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Please note that most of our events are now scheduled to start at 7 pm. For reservations please email bookings@hungary.org.uk.
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If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events, please send an e-mail to culture@hungary.org.uk. Thank you for your interest.
The HCC team: Dávid Kerényi | Finance Manager Szilvia Csányi | Head of Administration and Referee of Education Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Judit Kôrös | Consultant, Information Service and Film Events Dr Gábor Egri | Senior Consultant, Music Péter Pallai | Jazz Consultant If you are interested in joining the Friends of the Hungarian Cultural Centre please contact Ruth and Robert Wing on 020 7351 7653 or email r.wing@imperial.ac.uk The Reading Room, our Information Service and the rental of video films are available on Mondays and Thursdays between 11 am and 7 pm. For more information, please call our information consultant, Judit Kôrös. The information in this brochure is believed to be correct at the time of going to press, but as this may be three months or more before the events take place, we strongly advise you to confirm dates, times and availability before setting out for any particular event. The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary. Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA Tel: 020 7240 8448 • Fax: 020 7240 4847 • Message: 020 7240 6162 e-mail:culture@hungary.org.uk
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13–21 October e FILM National Schools Film Week
Wednesday | 19 October | 10 am ≥ Brixton Ritzy ✉ Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW2 1JG 2001, dir. Ferenc Török, 12A cert, 88 mins
Screening for secondary schools April 27th, 1989. It is Petya’s 18th birthday and his friends gather in Budapest’s Moscow Square to pop champagne and begin lengthy celebrations. May Day sees them swimming in the famous Hotel Gellert and breakfasting on Liberty Bridge, as the political clouds begin to lift and it seems youth and the country face a brave new future...
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The release of Ferenc Török’s debut Moscow Square seemed to announce the arrival of a new sensibility in Hungarian cinema, one that corresponded to a generation that had entirely grown up in the post-communist era. Petya, Kiegler, Ságodi and their friends spend their evenings hanging around the clock tower in Moscow Square, while all around them the old regime is on the verge of collapse. Everyone feels that something is about to happen: the question is whether they make it happen or just wait for whatever’s coming. For some like Petya and his girlfriend Zsófi, the new world means getting out of Hungary and getting to know the wide world. Few films have more
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The Hungarian Cultural Centre has worked in partnership with Film Education for four years and assisted in acquiring films for the National Schools Film Week. The Festival’s goal is to support classroom teaching by providing schools with a powerful experience for their students that links directly to elements of the curriculum – supported by an on-line library of resources related to individual films and more generic topics – essentially an extension of the classroom.
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effectively captured that sense of life on the eve of a momentous political and social transformation – that unsettling combination of giddy optimism for the future and creeping fear of the unknown. Török cast his film largely with young people either from local high schools or the Academy of Drama. Δ Further information and booking: 020 7292 7300 (Mon–Fri 8.30 am–5 pm) or www.nationalschoolsfilmweek.org
Thursday | 20 October | 10 am ≥ Empire Leicester Square ✉ Leicester Square WC2H 7BA Hungarian Animation: Series of short animated films including introductions to each film (90 mins)
Sreening for primary schools The Mouse with a Mouth dir. Andrea Kiss (A hazudós egér based on Ervin Lázár’s tale) Hungarian Folk Tales & How I Passed My Childhood dir. Mária Horváth (Magyar népmesék & Hogyan telt a gyermekkorom?)
The Swaggering Porcupine by Zsolt Richly (A hetvenkedô sün, based on István Kormos’ tale) Leo and Fred &The Snowlion dir. Pál Tóth (Leo és Fred & Hóoroszlán) In the Round Four-Cornered Forest & Pretty Kitty's Flower dir. Mária Horváth (A Négyszögletû Kerek Erdô & Vacskamati virágja based on Ervin Lázár’s tale) Kecsekmétfilm Ltd. generously compiled and lent all the animated short films for the festival.
Our hope is for teachers and students to feel massively engaged in the Festival, as it is an incredible opportunity not only to build the adventurous, film-loving audience of the future but also to develop the kinds of passion in young people more likely to make them more receptive to this collectively experienced art form. This is achieved by in-cinema talks and on-line resources, which give teachers the tools to encourage students to explore and understand new cinematic worlds. › Nick Walker, Festival Director, National Schools Film Week Δ Further information and booking: 020 7292 7300 (Mon–Fri 8.30 am–5 pm) or www.nationalschoolsfilmweek.org
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e FESTIVAL
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt and The Ealing Autumn Festival is celebrating his work, legacy and the broader influences on the arts from his country of birth, Hungary.
