Programs
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2024 March30 Saturday19:00 Concert Hall
Modern Art Orchestra | Liszt: Via Crucis
19:00Ferenc Liszt's sacred music is a particularly rich part of his oeuvre, and even among these there is a special place for his late work titled Via Crucis [Stations of the Cross], a 15-movement oratoric piece written in 1879 especially for church performance, choir and vocal soloists. When he sent it to a church music publisher, he emphasised that remuneration was not important to him, but nevertheless the work remained in manuscript. It was first performed posthumously in 1929 under the conductorship of Artur Harmat, who later became the choirmaster of St. Stephen's Basilica. Perhaps this is because its harmonies and melodies point explicitly towards modern, turn-of-the-century musical aspirations. The motto of his profound reflections on the Passion is expressed in the final movement, based on the hymn of Fortunatus: the Cross is "our only hope". After its foundation in 2005, the Modern Art Orchestra has quickly become a leading player in Hungarian jazz culture. Its founder and artistic director Kornél Fekete-Kovács chose this name because he wanted to embrace the contemporary musical aspirations while standing in the world of jazz, so the members of the orchestra include instrumentalists who are experienced in classical music as well as musicians who play jazz music. The orchestra, which operates as a contemporary music workshop, has been exemplary in its activities, with many new compositions written specifically for the Modern Art Orchestra since its foundation. Their emotional and deeply moving performance of Liszt's work is part of a series of adaptations of works by Bartók, Kodály and György Ligeti, following their collaboration with Péter Eötvös. The adaptation, created for the Liszt Festival 2022, bears the signature of composer-arranger jazz musicians who have already demonstrated their skills and composed significant pieces for the orchestra. The individual movements (Stations of the Cross) have been arranged by six of the orchestra's in-house composers (János Ávéd, Kristóf Bacsó, Gábor Cseke, Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Attila Korb and Gábor Subicz), joined by two multi-award-winning composer-performers (Dániel Hofecker and Dániel Szabó) who work closely with the Modern Art Orchestra. The role of the choir in the composition will be taken over by the orchestra, but as appropriate to the theme, the members will not improvise freely this time, but will perform cadenzas and variations according to the instructions of each composer. For the vocal parts, the Modern Art Orchestra has invited Lilla Horti from the Hungarian State Opera and the iconic singer of the jazz scene, Krisztina Pocsai. The organ parts will be performed by László Fassang. "It was a stunning realization for me to see how Liszt's genius as a composer and performer competed with each other for most of his life. This work evokes not the fame and the successes, but the thoughtful, to-the-point, meditative composer." - says artistic director Kornél Fekete-Kovács about the piece.Details -
2024 April03 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Szakcsi Jr. Trio: Stolen Tears – record release concert
20:00The trio has been performing for 15 years. Szakcsi Jr. and Elemér Balázs formed the band as childhood friends, having played together since 1998. As a young talent, they invited Krisztián Pecek Lakatos, who had already burst onto the Hungarian jazz scene a few years earlier, to play bass before their first album Psalms was released in 2008. Their long awaited second album, Easy to Love, released at the end of 2022, contains two original songs and jazz standards, but as Szakcsi Jr. puts it, the theme is just a pretext, the point is the musical conversation, as the trio plays acoustic modern jazz, respecting the traditions of the genre. At this concert, they are presenting their most recent album, Stolen Tears.Details -
2024 April04 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ádám Móser – Márton Kovács: Gyimesi | Trio Sordini
20:00In his compositions, Ádám Móser has created a contemporary Gyimesi chamber music, which always evokes the turns of authentic Gyimesi folk music, yet its structure is based on quite different foundations. The music of Zerkula, Halmágyi or the Tímár brothers can be heard in his motifs, but the pieces are sometimes close to free-flowing, improvisatory, and sometimes to repetitive, contemporary chamber music. In the duo, Ádám Móser plays accordion and Márton Kovács plays violin. Both have many years of folk music experience behind them, and both have thrown themselves into the world of improvisational chamber music. Three years ago, three musicians, who were also at home in theater circles, thought that they would call the sounds, rhythms and melodies they played in the plays directed by János Mohácsi to an independent life. They thought that the stringed strings of different origins, tearing apart from the system of a theatrical performance, could also come into contact with each other and tell further stories to both the musicians and even more so to the audience. And over time, more and more new melodies and rhythms emerge in the sometimes seemingly endless sound maze of the Trio Sordini. Composition and improvisation, traveling from everywhere to everywhere: More than an hour and a half of unstoppable sound streams in two parts.Details -
2024 April05 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
György Pataj Quintet
20:00Pianist György Pataj graduated from the jazz department at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1997. Over the past fifteen years he has played with such prestigious Hungarian musicians as Aladár Pege, Imre Kőszegi, Gyula Babos or the Cotton Club Singers. Pataj Jazz Quintet, his own band was founded in 2009, and after a few changes, the present solid lineup of prominent musicians of the Budapest jazz scene came to being. The quintet revives the hard-bop genre of the '60s and '70s: their sound reflects the world of groups led by outstanding personalities of the period (Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Cannonball Adderley).Details -
2024 April06 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Ta-da-da-daaam!
10:00 Family ConcertFamily ConcertThe family concert series by the Danubia Orchestra continues with Mozart's works mixed with tales, stories and musical insight for kids aged 6-12.Details -
2024 April06 Saturday15:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Mozart x Jazz
15:00 Semmi komolySemmi komolyKlasszikus remekművek nem-klasszikus tükörben Hámori Mátéval és vendégeivel Van átjárás a műfajok közt? Beszédbe elegyedhet egymással Bach hegedűversenye és Pál István Szalonna kalotaszegi tánca? Mit mondhat Mozartról egy jazz-zongorista? Bartók találkozik a népdallal és a looperrel – ez csak egy vicc kezdete? Mennyire szabad a zene, mennyire szabad a zenész és Ön, kedves közönség? Szabad a játék? Nem kell, aggódni, jó móka lesz. Semmi komoly. Mozart és a jazz – ez nem új történet. Ha mást nem is, Jacques Loussier révén sokan ismerik azt, milyen a klasszikus zene és a jazz kreatív találkozása. Ezúttal Mozart utolsó zongoraversenye kerül fókuszba, két irányból közelítve.Details -
2024 April06 Saturday19:30 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Mozart x Jazz
19:30 Semmi komolySemmi komolyKlasszikus remekművek nem-klasszikus tükörben Hámori Mátéval és vendégeivel Van átjárás a műfajok közt? Beszédbe elegyedhet egymással Bach hegedűversenye és Pál István Szalonna kalotaszegi tánca? Mit mondhat Mozartról egy jazz-zongorista? Bartók találkozik a népdallal és a looperrel – ez csak egy vicc kezdete? Mennyire szabad a zene, mennyire szabad a zenész és Ön, kedves közönség? Szabad a játék? Nem kell, aggódni, jó móka lesz. Semmi komoly. Mozart és a jazz – ez nem új történet. Ha mást nem is, Jacques Loussier révén sokan ismerik azt, milyen a klasszikus zene és a jazz kreatív találkozása. Ezúttal Mozart utolsó zongoraversenye kerül fókuszba, két irányból közelítve.Details -
2024 April06 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
András Dés Quartet: Unimportant Things – BMC Records album premiere (HU/AT/JP)
20:00András Dés is one of the few percussionists who have not only absorbed a whole arsenal of musical styles as a member of various bands, but have also founded their own ensembles. Dés, who has been living in Vienna for five years, has now formed a quartet with three Austrian musicians, Martin Eberle, Kenji Herbert and Philipp Nykrin, to capture the essence of European jazz: diversity, openness and the power of listening to each other. The unusual drum set is joined by trumpet, piano and electric guitar, and the way these three instruments are played often differs from what is customary. The musical components of this album are at least as manifold as the playing of the four musicians. The thinking of András Dés and his fellow musicians is defined just as much by many different trends in American and European jazz of the last few decades, as by earlier and contemporary classical music, the instinctively complex rhythmic structures of traditional musical cultures, or even the influence of various popular music styles, for instance, the elemental energy of rock music. Unimportant Things concludes a trilogy of albums recorded by András Dés in various line-ups for BMC Records. The common feature of the three albums, which are based on very different concepts and moods, is that they all contain a good dose of spontaneity, this time because the bandleader did not insert free improvisational passages into his compositions, but linked them together. The eight compositions thus form a single musical sequence of about three-quarters of an hour, in which we proceed from island to island, from one adventure to the next, like Odysseus on his way home from Troy to Ithaca.Details -
