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Jazz

Cimbalom
Pege 70
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog feat. Eszter Bálint [USA]

Cimbalom

October 13 | 20.00
Millenáris Teátrum

With >
Mihály Borbély [saxophone] | Gergely Ittzés [flute] | Balázs Kántor [cello] | Csaba Klenyán [clarinet] | Miklós Lukács Quintet
The members of the quintet >
Miklós Lukács [cimbalom] | Kristóf Bacsó [saxophone] | Mátyás Szandai [double bass] | Péter Szalai [tabla] | András Dés [percussion]

© Zoltán Vancsó
The youngest generation of the renowned Hungarian cimbalom tradition is full of talent; even among them Miklós Lukács stands out for the boundless energy of his playing, the polished perfection of his virtuosity and his awesome musicality. A member of the Mitsoura orchestra and the Dresch Quartet, he studied under Ágnes Szakály. He has participated in numerous recordings, he has made a duo recording of improvisations with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, appeared with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonia Orchestra, and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Torino. In 2008 Mexican-born filmmaker Mano Camón, who lives in Holland, made a DVD of him and his instrument, titled “Cimbalom Legacy – The Soundscape of Miklós Lukács”. The film has not yet been shown in Hungary: the DVD presentation concert will be held at the Budapest Autumn Festival, where the programme will include pieces written for the cimbalom by Péter Eötvös and György Kurtág as well as contemporary music improvisations.
Ticket price > 2500 Ft
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Pege 70

October 15 | 20.00
Millenáris Teátrum

With >
Gyula Csepregi [saxophone] | Gyula Babos [guitar] | Béla Szakcsi Lakatos Jr. [piano] | János Egri [double bass] | Imre Kőszegi [percussion]
Aladár Pege, who was deservedly known in his lifetime as the “Paganini of the double bass”, would have celebrated his 70th birthday in October 2009. Not only did he have unique technical skills, he was also exceptionally knowledgeable musically and was a performer with a very broad horizon. He completed his studies at the Academy of Music in 1969 and already in the following year he was named Europe’s best performer at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In the mid-1970s he spent three years in Berlin where he studied with Rainer Zapperitz, solo bass soloist of the Berlin Philharmonic then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. When he appeared in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1982 as the guest soloist of the Herbie Hancock's group, the widow of Charles Mingus gave him one of the legendary bass player’s instruments. His memory is preserved in his many recordings, arrangements, double bass school, and numerous evergreens he composed, and since 2007 in the Aladár Pege Memorial Band formed by prominent musicians from the Hungarian jazz scene.
Ticket price > HUF 3000
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Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog feat. Eszter Bálint [USA]

October 17 | 20.00
TRAFÓ – House of Contemporary Arts

20.00 | Hard Plains Difter [H]
With >
András Párniczky [guitar] | Dániel Szabó [keyboard instruments] | Péter Nagy [double bass] | György Jeszenszky [drums]

21.00 | Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog feat. Bálint Eszter [USA]
With >
Marc Ribot [guitar | voice] | Shazad Ismaily [bass guitar | Moog | electronics] | Ches Smith [drums | electronics] | Bálint Eszter [voice]
One of the most exciting figures in New York’s heady musical witches’ kitchen is the “Renaissance man” of the guitar, Marc Ribot. From pop through punk to free improvisation and electronic music, there is hardly an area Ribot has not tried. He has participated in many recordings, among others with John Zorn, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits. Last year his own trio, Ceramic Dog published its first album titled “Party Intellectuals”. A critic aptly described the record’s eclectic style as “post-everything”. Ribot turns the musical language of many different traditions upside down, puts it in inverted commas, or takes it in deadly earnest. One of the participants in the trio’s Budapest concert will be Eszter Bálint who is probably best known to the Hungarian public for her leading role in the Jim Jarmusch film “Stranger than Paradise”, although the singer who plays various instruments and lives in New York already has two solo albums and is working on a third.
A joint programme with Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts.

Ticket prices > HUF 2500 [in advance] | 3000 [before the concert]
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