Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Jan-Mar 2015

√–1 by Miklós Erdély

Events JANUARY

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27 Jan ≥ page 12 concert Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók •

Jan ≥ page 3 • film UK Release of White God and Masterclass with director Kornél Mundruczó 11 Jan ≥ page 4 • concert Sunday morning coffee concert featuring Barnabás Kelemen (violin) and Olli Mustonen (piano) 15 Jan ≥ page 5 • exhibition Hungarian artists’ works in Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015 22 Jan ≥ page 7 • award ceremony Announcement of the Student Ambassadors of Hungarian Culture 22 Jan ≥ page 7 • film screening, talk National Day of Hungarian Culture, Celebrating the Rt. Rev’d. Róbert Pátkai and his achievements in the UK 22 Jan ≥ page 9 • jazz Viktor Tóth jazz saxophonist returns to London 23 Jan ≥ page 10 • children & families ’Hold in your lap, rock and sing’ – Demonstration and training sessions of the Ringató method

by Ilona Gróh

28 Jan ≥ page 13 • book launch Thomas Kabdebo, Danubius Danubia (Fapadoskönyv, 2013) 29 Jan ≥ page 14 • exhibition ‘The place’: Eastern Europe in photography practice

february 2 Feb ≥ page 16 • monday music soirées Bartók Evening with Viv McLean (piano) and David LePage (violin) 4 Feb ≥ page 17 • literature Mátyás Sárközi: Csé 5 Feb ≥ page 18 • lecture Hungarian Avant-Garde?

Neo-Avant-Garde?

Contemporary or PostContemporary Art?

By László Beke 11 Feb ≥ page 20 • symposium Hungarian Student College presents: Hungarian brain research 12 Feb ≥ page 23 • exhibition Great Expectations – Memories from the 19th century. Graphic art works by Ilona Luca Decsi

19 Feb ≥ page 24 • children & families Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families

march 5 Mar ≥ page 24 • children & families Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families 8 Mar ≥ page 25 • concert Sunday Morning Coffee Concert, Kelemen Quartet 9 Mar ≥ page 26 • monday music soirées Renáta Konyicska (piano) and Júlia Pusker (violin) 11 Mar ≥ page 28 • book launch Dramaturgy in the Making.

A User’s Guide for Theatre Practitioners by Katalin Trencsényi 19 Mar ≥ page 29 • jazz Jazz violinist Lajos Sárközi returns to London 21 Mar ≥ •

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education, teacher training

Motivation and efficiency in Hungarian Language Courses 22 Mar ≥ page 32 • concert Introducing Talented Children – The Folk Chamber Ensemble and St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir Cambridge

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White God (Fehér Isten), 2014 When tween trumpet-player Lili has to stay with her dad for a few days, he is not interested in taking care of her pet dog Hagen and in a fit of irritation leaves it by the side of the road. Bad idea. This sets off events that lead to a full-scale canine uprising in a film that blends a coming-of-age narrative, political allegory and horror-style revenge. Thrills run the gamut, from scenes of Hagen bonding with fellow street mutts to dramatic chase sequences as the dogs tear through the city, finally taking a gory turn when Hagen reaches breaking point. Filmed with a cast of 280 dogs and featuring staged scenes of animal cruelty, director Kornél Mundruczó has crafted an ambitious, visceral opus, rightfully earning plaudits at Cannes, including the Un Certain Regard prize, as well as the Palme Dog for best four-legged performance.

(Kate Taylor) Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film-director, whose films premier at the most prestigious festivals all over the world. He directed his short film Afta shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards. Pleasant Days, his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002 for best first and second feature. He entered the Cannes Residence in 2003. His second feature film Johanna – an operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc – was presented in the Un Certain Regard in 2005. His third feature film Delta won the FIPRESCI Critics’ Award in Cannes 2008. His film Tender Son was shown in the Offical Selection of Cannes 2010. Mundruczó’s latest movie White God won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2014 and was screened at the 58th BFI London Film Festival. White God has also been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 87th Academy Awards. Δ Details to be confirmed. For further information please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk

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Sunday | 11 January | 11.30am

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e CONCERT

≥ Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

sunday morning coffee concert featuring Barnabás Kelemen (violin) Olli Mustonen (piano) An artist of ‘innate musicality’ with a technical execution that belongs ‘only to the greatest’ (The Guardian), Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen has captured the attention of the music world. With a repertoire that ranges from classical to contemporary music, Kelemen gave the Hungarian premieres of the Ligeti and Schnittke Violin Concertos as well as the Hungarian premiere and world premiere of violin works by Gubaidulina and Kurtág.

