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ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

2022.

SZABÓ Dániel Group – Jazz-evening

Dániel SZABÓ, who is acclaimed both in Hungary and abroad, performs concerts, writes music for jazz and classical ensembles, films, theatre productions and also produces records. He has released several successful albums in collaboration with world stars such as Chris Potter, Peter Erskine and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He has toured Europe and the United States, and the Dániel Szabó Trio performed with the Wayne Shorter Quartet on the same stage at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia in 2008. Chick Corea's management has asked Szabo to perform the final movement of Corea's Bartók-inspired "Jazz Piano Concerto", dedicated to MÜPA, with John Patitucci and Dave Weckl, in the spring of 2022.The highly successful premiere of his work for string orchestra ("Resources") was premiered at the prestigious Musikverein in Vienna in February 2020 by the Tonkünstler Orchester and Peter Erskine. His album "Visionary", which straddles the boundaries between jazz, film and classical music, features a chamber orchestra with a jazz trio, telling stories, seeing, and dreaming. The album, which was included on the "Best of the Year" list of the American JAZZIZ magazine, features some of the finest studio, classical and jazz musicians in Los Angeles. His most recent score is for the American-Romanian feature film "So...What's Freedom?" by Andrei Zinca, which has been winning awards since its release, most recently winning the Audience Award at the Sedona International Film Festival in Arizona. His international competition wins include the 2006 "Grand Prize of the City of Paris" at the prestigious Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition and first prize at the Jas Hennessy Solo Piano Competition in Montreux in 2000. In 2018, he was the only winner of the largest US advocacy group, ASCAP's Composer's Prize, one of the fruits of which is a large-scale piece for the Los Angeles Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, to be performed in California in the autumn of 2022. Szabó is currently a professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). FERENC NÉMETH is a world-renowned, Grammy Award-winning, versatile and exciting musician who continues to push the boundaries of jazz drumming and composition. He is also a highly imaginative collaborator who is well known in the jazz world. In 2019, his album Freedom won first place in the jazz category at the Independent Music Awards, and since 2020 he is also the proud owner of a Grammy Award with the Emilio Solla Jazz Tango Orchestra. Throughout his career, he has been involved with bands such as the Lionel Loueke Trio, Kenny Werner Coalition, Billy Childs Trio, and has played with some of the best artists in the jazz world, including multiple Grammy Award-winning artists such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Samuels, Jimmy Heath, and many others. He has played in front of thousands of people in over 300 cities in more than 35 countries, including the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, the JVC Festival in New York at Carnegie Hall with Herbie Hancock, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Tokyo Jazz Festival, the Marciac Jazz Festival, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. His various orchestras have featured world-renowned artists such as Joshua Redman, John Patitucci, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Chris Potter, Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip. As Mark F. Turner writes in All about jazz magazine, "Ferenc Deutsche not only represents a new generation of post-Art Blakey jazz drummers, but he is also a confident leader." Nate Chinen of the New York Times wrote: "Ferenc Németh is a quick-thinking Hungarian drummer with a keen sense of African rhythms."Júlia KAROSI has toured national and international stages over the past decade with her unique vocal style. The singer came to jazz from classical music, which has left its mark not only on her high vocal technique and expressive tones, but also on her musical world and repertoire. In addition to her own compositions, she prefers folk songs and pieces by classical composers, but she is always interested in the personal in these arrangements.The songs from the singer's latest album, Without Dimensions, released in 2020, offer a unique insight into our musical heritage, as Julia's own compositions fuse with arrangements of Bartók and Kodály. The album has received considerable professional acclaim abroad: it was voted Album of the Week by Jazz Weekly, and received a four-star rating from BBC Music Magazine, in addition to positive reviews in the US and major German-language jazz magazines. The singer was awarded the 2021 Miklós Orszáczky Prize for her own composition Insomnia, which is featured on the album.Mátyás SZANDAI was a student of Gergely Járdányi Járdányi at the Liszt Academy of Music, where he studied double bass. He graduated as a classical double bass artist-teacher and chamber musician in 2004, and in 2021 he completed his Master of Music Education at the Haute École de Musiquie in Lausanne, where he is currently studying classical double bass.He has been playing with various jazz ensembles since he was 16, and in the last decade and a half he has worked with almost all the famous figures of the Hungarian jazz scene. Today, he is one of the country's most sought-after bassists in the genre. He has been a member of the Csaba Czirják Quartet, the Csaba Tűzkő Szeptett and the Balázs Elemér Group, with whom he has recorded two albums for BMC: Around the world (2002) and Our worlds beyond (with Charlie Mariano, 2003). Since 1996, he has been a member of the Mihály Dresch Quartet, with whom he has recorded four albums for BMC. Other current bands include the Kristóf Bacsó Quartet, the Viktor Tóth Tercett, the Dániel Szabó Trio, the Kálmán Oláh Sextet and the András Dés Trio. In addition to the most important jazz musicians in Hungary, he has had the opportunity to play with such renowned foreign artists as Archie Shepp, David Murray, Herbie Mann, Chico Freeman, Rosario Giuliani, Charlie Mariano, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Rob Brown, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gerard Presencer, Chris Potter, Flavio Boltro, Zbigniew Namislowski, etc. He has toured with various ensembles in America, India and almost all the countries of Europe. His most notable concerts have been at the Montreal Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Jazz Bruge Festival, Jazz à Juan, Jazzèbre, Festival de Jazz d'Amiens, Cité de la Musique Paris, New Morning Paris, Kimmel Center Philadelphia, Pori Jazz Festival, Roma Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz, Theatre de Chatelet Paris, Queen Elisabeth Hall London, Royal Albert Hall London, Malta Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival. He is at home in almost all styles of jazz, and has played with the Dresch Quartet and with groups drawing heavily on folk music traditions (Kálmán Balogh, Peter Rachev), as well as in contemporary productions such as Gábor Gadó's Byzantinum (2008). In the annual poll of Gramofon, the most important Hungarian jazz magazine, he has twice won the Jazz Album of the Year award for his albums. His playing can also be heard on the Dániel Szabó Trio CD Frictions (Warner Jazz, 2007), recorded with Kurt Rosenwinkel as a guest artist. He is currently assistant professor of classical and double bass at the Lausanne Conservatoire.Facebook-eventThe concert is jointly organised by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee. It is supported by the Human Resources Funding Agency.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

28.

2022.

The Görög Sisters piano duo concert

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

08.

2022.

Evening singing "80"

Attila KERTÉSZ Liszt Prize-winning conductor, associate professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Hungarian University of Music and Performing Arts, president of the Hungarian Kodály Society, member of the Arts Committee of the Hungarian Kodály Society. He has taught at the Széchenyi High School in Pécs, and for 40 years he was the director of the singing and music sections of the Janus Pannonius High School and the Zoltán Kodály High School.With the Béla Bartók Girls' Choir, which he founded, and the Zoltán Kodály Youth Choir, he has won numerous festival prizes, top prizes and first prizes in Hungary and abroad. His choirs have been regular participants at events and oratorical performances in the city of Pécs. From 2001 to 2015, he led the Mecsek Choir and the Mecsek Women's Choir, which he founded, achieving international and national successes with both ensembles. He still has close ties with the members of the Kapos Choir in Dombóvár and the Women's Faculty of the PTE, of which he was choirmaster for several years. In addition to organising the choir movement in Pécs, as a music teacher he gave outstanding artists not only to Pécs, but also to the country and the world. His work has been recognised with numerous awards and honours: He was awarded the Public Culture Prize of Baranya County (1985), Distinguished Pedagogue (1990), Public Culture Prize of the City of Pécs (1999), Distinguished Teacher of the City of Pécs (2001), Liszt Ferenc Prize (2005), Bartók Prize for Hungarian Art (2006), KÓTA Prize (2007), Artisjus Prize (2008), Zoltán Kodály Prize (2009), Pécs Municipality Town Hall Memorial Medal (2012), Pro Meritis Prize (2019), Zoltán Fábri Prize (2022).Facebook-event The concert is jointly organized by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI, and the Pécs Academic Committee's Arts Working Committee. It is supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Human Resources Fund. Festive concert on the occasion of the birthday of Attila KERTÉSZ, Liszt Prize-winning conductor

April

06.

2022.

Solo performance by guitarist Carlo MARCHIONE

Carlo MARCHIONE is the winner of seven international competitions and has been a leading figure in classical guitar for thirty years. As a soloist he has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Today, as a teacher, he regularly gives master classes at various music universities in Europe and is a regular guest at European festivals. He has been awarded one of the most prestigious international prizes, the 'Golden Guitar', for his outstanding contribution to the development of the guitar.He started taking guitar lessons at the age of ten, first from Master L. Cauzzo and then from L. Gallucci. In 1976 he was accepted to the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in his hometown, where he was the first of 100 applicants to be admitted. There he studied with Master Mario Gangi and graduated with honours in 1983. During his career, he has won several prizes at international competitions (Ancona 1979/80, "L. Legnani" Parma 1981, "M. Giuliani" 1982, "Ville de Sablé" 1985, Gargnano 1989, "N. Paganini" 1991, "Città di Latina" 1992). Composers such as A. Carlevaro, C. Domeniconi, S.Iannarelli, K.Vassiliev, A. Ourkouzounov, G.Drozd and John Duarte have written for him. Always looking for new inspiration, he has added to his repertoire a number of almost forgotten works, which in his brilliant transcriptions have become real jewels. His 12 Violin Fantasias by Georg Philip Telemann, edited by the composer, have been praised by the press and published on CD and as an orchestral book. He is a renowned and distinguished university professor specialising in the analysis of guitar music. He teaches at the Maastricht Conservatoire (Netherlands), Pôle Superiour d'enseignements artistiques (apPSEA) in Lille, (France), "Civica Scuola delle Arti" Rome (Italy), Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears in Mallorca (Spain), Scuola di Specializzazione post laurea in Beni Musicali in Turin. (Italy).Besides, he is a big fan of online education, so he and his fiancée founded the Marchione Online Academy, which allows him to teach anywhere in the world. He publishes regularly, with his own publishing company MarchioneMusic Editions, he releases a new guitar transcription every month.PROGRAMME Ferdinand Rebay was an Austrian composer, music teacher, choral conductor and pianist of Bartók's time. He was introduced to the guitar through his colleague Jakob Ortner, and his dedication to it was only increased by the fact that his niece Gerta Hammersmid, Ortner's guitar pupil, was committed to performing Rebay's works. He wrote nearly 400 works for the instrument, his anachronistic style rooted in 19th century Austro-German musical values. He created the romantic post-Beethoven sonata for this instrument. The clear melodies and translucent accompaniments of Schubert and Schumann's songs are truly rewarding material for various transcriptions. And the guitar is ideally suited to lead the melody vocally and add subtle accompaniment.Sainz de la Maza is a Spanish guitarist and composer who was a professor of guitar at the Madrid Conservatory until his retirement. His works, composed exclusively for guitar, draw heavily on the sounds of Castilian and Andalusian folk music. Some of his works have become fundamental works of the guitar repertoire.Mauro Giuliani is an Italian guitar virtuoso and one of the most important composers of the 18th and 19th century guitar literature. As there were many talented guitarists throughout Italy in the early 19th century, but Italians showed little interest in music outside of opera, Giuliani moved north and eventually settled in Vienna, where he spearheaded the classical guitar movement, taught a rich repertoire and composed extensively. Fernando Sor is Giuliani's Catalan contemporary. He made his name primarily as a guitarist, and his 65 compositions for this instrument form an important part of the classical guitar repertoire. He also composed numerous vocal works, which had a noticeable influence on the song-like melodic treatment of his guitar works. Facebook-event The concert is jointly organized by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI, and the Pécs Academic Committee's Arts Working Committee. It is supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Human Resources Fund.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

29.

2022.

Concert by the Hungarian Brass Quintet

Bálint KESZTHELYI Born in Barcs, the trumpet player began his musical studies at the local music school, then continued his studies at the Szombathely Secondary School of Music until 1992. From 1997 he studied at the University of Music in Graz, where his teacher was Uwe Köller. In 1999 he spent a year at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra Academy, where he honed his skills. From 2000 to 2003 he was trumpet soloist with the Graz Symphony Orchestra, and from then until 2009 he toured the world. Since 2014 he has been principal trumpet of the Horváth National Theatre Orchestra, since 2017 he has been a member of the Busina Brass Quintet from Zagreb and since 2018 he has been a member of the Hungarian Brass Quintet. During the last years he has also contributed to the creation of several CDs. Péter SOLYMOSI Born in Szigetvár, Péter SOLYMOSI began his musical studies in his hometown at the age of seven. In Pécs, he studied at the State Music School, the Pécs Secondary School of Arts and then at the Music Institute of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs, where he was taught by János Tamás and Károly Neumayer. Since 1999 he has been a trumpet and chamber music teacher at the Pécs Secondary School of Art, and since 2000 he has been a trumpet teacher at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs.In 2000 he was awarded first prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Trumpet Competition in Bucharest and in 2001 he was awarded second prize at the Trumpet Competition of the Szeged and Debrecen Conservatories. As a student of József Boros, he obtained his diploma as a trumpet teacher at the Conservatory of the University of Szeged in 2002. Afterwards he was first trumpet of the Pécs Symphony Orchestra, then of the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2007 he has been principal trumpet of the orchestra. He was a scholarship holder of the Dresden Modern Music Festival in 2006. Between 1997 and 2003 he played with the Pannon Brass, since 2003 with the Symphonic Brass and since 2003 with the Philharmonic Brass. In 2006/2007, he was named "Orchestral Artist of the Year" of the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010, he released his own CD, "Trumpet Soloist". In 2014, he was admitted to the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs. Since the autumn of 2018, he has been an appointed lecturer at the PTE MK Institute of Music. Zoltán SZŐKE was born in 1977 in Budapest and started studying the horn at the age of eight. Between 1995 and 1998 he was a student of Tamás Zempléni and then Károly Ambrus at the Teacher Training Institute of the Liszt Academy, and from 1998 he studied with Ádám Friedrich at the Liszt Academy. He graduated in 2002. From 1997 to 2018 he was principal horn of the Hungarian State Opera House Orchestra, and in 1999 he was awarded the Orchestral Artist of the Year Prize. In 2003 and 2009 he was one of the winners of the Sándor Végh Competition for artists playing in the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Péter István FARKAS was born in Szekszárd in 1950. He graduated as a trombone teacher from the College of Music in Pécs in 1972. From Germany to Singapore, from Sweden to Japan, he has toured the world as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral artist. Two cities have made him an honorary citizen: Oulu in Finland and Annapolis in the United States. Since 1974 he has been principal trombonist of the Hungarian State Opera House. In 1986 he was awarded the Liszt Ferenc Prize. He is a member of the Budapest Brass Quintet, the Hungarian Trombone Ensemble and the Pécs Trombone Ensemble. József BAZSINKA is a Liszt Prize-winning tuba player and has won prizes at numerous international chamber and tuba competitions. International soloist, tuba teacher at international and national master classes. He worked for 10 years at the Hungarian State Opera House and is currently - for 25 years - a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He has recorded four solo albums (the fifth is currently in production) and has performed solo and chamber works on several contemporary composers' discs. His work was recognised by the Hungarian State with the Liszt Ferenc Prize in 1996.Facebook-eventThe concert is jointly organized by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI, and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee. It is supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Human Resources Fund.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

25.

2022.