2024 April07 Sunday18:00 Concert Hall
Barnabás Kelemen, Gáspár Kelemen and the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra
18:00Alma és Fája sorozatunk első koncertjén a Kossuth- és Liszt Ferenc-díjas Kelemen Barnabás és fia, Kelemen Gáspár hegedűjátékát élvezheti a közönség a BMC színpadán. Idén lenne száz éves Bartók Béla és Pásztory Ditta fia, Bartók Péter, aki nemcsak édesapja szellemi hagyatékának gondos őrzőjeként, hanem a zongorapedagógia egyik legzseniálisabb gyűjteménye, a Mikrokozmosz címzettjeként is örökre helyet biztosított magának a zenetörténet lapjain. „1933-ban kisfiam, Péter nagyon kért, taníttassuk zongorázni. Gondoltam egy nagyot és merészet – és magam fogtam hozzá ehhez a számomra kissé szokatlan feladathoz. Ének- és technikai gyakorlatokon kívül csakis Mikrokozmosz-muzsikát kapott a gyerek; remélem, hasznára vált, de azt is bevallhatom, hogy én is sokat tanultam ebből a kísérletből,” – emlékezett vissza Bartók Béla. A zongorasorozat nagyobb része 1938-ban készen állt, a hiányok pótlására 1939-ben került sor. A ciklus legutolsó darabja Svájcban, a Divertimento komponálása közben született. Magától Bartóktól tudjuk, hogy a Divertimento harmadik tételének kompozíciós munkáiban egy rövid időre elakadt és – ahogy ő fogalmazott – „egy mikrokozmosz darabocskát szottyantottam ki. Már ideje hogy nyomdába adjam, különben sose lesz vége.” Kelemen Barnabás és Kelemen Gáspár koncertjén a zongorára írt Mikrokozmosz-darabok Soós András vonószenekari átiratában hangoznak el. Johann Sebastian Bach zeneszerzővé cseperedett fiai közül minden bizonnyal Carl Philipp Emanuel volt a leginnovatívabb, és azt is megkockáztatjuk, hogy az édesapa szellemi örökségének megőrzésében is ő járt élen. Miként az édesapa, úgy a fiú is nagy hangsúlyt fektetett zenepedagógiai művek, gyakorlatok írására, a billentyűs hangszereken való játék művészetéről írt magisztrális értekezése a 18. századi zeneelméleti irodalom csúcsa, olyan alkotókra gyakorolt hatást, mint Haydn, Mozart és Beethoven. A két Bach példája azt bizonyítja, hogy nem minden Alma esik messze a Fájától.Details -
2024 April08 Monday19:30 Concert Hall
Bartók Spring | József Balog’s Piano Recital
19:30Szabó: Complete Solo Piano Works – album release concert Csaba Szabó (1936–2003), who hailed from Transylvania, was a versatile composer working in the most diverse genres, including solo piano pieces, which he wrote between 1955 and 1981. József Balog has recently recorded all of the composer’s works for piano, offering a chance now to observe directly how rich this part of the composer’s œuvre is in terms of form, technique and content, and how his style underwent complex transformations over the decades. The first piano pieces are youthful works that reveal both the joy of composing for the instrument and the chief sources of inspiration. His studying of folk music led to changes in his own musical idiom, and the output of the 1970s has the effect of a veritable avant-garde turn. After he moved to Hungary in 1987, Szabó taught at the Berzsenyi Dániel College of Szombathely until his death.Details -
2024 April09 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Shorty Rogers: The Swinging Mr. Rogers
20:00Modern Art Orchestra’s Legendary Albums series presents the most important and unique albums of jazz history. By learning and playing these compositions and arrangements, the musicians are paying tribute to the jazz legends and are undergoing an intense process of musical improvement. The band absorbs the material of the original recordings, sticking to the arrangements, forms and compositional features. As improvisation is at the heart of jazz, solos are invented by the players at the moment. Due to the respect shown towards the original conceptions of the legendary composers and the level of craftsmanship known from Modern Art Orchestra, the Legendary Albums series both brings you the essence of jazz tradition and guarantees a fresh musical experience.Details -
2024 April10 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Trio Fröx, guest: Jenő Lisztes
20:00The collaboration of the trio and Jenő Lisztes was the brainchild of the bandleader, Gábor Weisz, who was deeply moved by the cimbalom player's music. Their music is characterised by a melodic, rhythmic and motivic construction based on simple but inventive forms, full of vibrancy, drive and power. Their style incorporates elements of swing, groove, blues and folk, sometimes mixed with the illusion of monotonous tribal music. In addition to their own compositions, their repertoire includes a variety of arrangements, which they adapt to their personalities and enrich with new colours, leaving ample room for individual and collective improvisation. The instrumentation is sometimes light, sometimes quite abstract, sometimes experimental, and occasionally with a touch of grotesque humour. Kalács Apó · Trio Fröx feat. Lisztes Jenő Live at Opus Jazz Club - PassinThruDetails -
2024 April11 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Day of Hungarian Poetry | JaMese (HU)
20:00JaMese is an English-Hungarian acronym that says it all about the band: jam - freedom, creativity; tale - stories, the transmission of thoughts; Emese - it is the singer Emese Molnár who unites these two concepts. JaMese's concerts feature elementary storytelling, with elements of folk and jazz, with lyrics that tend towards poetry. The essence of their music is always personal, regardless of whether the song frames a poem or their own lyrics. Their albums are characterised by a constant mix of styles. It is possible to turn poems into songs with a more popular structure, and folk songs into psychedelic improvisations with loops. Compositions written exclusively for vocals also pop up in the repertoire from time to time. All this is mainly due to the singer's belief that the lyrics and the message always come first. On the Day of Hungarian Poetry, the focus will be on their arrangements of poems by János Lackfi, Anna T. Szabó and Péter Kántor, and last year's three-song Petőfi single will also be heard.Details -
2024 April12 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
András Párniczky Quartet: Mikrotheosz (HU)
20:00In January 2023, the Párniczky Quartet presented its repertoire at the Hungarian House of Music, summing up the 22 years of work of the band Nigun, and the process of creating the album Bartók Electrified (BMC Records, 2018). "A sovereign European improvisational musical language, integrating elements of modern chamber jazz, contemporary and folk music" – the words of János Gonda are exactly fitting for the material of the new album Mikrotheos, presented at Opus Jazz Club on the birthday of bandleader András Párniczky. The band members – Péter Bede (tárogató, alto saxophone) and Péter Ajtai (bass) – have been Párniczky's partners in more than 300 concerts, both in Europe and overseas. They are joined by drummer Ágoston Szabó-Sipos, who played the folk violin before studying jazz at the Budapest Academy of Music and the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. András Párniczky, the quartet's leader, was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in 1999, and in the same year he won the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship. In 2014, he became an official artist of Collings Guitars and Mandolins in the US. Having published numerous papers at home and abroad, he obtained his doctorate at the Liszt Academy of Music in 2022. His dissertation on the inspirational power of Béla Bartók's music in jazz will also be published in book form in 2024.Details -
2024 April13 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Cartoon Theme Songs – Concert of the Danubia Percussion Ensemble
10:00The Danubia Percussion Ensemble's youth concert is an exciting and interactive musical event where young people can learn about the diverse world of percussion instruments through popular cartoon songs. The concert aims to showcase the rich world of rhythms and percussion instruments in a playful and entertaining way, while allowing visitors to listen to their favourite movie soundtracks. During the performance, members of the Danubia Percussion Ensemble will introduce a wide range of percussion instruments, including the countless types of drums, xylophone, marimba and vibraphone, while also providing interactive elements for the audience. This concert is the perfect opportunity for young and old alike to take a closer look at this musical world and find inspiration to start their own musical journey.Details -
