Gergely Madaras and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra

30 September 2018

Gergely Madaras and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra
30 September 2018, 7:30 pm — 10 pm
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Conductor Gergely Madaras (1984) has purposely been left off the list of discoveries as he needs no introduction. Since 2013, he has been musical director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne in France, and has also served as principle conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra since 2014. In February 2018, he was appointed musical director of Belgium's largest symphony orchestra, the Liège Royal Philharmonic. At the head of his Hungarian ensemble in Müpa Budapest's Discoveries series, he will conduct Dvořák's folk music-inspired and slavic-themed eighth symphony. In the first part of the programme, two concertos will also be heard. One of Mozart's most popular Viennese piano concertos, the Concerto in C major (Köchel catalogue number 503), will be performed by young artist Alexandra Balog. Balog began her secondary music studies as a student of the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music in 2003 and continued her higher education at the London Royal Academy of Music. In November 2017, she won the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz. Perhaps the most exciting discovery on the programme is the Flute Concerto (1934) by the Frenchman Jacques Ibert (1890-1962). This sparkling, virtuosic work is one of the most significant in the instrument's 20th century repertoire. Its performer, Noémi Győri, studied under world-class instructors and has been successful in international competitions. Despite having performed for years all over Europe and America and releasing outstanding albums, we hear little about her here in Hungary. We now get the chance to discover her too!

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Orsi Kozma: Meetings

16 September 2018

Kozma is planning a veritable parade of stars for her appearance at Müpa Budapest, including Péter Novák and Krisztián Szakos, the creators of Jazz+Az László Dés, Dóri Behumi and Eszter Váczi, and the vocalists from the Cotton Club Singers, Gabi Szűcs and Gábor Fehér. "I'm very lucky, a lot of people have had a really big influence on me. Péter Novák - the crazy one - who I have to thank for his influence in terms of not only pop-rock and folk music, but also the theatre. I actually trained to be an actress and I appeared in quite a few musical productions. After one particularly annoying audition I had enough: I never wanted to act again. The power of words - I stopped right then and there. I've missed it ever since. There's also Jazz+Az, where Péter Geszti and László Dés really helped to get my career going, while Dóri and Eszter are good friends of mine to this day. The Cotton Club Singers - I didn't have a clue about swing music - opened up new paths before me. Then I started searching for my own path: I began writing songs. I found a creative partner in the songwriter Krisztián Szakos. We made three albums of experimental electro-pop (Egy szó; Az igazi szerep; Vulkán) together. We put a great team together: Gábor Cseke on the piano, Vikto Hárs on the bass guitar and Csaba Pusztai playing drums, plus me. One of the songs from our last album, Vízjel made it onto the MAHASZ List.” (Orsi Kozma)

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Gershwin, the Hit Factory

26 August 2018

The concerts of the 13th New Orleans Swing Festival will pay tribute to some of the greatest figures of the Jazz Age. The festival's final evening will evoke the essential figure of George Gershwin and his work, which forms a bridge between classical and jazz music. While many of those interested in these genres may believe they are deeply familiar with the composer of Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, few truly know where he came from and what nourished his art. Nor is it widely known that while he was born in America, Gershwin was of Russian Jewish descent, and that as a child he was mostly interested in sports, not music. However, after his parents bought a piano for his older brother, George Gershwin sat in front of the instrument all day improvising. A Hungarian composer, Edward Kilenyi, played an important role in his studies, who from 1915 onwards taught Gershwin how to write music, musical theory and instrumentation and also introduced him to the works of Chopin, Liszt and Debussy. As a young man, he worked in a New York music store as a 'song plugger' - someone who played and sometimes even sang the hits of the day for shoppers. This is how he got to know the ins and outs of hit production, and the full repertoire of the popular music of the era. The quintet assembled by Béla Szalóky, and complimented by the two outstanding international guests Frank Roberscheuten and Rossano Sportiello, will show us what an important role one of the most influential composers of the 20th century played in the formation of classic jazz and swing.

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Sergei Krylov and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

2 October 2018, 7:30 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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Organ Stories VIII - Selected organ works by Liszt

3 October 2018, 7:30 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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5 October 2018, 7:30 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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World music, jazz, popular music

In The Mood - Journeys with Glenn Miller

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Sus Dungo / Golden Parazyth

19 September 2018, 8 pm Festival Theatre

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4 Pianos

20 September 2018, 8 pm Festival Theatre

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Warsaw Village Band

21 September 2018, 8 pm Festival Theatre

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Maarja Nuut & Ruum: „Muunduja”

23 September 2018, 8 pm Festival Theatre

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Dance, contemporary circus

Recirquel Company Budapest: The Naked Clown

10 September 2018, 7 pm Festival Theatre

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11 September 2018, 7 pm Festival Theatre

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Recirquel Company Budapest: Paris de Nuit

28 September 2018, 7 pm Festival Theatre

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29 September 2018, 3 pm Festival Theatre

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Recirquel Company Budapest: Paris de Nuit

29 September 2018, 7 pm Festival Theatre

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Recirquel Company Budapest: Paris de Nuit

30 September 2018, 3 pm Festival Theatre

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Hungarian National Ballet: Triple Dance - premiere

12 October 2018, 7 pm Festival Theatre

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Family and youth events

Ránki: King Pomádé's New Clothes - children's opera

30 September 2018, 11 am Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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Sack Full of Secrets

13 October 2018, 11 am Glass Hall

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My Passion: Musical Theatre - Tamás Szirtes

4 November 2018, 11 am Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

25 November 2018, 11 am Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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My Passion: Folk Music - András Berecz

20 January 2019, 11 am Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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Bandits - The Legend of Jóska Sobri

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My Passion: Early Music - György Vashegyi

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My Passion: Jazz - Veronika Harcsa

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Literature, cinema, fine arts

An evening with Witold Gombrowicz

24 September 2018, 8 pm Glass Hall

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The Big Feast (La Grande bouffe; 1973)

1 October 2018, 7 pm Auditorium

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The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté; 1974)

15 October 2018, 7 pm Auditorium

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An evening with András Cserna-Szabó

29 October 2018, 8 pm Glass Hall

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