776 result(s) for arts festival
Invitation: Vilmos Jávori - Remembering A Jazz Legend, National Concert Hall, 24 October
- 21 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Vilmos Jávori was one of the greatest figures in our jazz history, who had a significant impact on the music of both Hungary and the neighbouring countries. He was able to conjure good things from bad, and outstanding from good. His name is associated with the first Hungarian victory at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in the company of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Rudolf Tomsics and Aladár Pege, while his ...
Award-Winning Hungarian Violinist Plans Musical Salon In Budapest – An Interview
- 19 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Bela Bartok’s Sonatas for Violin and Sonata for Violin on audio CD has won the prestigious international Gramophone Award. Zoltan Kocsis (laureate of the Hungarian Kossuth Prize twice) plays the piano and Barnabas Kelemen (Kossuth Prize laureate) plays the piano. Kelemen received the Gramophone Award in London in September.
The Night Of Contemporary Galleries In Budapest, 17 October
- 17 Oct 2013 10:40 AM
- community & culture
Organized with the participation of more than twenty art galleries, the Night of Contemporary Galleries turns the white cube into an agora, a marketplace of the intellect that encourages the exchange of ideas and impulses, a place that is dominated not by the objects that “speak for themselves,” but by the moods, sentiments and ideas they prompt. With doors thrown wide open, the galleries await ...
Invitation: Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival
- 10 Oct 2013 11:40 AM
- community & culture
Organized by the Budapest Festival and Tourism Centre, the Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival will be held for the 22nd time between 11 and 20 October 2013. As always, this wide series event is dedicated to the richly diverse genres of contemporary and progressives arts. Cafés and “cult pubs” will again provide many of the venues, with jazz concerts, contemporary dance performances, slam ...
Jazz Lovers Guide To Budapest For October 2013
- 3 Oct 2013 10:35 AM
- entertainment
Beautiful collisions of screaming horns, deep bass beats, soulful guitars, and other instruments of transcendent audio chaos continually reverberate across Budapest’s diverse jazz soundscape. This month boogies with an especially bountiful selection of jazz performances by local musicians and acclaimed international acts, happening in venues ranging from the country’s grandest music hall to ...
Invitation: Budapest Design Week, Until 6 October
- 3 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Budapest Design Week (27th of September and 6th of October 2013) welcomes Italy as the festival's Guest of Honour. A highlight of the Italian programs is the visit and lecture of the architect and designer Michele De Lucchi, a defining figure of contemporary Italian design.
Invitation: Czech Contemporary Evening With Budapest Festival Orchestra, 19 September
- 17 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Born in 1959, Martin Smolka is one of the leading figures on the Czech music scene. He describes the piece here, composed in 2007, as “a poetical idea of angels sitting in their angelic cars and sounding their horns, reminding us of Jericho’s trumpets.” In 2011, František Chaloupka (born 1981) took part in a workshop in Frankfurt led by Péter Eötvös and the Ensemble Modern, which focused on the ...
Invitation: Budapest Festival Orchestra Season Opening Gala Dinner, 15 September
- 12 Sep 2013 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Gala Patron: Princess Michael of Kent; special guest: Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission.
The BFO will open its Anniversary Season with an exclusive gala on 15 September, which follows the Le Nozze di Figaro performance - the “highlight of the New York opera season” is a great milestone for the Orchestra. Read on for full details.
Invitation: Bridging Europe, Iva Bittová, Festival Theatre Budapest, 12 September
- 11 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The career of Iva Bittová can be approached within the context of many different musical genres. She is equally at home in classical and contemporary music, jazz and the avant-garde, rock and folk music. We could make a long list of those with whom she has worked, but then we might easily lose sight of the most important thing, which is that in reality she cannot be pigeon-holed in any genre and ...
Invitation: Vilmos Jávori - Remembering A Jazz Legend, National Concert Hall, 24 October
- 21 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Vilmos Jávori was one of the greatest figures in our jazz history, who had a significant impact on the music of both Hungary and the neighbouring countries. He was able to conjure good things from bad, and outstanding from good. His name is associated with the first Hungarian victory at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in the company of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Rudolf Tomsics and Aladár Pege, while his ...
Award-Winning Hungarian Violinist Plans Musical Salon In Budapest – An Interview
- 19 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Bela Bartok’s Sonatas for Violin and Sonata for Violin on audio CD has won the prestigious international Gramophone Award. Zoltan Kocsis (laureate of the Hungarian Kossuth Prize twice) plays the piano and Barnabas Kelemen (Kossuth Prize laureate) plays the piano. Kelemen received the Gramophone Award in London in September.
The Night Of Contemporary Galleries In Budapest, 17 October
- 17 Oct 2013 10:40 AM
- community & culture
Organized with the participation of more than twenty art galleries, the Night of Contemporary Galleries turns the white cube into an agora, a marketplace of the intellect that encourages the exchange of ideas and impulses, a place that is dominated not by the objects that “speak for themselves,” but by the moods, sentiments and ideas they prompt. With doors thrown wide open, the galleries await ...
Invitation: Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival
- 10 Oct 2013 11:40 AM
- community & culture
Organized by the Budapest Festival and Tourism Centre, the Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival will be held for the 22nd time between 11 and 20 October 2013. As always, this wide series event is dedicated to the richly diverse genres of contemporary and progressives arts. Cafés and “cult pubs” will again provide many of the venues, with jazz concerts, contemporary dance performances, slam ...
Jazz Lovers Guide To Budapest For October 2013
- 3 Oct 2013 10:35 AM
- entertainment
Beautiful collisions of screaming horns, deep bass beats, soulful guitars, and other instruments of transcendent audio chaos continually reverberate across Budapest’s diverse jazz soundscape. This month boogies with an especially bountiful selection of jazz performances by local musicians and acclaimed international acts, happening in venues ranging from the country’s grandest music hall to ...
Invitation: Budapest Design Week, Until 6 October
- 3 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Budapest Design Week (27th of September and 6th of October 2013) welcomes Italy as the festival's Guest of Honour. A highlight of the Italian programs is the visit and lecture of the architect and designer Michele De Lucchi, a defining figure of contemporary Italian design.
Invitation: Czech Contemporary Evening With Budapest Festival Orchestra, 19 September
- 17 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Born in 1959, Martin Smolka is one of the leading figures on the Czech music scene. He describes the piece here, composed in 2007, as “a poetical idea of angels sitting in their angelic cars and sounding their horns, reminding us of Jericho’s trumpets.” In 2011, František Chaloupka (born 1981) took part in a workshop in Frankfurt led by Péter Eötvös and the Ensemble Modern, which focused on the ...
Invitation: Budapest Festival Orchestra Season Opening Gala Dinner, 15 September
- 12 Sep 2013 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Gala Patron: Princess Michael of Kent; special guest: Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission.
The BFO will open its Anniversary Season with an exclusive gala on 15 September, which follows the Le Nozze di Figaro performance - the “highlight of the New York opera season” is a great milestone for the Orchestra. Read on for full details.
Invitation: Bridging Europe, Iva Bittová, Festival Theatre Budapest, 12 September
- 11 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The career of Iva Bittová can be approached within the context of many different musical genres. She is equally at home in classical and contemporary music, jazz and the avant-garde, rock and folk music. We could make a long list of those with whom she has worked, but then we might easily lose sight of the most important thing, which is that in reality she cannot be pigeon-holed in any genre and ...