Concert by Italian artists

PROGRAMME: Leonardo Leo: 6 Toccatas - Giovanni Calabrese (piano) Giovanni Paisiello: 5 Sonata Giovanni Calabrese (piano) Béla Bartók: Általmenn ich a Tiszán - Bálint Végh (m.v. PTE MK) Béla Bartók: László Fehér stole a horse - Bálint Végh (m.v. PTE MK) Béla Bartók: My God, my God, flood the water - Júlia Kapornaki (m.v. PTE MK) Béla Bartók: Black earth yields good wheat - Júlia Kapornaki (m.v. PTE MK) Béla Bartók: Allegro barbaro - András Körtesi (piano) Béla Bartók: Women, women, let me be your partner- Júlia Kapornaki (m.v. PTE MK) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in D minor - Giovanni Calabrese (piano) C.M. Von Weber: Romanza Appassionata - Giuseppe de Marco (trombone) Franz Schubert: Serenade - Giuseppe de Marco (trombone) Antonín Dvořák: Melody - Giuseppe de Marco (trombone) Giovanni CALABRESE studied piano and chamber music at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa in Lecce under Maria Grazia De Leo, then perfected his skills under Michele Marvulli (Conservatorio Gioachino Rossini, Pesaro), Cristiano Burato (Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi, Bolzano) and Pierluigi Camicia (Conservatorio Tito Schipa, Lecce).He has excelled in several national and international competitions. In addition to her music studies, she holds a degree in economics and commerce and a secondary school teaching qualification. He specialises in teaching music to children aged 4 to 6, and also teaches disabled pupils (Liceo "C. Troya "Andria, Barletta). He combines his teaching activities with the organisation of concerts and cultural events, and is involved in prestigious professional organisations. He is President of the Associazione di Alta Cultura Musicale "W. A. Mozart", Artistic Director of the Centro Artistico Internazionale del Mediterraneo, of the International Festival of Artistic Artists and of the International Music Competition "Musicarte". In 2016, Salento was the main organizer of the ICMC International Chamber Music Festival (Positano, Paris, Shanghai). He has performed as a soloist and as a member of instrumental and vocal chamber music ensembles in more than 100 concerts in Positano, Palazzo Ducale in Martina Franca (Taranto), Villa Spada (Rome), Teatro Antoniano (Lecce), Salone delle Muse Teatro Petruzzelli (Bari), Salone Vallisa (Bari), Rathaus Stuttgart. In October 2019, he gave a recital at St. John's University in New York State and a concert with Pierlugi Camicia in Stuttgart. In addition to works by early southern Italian composers, his performances also focus on contemporary music. Giuseppe DE MARCO was born in 1972 in Tricase, in the province of Lecce. His first trombone teacher was Giuseppe De Giorgi, and he graduated from the Conservatorio Statale Tito Schipa, Lecce, in 1993, under the direction of Giuseppe Candido. He furthered his studies under Andrea Conti (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma).He has participated in several master classes with Michael Mulcahy (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Charles Vernon (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Rex Martin (Northwestern University Chicago), Jay Friedman (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Andrea Conti (Accademia Santa Cecilia), Daniele Morandini (Teatro alla Scala). Since 1996 he has been principal trombonist of the Tito Schipa "Istituzione Concertistica Orchestrale" Lecce. He has played in several orchestras: "Petruzzelli di Bari", "Orchestra di Cordoba", "Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia", "Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia", under the direction of conductors such as Piero Bellugi, Gustav Kuhn, Donato Renzetti, Aldo Ceccato, Richard Bonynge, Vladimir Delmann, Alain Guingal, Stefano Ranzani, György Györiványi-Ráth, Enrique Mazzola, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Fabio Luisi, Salvatore Accardo, Marcello Panni, Antonio Pappano and many others. He participated in television broadcasts for "Rai Uno", "Canale 5" and "TeleMontecarlo". Soloist and member of various chamber music ensembles such as Ensemble del Sud, directed by Maestro Marcello Panni. From 2002 to 2014, he taught trumpet and trombone at the Ceglie Messapica Conservatory of Music (Brindisi), part of the Lecce Tito Schipa State Conservatory of Music. He is currently trombone teacher at the Umberto Giordano State Conservatory in Foggia. The concert is jointly organised by the Pécs-Baranya Chapter of the Hungarian Kodály Society, the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

22.

2022.

IV. Doctoral Concert

PROGRAMMEMáté BORBÍRÓ: R. Schumann: Drei Romanzen, with Ibolya HUSZICS on piano Elek LUKÁCS: Knut Nystedt: Laudate DominumTamás Luis de Victoria: O vos omnesArvo Pärt: Bogoroditse DjevoSándor Szokolay: Rejoice in the LordZsolt Gárdonyi: Hymn of thanksgivingVeszprém Liszt Ferenc Choral Society, organ soloist: Áron VARGAÁkos BARRA: Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata in G major No. 2 Op. 13, piano with Dávid KOZMABÁNFI Barna: Claude Debussy: Rhapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone, with Panni HOTZI on pianoTamás SZITÁS: S. Prokofiev: Five Melodies (transcription by Tamás SZITÁS), with Viktória DR. KISS-SZABÓ on pianoÁkos BARRA was born in Debrecen in 1982, both his parents are violinists. He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc University of Music and Performing Arts, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Music in 2007.He taught at the MEA Music School for more than 10 years, was first violinist and concertmaster of the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra for 6 years, and is currently a teacher at the Zoltán Kodály Music Secondary School. During his studies he took part in several courses, such as those of Takayoshi Wanami, Imre Rohmann, Eszter Perényi, Géza Kapás and Ernő Sebestyén. He also has a good number of competition results. In 2000, Edina Giliga and her partner won the National Béla Bartók Violin Competition, and in 2004, Eszter Pál and her partner won the National Prize for Excellence at the 1st National College Meeting and Competition. During her university years, she was awarded the Republican Scholarship in 2004, the Young Musician of the Year Award at the Kodály Philharmonic in 2011, and during her teaching career she received the Special Teacher Award for her coaching work of Lili Kovács at the National Ede Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2018 and the National János Koncz Violin Competition in 2019.Since September 2019 she is a lecturer at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen. Orchestral activities in Hungary and abroad. He has worked with great conductors and soloists such as Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Brian Fieldhouse, Ádám Medveczky, Balázs Kocsár, György Vashegyi, Tamás Vásáry, Mladen Tarbuk, Oliver von Dohnányi, Karolos Trikolidis, Kristóf Baráti, Barnabás Kelemen, Gergely Bogányi, István Váradi, José Carreras.He has toured in most European countries and China on several occasions. From September 2021 he is a student at the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs. Barna BÁNFI saxophonist obtained a Master's degree with distinction and a "Magister artium" degree in classical saxophone from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 2017, and in 2019 he graduated with distinction as a teacher of art at the University of Debrecen. During his studies, he attended master classes with Arno Bornkamp, Claude Delange, Marcus Weiss, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Christian Wirth and Nobuya Sugawa. In addition to the saxophone, he also plays the tároga. Throughout his career he has performed as a guest artist with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles at home and abroad and has contributed to several CD recordings. As a soloist, he has performed with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra and the Győr Symphonic Band, among others. In 2016 and 2018, he was awarded the National Talent Program Scholarship of the Ministry of Human Resources. In 2018, he performed in India as a member of Trio Inferno from Vienna and at the XVI World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb. Since 2017, he has been teaching saxophone and chamber music at the Prima-Primissima award-winning Weiner Leó Catholic School of Music and Music Secondary School in Budapest and since 2019 at the Faculty of Arts of Széchényi István University in Győr. In addition to her music studies, she holds a degree in business administration and has worked in Germany for the artist management agency IMG Artists. In 2021, she also obtained the qualification of certified teacher and public education manager. Máté BORBÍRÓ was born in Szolnok in 1991. He started his musical studies at the Kodály Zoltán Elementary Art Education Institute in Törökszentmiklós with Irén Márta, and continued at the Music Secondary School in Debrecen as a student of Péter Győrfi. After successful admission, he obtained his Bachelor's degree under the guidance of Dr. András Kovalcsik. During his years in Debrecen, he studied with Prof. Szabolcs Zempléni (ARD-winning horn player) in Trossingen, Germany, for half a year on an Erasmus scholarship, and later obtained his Master's degree in orchestral music with him. During his years of study in Germany he spent one year as an intern at the Hofer Symphoniker. In addition, he has performed as a wind quintet, brass quintet and horn ensemble in various musical formations. For two years he was a music school teacher for young horn candidates from Lake Constance. At the same time, he spent six months as a student of Prof. Jörg Brückner (solo horn of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra) at the Weimar Conservatory of Music. During his studies, he had many opportunities to attend courses with various professors and horn artists such as Prof. Christian Dallmann, Prof. Christian Lampert and Frooydis Ree Wekre. Elek LUKÁCS was born in Veszprém in 1992. He spent his childhood in Veszprém, where he also started to study music at the Antal Csermák Music School, specialising in horns. In 2007, he was admitted to the Dohnányi Ernő Secondary School of Music, also for horn, where he later majored in music theory and then private singing. In 2012, he was admitted to the Faculty of Music at the University of Debrecen, where he graduated in 2018 as a teacher of vocal music and music theory. After graduation, she worked at the Veszprém Music Secondary School and Music Academy, and since September 2019 she has been teaching at the University of Pécs Faculty of Arts, teaching music and music theory and solfege for music majors. Between 2013 and 2016 she was the director of the Veszprém-based Opus Choir, and between 2012 and 2021 she was a member of the Veszprém City Choir, where she also worked as assistant conductor. Since November 2021, he has been the conductor of the long-established Liszt Ferenc Choir Society of Veszprém. Since 2015, he has also been the author of the critical journal SÉD, and since 2016 he has also been a Reformed cantor, and since the summer of 2021 he has been a permanent member of the Veszprém Reformed Diocese Organ Fund initiative, and a contributor to the newly-prepared Reformed chorale book. In 2015, he was a special prize winner of the national Lantos Rezső choirmaster competition, and in 2018 he won 2nd place. In 2017 he was awarded the Zsolt Szesztay Memorial Prize in recognition of his work.Tamás SZITÁS began his conservatory studies in 2004 at the Egressy Béni Secondary School of Music as a student of Levente Puskás, and under his supervision he completed his BA in saxophone and MA in music teaching at the University of Debrecen in 2011 and 2014.After a short period of teaching at primary level, she started her work at the János Richter Music Secondary School in Győr, then became a lecturer at the University of Debrecen, and also teaches at the Ádám Jenő AMI in Szigetszentmiklós. In addition to teaching, he regularly performs as an accompanist in orchestras such as the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Győr Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also soprano saxophonist of the Silumona Saxophone Quartet and alto saxophonist of the Novus Saxophone Quartet.Facebook-eventYouTube-video of the concert. The concert is jointly organised by the Pécs-Baranya Chapter of the Hungarian Kodály Society, the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee. Concert of the 1st year music doctoral students of the PTE Doctoral School of Arts

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

17.

2022.

Gala Concert

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

16.

2022.

III. Doctoral Concert

Ibolya HUSZICS graduated from the Music Academy of Pécs and also graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pécs University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1982 she has been a teacher at the Pécs High School of Arts and an appointed teacher of art at the Pécs University of Music and Performing Arts. She regularly gives concerts, and has accompanied national and international music competitions and courses. She has made numerous radio and recordings. Dóra KOKAS was born into a family of musicians, where she has always been surrounded by the love of music. She took part in her first cello competition at the age of seven and since then she has won solo prizes such as 1st prize at the 2017 Hamburg Debut International Cello Competition, 2nd prize at the 2016 International Brahms Competition and two special prizes at the 2014 Pablo Casals International Cello Competition. She is currently studying at the Razumovsky Academy in London with Oleg Kogan. Despite her young age, Dóra Kokas is a highly experienced chamber musician, having started playing as a cellist with the Kelemen Quartet at the age of 17, winning first prizes in competitions such as the Premio Paolo Borciani Competition, one of the world's largest quartet competitions, and the Beijing International String Quartet Competition. Although in 2015 she decided to leave the Kelemen Quartet for a while to concentrate on her solo career, chamber music has played a major role in her life ever since. As a chamber musician, she has played and plays regularly with partners such as Joshua Bell, Pekka Kuusisto, Nicholas Altstaedt, Maxim Rysanov, Vilde Frang, José Gallardo and Péter Frankl. She has played at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, but his strongest ties are to the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Ivett NAGY holds an honours degree in violin performance from the Liszt Academy of Music and has attended masterclasses of renowned violinists in Hungary, Austria, Romania, Germany and Switzerland. She has won first prize and a special prize at the János Koncz National Violin Competition, and has also received numerous scholarships at home and abroad. As a member of the National Board of the Jeunesses Musicales, she has regularly given concerts as a soloist since she was in high school. She has made recordings for Hungarian Radio and Television and has given live recitals at the Márványterem of Hungarian Radio. She has performed with such renowned partners as violinist Vilmos Szabadi, organist István Ella and as soloist under the baton of Gergely Kesselyák and Tamás Gál. In 2010 she was awarded a scholarship for a one-year teaching and artistic activity in Utsunomiyaba (Japan) within the framework of the JSBM cultural exchange programme in Vienna. From 2005 to 2016 she taught at the László Hermann Music Secondary School in Székesfehérvár, where she also held the position of head of department, and from 2016 to 2018 at the Béni Egressy Music Secondary School in Budapest. Her pupils have won prizes in numerous competitions. In 2017, she founded the chamber ensemble "Duo Vive", and in 2019, he founded the classical music project StopConcert. She has performed in solo and chamber music concerts and festivals in Hungary, Europe and Japan. Cecília TIMÁR studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs under Attila Kertész and Tamás Lakner, and at the Academy of Music under Éva Kollár. She was the singer, soloist and assistant conductor of the Siófok Children and Youth Choir and the Siófok Miners' Women's Choir, founded by her father, conductor Imre Timár, and between 2007 and 2013 she was the conductor and artistic director of the choirs. In addition to the city events and traditional concerts, the choirs were regular participants in the Bárdos Lajos Music Weeks music festival in Bátaszek. He has participated in several conducting masterclasses, including the 2007 Kodály Workshop with choirs in Pécs, where he conducted the gala concert. He is the conductor and artistic director of the Siófok Youth Chamber Choir, which he founded in 2006. In 2009 they were guests at a music festival organised by the city of Oulu in Finland, in 2010 they performed in the concert hall of the Old Music Academy in Budapest and in 2011 they gave an independent concert in Pécs. In 2012, they received a "Silver Diploma" at the International Advent Choir Festival and Competition in Prague. Balázs IGRIC was born in Budapest in 1987. In 2012 he graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with honours as a trumpet player. His teachers were Zoltán Szűcs and János Kirsch. In 2009 he was awarded the special prize of the jury at the final of the International Trumpet Competition in Brno. During his pedagogical career he has received several gold certificates for competition coaching and has also served as a jury member for brass competitions. In addition to her teaching activities, she has given solo concerts from 2010 onwards. From 2012 to 2016 she studied historical and baroque trumpet privately under the guidance of Krisztián Kováts. Currently a first-year doctoral student at the PTE-MK. Martin GÖLLES was born in 1994 in Nagykanizsa. He started playing the piano at the age of eight at the local Farkas Ferenc Music School. In 2017 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Tartu as a choral conductor and in 2020 he will study vocal music with Prof. Dr. Tamás Lakner. Currently she is a first-year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Arts of the University of Pécs. Since his university years, he has been the assistant choirmaster and piano accompanist of the Benedek Virág Youth Mixed Faculty of the Batthyány Lajos High School in Nagykanizsa, and cantor of the Evangelical Church of Szepetnek. As a member of the University Choir of Pécs and the Béla Bartók Male Choir, he has performed in several countries. As a composer, he has written pieces for Hungarian and foreign ensembles, and his compositions include works for choir, chamber orchestra and solo instrument. His oratorio Messe de la Joie was premiered in Dijon, France, and in the Vézelay Basilica in the summer of 2019; in 2020, his choral work on the poem A négyökrös szekér (The Four-wheeled Chariot) by Sándor Petőfi was awarded a prize at the MÜPA Music Competition; he works continuously with the Swiss chamber orchestra Quintette Bourgogne, and his works are regularly performed in the ensemble's repertoire. Mihály LADUVER started his musical studies at the age of seven at the music school in Mohács. Initially he played the flute, then he learned to play his current instrument, the clarinet. A defining experience of his music school years was his membership of the Mohács wind orchestra, with which he travelled as a child through many European countries. He continued his studies at the Pécs Secondary School of Arts as a student of Tamás Paláncz. He was admitted to the clarinet faculty of the University of Pécs, where Tamás Paláncz also became his teacher. After his years in Pécs he studied clarinet at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where his professor was Zsolt Szatmári. During his university years he took part in numerous clarinet courses with artists such as Michel Arrignon, Jerome Julien Laferriere, Gábor Varga, Béla Kovács and Tibor Dittrich. In addition to his orchestral work, he is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs. Facebook-eventYouTube-video of the concert. The concert is jointly organised by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee. It is supported by the National Cultural Fund, the Hungarian Academy of Arts and the Human Resources Fund. Concert by 2nd year music doctoral students of the PTE Doctoral School of Arts

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

10.

2022.