Wednesday | 19 October | 7.30 pm | e LITERATURE ≥ St Stephen House ✉ 62 Little Ealing Lane, Ealing, London W5 4EA An Evening with George Szirtes The Hungarian-born poet translator and recipient of many awards including the internationally coveted TS Eliot Prize (2005) will talk about his work and read selections that show the warmth and insight of his writing. His poem ‘Children of Albion’ is particularly relevant to recent events in Ealing and other urban areas. Δ £10/£5
Further information: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk
Saturday | 22 October | 3.30 pm and 7.30 pm | e CONCERT ≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Travel) Three books of solo piano music by Liszt presented with their sources of inspiration
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Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage Première année: Suisse (First Year: Switzerland) Book 1
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage Deuxième année: Italie (Second Year: Italy) Book 2 Venezia e Napoli (Venice and Naples) – Supplement to Book 2
Played by Pedro Gomez, Jianing Kong, Sasha Gracheva
Played by Peter Limonov, Carson Becke and Veronika Shoot
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THE EALING AUTUMN FESTIVAL 2011 – Genius of Hungary
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Sunday | 23 October | 3 pm | e FILM ≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY part of the hungarian national day at the festival
Children of Glory (Szabadság, Szerelem) 2006, feature, 123 min, dir. Krisztina Goda
Krisztina Goda’s film tells the remarkable story of the Hungarian water polo team at the 1956 Olympic Games – a tale of national pride and heroism against a political background of terrible adversity. Δ £5 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk
Sunday | 23 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT ≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY part of the hungarian national day at the festival
Muzsikás Mihály Sipos › violin; László Porteleki › violin, tamboura; Péter Éri › viola, flute and Dániel Hamar › bass, gardon
When we heard Muzsikás earlier in the year at the Royal Festival Hall, we loved them so much we had to ask them back! This outstanding folk music ensemble has pioneered – and earned – global acceptance of traditional Hungarian music-making, touring Europe, North America, the Far East and Australasia. Their musical intensity coupled with breathtaking technical virtuosity makes their performances exciting, inspiring and wholly memorable. Δ £15 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk
Wednesday | 26 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT ≥ St Matthew’s Church ✉ North Common Road, Ealing Common, London W5 2QA The Joyful Company of Singers An evening of Hungarian choral music from a renowned choir that loves Hungarian music. Directed by Peter Broadbent. This concert is given as part of a Festival week in support of Cancer Research UK. Δ £15/£10 Further information and booking:
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programme Kodály: Liszt Ferenchez (Ode to Liszt) Liszt: Missa Choralis Liszt: Ave Maria Kodály: Missa Brevis
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My Way Home (Így jöttem) 1964, feature, 108 min, dir. Miklós Jancsó – in Hungarian with English subtitles
This event is generously hosted by Pitshanger Pictures. The film is shown as part of a Festival week in support of Cancer Research UK. Δ £5 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk
Saturday | 29 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT ≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Travel)
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Three books of solo piano music by Liszt presented with their sources of inspiration
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage Troisième année (Years of Travel: Third Year) Played by Karim Said, piano – 6 Grandes Études de Paganini 6 Studies for piano by Liszt inspired by Paganini
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Années de Pèlerinage is the single collection of works for piano by Liszt which maps most comprehensively his progress and development as an artist from his Played by Ina Charuashvili, piano, earliest mature years almost to the end of his life. Ben Baker, violin The pieces vary in length and range in character from the sweetest, most expressive lyricism to the headiest and wildest heights of virtuosity. This concert brings the conclusion of the cycle. It also brings the opportunity of a lifetime to hear Paganini’s Caprices for violin and Liszt’s Grandes Études de Paganini, inspired by them, in the same concert programme. The three exceptional young virtuosi, Karim Said, protégé of Daniel Barenboim, Ina Charuashvili (piano) and Ben Baker (violin) are brought to the Ealing Autumn Festival under the auspices of Dmitri Alexeev and Tanya Sarkissova. Δ £20/£15/£10 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk
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This film from the internationally acclaimed director, Miklós Jancsó, named Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1972, is generally regarded as his first masterpiece. At the end of World War II, a displaced teenage Hungarian boy strikes up an unlikely and unexpected friendship with a young Russian soldier – moving and powerful.
