Programme

Musician families: The Bazsinkas!

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

17.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

Jubilee concert of the Pécs Art Secondary School

April

11.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

"The Grand Book of the Flute sonatas" – sevenfold album release concert

27.

Richard STRAUSS: Violin-piano sonata, E flat major, op.18

An Evening of Chamber Music with violinist Giovanni GUZZO and pianist Zoltán FEJÉRVÁRI

Program:

Johannes BRAHMS: The Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, op. 78

Leoš JANÁČEK: Violin-piano sonata

Venezuelan born violinist Giovanni Guzzo has established himself as one of the most versatile and charismatic performers of his generation. Born to parents of Italian and Venezuelan heritage, he continues to captivate audiences around the world with his unique and passionate approach to his performances. Following his solo debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, critics described him as a wonderfully “magnetic” and “commanding” performer.

At the age of 12 he became the youngest violinist to win 1st prize at the XII National Violin Competition “Juan Bautista Plaza” in Venezuela.

A keen recitalist and chamber musician, Giovanni has worked closely with some of today’s leading musicians, including Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Martin Fröst, Daniel Hope, Stephen Hough, Mats Lidstrom, Gerhard Schulz, Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Maggini and Takacs Quartets and Maxim Vengerov, to name but a few. His talent has been recognised with numerous awards including Her Majesty the Queen’s commendation for Excellence, HRH Princess Alice's Prize, Gold medal at the Marlow Music Festival, PROMIS award given by the London Symphony Orchestra, finalist at the YCAT (Young Concert Artists Trust) competition and the Manoug Parikian and Myra Hess award.

Giovanni has performed on several occasions for the Royal Family, most recently performing for Her Majesty the Queen on the famous 'Viotti ex-Bruce' Stradivarius violin.

He appears regularly in live Television and Radio broadcasts, most recently on BBC’s Radio 3 performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy. He was also the youngest musician ever invited to perform a solo recital at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), in front of world leaders and some of today’s most influential personalities.

A protégé of the renowned French virtuoso violinist Maurice Hasson, Giovanni was granted a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, from where he graduated with the highest honours. He previously studied with Zakhar Bron at the “Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia” in Madrid.

Giovanni continues to perform as soloist and chamber musician in some of the most prestigious venues around the world, including the Wigmore Hall and Zurich Tonhalle, and is a regular guest at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Schloss Cappenberg and Mecklenburg Vorpommern festivals in Germany.

He is principal guest leader of the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer; and was recently appointed Violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Winner of the 2017 Concours Musical International de Montréal for piano and recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, Zoltán Fejérvári has appeared in recitals throughout Europe and the United States in such prestigious venues as Carnegie’s Weill Hall in New York, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, Gasteig in Munich, Lingotto in Turin, the Palau de Música in Valencia, the Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires and the Liszt Academy in Budapest. He has performed as a soloist with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Hungarian National Orchestra, the Verbier Festival and Concerto Budapest Orchestras among others, under such conductors as Iván Fischer, Zoltán Kocsis, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, and Gábor Takács-Nagy.
Zoltán Fejérvári is a passionate chamber musician. He has collaborated with both the Keller and Kodály Quartets and has worked with such musicians as Gary Hoffman, Joseph Lin, Cristoph Richter, András Keller, Radovan Vlatkovic, Ivan Monighetti, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis. He has been a participant in Kronberg’s “Chamber Music Connects the World” program, Prussia Cove’s “Open Chamber Music”, Lisztomania in Chateauroux, the Tiszadob Piano Festival and Encuentro de Música in Santander. At the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, he participated in the Marlboro Music Festival during the summers of 2014 through 2016.

Zoltán Fejérvári’s recording of Liszt’s Malédiction with the Budapest Chamber Symphony was awarded the “Grand prix du Disque” in 2013 [HCD 32801]. His CD of four Mozart violin sonatas, with violinist Ernő Kállai, was released in 2014 by Hungaroton [HCD 32740].
Distinguished pianist András Schiff chose Zoltán Fejérvári for his “Building Bridges” series created to highlight young pianists of unusual promise. Under this aegis Mr. Fejérvári will give recitals in season 2017-18 in Berlin, Bochum, Brussels, Zürich and Ittingen among other cities.
Since 2014 Zoltán Fejérvári, has been teaching at the Chamber Music Department of the Liszt Academy of Music.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

25.

