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» MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÈES: TRIOLOGUE

Monday, 9 June 2008 19.30

Three musicians, three countries, three personalities,
three instruments, three languages…one ensemble!

Karin Björk, baroque violin
Kinga Gáborjáni, viola da gamba
Pawel Siwczak, harpsichord

Four centuries ago, concerts were social events, gatherings of those who enjoyed a certain social status, often taking place in a private mansion. Nowadays, when access to music is so immediate and everyone can listen to music whenever they choose, we aim to recreate that special atmosphere of the musical soirée, in which music served to transcend social boundaries, as well as to provide entertainment.

Music, however, was more than entertainment. It was a natural form of expression, the spirit of the people. Music appealed to their minds and senses, making them laugh, cry, dance and love.

From Sweden, Hungary and Poland respectively, Karin, Kinga and Pawel hope to bring to life the spirit of old music for contemporary audiences. They play periodinstruments, either originals or replicas. While studying at the Royal Academy of Music, they trained with musicians such as Richard Campbell, Laurence Cummings, Liz Kenny, Jennifer Ward Clarke and Nicolette Moonen. In May 2007, Triologue were awarded the prestigious Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize.

Triologue’s repertoire comprises mainly chamber music from the 17th and early
18th centuries – works by composers such as Dietrich Buxtehude, Marin Marais, William Lawes and Johann Sebastian Bach –, but also includes folk pieces arranged specially for the trio. Together, they explore the magic of communication through musical dialogue or, rather, a Triologue.

Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail press@hungary.org.uk

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» Remembering Hungarian Jewish Composers

Monday, 16 June 2008 7.00pm

Lecture by Ágnes Kôry

Although the lives, works and tragic deaths of the Terezín (Teresienstadt) composers are relatively well known, the names and works of Hungarian Jewish composers murdered during the Holocaust seem to be almost unknown. Recent research has focused on eight such composers. The amount of work they produced (or the amount which appears to have survived) varies. The degree of their success, which they achieved while alive, also varied. Several of them won international competitions with their compositions, others focused on different aspects of musical life. However, they share their untimely tragic end and their disappearance into oblivion.

Hungarian-born Ágnes Kôry is the founder and director of the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (BBCM), which provides specialist musical training (including performance skills) to all age groups, as well as to professional musicians. Ágnes is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire in Budapest, the Royal Academy of Music in London (DipRAM) and the University of London (BMus, MMus, MPhil). She teaches and performs, and is also a researcher of historical musicology.

Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162 or send an e-mail to press@hungary.org.uk

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» György Ferenczi and Rackajam

Saturday, 21 June 2008 11 am - midnight

György Ferenczi is a multi-instrumentalist with more than 15 years in the music business, whose passions include soul, funk, blues and folk. Together with his new band Rackajam, a unique musical universe is built upon Hungarian folk music traditions, combined with funk, soul, blues and more… The listener cannot fail to pay attention!
www.rackajam.hu

Explore Sites and Sounds – a midsummer festival of architecture and music
Exhibition Road and participating organisations

Immerse yourself in over 150 musical performances; many architectural installations, dance, music and creative workshops; exhibitions; talks and tours. There is something here for everyone. A huge range of musical genres and styles will be showcased fromclassical, folk, jazz and fusion music to the latest bands, DJs and experimental music from the UK and beyond. Architectural installations and activities will show how architects experiment and create new ideas and structures.

The annual Music Day joins forces with the London Festival of Architecture for international music and architecture making Exhibition Road the centre of London’s cultural life on 21 June. Visitors to the South Kensington culture and learning quarter have free rein on the whole of Exhibition Road which is closed off to traffic for the day allowing people to see new plans for the redevelopment of the Road.

Events in Exhibition Road will end at 18:30 though the four main stages and many other Music Day performances in the area will continue into the evening.

Further information: www.exhibitionroad.com | www.exhibitionroadmusicday.org | www.lfa2008.org

This is an Exhibition Road Cultural Group & London Festival of Architecture collaboration.