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Thursday | 27 October | 7.15 for 7.45 pm | e FILM ≥ Millenium Hall, St Barnabas Church ✉ Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, London W5 1QG
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Wednesday | 19 October | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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e FILM An evening of remembrance – 1956 Hungary 1956: Our Revolution (2006, dir. Mark Kidel) Mark Kidel’s film Hungary 1956: Our Revolution recalls the Hungarian uprising of autumn 1956, which, although failed and was savagely repressed by the Soviets and their collaborators in Hungary, marked a crucial moment in the history of the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and the Cold War. The film brings together the memories of a varied group of men and women who tell the story of 1956 from a personal point of view, evoking the inner and outer drama of the events – how they affected them as people and how they shaped the mood of the city as a whole. The archival footage comes from both official and unofficial sources and includes amazing Russian material that has only recently been discovered. The resulting mix of reminiscences offers a powerful and often deeply emotional account of events, the highs as well as the lows that have universal significance. Hungary 1956: Our Revolution was chosen as History Today’s Film of the Year, and won Best Historical Documentary of 2007 in the prestigious Grierson Awards. Mark Kidel is a Bristol-based film-maker, specialising in culture, music and the arts and, with Peter Gabriel, was one of the founders of WOMAD. Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
Friday | 21 October | 6 pm ≥ International Anthony Burgess Foundation ✉ The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY
e MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL The 6th Manchester Literature Festival brings people together from around the world and provides a platform for the exchange of views and ideas. It aims to use literature as a way of opening up opportunities, making connections and stimulating debate across borders.
European Poetry Night featuring Ágnes Lehóczky, Marcelijus Martinaitis & Toon Tellegen Hungarian poet and translator, Ágnes Lehóczky has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X and Medallion, and her first full collection, Budapest to Babel,
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was published by Egg Box in 2008. She was the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize in 2011. Her book on Ágnes Nemes Nagy Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing earlier this year.
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Marcelijus Martinaitis is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, he was the recipient of the Lithuanian National Award in Literature in 1998, and his most recent book We Lived, Biographical Notes was selected the best Lithuanian book of 2010.
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Toon Tellegen, one of Holland’s best-known writers, has published more than twenty collections of poetry, including Raptors, published in English translation by Carcanet. He is also a novelist and a popular children’s author. The event will be chaired by journalist Rosie Goldsmith, and is presented in association with EUNIC London and the European Commission Representation in the UK. Δ £5/£3 (includes refreshments) Booking on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Saturday | 22 October | 5 pm ≥ Szent István Ház (St Stephen’s House)
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Freedom in Focus This evening of remembrance marks the 55th anniversary of the 1956 revolution, and will feature the actors Zoltán Zubornyák, Imola Gáspár, Elsa and Christopher Lusher on the piano. Δ Please note the event will be in Hungarian.
Monday | 24 October | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e CONCERT monday music soirées
Introducing Grace Francis (piano) Grace Francis was born in East London and attended the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Peter Norris and Louis Kentner. At the Royal College of Music Grace studied with Irina Zaritskaya where she was awarded the Chappell Gold Medal, the highest award for a pianist. A Wingate Scholarship enabled her to study with
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Martino Tirimo for several years. Amongst other prizes, Grace won the Negrada Piano House Heferer Award at the EPTA International Competition in Zagreb. Grace has given many concerts in Britain at venues such as the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Chelmsford and Oxford Cathedrals, Ivy House, Rosehill Theatre, Hurstwood Farm, Kent and Bishopsgate Hall. She has broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3 and her Bath Mozartfest recital will be broadcast in December this year. Following the success of her Brahms/Liszt recording she performed the programme Grieg Piano Concerto in Lugano with the European Union Ferenc Liszt Sposalizio Youth Orchestra conducted Ferenc Liszt Sonata in B Minor, S.178 by Ashkenazy. Grace’s DVD is Sergei Prokofiev Visions Fugitives due to be launched in October (selection of movements) Op.22 and includes works by Liszt Ferenc Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514 and Mussorgsky.