Gala concert of the University of Virginia and the University of Pécs

PERFORMERS:Ayn BALIJA, violist (UVA)Jiyeon CHOI, clarinet (UVA)Anthony LEE, pianist (UVA)Daniel SENDER, violinist (UVA)STUDENTS:ANH Le Hai, viola (PTE)Noémi BABICS, violin (PTE)Amelia BAILEY, violin (UVA)Brent DAVIS, cello (UVA)Christofer FOX, cello (UVA)Lauren SCHMIDT, viola (UVA)Annamária SERLEG, violin (PTE)Emese SZREMKÓ, viola (PTE)Enikő Sára TÓTH, cello (PTE) Daniel SENDER enjoys a diverse musical career and has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and China.  A frequent guest soloist and principal artist with chamber and symphony orchestras throughout the region, Dr. Sender currently serves as concertmaster of the Charlottesville Symphony, Charlottesville Opera and the Virginia Consort. Dr. Sender was a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest and attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Vilmos Szabadi.  He was formerly the first violinist of the Adelphi String Quartet, which held a fellowship residency at the University of Maryland, and was for four years the violinist of the Annapolis Chamber Players.  Dr. Sender has recorded for Centaur, Sono Luminus, Bifrost and other independent labels. As a chamber musician, Dr. Sender has had the pleasure of performing with members of the Audubon Quartet, Axelrod and Left Bank quartets and spent two years working intensively under the mentorship of the Guarneri Quartet. Chamber and solo concerts have taken him to venues around the world including the Kennedy Center, Hungarian Embassy, Bartók Hall of the Erdödy Palace (Budapest), Smithsonian Museum of American History, University of Pécs (Hungary), Universität der Kunste (Berlin), the National School of the Arts “Panayot Pipkov” (Pleven, Bulgaria) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal). A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Sender attended Ithaca College, the University of Maryland, the Liszt Academy (Budapest) and the Institute for European Studies (Vienna).  His primary teachers include Vilmos Szabadi, Arnold Steinhardt, David Salness, René Staar, and Gerald Fischbach. He is on the performance faculty of the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music and also holds a faculty position at Interlochen’s Adult Chamber Music Camp. Ayn BALIJA is currently the Associate Professor of Viola at the University of Virginia, Principal Violist of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia and violist of the Rivanna String Quartet. She has also been on the faculty at James Madison University and Lorain County Community College.  For twelve years she was also a tenured member of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, helping to promote new music for chamber orchestras through commissions and recordings of new works on the Summit record label. Ms. Balija has performed additional chamber works at Yachats Summer Music Festival (OR), North Carolina Chamber Music Festival and the Staunton Music Festival (VA).  Ms. Balija has performed solo recitals in New Zealand, Oregon, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia with programs that focus on the versatility of the viola. Ayn Balija holds a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Masters of Music from The Cleveland Institute of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from James Madison University. Her principal mentors have been Peter Slowik, Jeffrey Irvine and Karen Tuttle. Clarinetist and educator Jiyeon CHOI joined the University of Virginia Arts & Sciences faculty as a lecturer in Clarinet and as Principal Clarinet with the Charlottesville Symphony in the fall of 2019. She also holds the Principal Clarinet position with the Sinfonia da Camera, Illinois and previously served on the faculty of Purdue University and the Illinois Summer Youth Music program.  She received solo and chamber awards from various competitions, including Misbin Chamber Competition, and was a runner-up in the Krannert Debut Artist Competition. She has performed in such prestigious venues as the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and Carnegie Hall, among others. She was a member of the National Orchestral Institute with a scholarship, TIMF Academy Orchestra and Orchestre de la Francophonie in Montreal.  In addition, she has been a resident artist at the Atlantic Music Festival. She can be heard on the Naxos recording American Classics Series: Randall Thompson, Symphony No. 2 under James Ross. Jiyeon received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music performance from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Ewha Womans University. Her principal teachers include J. David Harris, Kenneth Grant and Jeongmin Song. Amelia BAILEY is a third-year double major at the University of Virginia (Environmental Science and Music Performance) who has been playing the violin since the age of 3. Prior to high school, she was taught by National Symphony Orchestra artists Jennifer Kim and Ricardo Cyncynates.She is a member of the Charlottesville Symphony and a student of Daniel Sender. Prior to her university years, Amelia was a member of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras for 5 years. As a high school student, she was a National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship recipient, which included several solo and chamber performances at the Kennedy Center. Through these programs, she has had the opportunity to perform in concert venues such as the Italian and Russian embassies, the National Gallery of Art, etc. As an Environmental Studies student, Amelia hopes to pursue a career in environmental conservation, with a focus on climate change. Lauren SCHMIDT is a second-year student in Chemistry and Performing Arts. Raised in Westport, Connecticut, she has been playing the violin since the age of 9. She has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and Lincoln Center, and in 2018 he won the Staples High School Concerto Competition, performing Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole with the Staples Symphonic Orchestra. She served as concertmaster of the Norwalk Youth Symphony from 2016-2018, and was able to tour Europe with the ensemble. An avid chamber musician, Lauren has been a member of the Ariston String Quartet and the Apollo String Quartet since 2015. She has participated in the Skidmore String Festival and attends the Stamford University Summer Chamber Course every year. Brent DAVIS is a student of commerce and performing arts. Brent grew up in Great Falls, Virginia and fell in love with the cello at the age of 11. In 2016, Brent won the McLean Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and was voted the Musical Prodigy of the Moscow Ballet.Even as a high school student, he had the privilege of playing in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Music Center at Strathmore. Brent enjoys his musical activities at the University of Virginia, as a member of the Charlottesville Symphony, Trio Sobrenna, a string quartet, and the Radio Music Society. Brent is currently a student of Adam Carter. Through Azene, he serves his community by offering free private lessons, teaching assistance, and mentoring to young musicians in public schools. He is grateful to be a member of the McIntire Music Department and looks forward to continuing his studies and fostering a love of music. Korean-American pianist Anthony LEE was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 Chicago International Music Competition, launching his career with a series of performances and a recording contract with A Life of Music Records. Other recent 2019 accomplishments include semifinalist in the West Virginia International Piano Competition and the American Prize. In the past year, Lee has participated in masterclasses with Robert McDonald, John Perry, Alexander Korsantia, Jonathan Biss, Hie-Yon Choi and Alexander Braginsky. Other masterclasses have included Martin Canin, André Laplante and William Wolfram through the Prague International Masterclasses, Orford Musique and the Atlantic Music Festival. Although he started playing the piano at the age of 7, Lee was already participating in local competitions and performing regularly by the age of 10. However, it was many years before Lee made his orchestral debut at 16, and it wasn't until he was 17 that he started playing. The talent was noticed by Yoshikazu Nagai, who took Lee under his wing at the Interlochen Academy of Arts. During his first year of intensive studies, he attended the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Natalya Antonova, Enrico Elisi, Thomas Schumacher and Logan Skelton. Lee currently works with Steven Spooner. As an organizer, Lee founded Cary Classical Concerts in January 2017, has performed in numerous concerts, and serves as artistic director. At these concerts, Lee not only performs solo and chamber music, but also speaks to audiences about a variety of topics, including his program choices. Lee's chamber music experience includes performing at the Albuquerque New Mexico Chamber Music Festival. Recently, Lee was featured on My Life in Music on WCPE, North Carolina's classical radio station. Facebook-eventYouTube-video of the concert.The concert is jointly organised by UMZE, the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Artistic Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee, with the support of Artisjus.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

01.

2022.

Chamber evening by violist NOBUKO Imai

Program descriptionThe works of Mozart, Bach, Kodály and Brahms, who are not necessarily remembered for their chamber music, show the most beautiful faces of chamber music. By not using other accompaniment, such as piano, the violin/viola duo gives the bass violin a very colourful role. He represents the bass and often even the middle fills by playing two parts under the violin. He also participates in the imitation, sometimes sharing the main melody with his chamber partner. The most famous works in the Baroque concerto-literature are Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Piece No 6 is perhaps the least frequently performed, although it has a rather special sound. It gives the impression of old consort music without any explicitly soloistic instrument. The composer originally employed viols, which gives the work a velvety, dark sound. Kodály dedicated his Adagio for violin and piano, composed in 1905, to the great violinist Imre Waldbauer. The composer later transcribed the work for viola and cello. The piece, with its peculiarly peaceful tone, bears elements of Kodály's early style. It draws on the tonal world of Debussy, but its germ also contains the Hungarian tone which later developed in numerous compositions. Brahms's four-movement piano quartet is also referred to as the Werther quartet, based on Goethe's epistolary novel, and is scored for piano, violin, bass violin and cello. A particular feature of the work is a motif that often appears in the first movement, reminiscent of a sigh, which is thought to be a musical pronunciation of the name Clara, and a reference to Clara Schumann. Initially Brahms had platonic feelings towards the wife of his fellow composer, but later their relationship developed into a deep friendship.NOBUKO Imai's exceptional talent, musical integrity and charisma have made him one of the most distinguished violists of our time, both in the profession and among the general public. Formerly a member of the highly respected Vermeer and Michelangelo String Quartets, he has combined a distinguished international career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He has performed with many of the world's most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the London, Boston and Chicago Symphonies, among others. His chamber music collaborators include Gidon Kremer, Midori, Mischa Maisky, Yo yo Ma, András Schiff and Martha Argerich. Miss Imai's professional life has focused not only on exploring the many facets of the viola, but also on sharing her experience and bringing it to audiences. This conscientious work is reflected, for example, in the annual Viola Space project, the Hindemith Festivals series (1995/1996), and the Tokyo International Viola Competition, the first international competition exclusively for viola in Asia. He has made more than 40 recordings with Bis, Chandos, Philips and Sony, among others. He is currently professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory, the Kronberg Academy and the Queen Sofia Conservatory of Music in Madrid. He is also Professor at Ueno Gakuen University in Tokyo and Visiting Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.They contribute to:Liszt Prize-winning pianist Márta GULYÁSVilmos SZABADI Liszt Prize-winning violinist, Artist of MeritViolist Emil LUDMÁNYTOMASZ Máté cellistSZTANKOV Iván, cellistNóra PAPP viola studentMária EGYHÁZI viola studentFacebook-eventInterview with Nobuko Imai (Pannon Television) The concert is jointly organized by the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI, and the Pécs Academic Committee's Arts Working Committee. It is supported by the Human Resources Funding Agency.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

February

22.

2022.

Bach-evening

Bach's Flute Sonata in E minor is a product of his years in Cologne, when the composer was in the service of Prince Leopold as an orchestra leader and chamber musician. The Sonata in E major was inspired by Bach's visit to the court of Frederick the Great in 1741, where his son Carl Philipp Emanuel had been appointed principal harpsichordist the year before. Bach dedicated the work to Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, the King's private secretary, who, like the King, was an amateur flutist. The four-movement composition is followed by a work in only three movements. The middle movement of the A major Sonata is in the unusual parallel key of A minor. This movement survives incomplete in the autograph of the work, which has since been reconstructed by several composers, so that it is known only in these forms. The two pieces that follow the intermission, the Sonatas in G minor and B minor, are also in three movements. While we know that the former may have been played on the violin, the latter may have been originally written for a different instrument, based on the surviving manuscripts. It is worth noting the change of function of the piano - or originally harpsichord - part in these works. In the first two, it is only present as a basso continuo, providing accompaniment, and its main function is to provide harmonic support for the bass solo. In the other sonatas, on the other hand, it is now an obbligato instrument, i.e. it participates in the musical process as an instrument in its own right. Its solo parts complement the flute, imitating its melodies, and often almost doubling it. Meet our performing artists! Béla DRAHOS is a Liszt Ferenc Prize-winning conductor, flutist, habilitated university professor, honorary citizen of Székesfehérvár. He has been playing the flute since the age of eight, a member of the Kaposvár Symphony Orchestra since 1966, and first flute of the Csiky Gergely Theatre in Kaposvár since 1967. In 1971 he won first prize at the Concertino Praha 71 international music competition, in '72 the Hungarian Television Flute Competition's Grand Prize, and in '73 the UNESCO Grand Prize in Bratislava. Between 1973 and 1978 he continued his studies at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. At that time he was elected first flutist of the Hungarian State Opera House. Between 1976 and 1993 he was principal flutist of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1976, he founded the Wind Quintet of the Radio Orchestra, with which he won the first prize at the Colmar Wind Quintet Competition in 1979. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member, he has given numerous concerts in the world's most prestigious concert halls, such as the Barbican Center in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Moscow Conservatory, Hercules Hall in Munich, the Festspielhaus in Salzburg and the Filmarmonie in Berlin. In 1988, as a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, he appeared as a guest soloist in New Zealand, and gave recitals in Berlin and Paris. In 1990, he recorded all of Mozart's flute concertos with Hungaroton. In 1991 he enrols in Karl Österreicher's master class in Vienna, and at his encouragement he makes his debut with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the same year, and later conducts the State Concert Orchestra in Eisenstadt. Meanwhile, he becomes principal conductor of the Kaposvár Symphony Orchestra, and in 1993 he becomes principal flutist of the Hungarian State Orchestra and assistant conductor to Ken-Ichiro Kobajashi. With this orchestra he has toured as a conductor in England, Germany and Austria. He founds the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia Orchestra and records all Beethoven and Haydn symphonies with the Naxos label. During his conducting career he also conducted the Radio Orchestra and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. Dániel VILLÁNYI, pianist, graduated with a BA degree from the Liszt Academy of Music in 2010, where his teachers were Kálmán Dráfi, András Kemenes, Rita Wágner and Márta Gulyás. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Balázs Szokolay and Larissa Kondrateva, and then at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv with Emanuel Krasovsky. In 2013, she also obtained her MA degree in Weimar, where she was admitted to the Konzertexamen, the highest level of soloist training. To date, he has made numerous highly successful solo, orchestral and chamber music appearances at prominent classical music events and venues such as the ECHO "Rising Stars" international concert series at the Palace of Arts. She has performed in Germany as soloist with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and has had several highly successful concerts in Vienna, among other places. The highlight of her career came in 2018, when she performed Bach's Goldberg Variations at one of Europe's most important classical music festivals, the German Rheingau Musik Festival. As a chamber musician, he has played with such distinguished partners as Zoltán Fejérvári, Bálint Mohai and Lydia Rinecker. His first solo album will be released in 2022 under the auspices of Austrian Gramophone.The concert is jointly organised by the Hungarian Kodály Society Pécs-Baranya Member Group, the Potenton Foundation, the PTE MK ZMI and the Arts Working Committee of the Pécs Academic Committee. Facebook-event:https://cutt.ly/lOEBxQWWe are looking forward to welcome you! Concert by Béla Drahos, Liszt Prize-winning flutist and Dániel Villányi, pianist

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

December

01.

2021.

