This two-day event is a significant event for percussionists in Hungary and is based upon percussion music culture and music training with several decades of experience in Győr. Percussion music is a genre that can speak to all kinds of listeners, old and young alike, irrespective of their age. In addition to offering quality entertainment and popularising percussion music, the aim of this Festival has been to provide an opportunity for local talents and students of percussion to make their debut and show their skills to a wider audience.

Representatives of the young generation can personally meet and "share the stage" with renowned percussionists from Hungary and around the world, which is sure to give them motivation to last throughout their lives, thus furthering and making a defining impact on their careers as percussionists.

The International Percussion Festival Győr gives an opportunity to listen to pieces of classical music, jazz, world music, or contemporary percussion music. With the view to offer a wide variety of entertainment, in the course of making the Festival's programme, we considered complementing percussion shows with performances involving other music genres and related arts, instrument demonstrations, and workshops.

The exhibition of percussion instruments is another integral part and traditional feature of the Festival. It serves both as a venue for the Hungarian representations of the world's most important musical instrument manufacturers and distributors to present their products and as an opportunity for the audience to sound the exhibited instruments.

In the past years many world stars including Evelyn Glennie /GB/, Carmine & Vinny Appice /USA/, R. Szaniszlo - D.Friedman New Vibes Project, Borlai Gergő - Gary Willis Duo, and the Talamba Hungarian Spirit of Life-Talamba and the GypsiesJojo Mayer, Tom Brechtlein, Tommy Vig, Billy Cobham, Trilok Gurtu, Ian Paice, Mark Mondesir and Carl Palmer performed at the Percussion Festival of Győr.

We keep on this nice tradition this year too, as we have invited, among other performers, Romungro Gipsy Band, Győri Percussion Ensemble, Bobby Previte and Studio Percussion graz: Terminals, Patrik Wesser and János Kovács, Bobby Rondinelli(USA) and Cry Free. Open-stage concerts at Széchenyi square enrich the traditional street march music and show drumming.

Source and detailed program: persecutiongyor.hu