Grace’s forthcoming recitals this year include the Mozartfest in Bath and Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. She is also performing at a number of literary festivals during the Liszt Bicentenary Year together with John Spurling, author of A Book of Liszts, published in May. In April 2012, Grace makes her New York debut at Carnegie Hall where her programme includes works by Liszt. Grace’s repertoire is wide-ranging and varied, but she is happiest with the Romantic composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As David Cairns wrote in his Sunday Times review of her Quartz CD ‘Liszt’s Tarantella holds no terrors for her, and she makes Liszt’s intricate filigree writing a thing of enchantment. She is certainly a pianist to watch.’ Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 72406162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or register on our website www.hungary.org.uk
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Like other parts of the world, East-Central Europe had its bandits in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But were they ‘social bandits’, whom public opinion did not regard as criminals, as Eric Hobsbawm portrayed them in his famous study Bandits (1969)? Using select examples, I shall argue that the historical functions and the memory of rural bandits were considerably more complex in East-Central Europe for two main reasons: (1) depending on the region of their operation, they played national as well as social functions, and (2) their remembrance repeatedly shifted in accordance with new medial possibilities. We may actually speak of East-Central European rural bandits with seven lives, not because they were invulnerable to bullets (as some were claimed to be in folk poetry), but because they die in one medium and revive in another one. They inhabit, roughly in this historical order: (1) historical documents, (2) folklore, (3) popular literature, (4) high literature, (5) film, (6) television, and (7) the entertainment industry. Historical documents do not ‘tell the truth’, they serve social and national purposes. Folklore usually ignores these documents. Professional writers elaborate on the oral tradition, and the media transpose the stories into visual and musical art forms. Some outlaws were invented, and some of these inventions actually participated in the making of flesh and blood bandits. Bandits often follow real or fictional predecessors, making thereby the historical sources all but irrelevant. John Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include The Emancipation of Music from Language (Yale 1986), and The Fin-de-siècle Culture of Adolescence (Yale 1992). He co-edited, among others, a four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (2004–10), and The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe (2009). Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162,
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John Neubauer, ‘Robin Hoods in East-Central Europe?’
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Thursday | 27 October | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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Wednesday | 2 November & Thursday | 3 November | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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e THEATRE Nine Suitcases by Béla Zsolt Translated by Ladislaus Löb, adapted for the stage and performed by David Prince Original music composed and performed by Bethan Morgan Costume: Jess Keeler Directed by Lynn Hunter
This stage adaptation of Nine Suitcases captures the devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment in Béla Zsolt’s book, exposing the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings are capable in extreme circumstances. The setting is a Jewish ghetto in Hungary during World War Two. The protagonist is a thinly disguised version of Béla Zsolt himself, struggling to survive in the nightmarish conditions he is forced to endure as he awaits deportation to Auschwitz. Horrifying though Zsolt’s story is, the telling of it is laced with grim irony, occasional memories of human kindness – and grotesque farce. Béla Zsolt (1895–1949) was an anti-establishment Hungarian-Jewish author and journalist. Labelled ‘decadent’ by his enemies, his output included poetry, countless articles and seven novels. Rapidly gaining widespread recognition, he was always a vehement opponent of both the Soviets and the Christian-Nationalist Hungarian corporate state that emerged between World Wars One and Two. Nine Suitcases first appeared in 1946 as installments in the Hungarian weekly journal, Haladás. Zsolt’s intention was to publish it as a memoir in book form – but he died before he could complete the project – which accounts for its rather abrupt ending. Hungary’s communist regime suppressed Nine Suitcases for more than three decades. The book wasn’t published in English until 2004. Acknowledgements are due to Michael Kelligan, who made the launching of Nine Suitcases possible by including it in his Spring 2011 series of On the Edge productions in Chapter, Cardiff, and to Tamás Tatai, who has been our generous and supportive consultant in all matters Hungarian.
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Lynn Hunter has been an actress for longer than she cares to remember and has been lucky enough to work in theatre, film, television and radio. Her theatre work includes appearances at the Royal National Theatre and Clwyd Theatr Cymru; on television she has appeared in Casualty, Mine All Mine, High Hopes and Belonging. She was assistant director for the National Theatre of Wales’ The Dark Philosophers; and appeared in Baker Boys, the new BBC Wales drama. She also recently directed Night Horse for Welsh Fargo Stage Company. Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
2–4 November ≥ The 606 Club ✉
90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD
e JAZZ Budapest Jazz Club at The 606 Club Three nights of incredible music with the jazz superstars of Hungary and Britain celebrating eight years of cooperation between the leading clubs of the two capitals. Wednesday 2 November First Set: George Vukán (pn), Andy Cleyndert (bs), Clark Tracey (drs) Second Set: Daniel Szabó (pn), Julian Siegel (ts, ss), Mátyás Szandai (bs), Martin France (drs)
Thursday 3 November First set: Peter King (alto-sax) with Alan Benzie (pn), János Egri (bs), Márton Juhász (drs) Second Set: Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (pn), Arnie Somogyi (bs), Tristan Maillot (drs)
Friday 4 November First Set: Kálmán Oláh (pn), Mornington Lockett (ts,ss), Tom Mason (bs), James Maddren (drs.) Second Set: Nikoletta Szôke (voc), Kálmán Oláh (pn), József Barcza Horváth (bs), Winston Clifford (drs) Third Set: Natalie Williams (voc) + rhythm section as above
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Bethan Morgan has worked in TV, film, stage and radio for over 20 years. She plays a variety of instruments – violin, piano, guitar, flute, drums and percussion – and has worked as an actor/musician in the West End and for many companies across Britain, including Bolton Octagon, Coventry Belgrade and Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre.
