The Máv Symphony Orchestra opened their season on 21 September; Gergely Vajda was honored at the Budapest Music Center on 15 September.
Szerző: Alexandra Ivanoff
For the Várfok Gallery’s second round of collaborative efforts for musicians to align their inspirations with visual art, four composers and six instrumentalists produced musical reflections on paintings by Endre Rozsda.
From June 6-10, Budapest hosted a roundup of European music industry organizations who met at Müpa Budapest and the House of Music for two related conferences.
Springtime in Budapest blossomed with a panoply of events to celebrate the 100th birthday (May 28th) of one of its most celebrated composers, György Ligeti.
Müpa Budapest hosted “a really big” evening on May 13th featuring two debuts of two new masterworks, two trumpet stars, and the illustrious Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
“Mallets are personal,” says Budapest multi-percussionist Dániel Janca, who will be packing up his mallets to fly to Taiwan.
A few years ago, a CD review in The Guardian compared five different recordings of Tchaikovsky’s first symphony.
On April 28, Martin Grubinger appeared at Müpa Budapest with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL), to give the Hungarian premiere of the Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra.
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, led by maestro Martin Rajna, gave a stunning concert on March 19th entitled “Dialogues.”
1923 was a turbulent year in the western world. The ballooning US stock market fell dramatically and the extreme inflation that ensued caused an intercontinental crisis.