Opera ensemble of the Academy of Arts, Osijek – CROATIA

Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

Mimi - Senka Nedeljkovic
Musetta - Anja Papa
Rodolfo - Jonathan Price (USA)
Marcello - Vlaho Ljutic
Schaunard - Berislav Jerkovic
Colline - Blaz Galojlic
Alcindoro - Milan Perisic

Piano - Ante Blazevic
Artistic director - Berislav Jerkovic

The recording of the concert:

The Opera Ensemble of the Academy of Arts Osijek was founded in 2010 with an aim of public opera performance that would bring together musicians of the city of Osijek, former and current students of the Academy of Arts, music professors and numerous guests from Croatia and abroad (Serbia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, United States of America, Germany, Israel etc.). In addition to complete stage opera performances, the Ensemble performs in concerts of opera and operetta works as well as other vocal literature. Among the most important opera and operetta titles of the Ensemble are the performances of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Zajc: Nikola Šubić Zrinjski, Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, Strauss jr.: The Bat, Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, Donizetti: Love Potion, Mozart: Figaro’s Wedding, Puccini: La Boheme and a number of concert performances.
The Ensemble works together in cooperation with guest musicians from Croatia and abroad and with institutions such as the New York Academy of Arts, the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts in Pécs, the Westminster Choir College, Princeton (USA), and with conductors Simon Peter Dešpalj, Balazs Kocsar and numerous vocal soloists. The Opera Ensemble has performed in Pécs, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Skopje, Bitola, Štip, Split, Hvar, Grožnjan, Buje, Umag, Đakovo, Valpovo; it has performed at Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade, at Macedonian Opera in Skopje, at Hvar Summer Festival, Osijek Culture Summer, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, BitFest – Bitola Festival, Pécs-European Capital of Culture, Valpovo Summer Festival, and within the programme Jeunesses musicales Croatia ... The directing of these performances is signed by Robert Raponja, Ivan Leo Lemo and Berislav Jerković. The Opera Ensemble of the Academy of Arts with its 10 vocal soloists, 20 members of the choir and 28 members of the orchestra stands out as a unique opera ensemble in the Republic of Croatia that has in short time taken a significant position in the programmes of cultural events presenting artistic qualities and its potentials to the public both in Croatia and abroad. The art director of the Ensemble is Berislav Jerković, associate professor, D.Sc.

SENKA NEDELJKOVIC, soprano

Senka Nedeljkovic (1978), soprano, was born in Novi Sad (Serbia) where she finished elementary ballet and secondary music school "Isidor Bajić" in the class of prof. Prizrenke Petković and prof. Nikola David. She graduated at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in the class of prof. mr. Vera Kovač Vitkai in 2004, in which she also graduated in 2007. In 2009/10. she perfected the lied and the oratory in the class of prof. Martina Klietmana at the specialist studies of University of Music and Dramatic Art in Graz, Austria. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Serbian National Theater Workshop in Novi Sad, where she has performed the following roles: Adina (G. Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore), Musetta (G. Puccini: La Bohème), Anina (G. Verdi: La Traviata), Gianetta (G. Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore), Ana (P. Stojanović: Vojvoda od Rajhštata), Evica (M. Logar: Pokondirena tikva), Anita (J. Strauss, Jabuka) Contaza Stazi (E. Kalman: Knjeginja čardaša), Zerlina (WA Mozart: Don Giovanni). Since 2005, she has been a soloist at the Chamber Opera Society in Novi Sad. Since 2014 she has been a member, opera soloist at theater Madlenianum in Zemun, where she plays as Pepi in operetta Vienna Blood (J. Strauss). In 2007 she won the first prize at the "Dr. Vojislav Vučković "in Belgrade and in 2001 at Montserrat Caballé in Andorra la Vella (Andorra) entered the semifinals. Since 2002, she worked as a vocal pedagogue at the Isidor Bajić Music School in Novi Sad.