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David Prince trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. His performance career began with Theatre-in-Education and small-scale touring on Merseyside. Some Performance Arts lecturing intervened until, eventually, having returned to South Wales, David wrote and performed a one-man show (A Gringo’s Journey); and also worked for Theatr Iolo, Theatr na n’Og (including a tour of Cyrano in which he played de Guiche), Fluellen, Theatr Clwyd, Welsh Fargo Stage Company and Sisbro Productions.
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performers: Alan Benzie (piano) is a tremendously gifted and dynamic musician, voted BBC Scottish Young Musician of the Year in 2007 and went on to win a scholarship to the world famous Berklee School of Music in the US. Andy Cleyndert (bass) is a bass player in great demand who toured Canada and China with the great Stan Tracey. He also toured Britain and Europe with the Gene Harris Quartet and worked regularly with the singer Annie Ross. Arnie Somogyi (bass) is one of the UK’s leading jazz bass players and innovative new bandleaders. He has played around the world with many of the world’s top jazz musicians from Steve Grossman, James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Annie Ross and Clare Martin, to Art Farmer, Joey Calderazzo and Bud Shank. Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (piano) is a leading Roma Gypsy jazz musician from Hungary. Szakcsi Lakatos is constantly exploring his ancient roots while preserving his unique style, and is always seeking new musical horizons. Alyn Shipton in The Times wrote of “the brilliantly eccentric pianism of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos”, while John Fordham of The Guardian simply stated that “pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos is wonderful”. Clark Tracey (drums) is the son of the doyen of British jazz, Stan Tracey. He grew up breathing music. He has accompanied Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks, George Cables, Bud Shank, Red Rodney, Scott Hamilton, Ronnie Scott, John Surman and Kenny Wheeler – and the list is far from complete. Dániel Szabó (piano) is one of the most talented and versatile musicians of the new generation in Hungary. Recently he recorded and played in New York with Chris Potter and, earlier, with Kurt Rosenwinkel. Back in 2000 he won the Solo Piano Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He is also the winner of the Martial Solal International Piano Prize. George Vukán (piano), along with Szakcsi, is one of the true founding fathers of the current Hungarian jazz scene. A spell-binding pianist and great improviser with a formidable technique. Equally well-versed in classical music and jazz, his imagination and musical wit is hugely enjoyable. James Maddren (drums) is a tremendously exciting young musician who was picked by Gerard Presencer to play the drums for the Anglo-Hungarian Sextet led by himself and Kálmán Oláh that brought the house down at the Royal
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József Barcza Horváth (bass) ’graduated’ from classical music to jazz. He is one of the most inventive exponents of his instrument in a country teeming with world-class bass players. As a member of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos’ New Gypsy Jazz he had the London audience spellbound in February 2005 at St. James’ Church, Piccadilly. Julian Siegel (tenor- and soprano saxophone) has had a major impact on the UK jazz scene since the release of the debut album Close-up (SoundCD1001) in the autumn of 2002. Working a fluent bebop intensity into a fresh modern sound, Julian has established himself as both a remarkable writer and a powerful player on the European Scene. He won the BBC Jazz Award 2007 for Best Instrumentalist. Kálmán Oláh (piano) won the Thelonious Monk Jazz Composers’ Competition in Los Angeles in 2007. Oláh is one of the most original pianists on the Hungarian jazz scene. He has played and recorded with a number of well-known artists, including Lee Konitz, Randy Brecker, Pat Metheny, Steve Grossman, Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci and Kenny Wheeler. His album with the Budapest Jazz Orchestra earned 4 stars in Downbeat magazine. Martin France (drums) is a founding member of the extraordinary 1980s big band, Loose Tubes, where he began long standing partnerships with many of its members, including Django Bates. Martin has performed and recorded with some of the world’s best musicians. Márton Juhász (drums) won national first prize for solo percussion in 2005, before relocating to study in London. After being awarded the prize for top overall student on his course, in 2007 he was accepted in to Berklee College of Music. Winner of the Golden Drumstick Award (2010) Mátyás Szandai (bass) is an ex-member of the world-famous Dresch Quartet and in that latter capacity he has already played with tremendous success at the Bath International Festival and at the London Jazz Festival. He has accompanied topranking international stars like Archie Shepp, David Murray, Herbie Mann, Chico Freeman, Charlie Mariano, and Hamid Drake.
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János Egri (bass) is an amazing virtuoso Roma bass player, one of the grand masters of his instrument in Hungary. He is a regular member of Lee Konitz’ favourite Hungarian backing group, Trio Midnight and leads several bold experimental groups of his own.
