It includes, among others, the performance of the Israeli band named Balkan Beat Box, which can expect a great success owing to its special style and unique sound.

The world-famous Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra will open the festival on August 26. They will be accompanied by two outstanding young Hungarian violinists, Ágnes and Júlia Pusker, as well as one of the youngest pianist talents of the world of classical music, the only eight-year-old Israeli Yoav Levanon.

Two days later, in the Dohány Street Synagogue, our guests can enjoy the performance of the Israeli legend of world music, Shlomo Bar, accompanied by his ensemble, Habrera Hativeet.

Their music is the special blend of African Sephardic and Oriental traditions.

A recently discovered talent, Nikolas Takács, who has compiled his whole programme from the oeuvre of Michel Legrand, will give a concert in the Dohány Street Synagogue for the first time.

The concert is also homage since the world famous composer of the Yentl and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg celebrated his 80th birthday this year.

Our festival has several returning guest artists – it is something we are very proud of, because it shows that they like visiting us.

In the past years the Sephardic songs of the Mediterranean Jewry have become one of the greatest successes of Bea Palya’s repertoire. This time our guests can enjoy a new, special musical selection, including songs of Yasmin Levi, Noa and Dulce Pontes as well as fado and Sephardic songs at the Uránia National Film Theatre.

Our outstanding talents include the young jazz diva, Veronika Harcsa. In her concert entitled Lamplight she will sing the poems of Hungarian poets set to music. The guest artist of the evening is János Kulka.

The opera fans will certainly welcome the concert-like presentation of the Verdi opera Nabucco, which will be held in the Dohány Street Synagogue on September 2, featuring prominent Hungarian artists like Mihály Kálmándi as well as two young Hungarian stars of the world of opera, Csilla Boross and Gábor Bretz.

Source, more info and program: zsidonyarifesztival.hu