43 result(s) for 2018 in Events
Alto For Two, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 18 September
- 18 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Alto For Two is a project led by two of the most innovative saxophonists in Europe today: Kika Sprangers and Irene Reig, and it features a repertoire of their own compositions.
The coming together of these two artists, with their unique musical backgrounds, results in an eclectic and distinctive musical offering with a varied sound palette translated into the quintet format. Alto For Two just ...
Bernstein - Jazz Side Story Symphonic, National Concert Hall Budapest, 1 September
- 1 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The first edition of Jazz Side Story led to two consecutive sold-out shows at the Festival Theatre in 2018. Now, Nikoletta Szőke, Bálint Gájer and their musical associates are raising the stakes. They will perform eternal Bernstein compositions at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall alongside Kornél Fekete-Kovács-led Danubia Orchesta and a selection of jazz brass musicians, ensuring a fuller ...
Peet Project + Michael Lington Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 11 July
- 11 Jul 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
As a natural follow-up to their amazing, high-energy show last summer, Danish-American saxophonist Michael Lington returns to Budapest to join forces with top notch young local talents the Peet Project offering a rare musical delight to lovers of melodic jazz, soul, funk and pop.
There will be no shortage of new music: Michael's latest radio hit, South Bay, topped the Billboard jazz Chart at ...
Piano Concert by Isa Sophie Zünd, Budapest Music Center, 18 June
- 18 Jun 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Isa-Sophie Zünd was born in Switzerland and grew up in Liechtenstein. She is currently based in Budapest, where she is pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Andras Kemenes. In 2022 she completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Claudio Martinez Mehner and Adrian Oetiker.
At the Swiss Youth Music Competition “Musik der Jugend”, she ...
Organ Trio, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 June
- 5 Jun 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Award-winning guitarist István Gyárfás’s long time dream of creating a classic Hammond trio came to fruition with organist Mátyás Premecz and György Jeszenszky on drums.
Their 2018 debut album, Organ Grinder's Suite, pays homage to the leading trios of the genre from the 1950s.
The album earned critical acclaim and the trio also performs the repertoire in a live setting frequently. ...
György Orbán & His Students, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 June
- 4 Jun 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
György Orbán taught composition and music theory at Budapest's Liszt Academy between 1982 and 2009.
The three composers whose works we will hear alongside those of their teacher are not only linked to Orbán as students, but also continuously exploit the intellectual capital they received from him. To open the concert, Levente Gyöngyösi will conduct his ensemble Seventeen
Singers in choral ...
Peet Project + Adam Hawley concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 24 May
- 24 May 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
When someone is discovered and offered a recording contract by Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White, he must be an extraordinary talent. It is no wonder that guitarist Adam Hawley has become the hottest new artist in the young generation of contemporary jazz performers.
His four albums and the recordings he produced to date yielded 14 Billboard No. 1s and 40 (!) Top 30 hits. In addition ...
Korossy Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 13 May
- 13 May 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Founded in 2018, the Korossy Quartet aims to transmit the famous Hungarian string quartet tradition, and to present the broadest possible repertoire to Hungarian and foreign audiences.
In 2021, the ensemble was awarded 5 different special prizes at the international Bartók World Competition, and a year later they were accepted into the class of Günter Pichler, first violinist of the legendary ...
Tan Dun: Buddha Passion - Hungarian premiere, National Concert Hall Budapest, 14 April
- 14 Apr 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this monumental, six-part Buddha Passion was written in 2018.
The piece has a Chinese and Sanskrit libretto, and employs solo singers, a choir and an orchestra. It was first performed in Dresden by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the ...
Alto For Two, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 18 September
- 18 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Alto For Two is a project led by two of the most innovative saxophonists in Europe today: Kika Sprangers and Irene Reig, and it features a repertoire of their own compositions.
The coming together of these two artists, with their unique musical backgrounds, results in an eclectic and distinctive musical offering with a varied sound palette translated into the quintet format. Alto For Two just ...
Bernstein - Jazz Side Story Symphonic, National Concert Hall Budapest, 1 September
- 1 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The first edition of Jazz Side Story led to two consecutive sold-out shows at the Festival Theatre in 2018. Now, Nikoletta Szőke, Bálint Gájer and their musical associates are raising the stakes. They will perform eternal Bernstein compositions at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall alongside Kornél Fekete-Kovács-led Danubia Orchesta and a selection of jazz brass musicians, ensuring a fuller ...
Peet Project + Michael Lington Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 11 July
- 11 Jul 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
As a natural follow-up to their amazing, high-energy show last summer, Danish-American saxophonist Michael Lington returns to Budapest to join forces with top notch young local talents the Peet Project offering a rare musical delight to lovers of melodic jazz, soul, funk and pop.
There will be no shortage of new music: Michael's latest radio hit, South Bay, topped the Billboard jazz Chart at ...
Piano Concert by Isa Sophie Zünd, Budapest Music Center, 18 June
- 18 Jun 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Isa-Sophie Zünd was born in Switzerland and grew up in Liechtenstein. She is currently based in Budapest, where she is pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Andras Kemenes. In 2022 she completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Claudio Martinez Mehner and Adrian Oetiker.
At the Swiss Youth Music Competition “Musik der Jugend”, she ...
Organ Trio, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 June
- 5 Jun 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Award-winning guitarist István Gyárfás’s long time dream of creating a classic Hammond trio came to fruition with organist Mátyás Premecz and György Jeszenszky on drums.
Their 2018 debut album, Organ Grinder's Suite, pays homage to the leading trios of the genre from the 1950s.
The album earned critical acclaim and the trio also performs the repertoire in a live setting frequently. ...
György Orbán & His Students, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 June
- 4 Jun 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
György Orbán taught composition and music theory at Budapest's Liszt Academy between 1982 and 2009.
The three composers whose works we will hear alongside those of their teacher are not only linked to Orbán as students, but also continuously exploit the intellectual capital they received from him. To open the concert, Levente Gyöngyösi will conduct his ensemble Seventeen
Singers in choral ...
Peet Project + Adam Hawley concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 24 May
- 24 May 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
When someone is discovered and offered a recording contract by Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White, he must be an extraordinary talent. It is no wonder that guitarist Adam Hawley has become the hottest new artist in the young generation of contemporary jazz performers.
His four albums and the recordings he produced to date yielded 14 Billboard No. 1s and 40 (!) Top 30 hits. In addition ...
Korossy Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 13 May
- 13 May 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Founded in 2018, the Korossy Quartet aims to transmit the famous Hungarian string quartet tradition, and to present the broadest possible repertoire to Hungarian and foreign audiences.
In 2021, the ensemble was awarded 5 different special prizes at the international Bartók World Competition, and a year later they were accepted into the class of Günter Pichler, first violinist of the legendary ...
Tan Dun: Buddha Passion - Hungarian premiere, National Concert Hall Budapest, 14 April
- 14 Apr 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this monumental, six-part Buddha Passion was written in 2018.
The piece has a Chinese and Sanskrit libretto, and employs solo singers, a choir and an orchestra. It was first performed in Dresden by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the ...