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Mornington Lockett (tenor- and soprano saxophone) is now well-established as one of the great British tenor sax players. After working with the Ronnie Scott quintet for almost three years he went on to be featured on numerous sessions and gigs. He scored a stunning success at the Bridge Festival, Budapest in 2009 Natalie Williams (vocal) was born to a Hungarian mother and British poet, John Hartley Williams. By 2000, she was touring Europe as a member of the European Youth Jazz Orchestra. Her 2003 debut, Lucky Old Sun, was a live album that put a new spin on classic jazz standards and was recorded in only two days. Nikoletta Szôke (vocal) is the brightest singing star on the Hungarian jazz scene blessed with incredible timing. In 2005 she walked away with the first prize and the audience prize from the vocalists’ world competition at the 2005 Montreux International Jazz Festival. In Japan her fourth album is selling by the thousands! Last year she performed with Bobby McFerrin in Budapest. Peter King (alto- and soprano saxophone), in the words of The Observer jazz critic and author, Dave Gelly, “is the finest alto saxophonist that Britain has ever produced, and one of the finest in the world today”. Coltrane’s one-time drummer, Elvin Jones called him ”a wonderful musician, … a master of his instrument.”. To cornettitst, Nat Adderley Peter King is „the world’s greatest altoist”. Tom Mason (bass) is an amazingly mature and inventive player despite his young age. A stablemate of the drummer James Maddren, he was also part of that fantastic AngloHungarian outfit led by Kálmán Oláh and Gerard Presencer that moved jazz radio presenter, Helen Mayhew to call it the best production of the 2008 London Jazz Festival. Tristan Maillot (drums) is a highly versatile French born drummer who has become one of the mainstays of the UK jazz scene. He has appeared with a host of jazz greats, including Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Bobby Shew, Scott Hamilton, Peter King, Stan Tracey, Dave Newton, Alan Barnes, Gerard Presencer and Jim Mullen. Winston Clifford (drums) is one of Britain's leading jazz drummers, and an incredibly subtle player who makes his instrument sing. He has played with the best musicians, including Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Jason Rebello, Gary Husband, Peter King, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Julian Joseph, Andy Sheppard, Jean Toussaint Band, Bobby Watson, Monty Alexander, Gary Bartz, Art Farmer, Archie Shepp and Freddie Hubbard. In cooperation with the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London Δ £12 (Wed/Thurs), £14 (Fri) Please also note that due to licensing laws, if you wish to drink alcohol, you are required to order at least one main course. For booking please call 020 7352 5953, email jazz@606club.co.uk or visit www.606club.co.uk
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Dóra Munkácsi (piano) Dóra Munkácsi was born in Nagyvárad and graduated in Kolozsvár at the Gheorge Dima Music Academy in 2011 where she studied with Dr Adriana Bera. She won the first prize of the 7th Hungarian Music Festival in 2011 organised by the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Bucharest. programme Ferenc Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Ville d'Este, S.163 Claude Debussy: Images, Book I. L.110 • Reflets dans l’eau • Hommage à Rameau • Mouvement Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H, S.529 Ferenc Liszt: Béla Bartók: Selection from the volumes of “For Children” Béla Bartók: Suite for piano, Op. 14 Béla Bartók: Out of Doors: • With Drums and Pipes • Barcarolla • Mussettes • The Night’s Music • The Chase
Her major recognitions are the Special award for Best Performance of Ferenc Liszt’s piece at the Béla Bartók International Competition in Szeged in 2010, and the First prize at the prestigious Victor Giuleanu Piano Competition of the Bucharest Music Academy in 2011. She has also been awarded at numerous competitions such as the Jeunesses musicales, George Enescu (Bucharest), J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Ferdinand Weiss (Kolozsvár), Weiner Leo (Balassagyarmat), Béla Bartók (Szeged). She has attended masterclasses of Dana Borsan, Cordelia Hoefer, Attila Némethy, Imre Rohmann, Robert Levin, Georg Sava and Jean Francois Antonioli in Salzburg, Kolozsvár, Nagyvárad, Balassagyarmat and Szombathely. In 2010 she won the Erasmus scholarship to the Liszt Academy of Music where she studied with Balázs Réti. She has already played numerous solo and chambers music recitals in Nagyvárad, Kolozsvár, Gyulafehérvár, Tulcea and Budapest. She has played with orchestras from Kolozsvár and Nagyvárad under the baton of Romeo Rimbu, Florina Gergo, Matei Pop, Cristian Sandu and Nicolae Moldoveanu.
