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» Monday Music EXTRA
Thursday, 6 November 2008 7.30pm
Barnabás Kelemen › violin | Katalin Kokas › violin | Veronika Tóth › viola
Hungarian Embassy, 35 Eaton Place, London SW1X 8BY
programme
Bartók › Sonata for Solo Violin
Kodály › Serenade for Two Violins and Viola
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Bach › Partita in d-minor for Solo Violin
Prokofiev › Sonata for Two Violins
Katalin Kokas was born in 1978 in Pécs, Hungary. She began to play the violin at the age of 5. At the age of 11 she attended the preliminary class of the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and studied with Ferenc Halász and Dénes Kovács. From the age 16 she was awarded full scholarship at the Toronto Royal Conservatory where she studied with Lóránd Fenyves. From 1997 she worked with Eszter Perényi at the Liszt Academy in Budapest where she got her honours degree. She attanded masterclasses of Ferenc Rados, György Kurtág, György Pauk, Dénes Zsigmondy, Igor Ozim, Tibor Varga, Endre Wolf, Jaime Laredo and Leon Fleischer.
Barnabás Kelemen was born in Hungary. He started his violin studies with noted Hungarian pedagogue Valéria Baranyai at the age of 6. He entered Eszter Perényi’s class at the Franz Liszt Music Academy at the age of 11. In 2001 he received his diploma and was also awarded the Sándor Végh Prize by the Sándor Végh Foundation in Budapest. In addition to his primary teachers, Barnabás has participated in master classes with Isaac Stern, Ferenc Rados, György Kurtág, Igor Ozim, Lorand Fenyves, Dénes Zsigmondy, György Pauk, Sergiu Luca and Thomas Zehetmair. Beginning in September 2005, he has began his appointment as Professor of Violin at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and teaches regularly as a guest professor at
the Bloomington Indiana University. He has released 11 solo recordings and the Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra by Mozart on a double live DVD.
Veronika Tóth studied viola in Budapest under István Polonyi. Since 2004, and with the help of an Alan and Nesta Ferguson Trust Award, she has been continuing her training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Peter Lissauer, Head of the String Department. She has taken part in IMS Prussia Cove, the Lucerne Festival and the International Bartók Seminar in master classes with Thomas Riebl, György Kurtág, Garth Knox, Pierre Boulez and Kim Kashkashian. Veronika has won numerous competitions and performed with Scott Dickinson, Westphal, William Conway and Gusztáv Fenyô, as well as ensembles such as the Scottish Ensemble, the Hebrides and the Brodsky Quartet.
Please note: This event is on Thursday and in the Hungarian Embassy.
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Free.
For reservation please call     0207 240 6162
or e-mail to
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Paradise Lost
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Private View on 12 November, 7–9 pm
The exhibition can be viewed between 13 November - 10 December
Paradise Lost was the first exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007 representing an international selection of Roma artists from eight European countries. The ultimate goal of Paradise Lost is to utilize, analyze and destroy the exotic stereotype of the‘Gypsies’ that has been prevalent in Europe since the 19th century and to put Roma artists on an equal footing in the international art world. This Pavilion, created across national boundaries, addressed some fundamental questions and controversy: Is there such a thing as ‘Roma art’? Does creating a separate space for Roma artists help or hinder social inclusion?
‘It is our belief that the identity of the Roma serves as a model for a modern, European transnational identity that is capable of cultural fusion and adaptation to changing circumstances. This is how the invented artists represent themselves, and this is how they experience their Gypsy identity.’ – Timea Junghaus (curator of the Roma Pavilion)
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Free.
For reservation please call 0207 240 6162
or e-mail to
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Bolla Quartet
Monday, 17 November 2008
Tuesday | 18 November | 7.30 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre
Bolla Quartett
Gábor Bolla tenor-sax, only 19 but an incredible talent who has already made it to the semi-finals of the World Saxophone Competition both at the 2003 Montreux- and at the 2004 London Jazz Festival. He is the guy black American tenor-giant, David Murray jammed with for two hours during his stay in Budapest. His quartet won First Prize and the audience vote at the Avignon Jazz Festival in 2005. Instead of us singing his praises, let’s quote what Hungary’s leading music magazine, ‘Gramofon’ wrote of his very first album out in 2004 when Gábor was only 15. (The record was awarded 5 stars, the maximum points.) „ Listening to this record blindfold, one could think that one of Sonny Rollins’ long lost masters has turned up from the sixties. Well, the soloist of the quartet you can hear on this CD is Hungarian and was born in 1988. His playing gives the impression that he is capable of doing anything that has ever been produced by anyone on the tenorsaxophone we can count ourselves lucky if once in a hundred years we have such a stellar talent as Gábor Bolla.”
Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos on piano totally knocked out a London audience (including ex-Genesis rock-guitar ace, Steve Hackett and TV personality, Anna Ford) in 2004 and the following year he was awarded the Best Soloist price at the same Avignon Jazz Festival where the quartet came top. Robi comes from a long line of dazzling Roma Gypsy musicians, but is too talented to live in their shadow. He is equally at home in classical music having won in 1996 the first prize at the Bach piano competition organized by Radio Basle in Switzerland. A few years later he walked away once more with the first prize from the jazz solo piano competition at Montreux. György Orbán is one of the most original young bassists in Hungary, a country teaming with virtuosos on his instrument. He is also a regular member of the Szakcsi New Gypsy Jazz outfit.