ANJA PAPA, soprano

Anja Papa (1994) graduated singing and piano at the Osijek Art Academy. She has won awards at the following international competitions: 3rd place (bronze medal) in solo singer category up to 15 years - 2009 International Musical Eisteddfod International Competition in Llangollen (United Kingdom); 2nd prize in category women's voices - 2014 at 1st Vera Kovač Vitkai solo singer, Novi Sad; 2nd prize at the International Singing Competition "Lav Mirski", Osijek, 2015
She has performed at numerous concerts and opera performances in Croatia and abroad as choral, concert and operatic soloists. During 2014 and 2015 she participated in numerous festivals and concerts: Concert Musical Legacy of Bela pl. Adamovicha Cepinskog - premiere at HNK Osijek; Concert of Vocal Soloists of the Academy of Art in Osijek, songs of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Museum of Fine Arts; County Concert Cycle 2015 in the Chapel of the Prandau-Normann Valpovo Castle; Concert for Peace Dona nobis pacem Vocal Ensemble and the Brevi - Chamber of the Brevi - Museum of Slavonia Atri Glavni straže i dr.
Since 2013, she is conductor of the Children's Choir "Osječki zumbići" and the Children's Opera House of Polyphony and has been preparing a children's choir for operas La Boheme and Tosca in collaboration with the Croatian National Theater in Osijek. In 2015, she has successfully debuted the role of Despina in the opera Cosi fan Tutte, the premiere performance of the UAOS Opera Ensemble in Osjek summer festival 2015 (conductor Balazs Kocsar – Hungary state opera Budapest). With the Opera ensemble of UAOS in 2016, she performed in the role of Gianette in the opera Love Potion, G. Donizetti performed in Grožnjan, Umag, Osijek, Pécs, Split and Hvar (conductor Balazs Kocsar) and in 2017 with the same ensemble and in the role of Susanne (Mozart : Figarov pir) with performances in Groznjan and Buje. She is the winner of the Dean's Award in 2016 and Rector's Award 2017.

JONATHAN PRICE, tenor

Jonathan Price (1985), tenor, rođen u gradu Vienna, u saveznoj državi Virginia, SAD. Završio je izvedbene studije i magisterij glazbe na Bostonskom konzervatoriju gdje je izvodio glavne operneuloge od Rodolfa u Puccinijevoj La Boheme do Torquemade u Ravelovoj L’heure Espagnole. Njegovi ostali operni nastupi uključuju uloge: Mozarta u djelu Rimski-Korsakova Mozart i Salieri s kazalištem Commonwealth Lyric Theater te uloge Muškoga zbora u Brittenovoj operi Silovanje Lukrecije s Opera Brittenica, Tamina u Mozartovom djelu Die Zauberflöte s Manhattan Opera Studio, Mladoga Ciganina u Rachmaninovoj operi Aleko, Lika 4 u Susinoj operi Transformacije i Raketara u premijernoj izvedbi Yannatosove Rockets Red Blair. Pjevao je Don Jose u Bizetovoj Carmen s Center Stage Opera u jesen 2015. Gospodin Jonathan Price trenutno radi kao profesor pjevanja i teorije glazbe na Sveučilištu Rider u Lawrencevilleu, u saveznoj državi New Jersey.

VLAHO LJUTIC, baritone

Vlaho Ljutić (1956) graduated in 1987 at the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of prof. Vladimir Ruždjak. In 1982 he was employed at the Croatian National Theater Opera in Zagreb, where he performed a number of roles and recorded numerous radio and television shows. After completing his studies, he debuted the role of Nikola Šubić Zrinjski in the same opera by Ivan pl. Zajc, which is still one of his favorite achievements today. In 1992 he became a permanent member of the Croatian National Theater Opera in Osijek, where he achieved the most demanding roles of the baritone repertoire in operas of G. Verdi: Il trovatore - Luna, Un ballo di maschera ples - Renato, Traviata - Germont, Rigoletto - Rigoleto; G. Puccinija La Boheme - Marcello, Maddamma Butterfly - Sharpless, Tosca - Angelotti; then the role of Miller Sime by Gotovac, Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Alfio, Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, Stanko in Hatze's Return, Count Almaviva in Mozart Figaro's merriage, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Belcore and Dulcamara in Love Potion by Donizetti; Evgenij Onjegin from the eponymous opera of Tchaikovsky, Jules from Suzannes Secret by Wolf-Ferraria. He also sang the mentioned titles in all Croatian opera houses and summer festivals, and he also performed at the Sarajevo Opera in the productions of Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) and Merry widow (Lehár). At the same time, he also deals with concert activity. From 2005 to 2009 he was an intendant (general menager) of the Croatian National Theater in Osijek. Since 2007, she is an external associate, and since 2015 she is a full-time associate professor at the Osijek Art Academy.

