Glittering like gold – five personalities, five special-themed concerts
We can expect a diverse programme, but the incredible quality links all five individual concerts together. Gold Standard series of the Pannon Philharmonics.
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Budapest opens festival season in Europe – 39. Spring Festival launches on 5 April
“We are the Budapest Spring Festival”, says executive director Csaba Káel. Franz Liszt, Russian culture and the 100-year-old Bauhaus in the spotlight.
Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience
“Working with singers, you have to understand that you are in a support role. Now that we are a quartet again, we use that experience to support each other.”
Twenty-two students join professional musicians at the Classical Chill Out concert
Students on stage, students in the audience. A cool experience of classical music, mostly (but not exclusively) for young people…
Tomoki Sakata: I admire Liszt and Hungary is my all-time favorite
Péter Dobszay and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Müpa, 24 February 2019, 7:30 pm Thinking about he is only 26 and…
It’s not about you in the music, it’s about music in yourself
She answers the phone and I’m astonished how beautiful her voice is. I can imagine her leading a meditation group…
Why did Gilbert Varga decide to sign a contract with the Pannon Philharmonic? – video
Gilbert Varga, the British conductor with Hungarian roots, found his way “back home” last February when he performed in Hungary….
Even the conductor was outraged because of my blonde wig – interview with Karine Babajanyan
The Land of Smiles, Müpa, 1 February 2019, 7 pm We caught the incredibly nice opera singer, Karine Babajanyan, for…
Here is Erik Satie, maybe the only real hero of the (not so) belle époque
Easy Grace – PFZ, Müpa, Béla Bartók Concert Hall, 25 January 2019, 7:30 pm „We should have a music of our…
His instrument was banned, his fellow musicians killed – the story of Bombino
In the evening, after dinner and milking sheep, camels and goats, people from every tent came together at a common fire where they drank tea, talked about history, recited poems and sang.
The way we play this instrument is like conducting a whole orchester
“I found it fantastic that every organ is different, you can hear completely new sounds, hundreds of years of music is awaken, and there are all these historical organs, still working today, all around the world…”
She heard Jerusalem’s stones crying out to her to sing
“I am the result of the most beautiful mixture and this mixture is the fountain from which I create.” Yasmin Levy on her father, the Sephardim, Jerusalem and the sacredness of music.
Stars of talent shows who won much more than fame
After years of hard work, practice, success in closer circles, many musicians really deserve national recognition and money. And there are some people who win even more in a talent show… Just like these three musicians.
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Rising Stars – Young wizards of music bring Europe to Budapest
Even with a magical goblet to choose participants, it wouldn’t be a question why to choose these talented young people over thousands of their fellow students and colleagues.
When an audience is truly with me, I feel that anything is possible – interview with Stanley Jordan
“I knew I had to do this because I had music in my head that I could not make on the guitar.” Meet Stanley Jordan and others, and see him playing the guitar the way no one else does.
We aim to impress fans of big musical emotions – interview with conductor Erki Pehk
“I consider Sinfonietta Rīga as one of the best, if not the best, chamber orchestras in the Baltic region”, says Estonian conductor Erki Pehk.
Consistency in Transformation
To these driving rhythms and storytelling melodies, the quintet adds improvisations and orchestrations with various tones to fully realise their captivating power.
A multilingual theatre installation: Faust 1&2
Following its highly successful premiere in Munich, Pathos Theater, the Bavarian capital’s largest independent company will bring their experimental Faust performance to CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival audiences.
The professor of jazz-rock fusion in the BJC – RoLaJaFuFu: rock, latin, jazz, funk, fusion
Ever since Dean Brown completed his studies at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has always been the first name to call if a supergroup finds itself needing a jazz-rock guitarist…
Three brothers from the edge of Europe – Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia
The Sinfonietta Riga formed in 2006 with the intent of showcasing vibrant and rich Baltic contemporary music to the world. Their ideas and musical conceptualisations and endeavours have been rewarded with a Grammy Award, amonf others…
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