2024 April13 Saturday11:30 Concert Hall
Cartoon Theme Songs – Concert of the Danubia Percussion Ensemble
11:30The Danubia Percussion Ensemble's youth concert is an exciting and interactive musical event where young people can learn about the diverse world of percussion instruments through popular cartoon songs. The concert aims to showcase the rich world of rhythms and percussion instruments in a playful and entertaining way, while allowing visitors to listen to their favourite movie soundtracks. During the performance, members of the Danubia Percussion Ensemble will introduce a wide range of percussion instruments, including the countless types of drums, xylophone, marimba and vibraphone, while also providing interactive elements for the audience. This concert is the perfect opportunity for young and old alike to take a closer look at this musical world and find inspiration to start their own musical journey.Details -
2024 April13 Saturday19:00 Concert Hall
Percussion & Voice – Concert of the Danubia Percussion Ensemble and Bálint Gájer
19:00In its new show, the Danubia Percussion Ensemble invites all music lovers to a unique, so far rarely experienced musical exploration! The concert will guide you into the surprising and always exciting world of the singing voice and the percussion instruments. In their joint production, Bálint Gájer and the Danubia Percussion Ensemble will introduce you to the thousand faces of swing, latin and pop music in a whole new interpretation. The audience will experience the union of two worlds on the stage: the velvety singing voice and the percussion chamber music. Their show strives to touch not only the ears but also the hearts of the audience. The combination of the musical dimensions of Bálint Gájer and the ensemble will undoubtedly provide an experience that is worth seeing for adults and children alike. During the evening, songs specially arranged and recomposed for this formation will be performed. What's more, Bálint may even revive his percussion studies. This fascinating musical fusion is guaranteed to put a smile on everyone's face!Details -
2024 April13 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Joel Ross Good Vibes (US)
20:00On 9 February, Joel Ross released his remarkable fourth Blue Note album nublues, a collection of ballads and blues as seen through the lens of one of the most creative modern jazz groups of our time featuring Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Jeremy Corren on piano, Kano Mendenhall on bass, and Jeremy Dutton on drums, as well as special guest Gabrielle Garo on flute. The genesis of nublues dates back to 2020 when, during the Covid pandemic as live performances were shut down, Ross went back to the New School to finish his degree. One of his classes was taught by the alto saxophonist Darius Jones, who nudged students to dig into the history of the blues. That led Ross down a rabbit hole of what the blues can be; it isn’t just a 12-bar form. He realized it was a feeling. “Sort of a spirit or an energy,” Ross says. “It’s emotion, it’s expression. But I also want to stay true to the rhythmic ideations that we’ve already been developing. I don’t really tell the band how to play anything. What I do tell them is to stay connected and make everything we do related to each other. And play the blues, however that comes off.” In that way, nublues is a vast record with various entry points, an invitation to choose your own adventure. When asked what he wants to convey with this LP, Ross hesitates. “I don't want my personal experience to be what people are thinking about when they're experiencing it,” he says. “I generally want people to be able to come in and hear the music and interpret it through their own lens.” “I enjoyed the journey of diving into learning about the blues and understanding the history of the blues, really focusing on developing this band’s sound and band structure,” he says. “For me, it was just about the journey that came from getting into all of the information and figuring out what it was going to be. It’s a constant continuing. It's a snapshot into how we've continued to do the same thing we've been doing and how it's been shifting.” Vibraphone master and songwriter Joel Ross has adopted an entire ethos dependent on truthful, ongoing communication. A Blue Note artist of critically acclaimed releases KingMaker (2019), Who Are You? (2020) and The Parable of the Poet, he regularly tops the DownBeat and Jazz Journalists Association Critics Polls for his work in the broad lineage of Black music that pulls from jazz, hip hop, church and Chicago improvised music. Now based in Brooklyn, the Chicago-born artist performs across the globe, collaborating with Makaya McCraven, Maria Grand, Kassa Overall, Nicole Mitchell, Gerald Clayton, Melissa Aldana, Walter Smith III, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Wynton Marsalis, Rajna Swaminathan, Marcus Gilmore, Brandee Younger and Marquis Hill.Details -
2024 April15 Monday18:00 Library
Chamber Compositions by Krisztina Megyeri
18:00Megyeri Krisztina generációjának egyik legkiválóbb zeneszerzője. A Zeneakadémián mesterei Bozay Attila, Vajda János és Jeney Zoltán voltak. Franciaországi zeneszerzés- és zongorakísérő-korrepetitori tanulmányok után zenetudományt is tanult, témája a kortárs opera. Zeneszerzésből 2013-ban doktori fokozatot szerzett. 2023-ban HORIZON BRÛLÉ címmel jelent meg saját szerzői lemeze, melyen három dalciklusa hallható: magyar (Weöres, József Attila), orosz és francia nyelvű dalfüzérei, Tatai Nóra és Szabó Ferenc János kiváló előadásában. Ezen a koncerten Megyeri Krisztina utóbbi két évben komponált kamaraművei hangzanak el, nagyszerű előadók tolmácsolásában: egy vonósnégyes és két kamaradarab, illetve egy dalciklus a ma élő Brokés Ágnes költő rövid verseire. A műsor legjava ősbemutató.Details -
2024 April17 Wednesday19:00 Library
Evenings of Cinema | The Danube Exodus
19:00THE DANUBE EXODUS(A dunai exodus)Hungarian dokumentary, 1998, 60 min. - In Hungariandirector, writer: Péter Forgácscinematography: Nándor Andrásovitseditor: Kati Juhászmusic by Tibor Szemző The Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács is one of the most prominent so-called found footage filmmakers. In particular home movies and amateur films serve as the basis of stories he reveals and compose by using recovered personal and historical events. He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker. In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats. He filmed his passengers while they prayed, slept and even got married. At the end of this journey, it is clear that the boat will not return empty: a reverse exodus takes place, this time of repatriating Bessarabian Germans, fleeing to the Third Reich because of the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia. The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).Guest: Péter Forgács, director and Tibor Szemző, composerDetails -
2024 April17 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Luciano Biondini – Michel Godard – Lucas Niggli Trio (IT/FR/CH)
20:00The trio formed by Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard and Lucas Niggli is unusual in various senses. Firstly the musicians’ nationalities: Biondini (born 1971) comes from Spoleto in the Italian province of Perugia, Michel Godard (born 1960) comes from Héricourt near Belfort in the Franche-Comté in France, and Lucas Niggli (born 1968) is Swiss, a native of the Zürich Oberland who spent the first seven years of his life in Cameroon. So this is a meeting of various cultures and languages. A further particularity of the trio is its instrumental make-up. Biondini plays the accordion, Niggli the drums and all manner of percussion instruments; Michel Godard plays the tuba and the serpent – an ancient, serpentine wind instrument with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind instrument. Sometimes Godard also takes up the bass guitar. Thanks to this highly individual and fascinating instrumental arsenal the trio has a truly spectral palette of sounds at their disposal. The music of Biondini, Godard and Niggli thrives on its poetry, the beauty of its sounds, the depth of its ideas, and also on its tension. This is generated by the weave between composition and improvisation. Which is how they succeed in making that connection between form and freedom which constitutes the core of jazz. On their album Mavì, released on Intakt Records, we hear music which seems to emanate from the spheres while remaining wholly worldly, emotional and sensual.Details -
2024 April18 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Bálint Gyémánt & Krisztián Oláh