BERISLAV JERKOVIC, baritone

Berislav Jerković (1977), associate professor at the Osijek Art Academy. He is also the founder of the Opera ensemble of Academy of Arts in Osijek. He graduated at the Music Academy in Zagreb and Music Pedagogy at the Pedagogical Faculty in Osijek. Postgraduate Art Studies at the Music Academy graduated at the Music Academy in Zagreb, postgraduate education at the Kunstuniverität in Graz and a doctoral study at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. In 1997 he debuted in the opera and since then has performed a number of solo roles in operas, operas and musicals: Rigoletto, Courageous Dance, Evgenij Onjegin, Carmen, Gianni Schicci, Sonnambula, Figaros merriage, Love Potion, Tosca, La serva padrona, Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Cosi fan tutte, Ero the joker, I Pagliacci, La boheme, Suzanas secret, Magic flute, Camelot, Dido and Aeneas, Man from Manche etc. He co-operated with domestic and international famous performers: G. Holerung, G. Bizanti , P. Erdei, V. Sutej, Z. Hamar, S. Britvic, I. Repusic and others . He performed at international music festivals: Split Summer, Varaždin Baroque Evenings, Festival in Donat, Varazdin Summer Festival, Osijek Summer Culture, Sarajevo winter festival, Concerts in Euphrasius, Hvar Summer festival, Zagreb Baroque Festival, as well as many other festivals at home and abroad. He has performed numerous solo concerts throughout Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Spain, Venezuela, USA, Belgium, China. He collaborated with the Croatian Baroque Ensemble in performing the work of the old masters. He is intensely involved in research in art and science and has exhibited at professional conferences and conferences in Bologna, Paris, Marlborough, Beijing, Rochester, Thessaloniki, Brisbane and Princeton. He leads master workshops and expert seminars for singers, choirs and conductors of vocal ensembles. In addition to a successful singer, he also conducts conducting activities, and concerts with choirs and ensembles both at home and abroad, and is also the recipient of numerous awards - as a soloist and conductor.

BLAZ GALOJLIC, bas-baritone

Born 29.12.1996. year in Požega. He finished the Music School in Požega - solo singing, in the classes of Ana Ticl and Anastasia Vranic. Currently he is at the 2nd year of Studying at the Osijek Art Academy, where he attends the main subject of the profession - Singing at doc.art. Vlahe Ljutića and associate professor. Berislav Jerković. In addition to performances all over Croatia and abroad she regularly attends seminars of vocal pedagogues. He has also performed at numerous singing competitions. In 2015, he won 2nd place in the national competition of HDGPP. For the last four years he has performed at the International Competition "Lav Mirski" in Osijek. 2014 won the 2nd prize in 2015, the 1st prize in 2016 won the 1st prize and was the overall winner of the 1st category as well as in 2017, when he was the overall winner in the 2nd. category. In 2017 he performed with the Opera Ensemble of the Art Academy in Mozart's opera Figaros merriage in the roles of Bartolo and Antonio. He is currently preparing role of Betto in Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi. In 2017 he performed solo roles in the cantata of Septem Ultima Verb a by contemporary American composer Michael J. Trotta.

ANTE BLAZEVIC, piano

Ante Blazevic was born in 1983 in Virovitica. He finished basic music education at the Music School in Slatina in just three years. The Osijek secondary music school also finished in three years. The piano piano studies ended with a great success in 2006 at the Zagreb Academy of Music, in the class of prof. Damir Sekosan. During his schooling he performed in Slatina, Osijek, Našice, Požega, Virovitica, Daruvar, Zagreb and the Republic of Hungary. His most significant performances include performances at two Piano Memorials "Darko Lukic" in 2003 and 2005, performances at the Croatian Music Institute 2004 and 2006, performance at the International Music Festival "Milko Kelemen Days" in Slatina 2005 and 2015. and solo recitals in Pozega; Osijek and Nasice. His highly acclaimed piano recitals are also highlighted in the concert cycle "Osjecka Glazbena Srijeda" in 2013 and 2015. For a number of years he has also performed in a duet with the professor of bajan - Nikola Jankov, performing his own transcription of popular classical compositions. He graduated from seminars of prominent world pedagogues and pianists; Leonid Sincev (Russia), On Mitania (Japan), Laszlo Baranya (Hungary), Eugen Indjic (France), Ruben Dalibaltyan (Armenia). He attended the International Piano Competition "EPTA" in 2011. Pedagogical work began to deal in Slatina in 2004. He has been employed as a corepetitor - artistic accompanist of solo singers at the Osijek Academy of Art since 2008. He also worked as a corepetitor of the string section at the Music School "Franjo Kuhac" in Osijek from 2011 - 2014. His most important performances as a piano accompanist are his piano collaborations on several complete opera projects (G.Puccini - Gianni Schicchi, W.A.Mozart - Cosi fan tutte, G.Donizetti –Love potion) at the music festivals in Osijek, Valpovo, Grožnjan, Buje, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Novi sad and Hvar 2013. -2016.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

19.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

An Evening of Chamber Music with the Kodály String Quartet

09.

