342 result(s) for pianist
Symbiosis Quintet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 23 July
- 23 Jul 2021 8:36 PM
- contemporary
The Budapest-based Symbiosis Quintet plays instrumental jazz. The members of the quintet met within the walls of the Liszt Ferenc University of Music and the Béla Bartók Conservatory, and all of them are active members of the Hungarian jazz scene.
The band was formed a little less than a year ago, so they used the lockdown period to unleash their creative energies.
The goal of the ...
Szakcsi - Regály - Balázs Hammond Trio, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 17 July
- 17 Jul 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
It is always exciting when, after many decades, a master and his disciple meet again, now as colleagues, and the accumulated experience are discussed in a musical dialogue. This encounter is especially exciting when two musicians are playing between the same instrument.
György Regály, assistant professor of jazz at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, graduated from Béla Szakcsi Lakatos in ...
Krisztián Oláh Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 23 June
- 23 Jun 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The main elements of the compositions of pianist-composer Krisztián Oláh, who has gained prestigious accolades in the world of jazz, are compositional techniques of classical music and the improvisational flow and abstract rhythm of contemporary jazz.
He seeks to create a synthesis of jazz and classical music with the need of a dynamic, contemporary music world.
Although the band's ...
Harmony Jazz Workshop, Budapest Jazz Club, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2021 8:30 PM
- contemporary
Romanian songstress Luiza Zan is one of the most interesting and original jazz singers not just in this Central-East European region but in the whole of Europe.
She sings an intriguing and highly individual mixture of jazz, rhythm’n’blues, funk and bossa nova. In 2004 she came second at the Montreux International Jazz Festival’s Jazz Voice competition.
She made her rip-roaring British ...
Tribute Concert to Dr. Szabados György, Fonó Budapest, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
It has been ten years since Szabados György Kossuth Award winning pianist, composer, the ‘father of Hungarian improvisational music’ passed away.
A new generation of musicians has grown up. They have not had direct contact with the Master, but his work and influence are obviously palpable.
Károly Gáspár Trio: Philosophy – Album Debut Concert, Opus Jazz Club, 2 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:51 PM
- contemporary
Pianist Károly Gáspár is one of the key figures in Hungarian jazz life. They play fresh and forward-looking music with their trio, which also respects the mainstream roots of jazz.
After his Fonogram Award-winning album The Outsider (2017) he released Salvation in 2019, with his own compositions ,one song by Jenő Horváth and a transcript of some of Charlie Haden's compositions.
This year, ...
Pro Cultura Minoritatum Hungariae Award Presented
- 18 May 2021 6:48 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén presented the state Pro Cultura Minoritatum Hungariae award to eleven people and two groups representing Hungary’s 13 national minorities in the Bulgarian cultural centre.
Black & White Colours 2021, Liszt Academy, 12 May
- 12 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
“When you get to the point of thinking that this piece cannot be any better, that is when the quality of that piece in your performance starts declining,” József Balog, one of the most famous pianists on today’s Hungarian music scene, said recalling advice from Zoltán Kocsis.
This conviction is typical of Balog's focused, artistic personality combining self-evident virtuosity with pure, ...
Clifford Brown Sextet, Opus Jazz Club Event, 11 May
- 11 May 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
While in Paris with Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra, trumpeter Clifford Brown teamed up with altoist Gigi Gryce and a top-notch rhythm section (pianist Henri Renaud, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, bassist Pierre Michelot, and drummer Jean-Louis Viale) for two fine sessions on this enjoyable LP. Although Gryce was not a major soloist, he held his own with the trumpeter and was a talented composer.
Symbiosis Quintet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 23 July
- 23 Jul 2021 8:36 PM
- contemporary
The Budapest-based Symbiosis Quintet plays instrumental jazz. The members of the quintet met within the walls of the Liszt Ferenc University of Music and the Béla Bartók Conservatory, and all of them are active members of the Hungarian jazz scene.
The band was formed a little less than a year ago, so they used the lockdown period to unleash their creative energies.
The goal of the ...
Szakcsi - Regály - Balázs Hammond Trio, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 17 July
- 17 Jul 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
It is always exciting when, after many decades, a master and his disciple meet again, now as colleagues, and the accumulated experience are discussed in a musical dialogue. This encounter is especially exciting when two musicians are playing between the same instrument.
György Regály, assistant professor of jazz at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, graduated from Béla Szakcsi Lakatos in ...
Krisztián Oláh Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 23 June
- 23 Jun 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The main elements of the compositions of pianist-composer Krisztián Oláh, who has gained prestigious accolades in the world of jazz, are compositional techniques of classical music and the improvisational flow and abstract rhythm of contemporary jazz.
He seeks to create a synthesis of jazz and classical music with the need of a dynamic, contemporary music world.
Although the band's ...
Harmony Jazz Workshop, Budapest Jazz Club, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2021 8:30 PM
- contemporary
Romanian songstress Luiza Zan is one of the most interesting and original jazz singers not just in this Central-East European region but in the whole of Europe.
She sings an intriguing and highly individual mixture of jazz, rhythm’n’blues, funk and bossa nova. In 2004 she came second at the Montreux International Jazz Festival’s Jazz Voice competition.
She made her rip-roaring British ...
Tribute Concert to Dr. Szabados György, Fonó Budapest, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
It has been ten years since Szabados György Kossuth Award winning pianist, composer, the ‘father of Hungarian improvisational music’ passed away.
A new generation of musicians has grown up. They have not had direct contact with the Master, but his work and influence are obviously palpable.
Károly Gáspár Trio: Philosophy – Album Debut Concert, Opus Jazz Club, 2 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:51 PM
- contemporary
Pianist Károly Gáspár is one of the key figures in Hungarian jazz life. They play fresh and forward-looking music with their trio, which also respects the mainstream roots of jazz.
After his Fonogram Award-winning album The Outsider (2017) he released Salvation in 2019, with his own compositions ,one song by Jenő Horváth and a transcript of some of Charlie Haden's compositions.
This year, ...
Pro Cultura Minoritatum Hungariae Award Presented
- 18 May 2021 6:48 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén presented the state Pro Cultura Minoritatum Hungariae award to eleven people and two groups representing Hungary’s 13 national minorities in the Bulgarian cultural centre.
Black & White Colours 2021, Liszt Academy, 12 May
- 12 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
“When you get to the point of thinking that this piece cannot be any better, that is when the quality of that piece in your performance starts declining,” József Balog, one of the most famous pianists on today’s Hungarian music scene, said recalling advice from Zoltán Kocsis.
This conviction is typical of Balog's focused, artistic personality combining self-evident virtuosity with pure, ...
Clifford Brown Sextet, Opus Jazz Club Event, 11 May
- 11 May 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
While in Paris with Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra, trumpeter Clifford Brown teamed up with altoist Gigi Gryce and a top-notch rhythm section (pianist Henri Renaud, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, bassist Pierre Michelot, and drummer Jean-Louis Viale) for two fine sessions on this enjoyable LP. Although Gryce was not a major soloist, he held his own with the trumpeter and was a talented composer.