The year 2014 signals a new era in the two-decade history of the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda: after a long hiatus, a new artistic director has begun work as the successor to Domonkos Héja at the head of an ensemble which still remains young in terms of the average age of its members. Born in 1983, Máté Hámori does not yet have a decade behind him as a professional musician, and yet already has many interesting and significant initiatives to his name. As assistant to Tamás Vásáry, he has helped... the work of the Zoltán Kodály World Youth Orchestra since 2009, and since that time has also led the Symphony Orchestra of Debrecen University Faculty of Music. In the 2010/11 season, he organised a festival of Franz Liszt's music in Debrecen, joining a series of bicentennial concerts held nationwide.
The soloist for this concert is even younger than Hámori. Balázs Demény was born in Cluj (Kolozsvár) in Romania in 1989, before studying in Budapest from the age of 15 and achieving excellent results in numerous competitions. In 2006, he placed second in the György Ferenczy International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest, then repeated the achievement one year later at the Piano Competition for Music Secondary Schools in Békéscsaba. In 2011-2012, he studied under a scholarship at Berlin's Hanns Eisler School of Music, and is set to graduate from the Academy of Music in Budapest in 2014.
The evening's programme opens with a work from a distinctive voice among the young generation of composers. With his composition paying homage to the art of György Ligeti, László Sándor - himself a founding member of the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda - won third prize in the orchestral category at the 2013 competition for composers run by the New Hungarian Musical Forum, and also received the special prize of the Palace of Arts, which the institution presented to the composer of the work best exploiting the acoustic possibilities of the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.
Presented by: Palace of Arts
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