Zoltán KODÁLY and his students - 40 years of the foundation of the Hungarian Kodály Society

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

February

26.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

An Evening of Chamber Music with trombonist András FEJÉR and pianist Irén IHÁSZ

Program:
Jean Baptiste LOEILLET: Sonata in C major
Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Cavatine
István LÁNG: Libero
Stjepan ŠULEK: Sonate
Máté HOLLÓS: Trombondine
Carl Maria von WEBER: Romanza appassionata

András FEJÉR

was born in 1967 in Budapest. He began his trombone studies with Gyula Gergely and István Pécs Farkas, and graduated as a student of Ferenc Steiner. From 1983 he is a founding member of the Academia Brass Quintet, with which he won international awards: Barcs I. Prize, Narbonne II. prize, Gmünd II. fee. Between 1987 and 2000 he was a member of the Hungarian State Concert Orchestra, where he was awarded as the "Artist of the Year" in 1995. Since 1997, he is the soloist of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchestra Berlin. He was the member of the jury of the 2007 Munich International Trombone Festival (ARD) and of the 2010 International Trombone Competition in Markneukirchen. His first single CD - which was released in 2000 with the title "Name-Game" at Hungaroton Classic - was awarded the Artisjus Prize. He was re-awarded in 2008 and 2012. In 2011, he released a new album on Hungaroton Classic ("C'est la vie"), featuring works by contemporary Hungarian composers. Since 1989 he regularly performes as a soloist in Hungary and in European cities. Most of his repertoire is made up of works of contemporary Hungarian composers - trombones, electroacoustics, chamber music and contests - from which the most are written for him. In 2012 he was awarded the Ferenc Liszt Prize.

Irén IHÁSZ

earned a piano teacher's and chamber music diploma at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. The brass music was very close to her. She has been teaching for 26 years, she has a number of great achievements with her students from national and international competitions. She also actively practices correpetitori's work. With András Fejér she has been playing in concerts since 1998. Her thoughs about their common work if the following: "Our friendship, our musical understanding is always delighting."

February

21.

Of the violin and pianist sonatas of Brahms, Op. 78 G major is one of the classics of the chamber music repertoire. This time, however, the piece is accompanied by all the authors violin and piano chamber works. All three violin-piano sonatas are relatively late in Brahms's oeuvre, perhaps this is the noble simplicity and purity, and are the wise consideration of the mature composer.
The stormy Scherzo is a part of a four-part sonata, whose specialty is the collaboration of three composers Robert Schumann, Brahms and Albert Dietrich for the celebrated Hungarian violinist Joachim József.
Dietrich composed the first batch, Schumann was second and fourth, and young Brahms was the third, Scherzo batch. Thus, making the third place of his four works, this concert could be the Scherzo.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violinist Ofer FALK and pianist Anna GRANIK

Program:
Johannes BRAHMS:

The Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, op. 78

The Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, op. 100

Scherzo in c minor for Violin and Piano

Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, op. 108

Born in Israel in 1967, Ofer FALK studied with the legendary pedagogue Ilona Feher in Tel-Aviv and later with Professor Dora Schwarzberg in Vienna.
Ofer has won numerous prizes in international competitions including the Henryk Szerying special prize (1993) and top prizes in the Tchaikovsky 10th International Competition in Moscow (1994) and Montreal International Violin Competition (1995).
Ofer made his debut performance as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in February 2003 and was immediately re-invited for subsequent performances. Other UK venues at which Ofer has performed concerti include The Barbican, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Saint Martin in the Fields and the Purcell Room.
In April 2017, Ofer gave the first performance of the Lange-Muller concerto with the orchestra dell'Arte.
Most recent guest leading experience includes leading the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria in November 2017.
Internationally, his performances have been broadcast on both radio and television including BBC Radio 3, German Radio-Berlin, Israeli Radio and Television, Russian State Radio and Television, Canadian Radio (CBC).
Ofer is an accomplished chamber musician. He was founder member and leader of the Schidlof Quartet, (1994-2001) the Falk Quartet (2001-2003), and from 2007 till 2015, the leader of the Allegri String Quartet, performing with artists such as Murray Perahia and Jack Brymer. He has recorded three CDs with the Schidlof Quartet (Linn Records) one with the Falk Quartet and three with the Allegri Quartet.
Ofer is professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also gives annual masterclasses at the Uzmah festival in Croatia.
Ofer plays on a 1661 violin by Nicolò Amati of Cremona.