Jazz concert by the Dániel SZABÓ Trio - SOLD OUT

The Dániel SZABÓ Trio:Dániel SZABÓ, pianoMátyás SZANDAI, contrabassJonathan PINSON, drumsThe formation of internationally renowned musicians worthy of the jazz genre: the liberated joy of playing together, special rhythmic richness and a series of characteristic melodies characterize their way of performing.Dániel SZABÓ's (leader of the ensemble, also trained in classical music) compositions often contain elements of classical music, but other musical styles also serve as inspiration. Orchestral interaction is an important aspect: reacting to each other and the spirit of communal music making. Respectful to tradition, fresh, dynamic, true contemporary music waiting for the audience of the trio! Dániel SZABÓ Daniel SZABO is an award-winning pianist-composer. His music has a unique tone, showing multiple influences, including his Eastern-European roots. He regularly performs at major venues both in the US and Europe; his trio was featured in the “Mellon Jazz Up” series hosted by Danilo Perez at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, sharing the stage with such artists as Lang Lang or the Wayne Shorter Quartet. He has toured worldwide and collaborated with Chris Potter, Peter Erskine and Kurt Rosenwinkel, among many others. His latest album, “Visionary”, was selected by JAZZIZ as “Best Albums of the Year 2019”. It was written for a unique instrumentation combining woodwind sextet with string quartet and jazz rhythm section, featuring Bob Sheppard, Kim Richmond, Sara Andon, Edwin Livingston and Peter Erskine. The style of this new repertoire shows a blend of jazz, classical and film music idioms. Szabo is the winner of the ASCAP/Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Commissioning Prize; the Grand Prize of the City of Paris at the “Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Contest” in 2006 and the “Jas Hennessy Solo Piano Competition” in Montreux, in 2000.Szabo is also a professor at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and at the University of Pecs (PTE). Matyas SZANDAI was graduated in the classical departement of Ferenc Liszt Acadamy of Music in Budapest. He has had the opportunity to play and record with famous musicians such as Archie Shepp, David Murray, Herbie Mann, Chico Freeman, Rosario Giuliani, Charlie Mariano, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Rob Brown, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gerard Presencer,Robin Eubanks, Chris Potter, Flavio Boltro, John Ellis, Zbigniew Namislowski, Daniel Szabo ,Mihaly Dresch, Kalman Olah etc. With various line-ups he has toured America, India and has performed in almost every country in Europe. Jonathan PINSON began his love affair with the drum set at the age of two when he was surrounded by the music of his mother’s choir. His formal music training began at the age of six with instruction on the piano. Shortly after, Jonathan transitioned to the drum set at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and studied with Billy Higgins from The World Stage. While in high school, Jonathan performed professionally at various jazz clubs around the Los Angeles area. He also enjoyed mentoring young percussion enthusiasts and helped conduct jazz workshops for inner city youths at local public elementary schools, in high school as well as in college. During his senior year in high school, Jonathan won three major coveted awards, 1st place in the Music Center's Spotlight Award (2007), Performer of the Year at Alexander Hamilton High School and the Jimmy Lyon's Scholarship Award for a full tuition scholarship at the Berklee College of Music. Additionally, he received the Dolo Coker Scholarship (2009, 2010). After Jonathan received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Music at the Berklee College of Music, he was one of seven musicians selected for the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the University of California Los Angeles, which resulted in a Masters of Music. Shortly after being chosen, he was asked to tour with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter's band, at the age of 23. This experience identified him as a highly sought after drummer in the music industry and has allowed him to tour and perform with notable artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, John Clayton, Dave Liebman, Ed Simon, Eric Reed, Kamasi Washington, Marquis Hill and Gilad Hekselman to name a few. He has performed and toured at various locations including the following: Tokyo Jazz Festival, International Jazz Day in Istanbul Turkey, Panama Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Nancy France Jazz Festival, a tour of Israel with The Ronen Shmueli Quintet, Newport Jazz Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Jazz Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Currently he is actively performing with other artists, and teaching throughout New York and Los Angeles.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

18.

2021.

Piano recital by the Liszt Prize-winning Gábor FARKAS

PROGRAM:Franz Schubert: 4 impromptus D. 935, Op. 14BREAKFranz Schubert - Liszt Ferenc: Soirées de Vienne No. 7. Robert Schumann - Liszt Ferenc: Widmung Frédéric Chopin - Liszt Ferenc: Meine Freuden Liszt Ferenc: Ave Maria Liszt Ferenc: Valse Impromptu Johann Strauss - Alfred Grünfeld: Soirées de Vienne Gábor FARKAS (1981) graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest in 2005. He finished his DLA studies in 2014 at his Alma Mater under the mentorship of Zoltán Kocsis and Tamás Vásáry. At the same time he was a student of Prof. William Grant Naboré at the International Piano Academy Lake Como.He made his debut at the Carnegie Hall in 2016 as the winner of the 2015 Audition of New York Concert Artists & Associates. In 2009, he won the “6. International Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar” and the “Audience’s Prize” and an award for best performance of Haydn Sonata, in 2003 he received the first prize of the “Hungarian National Radio’s Piano Competition”, and in 2000 he was the winner of the “Bartók Béla Piano Competition” in Baden bei Wien. In March 2012 he got the Franz Liszt Award (the highest Hungarian State Award for artists). In May 2009 he received the “Gundel Art Prize”, in November 2008 he was given the „Prima Junior” prize; and in March 2008 he was awarded a special state prize “The best young artist of the year”. In October 2015 he became an Honorary Citizen of the city of Ózd.In the past years along the concert halls of Hungary he performed in the most famous concert halls such as Teatro la Fenice (Venice), BOZAR (Brussels), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Auditorio National de Musica (Madrid), NCPA Concert Hall (Beijing), Seoul Art Center (Seoul), Oriental Art Center (Shanghai) and Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo). He was invited to prestigious international festivals, such as the “Budapest Spring Festival”; the “International Piano Forum”, Berlin; the “Schumann Festival, Zwickau; the “Bach Festival” Thuringia; “Pélerinages-Kunstfest Weimar”, “Musicathlon”, Beijing; “Piano Festival”, Vilnius; “Kaposfest”; “Franz Liszt Festival” in the Castle of Gödöllő, Hungary. So far, he has worked with such worldwide known conductors as Zoltán Kocsis, Ádám Fischer, Olli Mustonen, Philippe Bender, George Tchitchinadze, Olaf Henzold, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Tamás Vásáry.His debut CD recording entitled „An evening with Liszt” was published by Warner Classics in November 2008, which won the prestigious “Grand Prix” as the best Liszt recording of the year 2009 given by the Franz Liszt International Society. His second album was a live recording of the Official Opening Concert of the Liszt Year, 2011 with Zoltán Kocsis and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, published also by Warner Classics in July 2011. He made recordings for Brilliant Classics and Hungaroton Records as well.In 2017 three different Cd-s has been released, by three different Cd publisher. The first one of these CD-s containing virtuoso opera and song transcriptions of Liszt, was published by the Steinway & Sons in January 2017 in the USA after an extremely successful album release concert held in the Steinway Hall, New York. His second CD contains major works of Schumann by Hungaroton is available from March 2017, his latest Cd, released by Toccata Classics, London, he plays Ferenc Farkas's Piano Concertino with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra Budapest, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.He has recently been awarded the title of „Steinway Artist” by the local presentation of the company in New York, Hamburg and Budapest.Among his future engagements in 2017 there are massive tours in South Korea, China, Japan and in Taiwan and he will have a tour in Hungary with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s a great honour for him to be appointed as professor of the Tokyo College of Music, Japan.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

16.

2021.

Gala concert of the conference of the Hungarian Kodály Society "Pécs Breakthrough"

Kinga KRISZTA, opera singerLajos GEIGER, opera singerAndrás KÖRTESI, pianistBéla Bartók Girls Choir – Bernadett RÓZSA conductor and Attila KERTÉSZ Liszt Prize-winning choral conductorZoltán Kodály Song Society of Galanta – Dr. Mónika JÓZSA conductorPécs University Choir – Prof. dr. Tamás LAKNER Liszt Prize-winning conductor Kinga Kriszta was born in the city of Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1980. She commenced her vocal studies at the Zoltán Kodály High School of Music, and later graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Debrecen in 2008 with a degree in voice and voice pedagogy. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Csokonai Theatre of Debrecen, where she has debuted in several solo roles (as Mařenka in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Xenia in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Mátyás Hunyadi in Erkel's Hunyadi László). She made her debut at the Hungarian State Opera in January 2010, in the role of Papagena. István HORVÁTH his diploma in voice at the University of Pécs in a course taught by Márta Bukszár. Meanwhile, his career as an opera singer was launched with the opera company of the National Theatre of Pécs, and he later made his debut in the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Miskolc. He sang the title role in Le compte Ory to great acclaim at the National Theatre of Szeged and at the Budapest Spring Festival, and later went on to sing the entire bel canto tenor repertoire, such as Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Fenton (Falstaff), and other tenor roles like Fenton (Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor) and Rodolfo (La bohème). As a regular guest artist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zoltán Kocsis, he has appeared with them in Brussels and Rome, where he sang for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Ferenc Liszt's birth. In the course of his work with the orchestra, he has performed in such rarities as Schönberg's Moses und Aron (in the role of the Youth) and in Richard Strauss's Daphne (as Leukippos). He has been a soloist with the Hungarian State Opera since 2010. In addition to appearances and recitals here in Hungary, he has sung across Europe, as well as in both North and South America. He has been a guest soloist with several orchestras and an acclaimed participant in such festivals as the Budapest Spring Festival, the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, the Bartók Plus Opera Festival in Miskolc, the Margaret Island Open-air Festival and VeszprémFest. In 2012 he was invited by György Selmeczi and the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera to sing the title role in the CD recording of György Orbán's opera Prince Pikkó. In his work on the opera stage, he has collaborated with such renowned artists as Andrea Rost, Erika Miklósa, Zoltán Kocsis, Juan Pons, Roberto Scandiuzzi and Roberto Abbado.Awards and recognitions:Silver Cross of Merit (2021)Juventus awardSimándy Commemorative Plaque The Zoltán Kodály Chorus of Galanta was founded in the autumn of 1956. The founders asked Tibor Ag to become the leader of the choir. It was Zoltan Kodaly himself who guided the choir in its first steps and also agreed to lend it his name and he followed the choir’s activity until the end of his life.From 1962 the choir ceased existing for six years and re-started its activity for the festival of Slovakia’s Hungarian choral movement, the ‘Kodaly Days’. For the first ‘Kodaly Days’ in 1969, the Zoltan Kodaly Chorus was already operating and it has been the only Hungarian choir that has actively taken part in all of these three-yearly events since then.The founding conductor, Tibor Ag, led the choir until 1979 then Zsuzsanna Csemez took over the conducting for three years. From 1982 up to today Monika Jozsa has been the leading conductor of the choir.The present repertoire of the choir consists of more than two hours of concert programming. This includes choral works from every era, but mainly the 20th century body of Hungarian choral work. The choir has sung in eleven languages so far, namely in Latin, Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew.During the existence of the Zoltan Kodaly Chorus the choir, apart from several worthwhile home performances, has successfully represented the town of Galanta abroad, in Hungary, Germany, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy, Israel and France. Dr. Mónika JÓZSA choir conductor, music and voice teacher is Assistant Professor at the Teacher Training Institute of the Central European Studies Faculty of the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra (Slovakia). She is an honorary member of the Hungarian Kodály Society and a non-academician member of the secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. She began studying choral conducting at the Higher Choral Conductor Training Institute in Budapest in 1985. She graduated in conducting in 1992 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and as a voice and music teacher and choir conductor in 2003 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2013 she obtained a doctoral degree in the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, her field of research being the work and relationships of Kodály Zoltán in Slovakia. From 1981 to 1994 she was choral conductor of the Girls’ Choir of the Hungarian Language Grammar School in Galanta, and from 1986 to 1993 the conductor of the choir of the Ifjú Szivek Hungarian Arts Ensemble in Bratislava. From 1982 she has directed the Kodály Zoltán Chorale in Galanta, and from 1992 the Hungarian Choir in the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra. From 1980 she was a singer and later conductor of the Vass Lajos Choir of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia, where from 2006 she was artistic director. She has an important role in training Hungarian music teachers in choral conducting in Slovakia. From 2006 she has been a regular guest speaker and leader of choral conducting courses at the Jókai Mór Summer School organized by the Alliance of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia. The choirs she directs interpret choral music at an extremely high artistic level, and have achieved outstanding results in several contests, in choir competitions in Hungary and abroad. She has received many awards for her concert activity and her work in education, e.g the Silver Plaquette of the Slovak Republic (2002), the Prize of the Alliance of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia (2009), the St. László Cross of Merit (2011), the Mikola Anikó Prize (2011), the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit (2013), the Prize of the Rector of the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra (2015), the Pro Urbe Prize of the town of Galanta (2017), the Csemadok Education Prize (2020), and the Music Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2020). Pécs University Choir Prof. dr. Tamás LAKNER Béla Bartók Girls Choir Attila KERTÉSZ András KÖRTESI

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

15.

2021.

Festive concert on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pécs-Baranya Member Group of the Hungarian Kodály Society

Pro Musica Girls' Choir, Cantemus Choral Institute, Nyíregyháza – Dénes SZABÓ, Liszt and Kossuth Prize-winning conductor Pro Musica Girls' Choir© Andrea Felvégi The Pro Musica Girls’ Choir has been considered one of the leading choirs in the world since they won their first international competition in their foundation year. As international ambassadors of the success of the Kodaly music education method they are sought after not only as performers at the highest level but also as participants in music education conferences and masterclasses.The uplifting experience of choral life which the girls had worked through and enjoyed as pupils at the Zoltán Kodály Primary School in Nyíregyháza and the enthusiasm for singing that they had gained from this were the legacy which led to the founding of a choir for ‘old pupils’ in 1986. Since then they have won first prizes and ‘Grand Prix’ (overall competition prizes) at leading international choir competitions. Their greatest successes have been the European Grand Prix which they won in their 10th year, the title of ‘Olympic Champion’ in two categories at the Busan Choir Olympics held in 2002 (where they also won three first prizes in separate categories) and the first prize – the Silver Rose Bowl in the BBC’s world invitation international competition ‘Let the Peoples Sing’ in 2004.The choir’s repertoire is rich and varied — extending from the Renaissance to contemporary choral music. It includes leading Renaissance and Romantic period pieces, works of Bartók and Kodály and works by contemporary Hungarian composers as well as folk music arrangements from Hungary and other countries. The choir has premiered many works and also performs pieces intended for entertainment.In addition to the many competitive prizes and other tributes the choir has received over the years it has also received two prestigious national awards for achievement in the arts shared with the Cantemus Children’s Choir – the prize of the Foundation for Hungarian Heritage and the Bartók Béla – Pásztory Ditta Prize.The choir has been conducted since its inception by Dénes Szabó. Dénes Szabó was born in Makó in 1947 and is an outstanding figure in Hungarian and international choral life. He studied music in Szeged, Miskolc and Budapest and subsequently began his teaching career at the Zoltán Kodály Primary School in Nyíregyháza. He founded the Cantemus Children’s Choir in 1975. This has since grown into a choral institute and began to operate as an independent artistic organisation under his direction in 2004 with three choirs – the Cantemus Children’s Choir, the Pro Musica Girls’ Choir and the Cantemus Mixed Voice Choir. These choirs all perform at world–class standard.He is highly sought after as a choral conductor and lecturer in music education at international festivals and conferences. He regularly holds masterclasses in choral conducting, choral voice production and the implementation of the Kodály method. He has also been a member of the judging panels for several leading international choir competitions in the USA, Slovenia, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Belgium.In appreciation of his artistic achievements and dedicated work in music education he was awarded the Ferenc Liszt prize in 1985, the Bartók Béla – Pásztory Ditta Prize in 1993, the Kossuth Prize in 2000 , the Hungarian Cultural Heritage prize in 2004 and the IFCM Life Achievement Award in 2013 . He has been a member of the Hungarian Arts Academy since 2012.In 2014 he was awarded the „Artist of the Nation” title.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

13.

2021.

Piano recital by the Liszt Prize-winning Károly MOCSÁRI

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

12.

2021.

An Evening of Chamber Music with flutist Thies ROORDA and pianist Ibolya HUSZICS

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

11.

2021.

