140 result(s) for bmc
Kristóf Bacsó Triad, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Saxophonist-composer Kristóf Bacsó occasionally extends his musical horizon with guest musicians, as was the case when he recorded an album with bassist Lionel Loueke (Pannon Blue), creating a kind of fusion of Hungarian-focused contemporary jazz and West African-influenced improvisational music, and then, with his own band, Kristóf Bacsó Triad, he recorded another album together with guest ...
Modern Art Orchestra, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 21 March
- 21 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The Modern Art Orchestra's À la MAO... series aims to present compositions and adaptations, sometimes originals, by members of the orchestra in a new context. In recordings and concerts, the orchestra has created a repertoire that is unparalleled in the history of Hungarian jazz.
Some of these pieces have never been heard before by old or new followers, arranged in a new thematical, stylistic ...
Zoh Amba, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 14 March
- 14 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Zoh Amba is a young composer, saxophonist, and flutist from Tennessee. Her music blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns.
Before studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, New England Conservatory and studying with David Murray in New York, she spent most of her time writing and practicing saxophone in the forest near her home. Today, her powerfully unique avant-garde ...
Jim Black & The Schrimps, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 13 March
- 13 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
In search of new musical challenges, drummer Jim Black gathers some of the most exciting musicians of the young Berlin jazz scene around him: Asger Nissen on alto saxophone, Julius Gawlik on tenor saxophone and bassist Felix Henkelhausen.
Together they are Jim & The Schrimps – a rhythmically explosive jazz quartet that captivates its audience with energetic improvisations and irrepressible ...
Shadowlands: Many Moons, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 8 March
- 8 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The fruitful collaboration of French-born saxophonist-clarinetist Robin Fincker and British pianist Kit Downes goes back decades. Their life paths have taken them from London to two different countries in Europe, and they met again three years ago when they teamed up with Irish singer Lauren Kinsella to set traditional songs and contemporary poetry to music.
After their first album Ombres, ...
Korossy Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 March
- 3 Mar 2025 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 ...
Baló Project, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 13 February
- 13 Feb 2025 7:47 PM
- contemporary
The Baló Project was founded in 2015 with the aim of presenting the same music in several lineups, always in a slightly different way.
The members choose musical devices according to the ideas they want to express, drawing on elements of jazz, rock, folk and contemporary music.
Their main ambition is to become so immersed that their creative energies can be unleashed and unite with their ...
Julie Sassoon, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 February
- 5 Feb 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“Sassoon is a fascinating original, her piano world inhabited by Keith Jarrett’s lyricism and driving hooks and Steve Reich’s minimalism … This is music that splices lyrical shapeliness with bursts of take-no-prisoners abstraction, but Sassoon’s sensitivity to that balance is as alert here as her listeners have come to expect.” – John Fordham / The Guardian
Whoever immerses themselves in the ...
Kurtag at 99: Hungarian Public Media Person of Year Celebrated on His Birthday With Concert
- 31 Jan 2025 8:12 AM
- community & culture
Kossuth laureate composer, pianist and teacher Gyorgy Kurtag, who is Public Media Person of the Year in 2024, will celebrate his 99th birthday on Feb 19 with a concert held at the Budapest Music Centre (BMC).
Kristóf Bacsó Triad, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Saxophonist-composer Kristóf Bacsó occasionally extends his musical horizon with guest musicians, as was the case when he recorded an album with bassist Lionel Loueke (Pannon Blue), creating a kind of fusion of Hungarian-focused contemporary jazz and West African-influenced improvisational music, and then, with his own band, Kristóf Bacsó Triad, he recorded another album together with guest ...
Modern Art Orchestra, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 21 March
- 21 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The Modern Art Orchestra's À la MAO... series aims to present compositions and adaptations, sometimes originals, by members of the orchestra in a new context. In recordings and concerts, the orchestra has created a repertoire that is unparalleled in the history of Hungarian jazz.
Some of these pieces have never been heard before by old or new followers, arranged in a new thematical, stylistic ...
Zoh Amba, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 14 March
- 14 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Zoh Amba is a young composer, saxophonist, and flutist from Tennessee. Her music blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns.
Before studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, New England Conservatory and studying with David Murray in New York, she spent most of her time writing and practicing saxophone in the forest near her home. Today, her powerfully unique avant-garde ...
Jim Black & The Schrimps, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 13 March
- 13 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
In search of new musical challenges, drummer Jim Black gathers some of the most exciting musicians of the young Berlin jazz scene around him: Asger Nissen on alto saxophone, Julius Gawlik on tenor saxophone and bassist Felix Henkelhausen.
Together they are Jim & The Schrimps – a rhythmically explosive jazz quartet that captivates its audience with energetic improvisations and irrepressible ...
Shadowlands: Many Moons, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 8 March
- 8 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The fruitful collaboration of French-born saxophonist-clarinetist Robin Fincker and British pianist Kit Downes goes back decades. Their life paths have taken them from London to two different countries in Europe, and they met again three years ago when they teamed up with Irish singer Lauren Kinsella to set traditional songs and contemporary poetry to music.
After their first album Ombres, ...
Korossy Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 March
- 3 Mar 2025 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 ...
Baló Project, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 13 February
- 13 Feb 2025 7:47 PM
- contemporary
The Baló Project was founded in 2015 with the aim of presenting the same music in several lineups, always in a slightly different way.
The members choose musical devices according to the ideas they want to express, drawing on elements of jazz, rock, folk and contemporary music.
Their main ambition is to become so immersed that their creative energies can be unleashed and unite with their ...
Julie Sassoon, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 February
- 5 Feb 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“Sassoon is a fascinating original, her piano world inhabited by Keith Jarrett’s lyricism and driving hooks and Steve Reich’s minimalism … This is music that splices lyrical shapeliness with bursts of take-no-prisoners abstraction, but Sassoon’s sensitivity to that balance is as alert here as her listeners have come to expect.” – John Fordham / The Guardian
Whoever immerses themselves in the ...
Kurtag at 99: Hungarian Public Media Person of Year Celebrated on His Birthday With Concert
- 31 Jan 2025 8:12 AM
- community & culture
Kossuth laureate composer, pianist and teacher Gyorgy Kurtag, who is Public Media Person of the Year in 2024, will celebrate his 99th birthday on Feb 19 with a concert held at the Budapest Music Centre (BMC).