Anna GRANIK pianist was born in Zagren, Croatia in 1977. She won 1. prize in 1989 at the V. Jugoslavian National Competition. In the same year she was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where her teacher was Zsuzsa Esztó.
In her school years she participated in several Hungarian and international competitions.
The most important of these are the Usti nad Labem International Piano Competition (1991), the Senigalia International Piano Competition (1992), the Liszt Competition (1995), the Motorola Competition (1996) organized by the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy.
She regularly participated in Hungarian and foreign masterclasses, with Lívia Rév, Rudolf Kehrer, Vladimir Babadzan, Eugen Indjic, Lóránd Fenyves and Dora Schwartzberg.

Contributors:

Magdalena STEINBAUER, oboe

Ildikó BALOGH, pianist

Clara DENT was born in Berlin and grew up in Salzburg (Austria). She began her oboe-studies with Arthur Jensen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and, under the tuition of Günther Passin , graduated with a master’s diploma from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich.
She is Prize-winner of the ARD Competition in Munich and the Intern. Competition in Geneva. Clara Dent also won the international stipend of the Kulturvereinigung in Munich.
She performs as a soloist with many renowned orchestras and has had numerous solo performances recorded for CD and radio. Her solo albums („Les Folies d`Espagne“, „La Primadonna“) were highly praised by critics.
She is the principal oboist in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1999. Clara Dent has taught oboe since 2005 in Munich and Augsburg, and since 2009 as professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg. She furthermore gives international master classes in Europe and Asia. As a chamber musician she is invited to festivals all over Europe.

Magdalena STEINBAUER was born in 1997 in Munich. She started to play the violin when she was 5 years old. Her teachers were Jorge Sutil and Vadim Sandler in Munich.
She went to the musical school Pestalozzi Gymnasium where she graduated in June 2016.

In 2011 she started to take lessons in oboe at Irene Draxinger. From 2013-2016 she was a member of the scholarship “Studienvorbereitende Abteilung” from the “Städtische Musikschule” in Munich.
Magdalena Steinbauer played in orchestras like the Bavarian youth ensemble for modern music, the “Odeon youth orchestra “and the “Prinzregentenensemble”. She is a member of the Bavarian youth choir, where she gets singing lessons at Tanja Elbert.

She is a prize winner of the German youth competition “Jugend musiziert” in category oboe solo. Since Oktober 2016 Magdalena Steinbauer is studying oboe in the class of Professor Clara Dent-Boganyi at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg.

Program:

Georg Philipp TELEMANN: Sonata for two oboes in D major, TWV 40

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Le nozze di Figaro –„Dove sono"

Carl Maria von WEBER – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Der Freischütz – Aria of Ännchen

Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Sonata for oboe and piano

Christoph Willibald GLUCK – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Paride ed Elena – „Oh, del mio dolce ardor"

Gioachino ROSSINI – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Armida – „D'amor al dolce impero"

Contributors:
Branko Pavlovski, clarinet
Natasa Trbojevik, piano
Zlatka Miteva, flute

Program:
V.Azarashvili: “Nokturne” for flute, clarinet and piano
Ernesto Cavallini: “Reverie Russe” for flute, clarinet, and piano
Eric Ewazen: Palisades suite

Beauty
Sadness
Anguish
Hope

Michael Salamon: Suite

Nocturne
Variation on a theme “Braul”from Bartok’s Folk dance

Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarantella op.6 for flute, clarinet and piano
M. Jankovski: Na pat za doma