20:00Bálint Gyémánt, one of Hungary's most distinguished jazz guitarists, has always been enriching diverse and exciting bands with his playing, which, in addition to carrying the characteristics of jazz and contemporary improvisation, is also able to appeal to pop music lovers. Pianist Krisztián Oláh builds his distinctive, dynamic music by organically combining classical musical elements and compositional techniques with the improvisational drift and abstract rhythms of contemporary jazz. Their joint project approaches the guitar and piano duo, with its limitless possibilities, from the artistic side of jazz. The backbone of their programme is formed by their own compositions and arrangements composed especially for this project, but even more importantly by the constant musical interaction and dialogue that is one of the duo's main characteristics.Details -
2024 April19 Friday19:00 Library
Dohnányi Quartet 4/4. | Bartók, Schnittke, Mendelssohn, Tornyai
19:00A Dohnányi Quartet folytatja az elmúlt évad sorozatát Bartók másik három vonósnégyesének előadásával. A XX. századi repertoár e legfajsúlyosabb darabjaihoz ezúttal Mendelssohn három moll kvartettje társul, melyek a szerző rövid életútján belül három különböző időszakhoz kötődnek. A műsorok harmadik eleme pedig Stravinsky három rövid vonósnégyesre írt kompozíciója. A sorozat negyedik koncertje – mindeme hármasságból következően – meglepetés.Details -
2024 April19 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Yonglee & the DOLTANG (KR)
20:00Five natives of different parts of South Korea, DOLTANG is a collective represented with improvised music and unconventional compositions with the influences of jazz rock, progressive rock, and 21st century classical music. Although their musical journey takes place in where it’s culturally and geographically furthest from the western music scene, their music is distant from Korean ethnicity. If anything, complexity of modern society is captured in their music as of multi-layered complex rhythms underneath the verbally singable melodies, and unfiltered expressions of emotions and creativity. Their distinctiveness comes from extended improvisational concepts, and versatile sound elements across acoustic and electric sounds. Working as a band over years enabled them to feel natural towards their music and to pull out their rationality and emotionality in a timely manner, and to pursue a common interest; to be completely genuine and to stay at the highest creativity level during the intricacy. Together, they are constantly exploring the new territories of improvised music and jazz. Yonglee and his band DOLTANG recorded “Surface of Time” and released in Dec. 2021. Currently they are working on another recording called “Invisible Worker”, which will be released early 2024.Details -
2024 April20 Saturday18:00 Library
On the Way - Compositions by András Emszt
18:00Emszt András szerzői estjén az elmúlt néhány évben komponált művek közül a kisebb formációk számára írt darabok hangoznak el. A kamaraművek mellett két amerikai zeneszerző szóló zongoraműve is megszólal, Emszt András előadásában. A kortárs zene egyik meghatározó alakja, John Adams, valamint a fiatal amerikai zeneszerző generáció kiemelkedő képviselője, Judd Greenstein művei organikusan illeszkednek az est programjába. A Flood, a Nocturne és a B lines című hangszeres duók mellett egy vokális mű, a Paul Celan verse alapján, szoprán énekhangra és looper pedálra komponált Todesfuge is hallható. A koncertet a nagy apparátust felvonultató Albaicín című kamarazenekari mű zárja. Emszt András a 21. század tágas zenei palettáján igyekszik a jelenhez kapcsolódni. Művei felhasználják a modern zeneszerzési technikákat, miközben igyekszik a közönség számára könnyen feldolgozható, színes zenei világot bemutatni, amelyben gyakran használja a minimalizmus elemeit éppúgy, mint a magyar zenei hatásokat, iskolákat. Repertoárja a szóló művektől, a kórus- és kamaraműveken át a nagyzenekari darabokig terjed. A koncert a Nemzeti Kulturális Alap támogatásával jött létre. A zeneszerző Budafok-Tétény, Budapest XXII. kerület Önkormányzatának művészeti ösztöndíjasa.Details -
2024 April20 Saturday19:00 Concert Hall
Elisabeth Leonskaja's Brahms Recital
19:00For decades now, Elisabeth Leonskaja has been among the most celebrated pianists of our time. In a world dominated by the media, Elisabeth Leonskaja has remained true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, who never wavered in their focus on the quintessence of music despite working in a very difficult political environment. Her almost legendary modesty still makes her somewhat media-shy today. Yet as soon as she walks out on the stage, audiences can sense the force behind the fact that music is and always has been her life’s work. Leonskaja's repertoire focuses on the oeuvre of 19th-century Romantic composers; this evening, she presents the lyrical universe of Brahms' densely woven solo piano sonatas.Details -
2024 April20 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
j(A)zz! | David Six – Tilo Weber – János Ávéd: Transcendent Triptych (AT/DE/HU)
20:00The idea for the triptych was born in 2022 during the Jazzahead! showcase festival in Bremen, one of the most important strongholds and meeting points of European jazz. The band will make its debut this evening, unveiling completely new material at the Opus Jazz Club. For the concert, all three members will create compositions in which they aim to explore transcendental content beyond the material nature of music, through the extension of fixed or spontaneous musical forms. The overall picture is made up of the world of three prominent European jazz artists: János Ávéd on saxophone, who expands his individual musical language in a variety of ensembles; David Six on piano, who is equally at home in Indian, classical and pop music; and Tilo Weber, a restless explorer on drums. In terms of musical concepts, anything from epic rubatos to Indian rhythms, from flexible metrics to emphatic silences, the concert is expected to be a richly evocative experience, with associations that may stimulate all the senses of the listener: from incense to santal, from purple to silver, a rich world will be revealed.Details -
2024 April22 Monday19:00 Library
Music Therapy Club | Prof. Dr. Tamás Hacki: The role of our voice in communication
19:00A podium conversation with music therapists. Music Therapy Club is an open meeting-place of music therapists, medical, educational and social workers, as well as of anybody interested in music therapy. (In Hungarian)Details -
2024 April24 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
À la MAO | MAO plays the Roots feat. Borbély Mihály
20:00Akár a bop, akár a népzene, akár a blues a kiindulópontja a Modern Art Orchestra darabjainak, a végén mindig ugyanoda érkeznek: rá lehet ismerni a zenekar saját hangjára a különböző stílusokban. A MAO számára a műfaji nyitottság és a különleges hangszerösszeállítás olyan alap, ami már a névadással elkezdődött a 18 évvel ezelőtti indulás idején. Azóta kicsiszolták a csak rájuk jellemző nagyzenekari hangzást koncertek százain, lemezek tucatjain és rengeteg ősbemutatón. Ezek keresztmetszete szólal most meg a tavaszi bérlet koncertjein, amely nem egy-egy szerzőre koncentrál, hanem egy stílusideál, egy jazzhagyomány ihlető erejére. Ősbemutató is lesz a tavaszi sorozatban, a darabok nagy része viszont már elhangzott, de általában csak egyszer, viszont a mostani elrendezésben új asszociációkat, új összefüggéseket fognak tudni általuk megmutatni. MAO plays the Roots feat. Borbély Mihály Mondhatjuk, hogy a jazz eleve népzenei gyökerekből sarjadt ki, de mint nyitott zenei megközelítés, újra és újra táplálta erejét a népzenei anyag befogadásával. A MAO repertoárja többszörösen merített a Kárpát-medencei népek kulturális örökségéből. Közvetlenül éppen úgy, mint a magyar zeneszerzőóriások előtt tisztelgő műsoraiban, Bartók, Kodály, Ligeti és más szerzők népdalfeldolgozásain keresztül. A koncert kiemelt szólistája és ősbemutatójának zeneszerzője Borbély Mihály, a Kossuth-díjat a Vujicsics együttesben kiérdemelt muzsikus, a jazz fafúvósok tanára a Zeneakadémián, izgalmas etno-jazz zenekarok vezetője. Új darabja mellett a közönség keresztmetszetet kaphat a MAO óriási repertoárjának abból a széles sávjából, amelynek mélyén a népdal mint inspiráció rejlik, például Cseke Gábor zongorista és a zenekar állandó szerzőinek munkáiból.Details -
2024 April25 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Flanders On The Move | Laughing Bastards: Fetish – BMC Records & W.E.R.F album release concert (BE)
20:00Born of the countless, turbulent and illegitimate love affairs that jazz had with all the music in the world: Laughing Bastards. Bastard music as a manifesto, the lyrical as a common denominator, interwoven interplay as a starting point. Laughing Bastards is the alchemy of the youngest generation from the booming Ghent jazz and improv scene and the experience and hunger for innovation of an old hand in the field. Together they profess their love for the jazz tradition, with a quirky twist. Founded as a trio in 2012, Laughing Bastards has been operating as a quintet since 2018. Their new album Fetish is released this month jointly by BMC Records and W.E.R.F. Laughing Bastards prove they are a quintessential Belgian band with an international appeal – soaking up sounds and influences from all over the place while maintaining a tight unity. Combining jazz and chamber music with ideas from pop music and multi-colored strains does not only give their music an iridescent edge, but also keeps the interplay fresh and inspired.Details -
