758 result(s) for composer
Charles Gounod: Faust, Opera House Budapest, 29 March
- 29 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- classical
Gounod’s French grand opera has been an indispensable element of any self-respecting opera company’s repertoire, and to this day remains among the most frequently performed operas.
The composer's aim was not an operatic adaptation of Goethe’s masterpiece. Born from the libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré was a perfumed and smoky drama spiced with elements of romance and horror, as well ...
Dezső Fitos Folkdance Company: Youngsters, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 March
- 27 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- contemporary
The performance focuses on the boundaries of adolescence, the issues they face, their complex relationship systems, their relationship with the community and parents, hopefully helping adolescents in the transition period to accept themselves and each other, focusing entirely on the issues and the emotional and physical changes that affect them.
The dramaturg, Mara Pallai, composes and edits ...
The Legacy of Wayne Shorter, National Concert Hall Budapest, 26 March
- 26 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Wayne Shorter made his name as a musician in the legendary era of jazz history, before also developing into a true legend himself. Shorter created timeless work at every stage in his career as both a composer and saxophonist.
Arguably the peak of his musical journey, however, came with his quartet alongside Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade. Across 21 years, Shorter’s group won two ...
Surprising Expats: Danny Bain, Musician, Composer, Storyteller
- 24 Mar 2025 2:18 PM
This is part of a series of in-depth interviews with some of the most surprising members of the expat community in Hungary, written by Marion Merrick.
Ballet in Three Acts: Manon, Opera House Budapest, 18 March
- 18 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- classical
During his career, Sir Kenneth MacMillan managed to reinvent not just the language of ballet, but also its subject matter: on many occasions he reached for modern, socially and societally charged themes that no one had ever dared to touch in any genre, let alone in dance.
He was met with this criticism also after the 1974 premiere of Manon: even though it won enormous acclaim from audiences, ...
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 ...
Youth Event: Brilliant Twenty Somethings, Festival Theatre Budapest, 10 March
- 10 Mar 2025 1:00 PM
- contemporary
Who has never written a poem upon experiencing their first love, or perhaps pondered the meaning of life? This has been true for hundreds of years and remains so today. But what do Bach, Mozart and a modern pop star all share in common?
The Brilliant Twenty-somethings programme seeks the answer to this question, because while the world has changed over the centuries, the big questions have ...
Femi Kuti & Positive Force, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 March
- 9 Mar 2025 5:30 PM
- contemporary
Femi Kuti is the oldest son of the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, though naturally it is not only through his father that Femi has become a well-known and highly acclaimed musician, composer and civil rights activist.
Femi Kuti is a major artist who has brought his spiritual heritage into the modern day and moulded it into a 21st-century form. Femi founded his own band Positive Force in 1980, and ...
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 ...
Charles Gounod: Faust, Opera House Budapest, 29 March
- 29 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- classical
Gounod’s French grand opera has been an indispensable element of any self-respecting opera company’s repertoire, and to this day remains among the most frequently performed operas.
The composer's aim was not an operatic adaptation of Goethe’s masterpiece. Born from the libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré was a perfumed and smoky drama spiced with elements of romance and horror, as well ...
Dezső Fitos Folkdance Company: Youngsters, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 March
- 27 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- contemporary
The performance focuses on the boundaries of adolescence, the issues they face, their complex relationship systems, their relationship with the community and parents, hopefully helping adolescents in the transition period to accept themselves and each other, focusing entirely on the issues and the emotional and physical changes that affect them.
The dramaturg, Mara Pallai, composes and edits ...
The Legacy of Wayne Shorter, National Concert Hall Budapest, 26 March
- 26 Mar 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Wayne Shorter made his name as a musician in the legendary era of jazz history, before also developing into a true legend himself. Shorter created timeless work at every stage in his career as both a composer and saxophonist.
Arguably the peak of his musical journey, however, came with his quartet alongside Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade. Across 21 years, Shorter’s group won two ...
Surprising Expats: Danny Bain, Musician, Composer, Storyteller
- 24 Mar 2025 2:18 PM
This is part of a series of in-depth interviews with some of the most surprising members of the expat community in Hungary, written by Marion Merrick.
Ballet in Three Acts: Manon, Opera House Budapest, 18 March
- 18 Mar 2025 6:00 PM
- classical
During his career, Sir Kenneth MacMillan managed to reinvent not just the language of ballet, but also its subject matter: on many occasions he reached for modern, socially and societally charged themes that no one had ever dared to touch in any genre, let alone in dance.
He was met with this criticism also after the 1974 premiere of Manon: even though it won enormous acclaim from audiences, ...
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 ...
Youth Event: Brilliant Twenty Somethings, Festival Theatre Budapest, 10 March
- 10 Mar 2025 1:00 PM
- contemporary
Who has never written a poem upon experiencing their first love, or perhaps pondered the meaning of life? This has been true for hundreds of years and remains so today. But what do Bach, Mozart and a modern pop star all share in common?
The Brilliant Twenty-somethings programme seeks the answer to this question, because while the world has changed over the centuries, the big questions have ...
Femi Kuti & Positive Force, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 March
- 9 Mar 2025 5:30 PM
- contemporary
Femi Kuti is the oldest son of the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, though naturally it is not only through his father that Femi has become a well-known and highly acclaimed musician, composer and civil rights activist.
Femi Kuti is a major artist who has brought his spiritual heritage into the modern day and moulded it into a 21st-century form. Femi founded his own band Positive Force in 1980, and ...
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 ...