Branko Pavlovski recently joined the faculty at Goce Delcev University School of Music as Assistant Professor of Clarinet. While pursuing the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Louisiana State University he was a teaching assistant for Robert DiLutis and a private instructor in the Baton Rouge area. Previously, Pavlovski served as a clarinet teacher at the National Music and Ballet Educational Center in Skopje, Macedonia.
Pavlovski is an active soloist and chamber musician who has performed internationally in the United States, France, England, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Greece, Serbia and Macedonia. He recently performed several critically acclaimed concerts in Europe and US. This included a televised recital “live” from the National Museum of Macedonia in the capital city, Skopje. After a recital in Paris, the Evening News praised his “...tonal beauty and musical expression...” He has performed at LSU Contemporary Music Festival, “MusiPoeSci” Festival, Dartington Summer Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, Stip Summer Festival, “Golden Lyre” Festival, “ModoArs” Festival, “Days of Macedonian Music” Festival, Rome Celebration of “Cyril and Methodius,” Skopje Cultural and Informative Center, Jeunnese Musicales de Macedoine. As an avid performer of contemporary classical music, Pavlovski has premiered several new works for clarinet. Through the years, he has been member of numerous ensembles, including the Woodwind Quintet “Nova,” Woodwind Quintet “Art,” Trio Academico, UGD Woodwind Trio, LSU Chamber Music Series, and Ensemble de Atelier de Musique Contemporaine de Conservatoire de Versailles. Pavlovski held the principal clarinet position with the Macedonian Army Orchestra. Other orchestral experience includes appearances with Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Acadiana Symphony, Opera Louisiane, Mozart Orchestra Prague, and Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Natasha Trbojevikj was born on 23rd May 1965 in Shtip.. She was the best student in the piano class of the Professor Sanda Bikova. Natasha has participated in all piano competitions organized by the Music pedagogues in the Republic of Macedonia. Her students have won the first, second and third award. She continued her education at the Faculty of Music, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in the piano class of the Professor Lepsha Piperkovska.. During her studies, she performed a number of solo concerts organized by the Music youth of Macedonia and Young music artists as well as competitions organized by the Faculty of Music. She also took part in the piano trio in the class of Professor M. Kufojanakis, a professor of Chamber music. Natasha has attended piano seminars such as Timakin, A. Valdma, B. Romanov, Jokut Mihajlovikj, D. Trbojevikj piano Congress in Novi sad (1991). Natasha Trbojevikj got the MA degree at the Faculty of Music In 1988 she started working as a piano teacher in the Secondary Music School in Shtip. in state competitions in Skopje and Bitola from 2003 to 2009.Not only does she work as a music pedagogue, she is also an accompanist. She has participated in many state and international competitions and won numerous prizes in Skopje, Bitola, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Herceg Novi etc. Since 2007 Natasha has worked as an accompanist at the Faculty of Music at UGD in Shtip, and in the 2015 she become a associate professor at the Music academy in Stip, Macedonia. She collaborate together with the classes of clarinet, trumpet and solo singing. She took part in all concerts organized by FM including international and state competitions. Her students won first, second and third awards in Skopje and Belgrade in 2008 and 2012. At the same time, she performed with Professor Boris Trajanov and docent Blagica Poptomova in 2009, memorial concert in honor of Professor Sanda Bikova in 2007/08/09/10/14, evening recital performance with D. Kozuharov at Shtipsko kulturno leto in 2010, performance at the, evening concerts with trumpet , solo, flute and clarinet classes in Shtip and Veles, two solo concerts in Veles in January 2011 and October 2012, solo concert in Shtip in October 2012. She performed three concerts supported by the Ministry of Culture, within the National program for 2013 with the piano duo N. Trbojevikj- I. Nastovski, concert with Trio Akademiko together with docent MA Zlatka Miteva and docent PhD Branko Pavlovski. In 2014 she had a performance with Trio Akademiko in St Sofija in Ohrid .At the time being she is a part of a project for 2014 supported by the Ministry of Culture of R. Macedonia. She has already performed four concerts (from six planned) in Strumica, Veles, Shtip and Kumanovo. Another project, issuing a CD, is being realized together with Professor Vasko Ristov and Docent Blgica Poptomova, also supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia within the National Program for 2014.

Zlatka Miteva, Is one of the most interesting flutists of the younger generation from Macedonia, was born in 1980. She graduated from the National Music Academy ,,Pancho Vladigerov,, in Sofia, Bulgaria in the class of Professor Lydia Oshavkova. Having completed her master studies at the same Music Academy, was awarded the title of concert soloist. She pursued professional advancement at courses held by eminent flautists and professors Andras Adorian, Patrick Gallois, Lydia Oshavkova, Marina Novak, Claudio Ferrarini and Mario Caroli. As a holder of the scholarship of the Accademia Italiana Del Flauto, she attended a specialist course on Flautissimo 2013 in Roma, Italia. Her honors include the State Scholarship in Bulgaria and three grands from Open Society Institute.

