Mini-Festival • 4.1
András Emszt: B Lines – world premiere
Ádám Baqais: Change – world premiere
András Gábor Virágh: Triptyque – world premiere
Jonatán Zámbó: Metamorphoses – world premiere
Gergely Matuz: MAGIS – world premiere
Balázs Kecskés D.: Partita
Miklós Kocsár: Wind Quintet No. 3
Featuring: Éva Osztrosits [1, 4] – violin, Gergely Matuz [3, 5] – flute, Mária Kovalszki [3], István Lajkó [2, 6], Kristóf Szőcs [1, 4] – piano, Wind Quintet Budapest [7]
The members of the wind quintet: Lívia Duleba – flute, Katalin Kiss – oboe, Péter Szűcs – clarinet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon, Tamás Farkas – horn
The Hungarian Music Society organized its first series of concerts in contemporary music, the Mini-Festival in 1989. Founder Zsolt Durkó sought to create a forum for foreign and Hungarian works that represent different approaches but are consistently of a high artistic quality.
Talking about the importance of new music and the beauty of unknown worlds, Zsolt Durkó said: “The ability of renewal is intrinsic to creative art. Accordingly, imprecise conjectures and fantastic hallucinations that break out with the momentum of discovery, are indispensable.”
Year after year, the Mini-Festival provides the youngest composers with an opportunity to showcase their work. The highlighted artists of 2019 are András Emszt, Ádám Baqais, András Gábor Virágh, and Jonatán Zámbó, who are all awardees of this year’s Kodály Zoltán Musical Creative Scholarship.
An event jointly organized with Hungarian Music Society.