An Evening of Chamber Music with the UMZE Chamber orchestra

Conductors: László TIHANYI and Balázs HORVÁTH PROGRAM:Balázs HORVÁTH: CircusoydGergely VAJDA: Conversations with ChildrenPéter TORNYAI: Fukla HegozoviZoltán JENEY: Self-quotationsMarcell DARGAY: FragmenteMárton BUJDOSÓ: ...read the unshapeable shock night... (Hopkins)Máté BALOGH: Jam QuartetLászló TIHANYI: Summer Music László TIHANYI Balázs HORVÁTH Around 1906-7, just when the new century was dawning, a generation graduated from the Budapest Academy of Music, founded by Franz Liszt. The most talented and most radical among them were Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and, at the time, Leó Weiner. With them, Hungarian avant-garde music – then termed “art music” – was born. The era urged the emergence of modernism: throughout Europe significant and less consequential composers were seeking new avenues for music – in cafés and bourgeois salons, at World’s Fairs and on ballet stages, and in visions of the future and dreams of the past. It was one of the most exciting chapters in music history. Nowhere on the continent was the flag of the new music unfurled without a struggle, but the “imperial and royal” conservatism of Hungary presented particularly stony ground for the sowing of fresh ideas. Although the oeuvres of the two most outstanding composers of the nineteenth century, Ferenc Erkel and Franz Liszt, had both in their own ways been created in the spirit of innovation, not only was the reception for the new movement distinctly frosty, the music itself fell on deaf ears. In order to overcome such obstacles, in 1911 a number of partisans established the New Hungarian Music Association (UMZE – Új Magyar Zene Egyesület). Its central figure was Béla Bartók, who retrospectively summed up their motivation for the founding of the group and also the reason for its early disintegration: “The reason for the lack of understanding was, among other things, the fact that the new orchestral works were performed, almost without exception, rather imperfectly. We had neither a sympathetic conductor nor a competent orchestra. When the situation became very fraught, in 1911 some young musicians, including Kodály and myself, formed the New Hungarian Music Association. Our actual purpose was to create an orchestra that might have been capable of performing the latest works of musical art in a satisfactory manner.” Although the evening of Bartók and Kodály’s works presented in March 1910 was met with a generally bemused reception, one positive concerning the establishment of the Association did come out of it – the formation of the Waldbauer String Quartet, and its heroic work in performing the music of the new Hungarian composers. Insufficient support ruling out the organization of a full orchestra, the Association launched its brief career with a more modest programme: a handful of chamber concerts, the first two of which went down in history. Bartók played the piano, the pieces being in part works by his contemporaries, but also compositions from the distant and recent past which had been absent from his early concert repertoire. It is interesting to note that the chairman of the Association was Pongrác Kacsóh, whose name is linked to the most popular Hungarian operetta of the era, John the Valiant (1904), which simultaneously opened a new but also local chapter in the history of the genre. As a music journalist, the versatile Kacsóh devoted his energies to achieving recognition for the Hungarian avant-garde, which did great credit to his short but full career. Progressive commentators welcomed the Association’s foundation – following Bartók’s solo concert of November 1911, one of the great painters of the era, Róbert Berény, published an article in the literary journal West that might well have served as a manifesto for the new art – yet the breakthrough was never achieved and the New Hungarian Music Association withered and died. This failure weighed heavily on the forward-looking composers and musicians of the twentieth century. An attempt was made to re-establish the Association at the end of the 1930s; the political climate was inauspicious and the endeavour was unsuccessful. Similarly, although the importance of the original nascent movement was periodically highlighted from the late 1960s onwards, UMZE was not revived during the communist era either. It was only after – and partly due to – the change of political regime in 1989 that the charismatic percussionist Zoltán Rácz, the composer László Tihanyi, and the music historian András Wilheim were able to resurrect the UMZE Chamber Ensemble. Refounded in 1997, the Ensemble vowed to perform “the new music”, their name at one and the same time commemorating their predecessors and signifying their demanding and uncompromising standards concerning their choice of repertoire and its performance. If the lack of success of the first brief period in UMZE’s history has not been repeated, the maintenance and operation of the new UMZE has still been a constant problem for the upholders of its noble tradition. This is despite the fact that as a continuation of the activities of UMZE as an ensemble, in 2006 leading Hungarian musicians (György Ligeti, György Kurtág, András Szőllősy, László Dobszay, Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Jeney, Ferenc Rados, and Miklós Perényi) founded the UMZE Association. With composer László Vidovszky as chairman from the very beginning, the activities of the revamped UMZE (the association plus the chamber ensemble) are, in spite of perennially scant financial resources, exemplary. In the original spirit of “the new Hungarian music”, UMZE’s mission for over twenty years has been to perform contemporary Hungarian and international works, to revive less established twentieth-century classics, and to direct the attention of future generations to those composers whose oeuvres merit remembrance. In addition, just like its legendary predecessor, today’s UMZE also endeavours to introduce new Hungarian music beyond domestic borders. And the future? The enthusiastic conclusion to that article by the influential painter of Bartók’s portrait, Róbert Berény, is as valid as ever: “Ladies and gentlemen! Join the New Hungarian Music Association! Attend their concerts. Buy your tickets. You’ll see – it will be worth it.”

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

September

29.

2021.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violinist Ildikó LINE and pianist Erzsébet Katalin ORZA

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

September

24.

2021.

An Evening of Chamber Music with flutist Ivica GABRIŠOVÁ and pianist Petra ADAMOVÁ

PROGRAM:Dušan MARTINCEK: Concertino Henri DUTILLEUX: SonatineTadeaš SALVA: Ballade for solo fluteCarl REINECKE: Sonata undine Ivica GABRIŠOVÁ was born in 1976 in Bratislava, Slovakia. After graduating from the State Conservatory in Bratislava she continued her studies at Franz Liszt’s Music Academy in Hungary in the class of Professor Gyula Csetényi. After she studied at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg with great artist and pedagogue Michael M. Kofler. After obtaining a master degree in interpretation she completed her studies in 2005 at the same university as a postgraduate student.She obtained the Doctor Artis degree at the Academy of arts in Banska Bystrica with the dissertation thesis about the barroque ornaments in the German music for flute in 18th century. Already during the studies at the conservatory she gave several solo recitals and she performed as a soloist with the conservatory orchestra in the hall of Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. In the years 2001- 2003 Ivica got a possibility to be a member of the Orchestral academy of Munich Philharmonic Orchestra where she cooperated with great artists and outstanding world-famous conductors.At the moment she is a soloist and a member of several chamber music ensembles and orchestras. She is cooperating with Slovak Radio Orchestra. Even she made several life/ stream concerts and Recordings for the Slovak Radio. She recorded a chamber- music CD called Pictures as the member of flute&guitar Duo Cordefiato. She is cooperating with the orchestras Virtuosi Brunenses, Czech Virtuosi, Opera Incognita and others. During the concert seasons 2016-2018 she was the member of the Slovak Philarmonic orchestra.Performing as a soloist with Schengen Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the State Opera Banska Bystrica, Capella Istropolitana, Sinfoinetta Gyor and others.She is director of the international flute competition for young flutists FLAUTIADA in Slovakia. The organisation Flautiada is organizing together with the competiton also the concerts, seminars and workshops for students and flute- teachers. She teaches even the masterclasses outside Slovakia – University of Lodz – Poland, University of Pécs, Academy of music in Zagreb ( Croatia), University of Ostrava (CZ) and many others.She teaches at the Church-conservatory in Bratislava (Slovakia) and leads there the section for woodwind and string Instruments and also she teaches flute as the main instrument at the Academy of arts in Banska Bystrica (Slovakia)She gave concerts in the following countries: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Great Britain, Germany, Finland, France, Japan, and China. Petra ADAMOVÁ graduated in piano at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava in the class of Daniela Varínska. Already during her university studies, she devoted herself to chamber music, especially the study of the repertoire for wind instruments. As part of a series of chamber concerts, she collaborated with members of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovak National Theater not only in Bratislava (Primacialny Palace, Mirbach Palace), but also in other cities ( Žilina, Piešťany, Banská Bystrica, Košice). With chamber players, she participated in the international competitions Prague Spring, competitions in Pécs and Brno, Czech Republic. After completing a study stay in London in 1997 – 1998 she teaches piano at The British International School in Bratislava. Since 2011 she also works at the Church Conservatory Bratislava, where the focus of her work is currently Opera Studio and piano collaboration in the flute class of Mrs Ivica Gabrišová . She is a regular accompanist at International flute competition Flautiada in Banská Bystrica and Visegrad Music Youth Academy in Modra.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

12.

2021.

Piano evening of Károly Mocsári

I. Concert of the 2nd year doctoral students of music at the PTE Doctoral School of Art

Program:Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Flute Quartet in D major KV 285 Performers: Viktória Gárdai - flute | Zoltán Bánfalvi - violin | Tamás Tuzson - viola | Dávid Pechán - violoncello Astor PIAZZOLLA: Café 1930 | Night- club 1960 Performers: Viktória Gárdai - flute | Péter Girán - guitar Johann Sebastian BACH: Lute Suite in c minor BWV 997 - Fuga Joaquín RODRIGO: ToccataGIRÁN Péter: Medieval Pictures - The Temple | The Catacombs Eduardo TRASSIERRA: Bulerías Performer: Girán Péter - guitar PAUSE Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL: Sonata in C major HWV 365 Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL: The death of Bajazet from the opera "Tamerlano" Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL: "Ah, mio cor", Aria of Alcina from the opera "Alcina" Performers: Gergely Matuz - flute | István Szakács - piano Viktória GÁRDAI After finishing the secondary school of music in Kecskemét, Viktória Gárdai graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Teacher’s Training College in 1996, at István Barth as a chamber musician-teacher. Two years later, she graduated as a flautist from Liszt Ferenc Academy of Pécs. In 1997 she became the first flautist of the, then Symphony of Pécs, now Pannon Philharmonic. From 2002 she began studying at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague at Thies a classical flautist. She received her Masters Degree in 2005. During her 6 years abroad she took part in numerous orchestra and chamber productions in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. She is a regular participant at Jeannie Baxstresser, William Bennett, Peter Lukas Graf’s masterclasses.She started teaching at PTE MK Institute of Music in 2017. Péter GIRÁN Péter GIRÁN was born in 1994 in Hungary. He started playing the guitar at the age of 8. In 2018, he took part in the first year of the “EuroStrings” programme, where he played as an appointed artist at the International Guitar Festival of Szeged. He also held numerous masterclasses in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Germany and England. He took masterclasses from such prestigious artists as Marcin Dylla, Vladimir Gorbach, Martha Masters, Florian Larousse, Dale Kavanagh and Manuel Barrueco. In 2017 he graduated from the University of Szeged, his teachers were Dávid Pavlovits and András Csáki. Aside from classical music,flamenco is also very important for him and he also composes in this genre. Currently he is a PHD student at the University of Pécs. Gergely MATUZ Gergely MATUZ was born on 25 November 1976 in Budapest. His teachers were: Ákos Dratsay, Tihamér Elek, Imre Regős, Zoltán Gyöngyössy, István Matuz and János Bálint. Ha gives solo concerts across the country since 1996, focusing on contemporary Hungarian composing and that is also the main focus in the Marcato Ensemble, which he founded. In 2018 he won the second prize at the Bonbon Matinee Composer competition. He received the Artisjus-award 6 times. In 2020 he won the Golden Classical Music Awards first prize (New York, Carnegie Hall). In the same year, he was among the winners of the Hungarian state supported “Köszönjük, Magyarország!” programme. Currently, he is at his second year at the PTE MK's PHD School.

CANCELLED! - Chamber concert by of the University of Virginia (USA) and the University of Pécs

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

December

11.

2019.

Moments of Clarinet

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

26.

2019.

Organ Inauguration Concert

November

13.

2019.

65 years on stage - Jubilee Concert of pianist József BÁNKY

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

16.

2019.

Solo recital by pianist Péter TÓTH

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

11.

2019.

Brass night

Contributors: Ibolya HUSZICS piano | Jacques MAUGER trombone and his students Benjamin VUADENS, Michele CAMPO | Péter SOLYMOSI trumpet Program: Guillaume BALAY: Petite Piéce Concertante André CHAILLEUX: Morceau de Concours Oskar BÖHME: Liebeslied (Píseň) Paul VIDAL: Concertino Jean HUBEAU: Sonate I. Sarabande | II. Interméde | III. Spiritual Guy ROPARTZ: Andante et Allegro Guy ROPARTZ: Piece in e flat minor Vladimir COSMA: Concerto I-II. mov. Joseph JONGEN: Aria et Polonaise Carolina CALVACHE: TrombonsilloJérôme NAULAIS and Verhelst STEVEN: Trio for trombones Jacques MAUGER was born in Normandy and studied the trombone at the "Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris". A prize-winner at international competitions at Markneukirchen and at Toulon, he started his professional career as first trombone with the Nice Philarmonic Orchestra, and then became trombone soloist with the Paris Opera Orchestra. Since 1990, he has concentrated on working as concert artist, and has often appeared as a soloist and abroad with ensembles varying from string, and symphony orchestras, to brass and concert bands. He has also made television appearances on ZDF,GLOBO, RAI and MUZZIK in France, and many international composers have composed original works or made special arrangements for him. Jacques Mauger is still active as a teacher at the "Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and the trombone Professor HEMU of Lausanne. He is recording more of 30 Cds in soloist.He is also guest professor at the Senzoku Gaquen University of Tokyo, Japan.He often gives masterclass in numerous countries: France, the U.K, Japan, Korea, China, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, the United States, and South America.In 2007 his newly developed studies collection for trombone (in collaboration with Jean Michel Defaye) has been published in his collection IMD Arpèges publications Paris.He also developed the new AC440 trombone model in Antoine Courtois Paris brass factory. In his role as a true Ambassador of the French school and its repertoire, he regularly presents master classes throughout the world for the soloists of tomorrow. Jacques Mauger is the new president of the “Association des Trombonistes Français”.Péter Solymosi, trumpet artist was born to a music loving family in Szigetvár, a small town in Southern Baranya County of Hungary in 1978. His professors were János Tamás and Károly Neumayer. As a student of Music Academy of Pécs, he gained 1st Prize at Jeunesses Musicales International Trumpet Competition in Bucharest in May 2000. In Autumn the same year, he continued his studies at University of Szeged, where he received his trumpet artist degree under the tutorial of Professor József Boros in 2002.From 1996, he played as a permanent extra musician in the Symphonic Orchesra of Pécs, now he is the principal trumpet artist of the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra since 2002. HeI was awarded with the "Musician of the Year" Prize by his colleagues in Season 2006/2007. As a soloist, he has performed Brandenburg Concerto No.2 by J. S. Bach, Trumpet Concerto by Haydn, as well as The Soldier's Tale by I. Stravinsky. With orchestra, he toured in the United States, Israel, Sicily, Italy, Vatican City, France, the Netherlands, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Croatia. He is a member of Symphony Brass Quintet, Mozart Ensemble of Pécs and Art-Club Big Bank Osiek (CR). He regularly performs at organ and choir concerts, as well as with chamber orchestras. He is the soloist of the Miners Wind Orchestra of Pécs. He is a teacher of trumpet at Secondary School of Arts of Pécs since 1999 and at Faculty of Arts, University of Pécs since 2000.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

September

27.

2019.

French Baroque Night

We would like to invite you to join to the Closing concerts of theFRENCH BAROQUE MUSIC MASTERCLASS organised by thePTE Music Institute, the Orfeo Music Foundation Budapest, the CMBV (Centre de musique de Versailles)and the Potenton Foundation. 6 p.m. Closing concert of the singing masterclass with the collaboration of the singers attended Judith van WANROIJ's masterclass 7.30 p.m. Closing concert of the orchestra masterclass Performers:Stéphanie-Marie DEGAND - violinJudith van WANROIJ - singingAugustin SZOKOS - continuo/harpsichord The PTE Symphonic Orchestra with the masterclass participants Conductor: Stéphanie Marie DEGAND Program: Antoine DAUVERGNE: 4e Concert de Symphonie en La majeurJean-Marie LECLAIR: Concerto pour ciolon et orchestre op. VII n°5 en la mineurJean-Philippe RAMEAU: Suite d'opéras- Les Indes galantes - Ouverture- Les Indes galantes - Phani: "Viens Hymen..."- Le Temple de la Gloire - Air por les Muses- Castor et Pollux - Télaïre: „Tristes apprêts…”- Castor et Pollux - Premier Air des Démons- Daphnis et Eglé - Musette- Hippolyte et Aricie - Phèdre: "Cruelle mère des amours..."- Les Indes galantes - Les Sauvages Paris became the centre of art, but mostly of music in the middle of the 18th century, thanks to the hundreds of great musicians who lived there and to the luxurious needs of the Royal Court of Versailles.The main composers of this period - Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764) and Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) - all followed the Lully created French-style but the modern Italian music also had an inspirational influence on them. The French music fashion was dictated by the composing techniques of Händel, Vivaldi or Locatelli - just to mention some of them. Rameau became famous by his operas - Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux. Leclair - called "The French Vivaldi"- was known by showing his French sensitivity, and Italian virtuosity in his violin concertos. Antoine Dauvergne became famous after he composed his first comic opera - Les Troquers - in 1753. The "Concert de Symphonie" was a new genre he created by combining the characteristics of the French suite and the Italian sonata. This was a major step in the music history forward to genre of the classical symphonie.This program was especially compiled to show the French baroque style and to acquaint the richest period in the history of French art. Stéphanie-Marie DEGAND, as student of Jean-Walter Audoli and Emmanuelle Haim was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in 1990, where he continued his music studies under the hands of Jaques Ghestem. During the years he spent in the conservatory William Chistie, Patrick Bismuth, Christophe Rousset and Christophe Coin professors helped him to improve by studying a wide range repertoire. He won first prize four times and was admitted to the special performing arts training.His multicolour career begin after his graduation. As a solist and also as a chamber musician often played at chamber evenings and was a guest artist. A Konzervatóriumban végzett tanulmányok befejezése után szólistaként és kamarazenészként sokszínű karrierre tett szert, gyakran adott kamaraesteket illetve szerepelt vendégművészként. Az elkötelezettség s a zene művészeti feltárása rendkívül fontos számára, különösen nagy elismerés számára, hogy több nemzetközi verseny nyertese, dobogósa volt 1995-2002 között. Hangszeres szólistaként jelölve lett Francia Kulturális Minisztérium által évente megrendezett Victoires de la Musique Classique díjátadó “Új felfedezett” kategóriájában. Stéphanie-Marie gyakran koncertezik Európa vezető hangversenytermeiben és fesztiváljain.2002-ben megjelent debütáló albuma szép elismerést kapott a kritikusoktól, azóta folyamatosan készít lemezeket, melyeket szólistaként vagy kamarazenészként hallhatjuk.Zenekari vezénylést David Reiland-nál tanult. A párizsi Conservatiore Nationale Supérieur oktatója 2014 óta. Saját Catenari, 1710 és Gennaro Gagliano, 1756 hangszerein játszik. Miután megszerezte diplomáját holland jogból, a holland születésű szoprán, Judith van WANROIJ az amszterdani Konzervatóriumban, Margaret Honig-nál kezdett el énekelni. 2004 februárjában szerezte kitüntetéses bizonyítványát a Holland Nemzeti Opera Akadémián. 2003-ban első díjat nyert a tekintélyes ’Erna Spoorenberg Vocalisten Presentatie’ oratórium versenyen.Számos barokk, klasszikus és romantikus operában és színpadi műben, valamint oratóriumban énekelt Európa-szerte valamint az Egyesült Államokban is a legkiemelkedőbb zenekarokkal és karmesterekkel. Több alkalommal lépett színpadra Budapesten is az Orfeo zenekarral. SZOKOS Augustin a budapesti Bartók Konzervatórium zeneszerzés tanszakán végzett, majd a Zeneakadémia hallgatójaként, 2015-ben szerezte meg Bachelor karmesteri diplomáját Gál Tamás, Ligeti András és Medveczky Ádám osztályában.Konzervatóriumi évei alatt csembalóból és kamarazenéből fakultált, a mindeközben évről évre világhírű előadóművészek – többek között Rachel Podger, Simon Standage, Barthold Kuijken, Jordi Savall, Michel Laplénie és Vashegyi György – mesterkurzusait látogatta.Első együttesét, a korabeli hangszereken játszó Budapest Bach Consort-ot 17 évesen alapította, amellyel azóta is rendszeresen koncertezik. Csembalistaként és orgonistaként 2013-tól tagja a budapesti Orfeo Zenekarnak, valamint a Musica Profana régizene együttesnek, emellett rendszeresen játszik különbözőkorhű hangszeres és modern szimfonikus zenekarok koncertjein. 2015-től kezdődően készít kéziratos forrásokból modern partitúrákat és előadási anyagokat a Purcell Kórus és Orfeo Zenekar számára, mely munkájához több újkori világbemutató és lemezfelvétel köthető.2017-ben a Nemzeti Kulturális Alap támogatásával megalapította a Budapest Bach Consort „Zenekari Akadémiáját”. Jelenleg a Zeneakadémia klasszikus csembaló szakának hallgatója.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