Zlatka Miteva was the winner of numerous national and international awards, such as the Special award in the chamber music category at the International festival,, Music and Earth,, in Sofia, Bulgaria, first prize in the solo flute category at the National Music Competition in Macedonia, second and third prise at the National Competition on Chamber Music, and finalist at the Internation Competition,, Petar Konjovich,, in Belgrade, Serbia.

As a soloist, she has had performances with the Macedonian Symphony Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra, Vraca Symphony Orchestra, she took part in reputed music festivals in Croatia (Dubrovnik Music Festivals), in Slovenia ( First European Picollo Festivals), in Bulgaria (Appolonia Music Festivals, European Music Festival in Varna, International Festival, March Music Days,, in Ruse), in Macedonia (InterFest) and other European countries. She also performed in Recital concerts in Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. In 2010, she create TRIO ACADEMICO (flute, clarinet and piano) and as a member, they had a very successfully concert tour in various cities across Macedonia and Serbia. As a classical flutist, she also has performed contemporary works, and had a big interest in the newest trends and research in comtemporary music. As of 2009, Zlatka Miteva is Associate Professor at the Music Academy in Stip, Macedonia.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

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Vörösmarty Mihály Cultural Center - Dancing hall, Bonyhád

PTE Viola chamberconcert

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PTE Piano recital

Erzsébet Vigadó, Bóly

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ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

An Evening of Chamber Music with trumpet player Gábor TARKÖVI and pianist Teréz SZABÓ

Gábor TARKÖVI born in Esztergom in 1969, Gábor Tarkövi descends from a family of musicians.

At the age of nine, he receives his very first trumpet lesson from his father, István Tarkövi. Raised in Csolnok, absorbing the local Schwab brass wind music substantially influenced his musical career. After graduating at the Richter János Conservatory in Győr, Gábor became a student of György Geiger at the Liszt Ferenc Teacher Training College. Gábor continued his studies under Frigyes Varasdy at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

György Kurtág and Hans Gansch are among his most important teachers. He started his career at the Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra as co-principal trumpet, then moved on to the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester (today Konzerthausorchester Berlin), and in 1999-ben to the Bayern Radio Symphony Orchestra as principal trumpet.

Since 2004, he has been the principal trumpet player of the Berlin Philharmonic. Besides his orchestral work, Gábor Tarkövi regularly plays chamber music, in the Pro Brass and the Austrian Brass Connection brass orchestras, and in the Wien-Berlin Brass Quintet, which was established by himself.

Regularly performing in Europe, the USA and Asia, he is a renowned soloist worldwide, presenting concerts with major orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayern Radio, and China National Philharmonic.

Gábor regularly works with world famous conductor Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta and Seiji Ozawa. He lectures at the Herbert von Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, and presents master courses all over the world.

Under an exclusive contract with the Swiss Tudor Classics label since 2008, they produced two CD’s. ‚Italian Trumpet Concertos‘ with Mojca Erdmann, and ‚Classical Trumpet Concertos‘ with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens. Both productions collected acclamation from critic and the trade.

Narihito MUKEDA is a Japanese Pianist, born in 1987. He studied Piano at Liszt Ferenc Music Academy in Budapest with Prof. Dráfi Kálmán. He won many prize competition in Italy, Japan.
He worked with Hungarian State Opera Failoni Orchestra, Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra as well.
His Chamber Music partners until now are Miklós Perényi, Kristóf Baráti, Wenzel Fuchs (Principal Clarinetist of Berlin Philharmoniker), Rita Rácz, Gábor Varga, Vilmos Oláh.

Program:
Arthur HONEGGER: Intrada

Frédéric CHOPIN: Nocturne op. 32.
Andante sostenuto | Lento

Paul HINDEMITH: Sonata

György KURTÁG: Fragmente aus „Rückblick”

Alan HOVHANESS: Prayer of St. Gregory

Vincent Ludwig PERSICHETTI: Parable for Trumpet Solo

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Octobre: Chant d’automne – Les saisons, No. 10.

Franz SCHUBERT: Serenade op. 134.

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Meditation op. 72. No. 5.

Frigyes HIDAS: Fantasy for Trumpet and Piano

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Cultural Center - Conference room, Tamási

PTE Cello recital

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Fazioli Piano Inauguration Concert

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

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