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» Check the Gate

Thursday, 26 June 2008 26 - 29 June

Check the Gate – 1st Hungarian Film Showcase
‘Our 21st Century’

The Hungarian Cultural Centre celebrates a centenary of Hungarian film making with Check the Gate, the 1st Hungarian Film Showcase in London between the 26–29th of June 2008. The Curzon Mayfair Cinema will screen the very best works from the newest generation of Sir Alexander Korda’s nation, selected by the distinguished board of international curators of the festival, to present you ‘Our 21st century’.According to John Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, who is accompanied as a curator by Cathrine Portuges and Peter Hames, ‘in its 100 years Hungarian cinema has achieved much and has contributed enormously
to the development of cinema, both at home and abroad. Michael Curtiz, Béla Lugosi, Miklós Rózsa, George Cukor, to name just a few, helped to make Hollywood what it is today and where would the British film industry be without Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltán and fellow émigrés Emeric Pressburger and John Halas’

The patrons of the first aual Hungarian showcase are Andrew and Kevin Macdonald, grandchildren of Academy Award-winner Emeric Pressburger, and they will open the festival officially after the screening of Nimród Antal’s Control on the 26th of June, and will also present their documentary about their legendary grandfather on Saturday the 28th, followed by a screentalk at Curzon Mayfair.

On this special first occasion the Hungarian Cultural Centre will bring the most
successful short and feature films made by the youngest, new wave directors since the beginning of the new milennium to London. A new generation of exciting young filmmakers, some of whom have already impressed international audiences with their audacious filmmaking, are taking centre-stage.

Their art is no longer determined by the Iron Curtain: our young directors are
freer, more experimental, more European… and yet they still have the reflexes
of their forebears. Combining two worlds: new and old, and always looking outwards, the works of young Hungarian directors will animate and challenge
audiences of all ages: come check them out! Check the Gate!

A collaborative festival project of HCC, BAFTA, HFA (Hungarian Film Archive) and BFI acts as a preliminary to the film festival. A unique exhibition of Sir Alexander Korda’s Hungarian and British film posters, curated by Zsuzsanna Ardó for BAFTA and HCC, opens in May at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly.

To celebrate the exhibition, BAFTA screens a Korda classic on 17th of June to which BAFTA members and their guest are invited. The reception to celebrate the exhibition and link it with the festival is 7–9 pm Monday, 23rd June at BAFTA, and it features a solo cello interlude by Kinga Gáborjáni, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

All are warmly welcome to this event at BAFTA however, numbers are limited, so rsvp is essential: press@hungary.com. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

During the showcase every day from 2 pm free roundtables and lectures await all audiences at the Hungarian Cultural Centre where one can meet experts of the Hungarian cinema and the creators of the films, such as Kornél Mundruczó, whos latest feature film, Delta is in competition for the Golden Palm in Cannes this year and will talk about his experiences.

Curzon Mayfair, the main venue of the festival, located in the heart of the city, together with its famous history guarantees a perfect setting of the highest quality for all those who are interested. Screenings begin on Thursday at 6.30 pm and on Friday, Sturday and Sunday at 4 pm and 6.30 pm, and will be followed by screentalk and Q&A with the directors of the films. Every feature film will be accompanied by an award-winning short film.

Check out the detailed programme below and visit www.curzoncinemas.com for booking.

Programme

thursday 26 june

6.30 pm Géza M. Tóth: Maestro (5')
Nimród Antal: Control (105')

friday 27 june

4 pm Zsófia Péterffy: Lover of Pirates (9')
István Komár: Butterfly (5' footage)
Krisztina Goda: Just Sex and Nothing Else (93')

6.30 pm Bálint Kenyeres: Before Dawn (13')
Ágnes Kocsis: Fresh Air (109')

saturday 28 june

4 pm Péter Politzer: War Next Door (11')
György Pálfi: Hukkle (75')
Kevin Macdonald: The Making of an English Man (5' footage)
Emeric Pressburger Documentary

6.30 pm Dési-Móray: Doll No. 639 (16')
Csaba Bollók: Iska’s Journey (93')

sunday 29 june

4 pm Kornél Mundruczó: Day After Day (25')
Áron Gauder: The District (87')

6.30 pm Péter Mészáros: After Rain (4')
Benedek Fliegauf: Dealer (130')

Curzon Mayfair Cinema, 38 Curzon St, London W1J 7TY