2024 April26 Friday18:00 Library
Fuga Trio | Bach, Balogh, Mendelssohn
18:00A Fuga Trió 2019-ben alakult egy franciaországi koncertkörút alkalmából, tagjai Morgane de Lafforest, Dani Imre és Bán Máté. Az együttes egyaránt elkötelezett az eredeti fuvola-gordonka-zongora repertoár, a magyar kortárs szerzők műveinek és a más formációkra szánt zenék átiratainak előadása iránt.A Bach mű eredetileg két verzióban maradt fenn: obligát csembaló kíséretes gamba szonátaként, illetve két fuvolára vagy hegedűre és basso continuora írt triószonátaként. A koncerten e két verzió ötvözeteként szólal meg a mű.Balogh Máté az angol költő, Rudyard Kipling If című versére komponálta a művet 2016-ban a müncheni Karl-Amadeus-Hartmann Társaság felkérésére.Mendelssohn híres d-moll triójának hegedűszólamát maga a szerző írta át fuvolára a londoni Ewer kiadó kérésére.Details -
2024 April26 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Kőszegi Rhythm & Brass (HU)
20:00Imre Kőszegi belongs to the first generation of musicians in Hungary who were allowed to approach modern jazz as a self-contained genre, independent of entertaining dance music. His playing was most influenced by bebop and free jazz. A self-taught artist, he is one of the most important drummers and teachers in the Hungarian jazz scene, with a career spanning now more than six decades, having played with such Hungarian and foreign stars as Aladár Pege and Dezső Lakatos “Ablakos”, Jenő Balogh “Csibe”, György Vukán, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Gusztáv Csík, Frank Zappa, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Wheeler, Art Farmer, Frank Foster, Charlie Mariano, Steve Grossman, Gary Bartz, Lew Tabackin, Trilok Gurtu or Michael “Patches” Stewart. Throughout his career, he has performed in the most important concert halls, festivals and clubs in Europe and Hungary and has received a series of awards. A living legend of Hungarian jazz, he is still very active today, often playing with younger musicians, whom he consciously chooses to renew his formations and pass on his experience. This time, he brings the first band bearing his name.Details -
2024 April27 Saturday11:00 Concert Hall
Storytelling music III. – Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra
11:00Filharmonia Hungary's family season ticket has introduced generations to classical music and made them fall in love with it. At the Storytelling Music concerts, Dr. Tamás Lakner guides the audience on a wonderful journey into the world of music. The interactive, playful concert is aimed at pre-school and school children, but parents are guaranteed to enjoy themselves too. Come and enjoy these wonderful musical moments with the whole family!Details -
2024 April27 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Nikoletta Szőke sings Ella Fitzgerald
20:00Montreux competition winner Nikoletta Szőke is one of the most popular jazz singers in Hungary. In addition to concert halls and festivals in Hungary, she has performed with great success in New York, Tokyo, Brussels, Copenhagen, London and Berlin, singing with Michel Legrand, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling and Gregory Hutchinson, among others. She has released seven solo albums to date, with her latest album Moonglow produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Helik Hadar. Since the beginning of her singing career, Nikoletta Szőke has been a committed advocate of accessible vocal jazz; in 2006, she paid tribute to one of her greatest idols, Ella Fitzgerald, with her first national tour. In this concert, she will perform the standards made famous by Ella, her most iconic songs, with arrangements typical of the golden age of jazz.Details -
2024 May02 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Balázs Bágyi New Quartet (HU)
20:00Drummer-composer Balázs Bágyi is one of the leading artists of Hungarian jazz. The music of his latest band is dominated by acoustic, contemporary jazz based on post bop elements. His partners are a prominent representative of the middle generation of Hungarian jazz: the saxophonist Soso Lakatos Sándor, the Junior Prima Prize-winning pianist Dezső Oláh, and one of the greatest bassists in Central Europe, Péter Oláh. The band has played at a number of European jazz festivals in recent years, as well as performing regularly in China - their collaboration with trumpet player Li Xiaochuan in Shanghai has been going on for several years. In 2016, their album Homage To Shakespeare with singer Kriszta Pocsai, was awarded the Gramophone Prize by the international professional jury. The repertoire of the formation is based on the compositions of the bandleader, Balázs Bágyi, who became the composer of the year in 2016. As in the previous years, they play some of the older compositions, as well as presenting their recent music in Opus Jazz Club.Details -
2024 May03 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
João Pedro Teixeira – Miquèu Montanaro (BR/FR) | Montanaro – Horváth – Németh Trio (FR/HU)
20:00Miquèu Montanaro, composer, flutist and accordionist, sets out on a unique journey from Provance through the Mediterranean to the farthest reaches of the world, integrating elements of distant musics into his own pieces. He often collaborates with musicians from the younger generation to enrich the musical dialogue through the exchange of ideas based on different world and life experiences. His partner in the Amazonas Duo is the Brazilian João Pedro Teixeira, a student of Hermeto Pascoal. Their free-spirited, joyful and virtuosic ensemble arrives in Budapest immediately after a three-week tour in Brazil. In the second half of the evening, the music of the "Open Trio" will be framed by flutes and drums, which the musicians will choose according to the timbres they dream up for the concert, with the violin floating between them, following individual ideas.Details -
2024 May04 Saturday17:00 Concert Hall
Kodály Choir Debrecen: Colours and moods
17:00In the first event of the Kodály Choir's contemporary series, the choir will be conducted by guest conductor Péter Erdei, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year. In his interpretation, the diverse colours, unique voices and moods of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries are brought to life by the Kodály Choir. The audience can experience a truly diverse and exceptional world at this concert.Details -
2024 May04 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Sofia Jernberg & Alexander Hawkins: Musho (SE/UK)
20:00Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins first performed together at Amsterdam's Bimhuis in October 2016, under the name Musho – an Amharic word meaning 'Sad Song'. Jernberg's work frequently takes her to the outer edges of vocal technique, including performances in contexts ranging from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire to Mats Gustafsson's The End. Alexander Hawkins has been described as 'unlike anything else in modern creative music', and alongside his profile as a bandleader and composer, is a frequent collaborator in duo with Tomeka Reid, Nicole Mitchell and Angelika Niescier. In this duo, they draw on their shared affinity for the music of Ethiopia, having both honed their languages in the company of musical elder statesmen from that country: Jernberg with Hailu Mergia, and Hawkins with Mulatu Astatke. Musho moves quietly and seamlessly between abstract exploration and the immediacy of traditional Ethiopian song.Details -
2024 May06 Monday18:00 Library
Chamber recital by Gyöngyi Ujházi and Gábor Monostori 2/1
18:00Ujházi Gyöngyi (gordonka) és Monostori Gábor (zongora) két koncertjének műsora olyan zeneszerzők köré épül fel, akik házastársukkal a magánéletükön kívül szakmájukban is, zenészként is egymás szövetségesei voltak. Johann Sebastian és Anna Magdalena Bach, illetve Robert és Clara Schumann kapcsolatát ugyanakkor nem lehet megérteni azoktól a szerepektől függetlenül, melyeket a kor társadalma elvárt egy házasságban élő férfitól és nőtől. Az előadó (házas)páros a sorozat első részében Robert és Clara Schumann kapcsolatába kínál betekintést Robert Schumann csellóra és zongorára írt művei segítségével. Elhangzik még Balogh Máté két darabja is: feleségének dedikált cselló-zongora duója és egy szóló csellóra írt műve.Details -
2024 May08 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Kada ad Libitum (HU)
20:00The experimental music project Kada ad Libitum, founded in 2005, uses mostly broadly interpretable structures and sets of rules instead of songs, and creates new content from the possibilities of these structures and rules in each concert and recording situation. Its members come from different musical cultures, so the constantly moving ensemble cannot really have genres or typical styles - instead, each person plays in the way that is authentic to him or her and influenced by the musical event being created. Following their triple CD, Távolbanézés, they last released a studio concert recorded with analogue techniques in 2018 on vinyl, entitled in vivo. Returning with a line-up that changes from time to time, the collective will soon be releasing a new album, from which they will now give the audience a musical taste.Details -