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monday music soirées introducing the winner of the 7th hungarian music festival
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Monday | 7 November | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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She charmed the jury and audience of the Hungarian Music Festival with her performance of Ouverture, Allemande and Courante from Bach’s Partita No.4 in D major (BWV 828), Liszt’s Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H and Béla Bartók’s Out of doors suite. Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
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Péter Kozma The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London supports the participation of Péter Kozma in Lumiere 2011, the Festival of Light in Durham organised by Artichoke. Péter Kozma creates spectacular, largescale light art in public space. His work incorporates cultural, political and artistic issues, creating a colourful, urban theatrical space. Passers-by instantly become a piece of the art themselves, as they walk over a colourful carpet, making this the ultimate accessible piece of art. Δ Further information: www.lumieredurham.co.uk
Wednesday | 23 November | 6.30 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e TALK ‘Only from the clear spring’ – Ágnes Kôry on Béla Bartók 2011 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt, whose life and work has been celebrated throughout the year in many countries. But 2011 also represents the 130th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century and arguably the most important Hungarian composer to reach worldwide recognition. So while the Liszt celebrations are most welcome, Bartók also needs to be celebrated for his large body of important scholarly work on ethnomusicology, for his excellence as a pianist, for his contribution to education and – last but
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not least – for his compositional output. Bartók himself was a great admirer of Liszt and, regarding piano playing, he could be termed as Liszt’s grand-pupil. Bartók’s piano teacher at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music was István Thomán who had been a favourite piano pupil of Liszt and was thus appointed by him to the piano faculty at the Academy.
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Hungarian-born Ágnes Kôry is the founder and director of the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship, London, where specialised music studies including performance skills are offered and scholarship is fostered. The Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship (BBCM) offers comprehensive music education for amateurs and children of all ages as well as provides training courses to further the skills of professional musicians. Ágnes Kôry is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy of Music London (DipRAM) and the University of London (BMus, MMus, MPhil). She is a teacher, performer and a researcher in historical musicology. Her wide-ranging research interests include instrumentation in baroque music as well as the life and work of suppressed composers of the Holocaust. Ágnes Kôry is a regular reviewer of concerts and opera for English as well as Hungarian websites on classical music.
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Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
30 November – 4 December ≥ Science Museum ✉ Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD e EXHIBITION The Ladybird of Szeged is coming to Roboville Robots came from human imagination to infiltrate our culture and invade our workplaces. Where are robots in your future? Find out at Roboville, hosted at the Science Museum. It’s your unique opportunity to get up close to robots and talk to their inventors. Roboville is part of a festival of robots taking place in the Science Museum throughout December. The Hungarian Cultural Centre proudly welcomes the famous Ladybird of Szeged which is probably the sweetest reflex model existing. Built by Dániel Muszka with László Kalmár at Szeged University, Hungary, the Szegedi Katicabogár (Ladybird of Szeged) is a cybernetic animal. It was built to model
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conditioned reflexes, associating various stimuli, remembering them and forgetting them. The Ladybird has light sensors for eyes, a microphone, indicating lights, seven touch sensitive dots on its skin, capacitive memory and two electric motors. Not bad for a robot built in 1957. To find out more about this historical piece of robotics, visit Roboville and ask her inventor, Dániel Muszka. The Festival of Robots at the Science Museum is produced in partnership with the European Union Network of Cultural Institutes and EU Cognitive Systems and Robotics Programme
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Δ Daily opening times: 10 am – 6 pm. For further information visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Monday | 5 December | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e CONCERT monday music soirées a christmas concert in celebration of the bicentenary of ferenc liszt
Gábor Farkas (piano) Gábor Farkas started his music studies at the age of five, and holds an MA degree in piano and teaching. He won the first prize, the audience award and the special award for the best interpretation of a work by Joseph Haydn of the International Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar in 2009. He was the winner of the Hungarian National Radio’s Piano Competition in 2003 and the Béla Bartók Piano Competition, Baden bei Wien in 2000, he was awarded second prize of the Greta Erikson International Piano Competition and third prize of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in 2001. His uplifting performance enchanted audiences throughout Europe and the world: in recent years he performed in the concert halls of Budapest, Vienna, Baden bei Wien, Berlin, Stuttgart, Strassbourg, Florence, Paris, Calgary, Sakata, Yuza and Tokyo and has worked with conductors such as Ádám Fischer, Zoltán Kocsis and Tamás Vásáry. He extended his knowledge at the master courses of many of the most respected piano professors: György Nádor, László Simon, Ferenc Rados, Péter Frankl, Rolf Dieter Arens, Jan Wijn, Brigitte Engerer and William Grant Nabore.