September

10.

2019.

The Hungarian song’s day

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

May

15.

2019.

Solo recital by guitarist David MOZQUEDA, Professor of the Universidad de Guadalajara

PROGRAM:David MOZQUEDA: "The Journey" suit Andromeda | Monterey Park Napoléon COSTE: Les soirées d'Auteuil op.23.Andrés SEGOVIA: Estudio sin Luz Leo BROWER: Suit No. 2 Preludio | Allegro burlesco | Andantino (un poco lento) Federico Moreno TORROBA: Madroños--- Manuel Maria PONCE: Sonata III. Allegro moderato | Chanson | Allegro non troppo Joaquin TURINA: Sonata op.61. David MOZQUEDA was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, México. In 1999 he studied Master of Music at USC Thornton School of Music. Mr. Mozqueda has taken master classes with: Pepe Romero, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Alirio Díaz, among others. In March of 1994, he participated in the “Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Manuel M. Ponce” (México City) where he was awarded the second prize. In 1993 he also took part in the “The Great Lakes Classical Guitar Competition” (Akron Ohio) winning the second prize. From 1982 to 1987 Mr. Mozqueda won national guitar competitions organized by INBA (Fine Arts National Institute) in México, winning the first place for four consecutive years. Early in his carrer he won two consecutive first prizes in Classsical guitar in the “Concurso Cultural para la Niñez” in México City. Mr. Mozqueda has played concertos with many leading orchestras in México, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. He has recorded compact discs with the “Cuarteto Concertante”, the “Ars Antiqua” ensemble and his own CD called MEMORIAS, on which he plays “La Historia del Tango” by Piazzolla, with the Costarrican flutist Nury Ulate. Mr. Mozqueda is currently teaching the BM Program in guitar at the Universidad de Guadalajara School of Music. He also hosts a radio show called “Las Seis Cuerdas”(The Six Strings) on the State Cultural Radio Station, and in 2006 he was the Director of the First International Guitar Festival of Guadalajara. He conducts a Youth Orchestra and Guitar orchestra and presented in several festivals in México. He has played in the most important festivals in México, South América, and Europe, such as the Festival Chitarriztico in Treviso and Ascoli Pizeno in Italy, Guitar Festivals in Rörsrat, Dortmund and Köhln in Germany, also in Madrid Spain. Festival Internacional de Guitarra in Cuernavaca, Festival Internacional de Guitarra del Noreste in Saltillo, Festival Hispano-americano de Guitarra in Tijuana, Festival de Guitarra in Paracho, Festival International de Guitarra in Morelia, Festival Internacional de Monterrey, Guitar Festival, Festival Cultural in Zacatecas, III Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra at CENART in México City, Columbia College in Chicago, USA, Kingstone Chamber Music Festival in Rhode Island USA, Festival Internacional de Paracho (among Costas Cotsiolis, Judicael Perroy, Pavel Steidl) and in the Festival Internacional de Música Antigüa in Chiquitos, Bolivia. Recently, he received an honored invitation from the Governor of Jalisco to premier the Sala de Conciertos de Cámara of the Teatro Degollado with a Guitar Concierto de Gala. In april 2002 He attend an invitation of The Piedmont Classic Guitar Society to play in The Reynolda House Museum of American Art In Winstom Salem, North Carolina, in 2005 and 2006 was invited to participate to play with the Concert Master of Philadelphia Philarmonic, David Kim, to the Rhode Island Chamber Music Festival and in 2006 he performed a Concert Series with David and Gale Miwa in the New York area. Recently, he was invited to offer Master Classes and Concert at Modesto Junior College in California USA. In June 29 of 2007, he premier as a soloist with Nury Ulate, and with the Jalisco Philarmonic Orchestra, el Danzón Nº 3 de Arturo Marquez. Recently, he received an special prize in Treviso, Italy for his musical trayectory and his collaboration in the guitar diffusion.As a soloist with orchestras Mr. Mozqueda has developed a very important career, he has played Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasía para un Gentilhombre, Concierto Andaluz, Manuel M. Ponce’s Concierto del Sur, Ramón Noble’s Concertino, Concierto Andaluz with several orchestras such Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, Orquesta Filarmónica de Michoacán, Orquesta de Cámara del Conservatorio de Las Rosas, Orquesta de Cámara de Nayarit, Orquesta Filarmónica de Guanajuato, Filarmónica de Querétaro among others. Jalisco Ing.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

17.

2019.

Solo recital by Liszt Prize-winning pianist Csaba KIRÁLY, Professor of the University of Pécs

MŰSOR: Johann Sebastian BACH: Goldberg-variációk BWV 988 Csaba KIRÁLY (1965) graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest in 1989 (organ) and 1990 (piano). During his student years he won first prize in all national competitions organized for his age group. He was also the first prize winner at international piano competitions in Cagliari 1996 (Italy) and in New Orleans 1997 (USA). Since his student years he has given over a thousand concerts both as pianist and organist. Beyond his many recitals in Hungary, he has had concert engagements in nearly all European countries, and has performed in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Egypt and India. His repertoire covers a wide range of styles from Baroque to contemporary music. Besides performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and Bartók, Dr. Király regularly programs new music in his concerts. In addition, improvisation constitutes a major element of his musicianship. He learned the basics of improvising from his teacher Mária Apagyi while a student of the Artistic Workshop in Komló, Hungary. He therefore approaches music as a composer, as evidenced by his numerous piano arrangements. He has also made a significant number of organ transcriptions of orchestral and choral works, which he often plays not only in Hungary, but in countries from Western Europe to Japan, China, South Korea and the United States. Csaba Király is drawn to large and challenging creative projects. On numerous occasions he has given concert cycles of the complete organ works of Liszt and Bach, the complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, and the complete piano works of Béla Bartók, as well as a significant portion of the piano works of Franz Liszt. His piano-organ CD of Liszt: B-A-C-H Prelude and Fugue, B-A-C-H Fantasia and Fugue, and “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” Variations was awarded “Classic CD of the Year 2001” in Hungary (Gramofon-prize). In 2003 he was awarded the Liszt Ferenc prize for his artistic activity. In 2005 he established the First Pécs International Piano Competition in memory of Liszt Ferenc, serving as one of the jury members. In 2004 he was elected secretary-general, in 2013 president, of the Liszt Ferenc Society in Pécs. As a piano teacher he taught for several years at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a guest organ teacher at the Taegu-Hyosung University in South Korea. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the director of the Béla Bartók Memorial House in Budapest. Since 2002 he has been the head of the Piano Department in the Institute of Music of the Musical and Visual Art Faculty at the University of Pécs., where he as professor teaches piano and organ

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

04.

2019.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violist Máté SZŰCS and pianist Zoltán FEJÉRVÁRI

Máté SZŰCS was a first prize winner on viola at the International Violin and Viola Competition in Liège, Belgium. He was also a finalist at the International Viola Competition ‘Jean Françaix’ in Paris and laureate of the International Music Competition ‘Tenuto’ in Brussels.Szücs was just eleven when he won the special prize at the Hungarian Violin Competition for Young Artists. He went on to win first prize at the Violin Competition of Szeged and first prize for ‘Best Sonata Duo’ at the Hungarian Chamber Music Competition. At the age of seventeen, he changed from the violin to the viola and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Royal Conservatory of Flanders with the highest distinction. He continued his studies at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth where he obtained his diploma, again, with the highest distinction.Szücs is a member of various chamber ensembles such as the Mendelssohn Ensemble, Trio Dor, Enigma Ensemble and Fragments Ensemble. He has been a solo viola player with various prestigious orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the Bamberger Symphoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.He is a very enthusiastic teacher and has previously held a teaching position at the University of Music in Saarbrücken, the Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark and is also viola tutor at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, UK. Szücs is regularly invited as a soloist in Europe and plays chamber music together with musicians such as Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Ilja Gringolts and Vladimir Mendelssohn. Since September 2011 he has been the principal solo viola player at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where he teaches viola at the orchestra academy. Zoltán Fejérvári has emerged as one of the most intriguing pianists of a new generation of Hungarian musicians, a virtuoso in the truest sense, and in demand on the world’s concert stages. Winner of the 2017 Concours Musical International de Montréal and recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2016, Zoltán Fejérvári has appeared in recitals throughout Europe and the United States at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, the Library of Congress, Gasteig in Munich, Lingotto in Turin, Palau de Música in Valencia, Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires, and Liszt Academy in Budapest. He has performed as a soloist with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Orchestra, and the orchestras of Verbier Festival and Concerto Budapest, among others, and has collaborated with such conductors as Iván Fischer, Gábor Tákács-Nagy, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, and Zoltán Kocsis.During the 2018-2019 season, Zoltán Fejérvári appears in recital, in chamber music, and as soloist with orchestra. In September, he performs a program of J.S. Bach and Schumann at Classical Spree, the festival of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. At the request of Sir András Schiff, a longtime mentor to Fejérvári, this August the pianist performs … quasi una fantasia …Op. 27, no. 1 and the Double Concerto Op. 27 No. 2, both written for solo and instrumental groups dispersed in space, by György Kurtág in Schiff’s stead at the Lucerne Festival. Further in the season, the pianist appears in Kalamazoo as part of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival Rising Stars series, Union College in Schenectady, Coast Recital Society and Vancouver Recital Society in British Columbia, and, in Europe, concerts in Budapest and Turin. He also plays for the anniversary concert for the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. He tours twice with Musicians from Marlboro, performing chamber music in Greenwich, Connecticut, New York City, Schenectady, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and later to Brattleboro, Vermont, Montreal, Ames, IA, and San Francisco.Orchestral engagements include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, led by Iván Fischer in Budapest and on tour to Warsaw. Fejérvári plays a pair of contrasting concertos at the Franz Liszt Academy: J.S. Bach’s Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056, and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35. Fejérvári also appears in duo recital with fellow Hungarian, cellist István Várdai in Jülich, Germany and at Paris’s Théâtre des Abesses. They are joined by violinist Rosanne Philippens for performances of keyboard trios in Amsterdam. Fejérvári is a frequent performer in chamber music. He has collaborated with the Keller and Kódaly Quartets, and violinists Joseph Lin, András Keller, cellists Gary Hoffman, Cristoph Richter, Ivan Monighetti, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, and horn player Radovan Vlatkovic. Fejérvári has appeared at Kronberg’s “Chamber Music Connects the World” program, Prussia Cove’s “Open Chamber Music,” Lisztomania at Châteauroux, France, the Tiszadob Piano Festival in Hungary, and Encuentro de Música in Santander, Spain. At the invitation of artistic director Mitsuko Uchida, he participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in the summers of 2014 and 2016. Distinguished pianist András Schiff chose Fejérvári for “Building Bridges,” a series established to highlight young pianists of unusual promise. Under this aegis Mr. Fejérvári gave recitals during the 2017-2018 season in Berlin, Bochum, Brussels, Zurich, Ittingen, among other cities.Zoltán Fejérvári’s recording of Liszt’s Malédiction with the Budapest Chamber Symphony, on the Hungaroton label, was awarded the Grand prix du Disque in 2013. The recording was followed by a CD of four sonatas for piano and violin by Mozart with violinist Ernő Kállai, issued in 2014 by Hungaroton.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

01.

2019.

An Evening of Chamber Music with soprano Anna KORONDI, Professor of the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin

MŰSOR:Franz LISZT: Freudvoll und Leidvoll (1. version, 1844) Franz LISZT: Der du von dem Himmel bist (2. version, 1856) Robert SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und Leben„Seit ich ihn gesehen“„Er, der herrlichste von allen“„Ich kann´s nicht fassen, nicht glauben“„Du Ring an meinem Finger“„Helft mir, ihr Schwestern“„Süsser Freund, du blickest“„An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust“„Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan“ Franz LISZT: Der du von dem Himmel bist (last version, 1860) Franz LISZT: Freudvoll und Leidvoll (last version, 1860) Béla BARTÓK: Five Songs, op. 15I. My love | IV. In vivid dream György KÓSA: In obscurity (Songs for Anna Hajnal’s poems) György LIGETI: Tree Weöres Songs The moon is dancing | II. A cluster of fruit | III. A merchant has come with giant birds Béla BARTÓK: Eight Hungarian folksongs Anna Korondi is a Hungarian soprano in opera and concert. She has been an Academic voice teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin from 2013.Born in Budapest to György Korondi, she first studied voice in Budapest. She continued her studies at the Vienna Conservatory with Margarethe Bence and David Lutz, and graduated with distinction in 1993.She was engaged at the Komische Oper in Berlin from 1993 to 1997, then at the Bonn Opera to 1999. She appeared at the Bavarian State Opera singing the leading role of Adela in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus, an opera after Lorca's play La Casa de Bernarda Alba, directed by Harry Kupfer and conducted by Zubin Mehta. She performed at the 2001 Salzburg Festival the part of Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, directed by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Marc Minkowski.She appeared as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Bavarian State Opera in 2006. Roles by Mozart have included Ilia in Idomeneo, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She also appeared as Nanetty in Verdi's Falstaff, Musetta in Puccini's La bohéme and Valenciennes in Lehar's Die lustige Witwe, among others.Korondi appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal, first in 2004 in the production by Christoph Schlingensief, conducted by Pierre Boulez, then in 2008 in the production by Stefan Herheim.Korondi won the ARD International Music Competition in 1996. She has been an Academic voice teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin from 2013. Contributor: Gábor ALSZÁSZY piano

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

25.

2019.

An Evening of Chamber Music with trumpet player Uwe KOMISCHKE, Professor of the FRANZ LISZT Hochschule für Musik, Weimar

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

13.

