29 result(s) for budapest festival orchestra 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 ...
Brussels Jazz Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 16 September
- 16 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This two-part concert will present the finest and most diverse aspects of the Belgian jazz scene. The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Belgium's leading big band, will be uniting its powers with the superb guitarist Philip Catherine, outstanding trumpet player Bert Joris and the distinctive singer David Linx to wow the audience as they perform a programme compiled especially for the Bridging Europe ...
Klezmer, Gipsy & Swing Melodies, Hegedűs Gyula Street Synagogue, 11 September
- 11 Sep 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
As noted on the House of Music website, Zoltán Tordai, born in 1981, began playing with the Rajkó Orchestra at the age of 11 and founded his first band at 16. The Zoltán Tordai Quintet was formed in 2010. His artistic mission is to introduce young people to traditional Hungarian popular music, Hungarian folk music, and Hungarian classical music. This philosophy will be on full display this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...
Free Open-Air Concert: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Heroes' Square, 4 September
- 4 Sep 2023 6:30 PM
- classical
Heroes’ Square is not only an emblematic attraction for Budapest but also for the Budapest Festival Orchestra, which has treated audiences to a number of memorable concerts there.
On 4 September, the BFO celebrates the city’s 150th birthday by performing an overture composed specifically for the occasion.
Budapest Klezmer Band, Dohány Street Synagogue Budapest, 3 September
- 3 Sep 2023 8:00 PM
- contemporary
According to the legendary Ferenc ’Fegya’ Jávori, founder of the now no less legendary Budapest Klezmer Band, „klezmer is a mirror of the relationship between peoples”. Let us add: these peoples are the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. Hungarians, Romanians, Slavs and, of course, Jews. But they are Eastern European, multilingual, Yiddish-speaking Jews who were destroyed in the ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra: Music Fair & Family Day, Aquincum, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2023 11:00 AM
- community
The BFO stage a day of free, family-friendly musical interaction at the Aquincum Museum and Archaeological Park.
Each 20-minute session takes place on the hour, from noon to 6pm, when top-notch violinists, woodwind players and a harpist perform in intimate surroundings, allowing the young ones to see how musicians actually play.
There will also be a Music Castle for kids and chamber ...
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 ...
Brussels Jazz Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 16 September
- 16 Sep 2024 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This two-part concert will present the finest and most diverse aspects of the Belgian jazz scene. The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Belgium's leading big band, will be uniting its powers with the superb guitarist Philip Catherine, outstanding trumpet player Bert Joris and the distinctive singer David Linx to wow the audience as they perform a programme compiled especially for the Bridging Europe ...
Klezmer, Gipsy & Swing Melodies, Hegedűs Gyula Street Synagogue, 11 September
- 11 Sep 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
As noted on the House of Music website, Zoltán Tordai, born in 1981, began playing with the Rajkó Orchestra at the age of 11 and founded his first band at 16. The Zoltán Tordai Quintet was formed in 2010. His artistic mission is to introduce young people to traditional Hungarian popular music, Hungarian folk music, and Hungarian classical music. This philosophy will be on full display this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...
Free Open-Air Concert: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Heroes' Square, 4 September
- 4 Sep 2023 6:30 PM
- classical
Heroes’ Square is not only an emblematic attraction for Budapest but also for the Budapest Festival Orchestra, which has treated audiences to a number of memorable concerts there.
On 4 September, the BFO celebrates the city’s 150th birthday by performing an overture composed specifically for the occasion.
Budapest Klezmer Band, Dohány Street Synagogue Budapest, 3 September
- 3 Sep 2023 8:00 PM
- contemporary
According to the legendary Ferenc ’Fegya’ Jávori, founder of the now no less legendary Budapest Klezmer Band, „klezmer is a mirror of the relationship between peoples”. Let us add: these peoples are the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. Hungarians, Romanians, Slavs and, of course, Jews. But they are Eastern European, multilingual, Yiddish-speaking Jews who were destroyed in the ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra: Music Fair & Family Day, Aquincum, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2023 11:00 AM
- community
The BFO stage a day of free, family-friendly musical interaction at the Aquincum Museum and Archaeological Park.
Each 20-minute session takes place on the hour, from noon to 6pm, when top-notch violinists, woodwind players and a harpist perform in intimate surroundings, allowing the young ones to see how musicians actually play.
There will also be a Music Castle for kids and chamber ...