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Ferenc Liszt: Waldesrauschen – Concert Etude, S.145/1 Liebestraum – Nocturne for Piano No. 3 in A-flat Major Valse Impromptu in A-flat Major, S. 213 Les jeux d'eaux à la Ville d'Este, S.163 Wiegenlied S.198 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A Minor Ave Maria: Die Glocken von Rom S.192 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-sharp Minor Venezia e Napoli (Gondoliera, Canzone, Tarantella) S.162
Saturday | 10 December | 11 am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e FILM Hungarian Animation: Series of short animated films (90 min) Matinee screening for schools The Mouse with a Mouth dir. Andrea Kiss (A hazudós egér based on Ervin Lázár’s tale)
Hungarian Folk Tales & How I Passed My Childhood dir. Mária Horváth (Magyar népmesék & Hogyan telt a gyermekkorom?)
The Swaggering Porcupine by Zsolt Richly (A hetvenkedô sün, based on István Kormos’ tale)
Leo and Fred &The Snowlion dir. Pál Tóth (Leo és Fred & Hóoroszlán)
In the Round Four-Cornered Forest & Pretty Kitty's Flower dir. Mária Horváth (A Négyszögletû Kerek Erdô & Vacskamati virágja based on Ervin Lázár’s tale) Kecsekmétfilm Ltd. generously compiled and lent all the animated short films for the festival. Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
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His debut CD recording entitled An evening with Liszt was published in 2008 winning the prestigious Grand Prix of the Ferenc Liszt International Society in 2009 as the best Liszt recording of the year. His second album was also published by Warner Music in 2011.
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Thursday | 15 December | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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e FILM Szinbád 1971, dir. & screenplay by Zoltán Huszárik based on Gyula Krúdy’s stories, starring Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai and Éva Leelôssy
The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggering along the border between life and death. He believes to have found beauty in the organically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories come to life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart: Florentin, Lenke, Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter, Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the fried pheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, i.e. himself, Szindbád, with whom she ran away and drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting search for perfection makes it impossible for Szindbád to find peace in a single woman’s love, and his loneliness is dissolved only at the table laid by motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In the spiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szindbád experiences the completeness of life, and that moment he reaches true Death. Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk
hcc recommends Sunday 9 Oct, 4.45 pm – 5.15 pm ≥ St Paul’s Cathedral, London EC4 Sunday Evening Recitals: Organ Music from Hungary Recital by Malcolm Rudland programme Hector Berlioz: (arranged by Henri Busser) Hungarian March (from The Damnation of Faust) Dezsô d’Antalffy: Drifting Clouds István Koloss: Réflexions (Grave – Rubato – Allegretto – Lento – Con Moto) Dezsô d’Antalffy: Sportive Fauns (after Böcklin) o Free Friday 14 Oct ≥ Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL London Csík Zenekar feat Presser Gábor & Kiss Tibor
Saturday 15 Oct, 7.30 pm ≥ Posk Jazz Café, 238–246 King Street, London W6 0RF
Sunday 20 Nov ≥ The Garage, 20–22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD London
Bolygo Music Presents: Fusio Group (Hungary) at the East European Jazz Festival
Bödôcs Tibor Stand-up Comedy
o £7 Friday 4 Nov, 6 pm ≥ 229 The Venue 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN Sound of Europe – Music Festival Featuring Félix Lajkó, Antal Brasnyó, Magdi Ruzsa, Hobo, Ghymes and the Hungarian folk dance group H-UNique
o £15/£19 www.drumandmonkey.org Saturday 10 Dec ≥ 229 The Venue 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN KFT o £19/£25 www.drumandmonkey.org
o £25. Tickets available at Nemesis Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio, 3 Buck Street, Camden Town, London Tel: 02074820063 www.229thevenue.com www.gigantic.com
o £20/£25 www.drumandmonkey.org
The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London is one of the 19 Hungarian cultural institutes under the direction of the Balassi Institue in Budapest Hungary. The aim of the Balassi Institute is very similar to those of other well-known insitutions such as the British Council, the Goethe Institute and the Institut français. These aims are to project an attractive image of the home country and to spread linguistic knowledge, culture and information about it. The Balassi Bálint Institute, founded on January 1, 2002, was launched in the spirit of the abovementioned objectives. As a legal successor, with full authority, of the Hungarian Language Institute (with a history of nearly half a century) and of the International Hungarological Centre (established in 1989) the new institute carries on the basic activities of these two institutions, to which several new ranges of duties have been added, according to its Deed of Foundation. In order to strengthen its message abroad and within Hungary, the Balassi Institute designed and introduced a new visual identity, which the 19 Hungarian cultural institutes all over the world have adopted as of September 2011.
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