2019.

An Evening of Chamber Music with oboist Kai FRÖMBGEN, Professor of the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

12.

2019.

Romantic chamber music by the Professors of the University of Virginia (USA) and the University of Pécs

PROGAMME:Frank BRIDGE: Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minorErnő DOHNANYI: Serenade op. 10Robert SCHUMANN: Quartet op. 47 Canadian pianist John MAYHOOD has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, as well as in Germany and Austria. He has frequently appeared on CBC and SRC radio as well as on various NPR affiliates, and his performances have been televised in both the USA and Canada. In constant demand as a collaborator, John has appeared with musicians from the Montreal and Toronto Symphonies, the New York Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, among many others. Also a scholar, he has presented on subjects ranging from the philosophy of performance practice to neo-Riemannian theory at, among other places, the University of Chicago and the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie.John's current projects include recording and producing editions of sonatas by Johann Peter Pixis and preparing a series of concerts to celebrate, in 2013, the 50th anniversary of the death of Paul Hindemith. Upcoming engagements will take him from Montreal to Phoenix in a variety of concerto, solo and chamber music settings, in works ranging from Beethoven's Choral Fantasy to Matthew Burtner's 2010 work for piano and electro-acoustics, "Iceprints".John earned his Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Ian Hobson. His other major teachers were Caio Pagano and Jean-Paul Sévilla. John has taught piano at the University of Illinois and philosophy at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently a member of the piano faculty at the University of Virginia. Daniel SENDER enjoys a diverse musical career and has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and China. A frequent guest soloist and principal artist with chamber and symphony orchestras throughout the region, Dr. Sender currently serves as concertmaster of the Charlottesville Symphony, Charlottesville Opera and the Virginia Consort. In 2017, he joined the Wintergreen Performing Arts Orchestra as a Festival Artist. Dr. Sender was a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest and attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Vilmos Szabadi. He was formerly the first violinist of the Adelphi String Quartet, which held a fellowship residency at the University of Maryland, and was for four years the violinist of the Annapolis Chamber Players. Dr. Sender has recorded for Centaur, Sono Luminus, Bifrost and many other independent labels. As a chamber musician, Dr. Sender has had the pleasure of performing with members of the Audubon Quartet, Axelrod and Left Bank quartets and spent two years working intensively under the mentorship of the Guarneri Quartet. Chamber concerts have taken him to venues around the world including the Kennedy Center, Hungarian Embassy, Bartók Hall of the Erdődy Palace (Budapest), Smithsonian Museum of American History, Universität der Kunste (Berlin) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal).A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Sender attended Ithaca College, the University of Maryland, the Liszt Academy (Budapest) and the Institute for European Studies (Vienna). His primary teachers include Vilmos Szabadi, Arnold Steinhardt, David Salness, René Staar, and Gerald Fischbach. He is on the performance faculty of the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music and also holds a faculty position at Interlochen’s Adult Chamber Music Camp. Emil LUDMÁNY started his musical studies in his hometown, Debrecen at the age of 6. After finishing conservatory he studied choirmastering at Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music and received his viola diploma at the Ferenc Liszt Musical College. He was a student of Jurij Bashmet in Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow from 1982 to 1983. After returning to Hungary he worked in the orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera House for 8 years. Since 1988 he has been a viola and chamber music teacher of the Faculty of Music at the University of Pécs where he was the head of the Department of Strings for 6 years. He is a founding member of the Budapest Strings.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

11.

2019.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violinist Benjamin SCHMID, Professor of the Mozarteum, Salzburg

PROGRAM:Heinrich Ignaz Franz BIBER: Passacaglia g minor for Solo ViolinWolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Sonata for Piano and Violin KV 379, G majorHenri VIEUXTEMPS: Fantasia Appassionata op. 35Johann Sebastian BACH: Solo Partita BWV 1006Preludio | Loure | Gavotte en Rondeau |Menuet I – Menuet II | Bourée | GigueBenjamin SCHMID: Improvisations on Bach and Biber Benjamin Schmid was born in Vienna and grew up in Salzburg. Among other competitions, he won the Carl Flesch Competition in London 1992, where he was also awarded the Mozart-, the Beethoven- and the Audience Prize. Since then he has performed on the world’s major stages with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam under conductors such as Christoph von Dohnanyi, David Zinman, Seiji Ozawa or Valery Gergiev.As one of the most versatile of today's violinists Benjamin Schmid combines his qualities as a soloist, the extraordinary broad range of his repertoire – in addition to the usual works he also plays the violin concertos by Hartmann, Gulda, Korngold, Muthspiel, Szymanowski, Lutoslawski and Reger – with his remarkable skill in jazz improvisation.Benjamin Schmid has recorded about 50 CDs and they have received various awards such as the German Record Prize (several times for Classic and Jazz), the Echo Klassik Prize, the Gramophone Editor’s Choice and the Strad Selection. He performs in about 80 concerts a year worldwide, is professor of violin at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and gives masterclasses in Berne, Switzerland. ( www.hkb.bfh.ch ). Benjamin Schmid was awarded the International Prize for Art and Culture of the City of Salzburg and performs on one of the most beautiful Stradivari violins, the “ex Viotti 1718” , which is placed at his disposal by the Austrian National Bank.Benjamin Schmid´s performance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev of the the violinconcerto by Paganini/Kreisler was broadcasted on TV worldwide and released on CD and DVD on Deutsche Grammophon. ( "SummerNightConcert")Several films and Concert Films have been made about Benjamin Schmid which document his exceptional status as a violinist; they have been screened on television throughout the world. Benjamin Schmid lives in Salzburg, Austria, with his wife, the pianist Ariane Haering and their four children. Benjamin Schmid is portrayed as one of the most important violinists in the book " Great Violinists of the 20th Century" by Jean-Michel Molkhou (Edition Buchet-Chastel, 2014). Contributor: Anna GRANIK piano

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January

08.

2019.

Musician families: pianist Ibolya HUSZICS and her children

Contributors: Gabriella BALI cello Dávid BALI piano Ibolya HUSZICS piano István VÁRADI Liszt- and Prima Primissima-award winning cellistProgram:Jean-Baptiste Barriére: Sonata for 2 cellos in G majorLudwig van Beethoven: Sonata in d minor op. 31. 3.mvt.Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello sonata No. 3.Felix Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes, op.17. Leoš Janáček: Pohádka Sergei Rachmaninov: Cello sonata in G minor, op.19. 3.mvt.Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij: Pezzo capriccioso, op. 62. István VÁRDAI, the 32 year old Hungarian cellist was honoured with several important international prizes: in 2008 he won the 63th Geneva International Music Competition. He took the third prize of the International Tchaikovsky Music Competition, Moscow, in 2007. He was winner of the David Popper International Music Competition three times (2000, 2003, 2004). In 2012 he received the Prix Montblanc awarded to the world's most promising young musician. In 2014 he won the prestigious ARD Cello Competition in Munich.Since his debut concert in 1997 in The Hague, he has performed in New York, Washington, Vancouver, London, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Frankfurt, Munich, Geneva, Dublin, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Florence, Tokyo, Beijing with great success. In 2010 he made his debut, among others, in Carnegie Hall and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Along his starting career, he played with world-famous musicians and orchestras: András Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Zoltán Kocsis, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Till Fellner, Shai Wosner, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra. He has been invited to Santander Festival, the Gergiev Festival in St. Petersburg,the Casals Festival (Spain), Festival of Radio France (Montpellier), Bellerive Festival Switzerland), Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Verbier Festival, Flanders Festival, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Schwetzingen Festival and the Budapest Spring Festival. From 2004 István studied in the Class of Special Talents at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, from 2005 at the Music Academy of Vienna. Between 2010 and 2013 he continued his studies at Kronberg Academy in Germany From 2013 he is on the staff of the famous Academy, from 2017 he is also Professor at the Music Academy in Mannheim and from 2018 at the Music Academy of Vienna. His first CD containing pieces of Janáček, Prokofiev and the Elgar cello concerto was released in 2009 by Ysaye Records. In 2010 he recorded the cello concerto of Johann Baptist Vanhal. On his CD released by the Hännsler label in 2013 he plays works by Mendelssohn, Martinu, Paganini, Beethoven and Popper. His CD with both versions of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations was released in 2014, followed by a CD with famous encores (Singing Cello – Hungaroton). His recent CDs for the Brilliant Classics label feature Bach's solo suites and Kodály's complete music for cello. Mr. Várdai is, together with violinist Kristóf Baráti, artistic director of the Kaposfest International Chamber Music Festival in Hungary. He plays the legendary „Ex Du Pre-Harrell” Stradivarius from 1673.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

December

04.

2018.

Musician families: violinist Ágnes GYERMÁNNÉ VASS and her family

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

22.

2018.

Piano recital of Balázs SZOKOLAY

Program: Franz SCHUBERT: 14 Ländler Franz SCHUBERT: Hungarian Melody in B minor D. 817 Franz SCHUBERT: Moment musicaux No.3 f-moll Franz SCHUBERT: Wanderer fantasy César FRANCK – Harold BAUER: Prelude, Fugue and Variation César FRANCK: Prelude, choral and fugue Balázs SZOKOLAY was born into a family of musicians in Budapest in 1961. His father is a Kossuth prizewinner, composer Sándor Szokolay. Balázs started to play the piano at the age of five, taught by Erna Czövek. Later, at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, his professors included Klára Máthé, Pál Kadosa, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. Following his graduation in 1983, he won scholarships for two more years of studies in Munich and Moscow . He was instructed by Mikhail S. Voskresensky, Amadeus Webersinke, Ludwig Hoffmann and Yvonne Lefebure.From 1973 to 1990, he has been a prizewinner at many international piano and chamber music competitions (including Usti-nad-Labem, Zwickau, Leeds, Brussels, Montreal, Terni, Monza, Glasgow and Budapest). More recently, he has been a frequent juror in major music competitions in countries such as the Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Bulgaria and Russia. He has given concerts and offered masterclasses in over thirty countries on four continents.His repertoire covers a wide range of styles with a strong focus on chamber music. Among his chamber music partners are Clemens Hagen, Aurèle Nicolet, Zoltán Kocsis, Miklós Perényi, Gervaise de Peyer, Barnabás Kelemen, Vilmos Szabadi, Kristóf Baráti, István Várdai, Ádám Banda. As a soloist, Mr. Szokolay has performed with many orchestras, including the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. In Belgrade , he replaced at the last moment Nikita Magaloff in the Brahms Concerto No. 1. To further expand his repertoire, Szokolay played harpsichord and conducted the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in London.He has recorded extensively with Naxos, Hungaroton and other recording companies, included his own transcriptions . Some of his recordings has got international prizes. He has played numerous radio and television broadcasts at the request, among others, of the BBC - London, the RIAS - Berlin, the Bavarian Radio , the AVRO and TROS - Holland, the RAI - Torino, and the Hungarian Radio and Television.He has been a piano professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest since 1987. During the 1997-98 academic year, he worked as a guest professor at Yeungnam University, South Korea. In the Spring Semester of 2006, he was invited as a Visiting Scholar and piano professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. 2009-12. he was a guest professor at the University of Graz, and since 2011. october he is a professor in Weimar F. Liszt Academy of Music.His students won already more than 50 international prizes in different music competitions.In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Liszt Prize by the Hungarian Government.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

14.

2018.

Solo recital of cellist Thomas DEMENGA

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

13.

2018.

Concert of the Central Conservatory Junior National Orchestra, Bejing

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

26.

2018.

An evening of chamber music with horn player Jörg BRÜCKNER and pianist Cora BRÜCKNER-IRSEN

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

25.

2018.

The Gala Concert of the Institute of Music

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

15.

2018.

Musician families: mezzo-soprano Bernadett WIEDEMANN and her son, bass singer Bence PATAKI

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

10.

2018.

An Evening of Chamber Music with clarinetist Thorsten JOHANNS and pianist Diana KETLER

Program: Wilhelm KILLMAYER: „Die Schönheit des Morgens" for clarinet and piano Carl Maria von WEBER: Grand Duo concertant, Op. 48 Francis POULENC: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184 Johannes BRAHMS: The Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, No. 1 Contributor: Jonathan GROß, clarinetist A native of Riga, Latvia, Diana KETLER began her piano studies at the age of 5, encouraged by both her parents. Her father, a well-known operatic baritone, and her mother, a choral conductor and singing teacher, were her early inspiration and source of her love for the opera and for the musical collaboration with other artists. Diana started performing as a soloist at an early age, giving her debut with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. Diana’s concert life as a soloist and chamber musicians has taken her to many great musical centres of Europe, Asia and the USA. She performed at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Prinzregententheater in Munich, Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Centre in Washington, Wigmore Hall in London,Suntory Hall and Opera City Hall in Tokyo, Osaka Symphony Hall, Konzertgebouw in Rotterdam, Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Diana is a regular guest at the prominent international festivals, such as Lucerne, Gstaad and Boswil Festivals in Switzerland, Kuhmo Festival in Finland, Rheingau Festival in Germany, Wiener Musikwochen and Carintischer Sommer in Austria, Oxford Chamber Music Festival. Diana has recorded five award-winning CDs with the Solo Musica in Munich. Diana has a keen interest in contemporary repertoire and has worked with composers such as Peteris Vasks, Arvo Part, Franco Donatoni, Gyorgy Ligeti. Diana is a founding member of the Ensemble Raro, one of the most exceptional and highly acclaimed chamber groups in Europe. Together they have recorded five award-winning CDs, which were released by Solo Musica in Munich. Diana has always had a passion for new projects. Besides SoNoRo, she and Razvan Popovici founded the Chiemgauer Musikfruehling Festival in Bavaria, where Diana is thenArtistic Director. Diana is a Piano Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Diana is a recipient of the Latvian Great Music Award, Latvia’s highest distinction in the field of classical music. In 2016 Diana was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London. In her spare time, Diana loves to read and she also writes poetry. ©Neda Navaee In October 2014 Thorsten JOHANNSwas appointed professor for clarinet at the 'Musikhochschule Franz Liszt' in Weimar, Germany. Before he started as principal clarinet with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (Germany) at the age of 25, he has been substitute principal at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Essen, Germany. From 2010-2014 Thorsten Johanns has been a professor for clarinet at the Academy of Music in Maastricht, Netherlands. Thorsten Johanns works continuously as a soloist and has performed with conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov, Eivind Aadland, Yutaka Sado, Howard Griffiths, Jonathan Stockhammer and Dan Ettinger. As the first and only German clarinet player so far, Thorsten Johanns was repeatedly invited by chief conductor Alan Gilbert to perform as principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. For the same position he has been invited several times by the Super World Orchestra in Tokyo/Japan. Among his chamber music fellows are besides world famous oboe player and conductor Heinz Holliger also the renowned 'Auryn-Quartett', 'Quartetto di Cremona', 'Minetti-Quartett' from Vienna, 'Aris-Quartett' and Ensemble Raro. Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi invited him as a principal for many projects with the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg. Thorsten Johanns has played as a principal in a number of important orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the German Radio Orchestra Berlin and the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt. Thorsten Johanns is performing at numerous festivals worldwide and has been part of different successful recordings (ECHO Classic Award for the best chamber music recording 2008 of Mozart’s Don Giovanno with „opera senza“). Thorsten Johanns, born and grown up in Krefeld, Germany, started to play the clarinet at the age of 8 and later on also the saxophone with his first teacher Laszlo Dömötör. He has won numerous first prizes at the youth competition „Jugend musiziert“ with both instruments, and started to study 1996 at the Hochschule für Musik Cologne with professor Ralph Manno. During his studies he was scholarship-holder of the „Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“. Thorsten Johanns has been giving masterclasses in the USA, China and Australia.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

September

26.

2018.

Solo recital by violinist Barnabás KELEMEN

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

May

28.

2018.

Concert by the ISU Faculty Ambassador Brass

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

25.

2018.

An Evening of Chamber Music with the Bogányi Trio

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

18.

2018.

Musician families: The Bazsinkas!

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

17.

2018.

Jubilee concert of the Pécs Art Secondary School

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

April

11.

2018.

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

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

27.

2018.

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

March

25.

2018.

Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

Mimi - Senka NedeljkovicMusetta - Anja PapaRodolfo - Jonathan Price (USA)Marcello - Vlaho LjuticSchaunard - Berislav JerkovicColline - Blaz GalojlicAlcindoro - Milan Perisic Piano - Ante BlazevicArtistic director - Berislav JerkovicThe 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. Opera ensemble of the Academy of Arts, Osijek – CROATIA

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

19.

