Concert, music

Viktor Tóth is one of the most versatile figures in Hungarian jazz who can reveal his strong musical personality with the same effect as a virtuoso postbop musician and as a special interpreter of spiritual music. His playing is dynamic, yet with a sensitive expression, while he seeks to capture the energies of the moment.

When Mona Matbou Riahi, Miriam Adefris and Lukas Kranzelbinder join forces, it marks the beginning of something special. With ARK, clarinet, harp and bass converge in a trio that opens new sonic paths.

This concert is an even more significant event than an album premiere.: the celebration of Borbála Dobozy’s 45-year career. Alongside two beloved concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, she will perform a rarely heard work by Georg Anton Benda and Joseph Haydn’s Concerto in D major, usually played on a piano.

Program:
Works by Franz Schubert, Antonín Dvorák, Edvard Grieg, and Leó Weiner

Featuring:
UMZE Ensemble
Conductor: Zsolt Nagy
Host: Gregory Vajda

Featuring:
Tamara Mózes - vocals, keyboards, fx
Zsolt Kaltenecker Zsolt - keyboards, Seaboard, fx

Polina Pastirchak has selected songs from the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century – providing a delightful variety nurtured by the musical atmosphere of the cities and the rich colours of late Romantic and early 20th-century style.

Music historian Gergely Fazekas will discuss the change in musical aesthetics and show other examples of Schubert’s concept of beauty. The language of the conversation is Hungarian.

Makám is one of the most renowned Hungarian acts on the ethno, folk, and world music scene.

Two moods, two journeys wrapped in a single programme.

With over 160 shows across Europe and China, and 4 critically acclaimed albums, pioneering Mediterranean jazz band Ava Trio is celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2025.

No artist over the past decade has done more to bring the cello from the margins to the center of the contemporary jazz scene than Tomeka Reid.

Bori Orbán's new album captures feelings in French, with a Hungarian soul. The lyrics and melodies were written by Miquèu Montanaro after several encounters and conversations.

Klára Hajdu is a prominent singer-songwriter and teacher on the Hungarian jazz scene. Over the past two decades, she has performed in clubs and at festivals in numerous cities across Europe and the US.

The Modern Art Orchestra began operating twenty years ago and has since become one of Hungary's most innovative and diverse musical workshops. To mark this anniversary, the ensemble is celebrating with a three-part premiere series at the Budapest Music Center
concert hall. All three evenings of the series, entitled MAO–XX, will feature new compositions and unique musical worlds, where contemporary jazz, classical tradition and poetry all play a role.

Program:
Fryderyk Chopin: 24 Preludes
Balázs Kecskés D.: 24 Postludes

Featuring:

Laura Perrudin - harp
Csaba Palotaï - guitar

This six-concert series for solo cello is based around Johann Sebastian Bach's suites. Alongside the well-known cello suites, Tamás Zétényi will also perform the French suites, originally for keyboard, which he and composer Marcell Dargay arranged for cello together.

Featuring:
Marek Napiórkowski - guitars
Robert Kubiszyn - bass guitar
Cezary Konrad - drums

Featuring:
Lina Allemano - trumpet
Dan Peter Sundland - double bass
Michael Griener - drums

Featuring:
Petra Várallyay - vocals, violin, piano

Founded in 2020, the Vienna-based Amadeus Trio has established itself as one of the finest chamber music ensembles internationally. Having celebrated highly successful concerts in the most prestigious concert halls of the world, they just recorded the first CD of the complete recording of trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Fritz Kreisler.