2024 May10 Friday18:00 Library
Cadenza - Flute concert by Márk Fülep
18:00„Szólóestemen magyar zeneszerzők előtti tiszteletadásomat szeretném kifejezni. A programot lényegileg azon szerzők műveiből állítottam össze, akik eddigi életutam során valamilyen szakmai vagy személyes hatással voltak rám, megismerhettem, barátságukat elnyertem. Sőt mi több, – és ez adja a koncert apropóját– ezen szerzők műveit rendszeresen megszólaltatom itthon és külföldön.” – Fülep MárkDetails -
2024 May10 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Mihály Borbély Quartet, guest: Kyle Gregory
20:00Mihály Borbély, who is equally at home in the fields of folk and world music, jazz and contemporary music, and who is extremely popular both in Hungary and abroad, is one of the leading figures of Hungarian jazz as a performer and composer. The folk music heritage of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans is strongly present in his works, organically combined with elements from the various jazz tendencies or even from the music of the twentieth century classics. His playing combines exciting melodic turns with subtly translucent and powerful rhythms, while lyrical phrases enter into dialogue with energetic gestures. They welcome American trumpeter-composer J Kyle Gregory as their guest, who came into contact with the Hungarian jazz scene during his studies in Hungary, and has played several gigs with the Borbély Quartet during his occasional visits to the country. In another joyful encounter, we will witness moments born out of a true musical friendship: lyrical compositions and energetic pulsating pieces, original compositions and jazz evergreens will be on their programme.Details -
2024 May11 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Mozes & Kaltenecker
20:00Chamber music artpop is the most reliable expression to describe the specific genre of Mozes & Kaltenecker, a group with a strong jazz background. The duo of singer-pianist Tamara Mózes and keyboardist Zsolt Kaltenecker has a unique ability to combine the characteristics of popular genres and jazz, thanks to the performers' broad vision and versatile inspiration. Their debut album Futurized was released in October 2022 on BMC Records, followed by a deluxe edition including two new tracks in November 2023. The editor of leading French jazz magazine Citizen Jazz described the duo of Tamara Mózes and Zsolt Kaltenecker as a “wonderful discovery”: “This music is full of meaning, blues, grooves, lots of effects and wild improvisations.” The Hungarian duo has enjoyed great success at numerous concerts and festivals abroad, notably in Belgium, such as the Gaume Jazz Festival. In April 2023 they were invited to the Jazzahead! festival in Bremen, one of the most prestigious events on the European jazz scene. In Bremen, they not only gave a concert, but also appeared on a live broadcast of the popular Open Jazz radio show by French music producer Alex Dutilh. https://www.mozeskaltenecker.com/Details -
2024 May13 Monday19:00 Concert Hall
Korossy Quartet: Béla Bartók's String Quartets No. 3 | Bartók, Mozart and Stravinsky
19:00Founded in 2018, the Korossy Quartet aims to transmit the famous Hungarian string quartet tradition, and to present the broadest possible repertoire to Hungarian and foreign audiences. In 2021, the ensemble was awarded 5 different special prizes at the international Bartók World Competition, and a year later they were accepted into the class of Günter Pichler, first violinist of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid. The Korossy Quartet's Bartók series, starting in autumn 2023, includes all of Bartók's string quartets in 6 concerts over 2 years, paired with a selection of works by the greatest composers of music history. Photo: Andrea FelvégiDetails -
2024 May14 Tuesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
MAO Legendary Albums | Ornette Coleman: Something Else
20:00Modern Art Orchestra’s Legendary Albums series presents the most important and unique albums of jazz history. By learning and playing these compositions and arrangements, the musicians are paying tribute to the jazz legends and are undergoing an intense process of musical improvement. The band absorbs the material of the original recordings, sticking to the arrangements, forms and compositional features. As improvisation is at the heart of jazz, solos are invented by the players at the moment. Due to the respect shown towards the original conceptions of the legendary composers and the level of craftsmanship known from Modern Art Orchestra, the Legendary Albums series both brings you the essence of jazz tradition and guarantees a fresh musical experience.Details -
2024 May15 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Susanne Lundeng Trio (NO)
20:00Susanne Lundeng is one of Norway's most highly regarded folk musicians. She has her musical roots in the folk music of Northern Norway and has a distinctive sound as a fiddler, composer, singer, and musical freethinker. She was awarded a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy) in the folk music category for her recording of fiddle tunes from the county of Nordland. With an ambivalent relationship to the art form and the old traditions that follow, Susanne has developed her sound over time and has received great acceptance within the international scene. In her interplay with renowned jazz musicians Nils-Olav Johansen and Per Oddvar Johansen, she explores the music through improvisational conversation. In her lyrics and melodies, Susanne Lundeng portrays the drama of life itself and its impact on both people and the landscape. Her music has been described as profoundly melancholic, subdued, tender, and stormy. Recently she released her 13th album, Følge. Her musical language lies faithfully in the depths of the Northern Norwegian prime rhythm, a pulsating three-four beat with power and intensity and the poetic and musical lines of folk tunes. Here, elongated, painterly musical images with the fiddle as narrator and small sensual observations in the lyrics are permanently close at hand. Susanne has also received prominent awards such as The Norwegian Grammy Award, Gammeleng-prisen, Nordlysprisen, Europa-Preis für Volkskunst, Folkelarmprisen 2014, Folkelarmprisen 2015, NOPAs tekstpris 2018.Details -
2024 May16 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ágnes Lakatos – Kálmán Oláh: Soaring
20:00Ágnes Lakatos and Kálmán Oláh's duo album Soaring, released in 2022, is a true musical soaring, which is realized in exciting improvisational dialogues, in the artistic expression of the nuanced freedom given by the jazz genre. The duo is made up of two of Hungary's best-known jazz musicians, who in this band perform compositions by Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Thelonious Monk, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Kirkland, Chick Corea, Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo and Sting, among others.Details -
2024 May17 Friday19:00 Concert Hall
UMZE Ensemble: Broken Beauty
19:00Broken beauty: the beauty of the temporary nature of living things. Entropy: the malleable nature of time, which for us humans can only manifest itself in one direction, towards decay, destruction, passing away. The works of the now world-famous Icelandic composer Anna Thorvalsdottir and the Hungarian composer Judit Varga, who lives in Vienna, frame the UMZE Ensemble's concert about ephemeral beauty. The "fragile beauty" of the music is not only evident in the concept and musical material of the pieces performed, but also in the way several composers strive for a delicate balance between live music and recorded music, as well as between the acoustic sound of traditional instruments and electronic musical effects. The magical timbres of Gyula Bánkövi and the beautifully complex work of Balázs Futó will be joined by premieres composed for the occasion by the youngest generation of Hungarian composers, Csenge Mihalicza and Botond Bartokos.Details -
2024 May17 Friday19:00 Library
DLA Doctoral Concert by Bálint Baráth
19:00"Ez a koncert a doktori tanulmányaim lezárásnak fontos eseménye, egyben új és izgalmas zeneszerzői kalandozások kiindulópontja. A tanulmányaim alatt a káoszelmélet zenei hatásait vettem szemügyre. Ezek az impulzusok segítik létrehozni a koncerten elhangzó első és harmadik darabot. A sakuhacsira és elektronikus szólamra készülő új mű a Lindenmayer-rendszereket alkalmazza. A Lindenmayer-rendszereknek szenteltem a dolgozatom egyik részét, inspiráló hatása azóta is része a mindennapjaimnak. Hálás vagyok Matuz Istvánnak, aki minden lehetséges eszközzel segít a darab létrehozásában. A Dakapi című mű a kiváló Trio Dakoda számára készült, akik odaadó, türelmes hozzáállásukkal nagyban segítették a darab létrejöttét. Sok tanácsot is adtak és tevékenyen hozzájárultak ahhoz, hogy a darab elnyerje végső formáját. A kompozíció a Közép-Afrikai törzsi hagyomány zenei világából táplálkozik.A többcsatornás elektronikus mű, a Mariposa (Pillangó) a természeti jelenségek mozgásformáit képzi le a zenei térbe. Többek között a részecskék mozgása, a lehulló levél, a szél tovahaladása tartoztak a kiindulópontjaim közé. A koncert előtt 17:45-kor egy bevezető előadást tartok a kompozíciós technikák ismertetéséről." (Baráth Bálint)Details -
