Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music will host a grand concert on February 19 featuring Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller, the Saint Ephraim Male Choir, pianists Pierre- Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, cellist Louise Hopkins and György Kurtág Jr on electronics and keyboards.

The programme will include the Hungarian premiere of a Kurtág composition dedicated to Pierre Boulez and a joint composition by Kurtág, his son and Olivier Cuendet performed as a dialogue between a synthesiser and an orchestra.

During the evening, a video message from the Berlin Philharmonic will be broadcast, featuring conductor Simon Rattle and trumpet soloist Gábor Tarkövi on behalf of the musicians.

The festival programme also includes a piano concert by Zoltán Kocsis playing works from a manuscript that Kurtág prepared for him over a period of 32 years and the screening of a documentary entitled Kurtág Home Video by director Judit Kurtág, the composer’s granddaughter.

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Detailed program:

Kurtág 90 - Troussova / Splinters / Akhmatova
2016.02.14. Sunday 19.30
BMC Concert Hall

Kurtág 90 - From a different point of view — Round table discussion
2016.02.15. Monday 17.30
BMC Library

Kurtág 90 - Around pianists
2016.02.15. Monday 19.30
BMC Concert Hall

Kurtág 90 – Hommage à Kurtág
2016.02.16. Tuesday 19.30
BMC Concert Hall

Kurtág 90 – Games
2016.02.17. Wednesday 19.30
BMC Concert Hall

Kurtág 90 - Score book of Zoli Kocsis
2016.02.18. Thursday 18.00
BMC Concert Hall

Kurtág 90 – Birthday
2016.02.19. Friday 19.30
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music

Kurtág 90 – Kurtág Home Video
2016.02.20. Saturday 19.30
Palace of Arts - Festival Theatre

Kurtág 90 - Kurtág, nearly unknown
2016.02.21. Sunday 19.30
BMC Concert Hall

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