The line-up with cymbalom, double bass and drums is as unusual as the program, which varies between jazz and classical. In Hungarian folk music the cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer, plays an important role. Miklós Lukács, who learned to play the cimbalom from his father and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, emphasizes the melodic qualities of the percussion instrument and coaxes out of them an immensely large palette of timbres and forms of expression. In the world of the cimbalom, Lukács is a luminary – as a jazz musician he’s played with greats like Uri Caine, Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, Dave Liebman, or Roby Lakatos, and as a classical musician he works closely together with the composer Péter Eötvös.

On today's concert the trio will perform pieces from their first two albums as well as play special arrangments of selected pieces from Haydn’s feather, a program debuted recently in Brühl, Germany, at the Haydn-Festival. “Haydn would surely have enjoyed it immensely” advised the program calendar of the festival. Let's check it out!