Born five hundred years ago, the Italian master of Renaissance vocal polyphony, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the "saviour of sacred music", is still a major figure in choral culture, and the study of his clear style is compulsory in composition courses. The multi-award-winning Italian conductor and composer Lorenzo Donati, who was also a student of Ennio Morricone, will conduct the Kodály Choir Debrecen, mixing Palestrina's works with his own compositions and pieces by his Italian contemporaries to show that Palestrina's star still shines brightly after half a millennium.