2018.

An Evening of Chamber Music with the Kodály String Quartet

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

March

09.

2018.

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.

2018.

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

Program:Jean Baptiste LOEILLET: Sonata in C majorCamille SAINT-SAËNS: CavatineIstván LÁNG: LiberoStjepan ŠULEK: SonateMáté HOLLÓS: TrombondineCarl Maria von WEBER: Romanza appassionata András FEJÉRwas 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 IHÁSZearned 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."

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

February

21.

2018.

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

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. 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.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

February

17.

2018.

Musician families: Ágnes HERPAY and son, Zsombor NÉMETH

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

February

06.

2018.

Teachers’ Concert

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

December

14.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

Cultural Center - Conference room, Tamási

December

13.

2017.

PTE Viola chamberconcert

Helikon Palace Museum - Venetian Mirror Room, Keszthely

December

13.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

Town hall, Kozármisleny

December

12.

2017.

Musician families: Béla and Márton FENYVESI

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

December

01.

2017.

Classical music, light-hearted listening II.

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

30.

2017.

The sound of Pécs

PTE Trumpet recital

Tinódi House - Majoros room, Dombóvár

November

23.

2017.

Flute recital of Gergely ITTZÉS

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

22.

2017.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violinist Kristóf BARÁTI and pianist Zarina SHIMANSKAYA

"Kristóf Baráti is the most talented violinist of his and many generations. He is a true soloist!" (Ida Haendel) ""A talent like him comes along once in a decade, perhaps once in a generation" (Fanfare)Kristóf BARÁTI was born in Budapest, but a large part of his childhood was spent in Venezuela. He began his violin studies at the age of five and already from age of eight he made his first solo performances with the leading Venezuelan orchestras. At the age of eleven he was invited to Montpellier to give a recital at the prestigious “Festival de Radio France”.His studies continued in Budapest with Miklós Szenthelyi and Vilmos Tátrai in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Still a student, he won first prize at the Lipizer Competition in Italy and second prize in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris. In 1997 he won third prize and the audience prize at the highly prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, being the youngest finalist.After this success he redefined his violin technique in Paris with Eduard Wulfson, whose knowledge was influenced by great violinists of the 20th century such as Nathan Milstein, Yehudi- Menuhin and Henryk Szeryng. In 2010 Baráti won the “Oscar of violinists”, the highly praised Paganini Competition in Mowscow. Kristóf Baráti performs in important concert halls around the world with major orchestras (Deutscher Symphonie Orchester, Russian National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, etc.) and conductors (Kurt Masur, Marek Janowski, Charles Dutoit, Jiri Belohlavek, Valery Gergiev, Zoltán Kocsis, Gilbert Varga, Iván Fischer, Yuri Temirkanov, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Eiji Oue, Pinchas Steinberg, etc.). His chamber music partners have included Natalia Gutman, Gábor Boldoczki, Evgeniy Koroliov, Enrico Pace, Zoltán Kocsis, Mischa Maisky, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Kim Kashkashian, Dénes Várjon, István Várdai, Nikolai Lugansky, Ning Feng, to mention just a few. Kristóf Baráti has received several awards, including the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious award of his native Hungary in the domain of culture. He gives regular master-classes at Pécs (Southern Hungary) and teaches at the University of Pécs. He is, together with the cellist István Várdai, artistic director of the Kaposfest International Chamber Music Festival in Hungary. Kristóf Baráti plays the 1703 “Lady Harmsworth” made by Antonio Stradivarius, kindly offered by the Stradivarius Society of Chicago. A regular ensemble partner with such musicians as Nadja Michael and Kristof Barati, the Russian pianist Zarina SHIMANSKAYA has performed across Russia, Europe and Asia in solo, orchestra and chamber music concerts. Amongst others, her appearances include engagements in Wigmore Hall, Mozarteum, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Radial System Berlin, Juedisches Kulturzentrum in Munich, Klavier Festival at Brucknerhaus in Linz, Diaghilev Festival in Perm and Stars of the White Nights festival in Saint Petersburg. Miss Shimanskaya has collaborated with orchestras under the batons of Ravil Martynov, Pavel Gribanov, Vasiliy Valitov and Teodor Currentzis. Her repertoire reflects her many interests in exploring and interpreting the world’s music literature and ranges from Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Mozart’s d-minor Concerto to works by Frank Martin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke and Rodion Shchedrin. Educated both in Russian and European pianistic traditions, she continues to perfect her craft in master-classes with such artists as Arie Vardi, Alexei Lubimov, Leonid Brumberg, Stephen Kovacevich, Alexander Toradze and Leonidas Kavakos. Program: Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata for violin and piano in G major, No.3, op.30. Sergei PROKOFIEV: Sonata for violin and piano in D major, No. 2, op. 94b. Johannes BRAHMS: Sonata for violin and piano in G major, No. 1, op. 78. Maurice Ravel: Tzigane

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

20.

2017.

Clara DENT-BOGÁNYI oboe recital

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 40Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Le nozze di Figaro –„Dove sono"Carl Maria von WEBER – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Der Freischütz – Aria of ÄnnchenCamille SAINT-SAËNS: Sonata for oboe and pianoChristoph Willibald GLUCK – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Paride ed Elena – „Oh, del mio dolce ardor"Gioachino ROSSINI – Andreas N. TARKMAN: Armida – „D'amor al dolce impero"

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

November

18.

2017.

PTE Piano recital

City hall, Dunaföldvár

November

17.

2017.

PTE Piano recital

Helikon Palace Museum - Venetian Mirror Room, Keszthely

November

15.

2017.

PTE Trumpet recital

Zsigmond Móricz Cultural Center - Chamber Hall, Barcs

November

15.

2017.

PTE Viola chamberconcert

Duna Business Center - Dome hall, Mohács

November

11.

2017.

PTE Piano recital

House of Arts, Szekszárd

November

08.

2017.

Trio Academiko Concert

Contributors:Branko Pavlovski, clarinetNatasa Trbojevik, pianoZlatka Miteva, fluteProgram:V.Azarashvili: “Nokturne” for flute, clarinet and pianoErnesto Cavallini: “Reverie Russe” for flute, clarinet, and pianoEric 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 pianoM. 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

08.

2017.

PTE Viola chamberconcert

Vörösmarty Mihály Cultural Center - Dancing hall, Bonyhád

October

27.

2017.

PTE Piano recital

Erzsébet Vigadó, Bóly

October

26.

2017.

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: IntradaFrédéric CHOPIN: Nocturne op. 32. Andante sostenuto | LentoPaul HINDEMITH: SonataGyörgy KURTÁG: Fragmente aus „Rückblick”Alan HOVHANESS: Prayer of St. GregoryVincent Ludwig PERSICHETTI: Parable for Trumpet SoloPyotr 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

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

26.

2017.

PTE Cello recital

Cultural Center - Conference room, Tamási

October

25.

2017.

Fazioli Piano Inauguration Concert

Contributors:László HOLICS, pianist Csaba KIRÁLY, Liszt Prize-winning pianist József BÁNKY, pianist Gabriella FODOR, pianist Imre ROHMANN, pianist Tünde KURUCZ, pianist The recording of the concert can be seen here:Tünde KURUCZ was born in Hungary. She studied piano and chamber-music in Budapest with Kornél Zempléni, Ferenc Rados and Imre Rohmann, later at the Music-Academy in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda.She started intensively giving concerts after winning the International Mozart Piano-Competition in Salzburg in 1988. She was partner of Thomas Zehtmair at the Salzburg Summer Festival and played under the direction of Sàndor Vègh at the "Mozart-Woche" in 1990.Her next success, winning the 2th price at the ARD-Duo-Competiton in Munich/ Germany, as partner of the violinist Mayumi Seiler in 1991, helped her to extend her carriere playing in Canada, Japan ( 3 concert-tours ) and Europe with partners such as e.g. Karl Leister, Erich Höbarth, David Geringas, Thomas Riebl, Heidi Litschauer and with her husband Imre Rohmann, with whom she plays piano Duo.Beside her activities on the stage, she is professor for piano and chamber-music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Imre ROHMANN born in Budapest, Hungary, commenced piano playing at age of four. He studied at the Bartók Conservatory piano and composition, later at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest piano and chamber-music. 1980-81 conducting with Karl Österreicher at the Music Academy in Vienna. He also took part in master classes of Jörg Demus. Won the Special Prize of the Hungarian Radio`s Piano Competition, 3. Prize of The International Liszt-Bartók Competition in Budapest, Hungary and 1. Prize of the International Chamber-Music Competition in Bloomington, USA. Since 1974 he has performed internationally as a soloist with the most outstanding orchestras, and with partners such as Eugen Jochum, Péter Eötvös, Iván and Àdám Fischer, Jörg Demus, Thomas Riebl, András Keller, Stefan Ruha, Miklós Perényi, Erich Höbarth, Thomas Zehetmair, András Schiff, The Bartók String Quartett, Pro Arte Quartett, Chicago Symphony Chamber Players and many others. He forms since 1985 a Piano-Duo with his wife Tünde Kurucz He was piano professor at the Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and since 1990 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg where he recently lives. Since his first visit in Japan 1976, he appears nearly in every year as pianist and leads master-classes in this country. ( e.g. Toho Gakuen University, Showa University.)Since 2001 he is guest-professor of the University of Alcala de Henares, in Spain Since 2002 he is conductor of the Budapest Chamber Symphony . Program: Johann Sebastian BACH – Franz LISZT: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 Domenico SCARLATTI: Sonata in A major, K. 24 Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Sonata in C major, K. 309., I. movement Franz LISZT: Un sospiro Frederic CHOPIN: Two préludes Claude DEBUSSY: Three préludes - Brouillards - La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune - Feux d'artifice Franz Schubert: Fantasie in f minor Claude Debussy: La mer variations for four hands in the transcription of the composerMore information about FAZIOLI PIANOFORTI: http://fazioli.com/

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

24.

2017.

An Evening of Chamber Music with violist Máté SZŰCS and pianist Michèle GURDAL

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

19.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

Bajor Gizi Community House - Chamber Hall, Balatonföldvár

October

18.

2017.

PTE Viola chamberconcert

City hall, Dunaföldvár

October

13.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

Tinódi House - Majoros room, Dombóvár

October

13.

2017.

Classical music, light-hearted listening

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

11.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

Zsigmond Móricz Cultural Center - Chamber Hall, Barcs

October

10.

2017.

PTE Cello recital

Erzsébet Vigadó, Bóly

October

05.

2017.

A concert by Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet:John DEARMAN | Matthew GREIF | William KANENGISER | Scott TENNANT The Grammy Award-winning LAGQ is one of the most multifaceted groups in any genre. The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing a new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. They consistently play to sold-out houses world-wide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground. Programs including Latin, African, Far East, Irish, Folk and American Classics transport listeners around the world in a single concert experience. In 2015-16, their solo program builds upon favorites from their 2005 Grammy Award winning "Guitar Heroes" disc and includes the premiere of a new work written for them by Pat Metheny. Their ‘Don Quixote’ collaboration with Firesign Theater veteran, actor Philip Proctor, continues to expand and delight audiences and the work 'SHIKI: Seasons of Japan' written for the LAGQ plus guitar orchestra by composer Shingo Fujii is connecting communities across the nation. The Rodrigo “Concierto Andaluz” and Sergio Assad’s “Interchange”, written specifically for them, help draw diverse audiences to orchestral programs around the world. March 2015 saw the recording release of "New Renaissance" on the LAGQ's own label. In addition to the award-winning “Guitar Heroes” CD, releases include the Grammy nominated "LAGQ-Latin", and “LAGQ: BRAZIL”, which includes collaborations with vocalist Luciana Souza. Their recording of the Rodrigo “Concierto Andaluz” and Sergio Assad’s “Interchange” quickly climbed to the top spot on the Billboard charts; the latter work received a Latin Grammy nomination. The live DVD of "The Ingenious Gentleman: Don Quixote" was released on the Mel Bay label in spring 2012.Program:I. “Music from the Time of CERVANTES” - arrangements by. William KANENGISER Anonímus (17th C.): Jácaras Antonio Martín y Coll: El VIllano Antonio Martín y Coll: Diferéncias Sobre Las Folias Juan Arañés: Chacona (“La Vida Bona”) Juan de Encina: Oy comamos y bebamos II. Johann Sebastian BACH - John SMITH: Brandenburg concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 Allegro Adagio ma non tropo Allegro III. Three Brazilian Pieces Hermeto Pascoal - William Kanengiser: Da Sábado para Dominguihnos Heitor Villa-Lobos - Sérgio Assad: Lenda da Caboclo Baden Powell - Marcus Tardelli: Samba NovoIV. Phillip Houghton: Opals Black Opal Water Opal White Opal V. Claude Debussy - John Smith: La soirée dans GrenadeVI. George Bizet - William Kanengiser: Carmen Suite Aragonaise Habanera Seguidilla Toreadors Entr’acte Gypsy Dance Masterclass application form: https://goo.gl/forms/BVq37t1C8zGzVf4g1Further information: farago.emanuela@pte.hu

ZMI Liszt Ferenc Concert Hall, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter

October

05.

2017.

PTE Trumpet recital

Cultural House, Kozármisleny

October

04.

2017.

PTE Viola chamberconcert

Reformed Church, Pellérd

October

03.

2017.

PTE Trumpet recital

Duna Business Center - Dome hall, Mohács

September

28.

2017.

PTE Chambermusic - Concert of Marianna Váradi DLA and her students

House of Arts, Szekszárd

September

26.

2017.

PTE Trumpet recital

Vörösmarty Mihály Cultural Center - Dancing hall, Bonyhád

September

22.

2017.

PTE Piano recital

Siófok Council Ceremonial Hall, Pécs

September

21.

2017.

PTE Trumpet recital

Sultan Suleiman's Mosque, Fortress of Szigetvár

August

31.

2017.

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana - a PTE MK Zeneművészeti Intézetének ünnepi hangversenye a PTE alapításának 650 éves jubileuma alkalmábólA PTE Művészeti Kar Zeneművészeti Intézete szeretne méltóképp megemlékezni egyetemünk e különleges jubileumáról. A hangverseny műsorául Carf Orff: Carmina Burana szólókra, kórusra, két zongorára és ütőhangszerekre készült átiratát választottuk. A mű érdekessége, hogy az Orff által feldolgozott szövegek egyetemünk alapításának idejéből, a 14.-15. századból valók, ráadásul a megzenésített költeményeket diákok írták. The recording of the concert can be watched here: KözreműködőkBartók Béla LeánykarBartók Béla FérfikarPécsi Egyetemi KórusPécsi Egyetemi Nőikarkarigazgatók: Kertész Attila és dr. Lakner Tamás Liszt-díjas karnagyokPécsi Ütőegyüttes, Góth Tamás (óraadó tanár) vezetésévelBalásy Szabolcs és Horváth Krisztián, zongora (óraadó tanárok)Farkas Alexandra, szoprán (hallgató)Szegedi Benjamin, tenor (hallgató)Bognár Szabolcs, bariton (óraadó tanár)Vezényel: prof. Dr. Lakner Tamás, Liszt-díjas karnagy, a Művészeti Kar dékánjaA Pécsi Egyetemi KórusrólA Pécsi Egyetemi Kórust 2012 óra Prof. Dr. Lakner Tamás Liszt-díjas karnagy vezeti. A PTE MK Zeneművészeti Intézet hallgatóiból álló vegyeskar több ízben képviselte és öregbítette a PTE hírnevét nemzetközi színtéren is: arany diplomát, I. díjat nyert a Szlovákiában 2015. május 7. és 10. között megrendezett Akademická Banská Bystricán, azaz az Európai Egyetemi Kórusok Versenyén, valamint elnyerte a legjobb külföldi kórusnak járó különdíjat; a 2015-ös második, pécsi EUROPA CANTAT nemzetközi kórusfesztivál közös énekléseinek rezidens, házigazda kórusa voltak és a neves Michael Gohl-lal dolgozhattak együtt. 2016 májusában a belgiumi Neerpeltben megrendezett Ifjúsági Kórusok Európai Kórusversenyének I. helyezését hozták haza, idén nyáron pedig több, mint kéthetes kínai turnén vesznek részt.A hangverseny Támogatója a PTE 650 Jubileumi programiroda.

Carmina Burana - Light spring music

Kodály Center