2024 May17 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Cafuné
20:00Incorporating Latin American serenity and sweet melancholy, Cafuné's repertoire is made up of special pieces of traditional South American guitar music. The world of pulsating samba and soft bossa nova is reminiscent of the jazz clubs of the sixties. In its acoustic sound, the band aims to continue the tradition of Dilermando Reis, Augusto Garoto, Baden Powell and Luiz Bonfa. This sound is further enhanced by the voice of Anna Pataki, who interprets this style with rare naturalness in Portuguese and Spanish. They released their second album, Inspiração last year, containing internationally less-known pieces of Brazilian music, uniting sparkles, elegance, virtuosity, freedom, melancholy and joy.Details -
2024 May18 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ill Considered (UK)
20:00Ill considered are a band comprising of musicians interacting with each other to create freely improvised music, based loosely around simple pre-written themes or composed on the spot. Deep grooves and plaintive melodies ranging from whispered chants to monstrous climaxes, the group react to the mood of the audience and the sonics of the room to create music that is unique to the moment. Idris Rahman, Emre Ramazanoglu and Liran Donin are based out of London, UK, but bring a distinctly international sound. Ill Considered continue to astound with their energetic and touching music, fusing free improvisation with a deep understanding of groove. At the cutting edge of contemporary UK improvised music, their voice is completely based on creating compositions in the moment. Their dynamic jams host a range of influences from Electronic/ Drum & Bass to Afrobeat and Spiritual jazz, but always with groove at its core. Essential to Ill Considered’s ethos is visual artist and filmmaker Vincent de Boer’s contribution, considered a full member of the band and part of the intense audiovisual interactive shows they can also perform, using innovative technology to allow the audience to influence the band’s improvisation in real time.Details -
2024 May22 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Dániel Kinczel Trio
20:00Dániel Kinczel's trio takes the listener into the world of the pianist-composer's works, which were born as a love child of cool jazz and impressionist music, but also inherited some blues features. In the band's performance, adventurous chord structures and forms are combined with the crystallized principles of the jazz tradition to provide an exciting playing field for improvised musical dialogues. And at the heart of these pathfinding yet deeply rooted compositions is the eternal melody that lays down the law in spiritual space.Details -
2024 May23 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
D.A.S. Trio: Netto Tetrisz – album release concert ft. Kejdi Barbullushi (HU/AL)
20:00The D.A.S. Trio has been active since 2014. Their repertoire consists of compositions by the members, which are characterised by an energetic, virtuosic performance style. In addition to composition, improvisation plays an important role in their psychedelic jazz-funk songs. The unique atmosphere of their concerts is greatly enhanced by the harmony between the musicians and the creative musical dialogue that results. Over the years, Ábel Nagy, Ádám Sárdi and Adonisz Fábry have received numerous awards both inside and outside the band. They have appeared on the stages of many national and international clubs and festivals throughout their career: they are regular performers at the Opus Jazz Club, and have played at venues such as the Csík Jazz Festival, the Jazz Dock in Prague, Golem and the Jamboree in Spain. On this evening they will present their second album Netto Tetris, which will be released on the day of the concert, and they will also invite guest artist Kejdi Barbullushi. D.A.S. Trio · In Kek LoDetails -
2024 May24 Friday18:00 Library
Music from the Court of Frederick the Great - Recital by Tímea Fábián and Róza Bene
18:00Fábián Tímea és Bene Róza három részes koncertsorozatban mutatja be a barokk fuvola-csembaló szonáták főbb stílusirányzatait egy német, egy francia, valamint egy Johann Sebastian Bach fuvola-csembaló szonátáit tartalmazó program keretében. A szonáták között mindhárom koncerten szóló csembaló művek is elhangzanak majd, amelyek a "duó-szonáták" mellett műfaji ellenpólusként bővebb megvilágításba helyezik az adott korstílust. Fábián Tímea egy korhű Buffardin-fuvolán játszik majd, melynek készítője Martin Wenner, valamint egy másik fuvolán, amely Philippe-Allain Dupré munkája, a Denner-Stanesby modell. Bene Róza a BMC Könyvtár csembalóját szólaltatja meg, amelyet Titus Krijnen épített 2022-ben. A hangszer Anton Rückers 1640-es modelljének kópiája.Details -
2024 May24 Friday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Subtones (HU)
20:00With their outside-of-genres, song-centric compositions, Subtones has become a favourite concert band on the Hungarian jazz-pop scene in just a few years. In order to connect even more directly with the Hungarian audience, their award-winning album Lángolj features only Hungarian-language songs with lyrics written by Mátyás Szepesi and Péter Závada. Subtones, founded in 2019 by trumpeter Gábor Subicz, is one of Hungary's most exciting supergroups. The arrival of vocalists Vera Jónás and Flóra Kiss has pushed the band towards vocal forms. "Right from the beginning, when this line-up was born, it became clear to me that I wasn't driven by a desire to communicate. With Subtones, I want to make music that I enjoy listening to. People often ask whether Subtones plays jazz or something else. For me, jazz is a mindset: you have to leave as many possibilities open as possible, while excluding playing music just out of habit. I love it when I don't know what other people are going to play, and those are my favourite moments when we kick the chair out from under us. There are so many different elements to our music, we play on quite a variety of stages, from TV studios to jazz clubs to festivals, and I feel that our music is relevant everywhere. With Hungarian lyrics we want to get closer to the audience. I feel that in a local context, English lyrics are a bit of a hiding, a mask. In our own mother tongue, the effect is much more instinctive, the song flies directly into the listener's ears", says Gábor Subicz, band leader and mastermind behind Subtones.Details -
2024 May25 Saturday18:00 Library
Nomos - Compositions by Lőrinc Szécsi
18:00"Az ógörög nyelvben a nomosz egyszerre jelentett törvényt, szokást és dallamot. Ez a többértelműség remekül kifejezi a zene egy fontos tulajdonságát, jelesül azt, hogy régi-új szabályokon és a valamilyen formában örökölt hagyományon alapszik. A mai szédítő sebességgel változó világban a legnagyobb zeneszerzői kihívásnak azt érzem, hogy megtaláljam a saját zeném nomoszát, tehát azokat a törvényszerűségeket, amelyek keretein belül a zenei intuíció szabadon kibontakozhat. A minden médiumból felénk áradó felszólítás: Mindent szabad, lakd be a végtelent! paradox módon nem felszabadító, hanem bénító hatással van a komponálás folyamatára. Keretek nélkül a zene – és az ember – szétesik, nem találja a talajt a lába alatt. A koncerten megszólaló művekben ezeket a kereteket kerestem, mely kereséshez az ógörög zeneelmélet adta az inspirációs forrást. Az így létrejött kompozíciók zenei világa így egyszerre régi és új, a hagyományban gyökeredző, de annak horizontját tovább tágító." (Szécsi Lőrinc)Details -
2024 May25 Saturday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
Ég Alatti 5
20:00Ég alatti 5 has been playing energetic music since 2015. The backbone of their repertoire is formed by their own compositions, which in style and drive are reminiscent of the hard-bop and modal jazz of the 1960s, yet unique in character. Sometimes inspired by natural influences and folk music, they strive to create their own organic sound. The friendship between the members and the rhyming compositions of Udvardi and Baló give free rein to the flow of live music.Details -
2024 May29 Wednesday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
j(A)zz! | Alpha Trianguli: Entering Zero Gravity (AT)