The drums will be looked after by András Mohay, one of the founding members of the Bolla Quartet. Due to his amazing skills, he is one of the two drummers of the new generation with whom everyone wants to play. He is featured in so many outfits that we have frankly lost count of his current affiliations. He is a brilliant player and, despite his 31 years, has a comprehensive knowledge of jazz history that imbues his playing.
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The HCC event is free. RSVP to 0207 240 6162 or press@hungary.org.uk
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» Októberi Tükör (October Mirror)
Monday, 17 November 2008 7.30pm
Book Launch
Launching the yearbook of MAOSz (National Federation of Hungarians in England).
The title of the book is Októberi Tükör (October Mirror), and it contains interviews, book reviews, articles and stories of Hungarian interest. The Chairman of MAOSz explains the reasons for this new venture, and one of the editors will speak of the considerations informing the choice of the various items in the yearbook. Contributors to the book will read extracts and will answer questions from the audience.
This event will be in Hungarian.
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Free. For reservation please call 0207 240 6162 or email press@hungary.org.uk
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» Art Doc Film Festival
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
18 November – 8 December
London
Art Doc Film Festival
What’s Art Doc? A Season of European Art Documentaries The second festival of European documentaries takes as its subject artists who cross boundaries and, in their work, invent a universal language. Spread over several venues, offers an eclectic panorama of documentaries profiling painters, musicians, dancers, singers and other artists, or their collaborators, who talk freely about their inspiration, their relationship to the world and to their audience.
They have led turbulent, sometimes difficult, lives shaped by an ever-evolving
European history. Some, like Picasso, Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Platel, are famous; many are widely travelled. You will hear about their early life, their struggle for recognition, and their happiness in creating. The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), EU countries and their embassies, with the support of the European Commission Representation in the UK, invite you to discover these remarkable films, many presented by their subjects and directors who will travel to meet London audiences.
Thursday | 27 November | 7.30 pm
Hungarian Cultural Centre
Homo Ludens – UK Premiere
Bulgaria | 2008 | col | 63 mins | dir. Ivan Panteleev
Wanted: The suspect is a Bulgarian agent provocateur operating in German theatre.
Attention: He is uncontrollable and passionate.
Threat of contagion: High!
Distinctive feature: A classic case of a man of art.
Caution theatre fans: danger of addiction!
The suspect is wanted for the following: powerful body language, swift pace, southern chicanery, contact with the Afterlife.
Caution: he is constantly appearing as an authentic, living incarnation of Heiner Müller! The suspect was chosen twice for director of the year in Germany.
Saturday | 29 November | 7.30 pm
Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
Song of Lives (Életek éneke) – UK Premiere
Hungary | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Csaba Bereczki
This documentary is about real music, real performers, real stories, though the dramatic composition of thestoryline may give viewers the impression of being drawn into the world of a dream-like ballade. We take a journey through the lives of some of the older musicians in funeral bands, for whom music is not only their profession, but their own identity: it belongs to their hands, their heart, or their throat.
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Tel: 020 7073 1350, admission: £3
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» The Investigator (A nyomozó)
Thursday, 20 November 2008 7.30pm
Filmclub hosted by László Heckenast
The Investigator (A nyomozó)
Directed by Attila Gigor
(2008, feature film, 35mm, colour, 110 min., 1:1,85, DolbySRD)
At first glance, Tibor Malkáv is an ordinary 37-year-old man, having serious communication problems. He is precise and silent. Though not rich, he can buy whatever he needs. He doesn’t depend on his job financially. He loves being a forensic pathologist. A few floors up in the hospital where he works lies his mother with cancer in her spinal cord. No matter how speechless or shallow this relationship is, Malkáv has no other relatives. He promises he will not let her die. But the surgery can only be performed in Sweden and the cost is far beyond Malkáv’s means. One day a one-eyed person introducing himself as the Cyclops sits at his dinner table and makes him an offer: if Malkáv kills an unknown person, the Cyclops will provide the money for the Swedish hospital. Malkáv takes the job. A few days later he kills the person he had never met before. Soon it turns out to be the greatest mistake of Two days later Malkáv receives a letter – from his own victim. Szirmai must have posted it on the day of his death. In the letter he says he wants to meet Malkáv, because he found out that they had the same father – whom they had never met – so they are brothers. And so the investigation starts, with the murderer trying to find out who his victim was…
Festivals
2008 › Berlin Fantasy Filmfest
2008 › Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition)
2008 › Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (in competition)
2008 › Montreal The World Film Festival
2008 › Reykjavik International Film Festival
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Free. RSVP to 0207 240 6162 or press@hungary.org.uk
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» George Gömöri: Polishing October (Poetry Collection)
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 7 pm
Book Launch
George (György) Gömöri is a Hungarian poet and translator now living in London. In England since 1956, he writes poetry in his native tongue which he translates with Clive Wilmer – Polishing October, published by Shoestring Press, Nottingham, launched this evening is his second poetry collection in English. He has translated with Wilmer Miklós Radnóti (1979, 2003), György Petri (1991, 1999) and edited the anthology of modern Hungarian poetry The Colonnade of Teeth with George Szirtes. A Retired Lecturer from the University of Cambridge, he is Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. His literary prizes include the Salvatore Quasimodo Prize (Balatonfüred, 1993) and the Ada Negri Prize (Lodi,1995).
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Free. RSVP to 0207 204 6162 or press@hungary.org.uk
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