Mini-Festival • 4.3
Gyula Fekete: Trio
Katalin Szalai: Hagyaték (Legacy – A cycle of songs on János Arany’s poems)
Péter Tóth: Trio
Barnabás Horváth: Violin Partita
Miklós Maros: Processes
Sándor Balassa: „Még egy csokrot” (One More Bouquet)
János Vajda: 8 Arany – world premiere
Featuring: Andrea Meláth [7], Lőrinc Kósa [2] – voice, Márta Ábrahám [6], Zsombor Könczei [6], Gábor Selmeczi [1, 4] – violin, Barnabás Baranyai [6], István Major Jr [1] – cello, Ákos Dratsay [3] – piccolo, Bea Berényi [3], Veronika Oross [5] – flute, Dávid Báll [1], Éva Madarász [3], Ferenc János Szabó [2], Emese Virág [7] – piano
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.
In 2017, the 200th anniversary of János Arany’s birth inspired many Hungarian composers to create new works. A number of songs, song cycles, and choral pieces were written at the time, of which the Mini-Festival now presents a work each by Katalin Szalai and János Vajda – the latter as a world premiere. Written for baritone and piano, Katalin Szalai’s cycle won the second prize of the János Arany Memorial Year Composer Competition in March 2018.
An event jointly organized with Hungarian Music Society.