20:00Inspired by the beauty and vastness of the universe, the band Alpha Trianguli starts its journey into the infinity of sound worlds. Motivated by the curiosity of the four musicians to let themselves fall and be carried away, the band sounds sometimes earthy and energetic – as if approaching a planet – sometimes calm, floating, wondering. At the same time, the interplay of the Vienna-based quartet gives the impression that it is a micro-cosmos itself: around the gravitational field of the double bass, its attracting and driving force, the rhythms of the drums circulate and provide pulse and periodicity. The magical, wide sound of the vibraphone fills the spaces created by the interplay, sparkling like the sublime firmament. From it the earthly, warm tone of the trombone resounds like a voice, into space, as it were, like a wake-up call to the audience. For while the destinations of the quartet's journey lie in the unknown, the necessary direction of our everyday activity has long been known. In the end of 2023, the band released their first album Entering Zero Gravity on the Swiss label Unit Records. The program of the same name has already been presented in numerous concerts in Austria, Germany and the USA.Details -
2024 May30 Thursday20:00 Opus Jazz Club
À la MAO | MAO plays the Blues
20:00Akár a bop, akár a népzene, akár a blues a kiindulópontja a Modern Art Orchestra darabjainak, a végén mindig ugyanoda érkeznek: rá lehet ismerni a zenekar saját hangjára a különböző stílusokban. A MAO számára a műfaji nyitottság és a különleges hangszerösszeállítás olyan alap, ami már a névadással elkezdődött a 18 évvel ezelőtti indulásidején. Azóta kicsiszolták a csak rájuk jellemző nagyzenekari hangzást koncertek százain, lemezek tucatjain és rengeteg ősbemutatón. Ezek keresztmetszete szólal most meg a tavaszi bérlet koncertjein, amely nem egy-egy szerzőre koncentrál, hanem egy stílusideál, egy jazzhagyomány ihlető erejére. Ősbemutató is lesz a tavaszi sorozatban, a darabok nagy része viszont már elhangzott, de általában csak egyszer, viszont a mostani elrendezésben új asszociációkat, új összefüggéseket fognak tudni általuk megmutatni. MAO plays the Blues Ami a népzenére vonatkozik, amikor a MAO által őrzött és továbbvitt hagyományokról van szó, igaz a bluesra is, akármelyik jelentésére gondolunk ennek a sokértelmű fogalomnak. Kezdjük a végén: ennek az estének a repertoárjából szemezgetve Ávéd János szaxofonos, a zenekar egyik állandó hangszerelője Messiaen ihletéséből komponált blues formát, Cseke Gábor kompozíciója egy Ligeti-darabra épül, de ezt Thelonious Monk világába átplántálva szólaltatja meg. Tehát egészen a kortárs zenéig lehet húzni azt az ívet, amely a bluesból indul ki. A szűkített harmóniák, a kimért ritmika, az életérzés, amely nem csak szomorú, hanem dacos is egyes megszólalásokban, mind olyan viszonyulások, amelyek a MAO jazz-zenekar blues játékában is felbukkannak.Details -
2024 June01 Saturday17:00 Concert Hall
Kodály Choir Debrecen: Awakening
17:00The second event of the Kodály Choir's contemporary series is a special occasion: the doctorate concert of the choir's principal conductor will be presented to those who visit BMC on the 1st of June. In the concert, entitled Awakening, the audience can experience the awakening and blossoming of the soul, the nature and the sacred miracles through the works of Hungarian and foreign composers.Details -
2024 June07 Friday18:00 Library
Sonatas and Suites - Music of French Courts - Recital by Tímea Fábián and Róza Bene
18:00Fábián Tímea és Bene Róza három részes koncertsorozatban mutatja be a barokk fuvola-csembaló szonáták főbb stílusirányzatait egy német, egy francia, valamint egy Johann Sebastian Bach fuvola-csembaló szonátáit tartalmazó program keretében. A szonáták között mindhárom koncerten szóló csembaló művek is elhangzanak majd, amelyek a "duó-szonáták" mellett műfaji ellenpólusként bővebb megvilágításba helyezik az adott korstílust. Fábián Tímea egy korhű Buffardin-fuvolán játszik majd, melynek készítője Martin Wenner, valamint egy másik fuvolán, amely Philippe-Allain Dupré munkája, a Denner-Stanesby modell. Bene Róza a BMC Könyvtár csembalóját szólaltatja meg, amelyet Titus Krijnen épített 2022-ben. A hangszer Anton Rückers 1640-es modelljének kópiája.Details -
2024 June18 Tuesday19:00 Concert Hall
Isa-Sophie Zünd Piano MA Diploma Concert
19:00Isa-Sophie Zünd was born in Switzerland and grew up in Liechtenstein. She is currently based in Budapest, where she is pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Andras Kemenes. In 2022 she completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Claudio Martinez Mehner and Adrian Oetiker. At the Swiss Youth Music Competition “Musik der Jugend”, she won first prizes several times at federal level. At the Austrian competition “Prima la Musica” in 2018, she won the Vorarlberg state prize in the solo piano category with the highest score of all soloists and subsequently the title of “Austrian national winner” in solo piano. She is also a prize-winner of the “Soloist Competition 2019” of the Vorarlberg State Conservatory and has been heard live on the radio several times, for example as part of the series “Talente im Funkhaus” (ORF). The young pianist regularly takes part in master classes in Hungary, Austria, Spain and Switzerland. Isa-Sophie Zünd is a passionate chamber musician. Among her chamber music teachers are Márta Gulyás, Gábor Csalog, Anton Kernjak and Anna Gebert. She plays in different chamber music formations and performs as a soloist with various orchestras, e.g. the Symphony orchestra Liechtenstein or the Boho Strings. Her concert activities have taken her to Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Hungary. Isa-Sophie Zünd is being supported by the Liechtenstein Cultural Foundation, the Stadler-Trier Music Foundation and the Zaczkowski Foundation, among others. She is also a scholarship holder of the Rahn Kulturfonds and the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein. Since 2021, she has been involved in the activities of the Hamburg cultural and educational project ” TONALi” and is working on several projects to make classical music accessible to a wider audience. Photo: Andrej GrilcDetails -
2024 June22 Saturday18:00 Library
Flute-harpsichord Sonatas by J.S. Bach - Recital by Tímea Fábián and Róza Bene
18:00Fábián Tímea és Bene Róza három részes koncertsorozatban mutatja be a barokk fuvola-csembaló szonáták főbb stílusirányzatait egy német, egy francia, valamint egy Johann Sebastian Bach fuvola-csembaló szonátáit tartalmazó program keretében. A szonáták között mindhárom koncerten szóló csembaló művek is elhangzanak majd, amelyek a "duó-szonáták" mellett műfaji ellenpólusként bővebb megvilágításba helyezik az adott korstílust. Fábián Tímea egy korhű Buffardin-fuvolán játszik majd, melynek készítője Martin Wenner, valamint egy másik fuvolán, amely Philippe-Allain Dupré munkája, a Denner-Stanesby modell. Bene Róza a BMC Könyvtár csembalóját szólaltatja meg, amelyet Titus Krijnen épített 2022-ben. A hangszer Anton Rückers 1640-es modelljének kópiája.Details -
2024 June30 Sunday18:00 Concert Hall
Tokyo–Budapest Ensemble
18:00The Tokyo-Budapest Ensemble has been performing in Hungary almost each summer since 2002, this concert being their eighth in the BMC Concert Hall. The Ensemble's artistic director is Kálmán Berkes, music professor at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan and the artistic director of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary. Members of the Ensemble – young musicians from Japan and Hungary – are selected each year from Berkes's students and the musicians of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.Details -
2024 September14 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: The Music Lover – Premiere
10:00 Family ConcertFamily ConcertHa minden napod zenével kezdődik, a buszon, az iskolában, a mosdóban vagy dolgozatírás közben is zenét hallgatsz, ha minden esőből, kabócaberregésből szimfónia lesz számodra, akkor te igazi Zeneimádó vagy. Főhősünk épp így él, zenében pedig mindenevő: a leeső kanálból spanyolos tánc, a hapcizásból electric loop, a magányos esti sétából Debussy zene lesz.Details -
2024 November30 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Béla Tale
10:00 Family ConcertFamily ConcertKi is volt ez a szuperhős – mesemondó, aki bejárta a világot, elvitte a hírünket Amerikába, és azóta is a leghíresebb magyar? Aki imádta a természetet, szeretett mindenfélét gyűjteni – állatokat, hangokat, dallamokat? Aki számára mindig fontos volt a barátság? Aki a testvériséget hirdette és persze az örömet, ami a zene egyik lényege? Most megtudhatjuk egy interaktív, zenés-táncos délelőttön.Details -
2025 January11 Saturday10:00 Concert Hall
Danubia Orchestra: Roll over, Beethoven!
10:00 Family ConcertFamily ConcertMint tudjuk, Beethoven a zene Mozartja. Magyarul: minden klasszikus zenészek alfája és omegája, a legnagyobb lázadó, a legvagányabb rocker, aki a zenét a sarkaiból fordította ki, aki a sorssal is dacolt: pá-pá-pá-páááám! Ezt a szuperhőst hozzuk el szűk egy órában Szemenyei János színész és Hámori Máté házigazda-karmester segítségével, bemutatva, hogy hogyan is lehet egy kétszáz éves zene ma is kemény, feszes, forradalmi, pörgős és megdöbbentően érzékeny egyszerre. Lesz zongorázás, zenekari lárma, siketség-szimulátor és sok minden más. Csak erős idegzetűeknek!Details -
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