -
2025 November05 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Péter Ajtai – Mingus! Mingus! Mingus! (HU)
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2025 November08 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Hámori–Peer: The Opera Operation
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2025 November11 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell (HU)
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2025 November29 Saturday20:00 Concert Hall
Modern Art Orchestra | EMERGING ECHOES – An Evening with Young Composers
20:00MAO–XX – The Modern Art Orchestra's 20th anniversary concert series The Modern Art Orchestra began operating twenty years ago and has since become one of Hungary's most innovative and diverse musical workshops. To mark this anniversary, the ensemble is celebrating with a three-part premiere series at the Budapest Music Center concert hall. All three evenings of the series, entitled MAO–XX, will feature new compositions and unique musical worlds, where contemporary jazz, classical tradition and poetry all play a role. On the third evening of the anniversary series, the Modern Art Orchestra will focus on the sounds of the future. Two young, exceptionally talented pianist-composers, Elemér Balázs Jr. and Krisztián Oláh, will present their new, large-scale works. Elemér Balázs Jr.'s composition, Five Scenes Based on Goethe's Faust, reflects on the eternal themes of the classic work in a unique style that combines film music and jazz influences. Krisztián Oláh's new work, MAO Suite, is based on the character of the orchestra and uses the language of modern jazz to create richly textured, rhythmically exciting musical landscapes. Both composers will also perform on piano during the concert, allowing the audience to experience firsthand what it is like when the composer is also the performer. The evening is not only the result of MAO's commitment to nurturing talent, but also offers a vision of the possibilities of contemporary big band jazz. Further concerts in the series:27 September 2025 8 PM Modern Art Orchestra | THE POEM OF MY POEMS – Nagy László Evening2025. október 31. 20:00 Modern Art Orchestra | ERKEL DUETS – A Tribute to Ferenc ErkelDetails -
2025 December06 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Santa Claus, the Mock Garbageman
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2025 December10 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Miles Davis: Young Man with a Horn (HU)
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2026 February07 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Beat it, Bro!
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2026 April18 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Horváth–Ott–Szemenyei: The Music Lover
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