Barnabás Kelemen collaborates amongst others with the American Symphony, BBC Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Budapest Festival, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Helsinki Philharmonic, Het Kamerorkest Brugge, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Irish Chamber, Kioi Sinfonietta, Lahti Symphony, London Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Netherlands Radio, Norwegian Chamber, Orchestra della Toscana, Pannon Philharmonic, Philharmonia Auckland, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Trondheim Symphony and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony orchestras.

In 2010 he founded the Kelemen Quartet, which received a silver medal, audience prize and the Musica Viva Grand Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The Kelemen Quartett gave concerts in Florence, Munich, London and toured in China, India, Australia and New Zealand.

He performs on a Guarneri del Gesú violin of 1742 (ex-Dénes Kovács), generously loaned by the State of Hungary.

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Olli Mustonen has a unique place on today’s music scene. As a pianist, he has challenged and fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America with his brilliant technique and startling originality. In his role as conductor, he founded the Helsinki Festival Orchestra and as a composer he forms part of a very special line of musicians whose vision is expressed as vividly in the art of re-creative interpretation as it is in their own compositions.

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Δ Tickets: £12.50 (concs £10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

15 January – 6 April ≥ Whitechapel Gallery 77–82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

e EXHIBITION hungarian artists’ works in Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015 Bringing together over 100 works by 80 modern masters and contemporary artists including Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Piet Mondrian, Gabriel Orozco and Aleksander Rodchenko, this exhibition of the Whitechapel Gallery will trace a century of Abstract art from 1915 to today, shedding new light on the evolution of geometric abstraction.

Beginning with Kazimir Malevich’s Black and White. Suprematist Composition (1915) the exhibition will explore how abstract art can both underpin socially transformative spaces and filter into all aspects of visual culture.

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László Moholy-Nagy From the radio tower, Berlin, 1928 Maurer Dóra Seven twists I–VI., 1979-2011

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Exhibition highlights include an entire wall filled with photographs documenting the radio towers of Moscow and Berlin by Aleksandr Rodchenko and László MoholyNagy amongst others, blow-up archive photographs of iconic exhibitions running through the history of abstraction and a selection of magazines which convey revolutionary ideas in art and society through typography and graphic design.

The exhibition takes a fresh look at this new art for a modern age, and asks how art relates to society and politics. Curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, and Magnus af Petersens, Curator at Large, Whitechapel Gallery, Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015, is international in its scope. As well as following the rise of Constructivist art from its revolutionary beginnings amongst the avant-garde in Russia and Europe, the exhibition sheds new light on the evolution of geometric abstraction from continents across the globe including Asia, the US and Latin America.

The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, film and photographs spanning the century from 1915 to the present, brought together from major international collections including Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Tate, London; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Δ Opening times: Tue–Sun 11am–6pm; Thurs

11am–9pm. Admission £10.95/£8.95 concs – including Gift Aid donation, £9.95/£7.95 concs – without Gift Aid. For further information and booking please visit www.whitechapelgallery.org

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e AWARD CEREMONY

The Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture project is the initiative of the Hungarian Cultural Centre (HCC), which has been launched with the aim to reach university students and to inspire them through the events of the Hungarian Cultural Centre, and the mission of the Balassi Institute to promote Hungarian culture in the United Kingdom as Student Ambassadors.

The selection process had two rounds: after the first written round, the successful candidates proved their capabilities through a presentation where they had the opportunity to elaborate on their action plan.

H.E. Péter Szabadhegy, Ambassador of Hungary in London and Dr. Beata Pászthy, Cultural and Scientific Counsellor, Director will officially announce the names of the selected Student Ambassadors and present them with their Letter of Commission.  Please note this event is by invitation only. Δ To keep up-to-date please join the page of the Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/pages/Student-Ambassador-of-Hungarian-Culture/1478412729099835?ref=hl

Thursday | 22 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM SCREENING, TALK national day of hungarian culture

Celebrating the Rt. Rev’d. Róbert Pátkai and his achievements in the UK The Rt. Rev’d. Róbert Pátkai was born in Budapest in 1930. His secondary education took place in Szászrégen (now Romania) and Békéscsaba. He studied for the Lutheran ministry in Sopron and Budapest. In order to support himself while at the seminary, he worked on the railways and in agriculture during the summer breaks. After his ordination in 1954, he was appointed to be curate and secretary to the Dean of Pestcounty in Albertirsa.

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During the Hungarian uprising he headed the Revolutionary Committee first in Albertirsa, then the whole of Cegléd district until the defeat of the revolution nine days later. In order to avoid the inescapable secret police interrogation, he had no choice but to leave Hungary.

Róbert Pátkai came to London in late November 1956 and became vicar of the Hungarian Lutheran Church.

A few years on, parallel to his Hungarian ministry, he was called to serve as pastor of the English-speaking Lutheran congregation in London. Soon after, he was appointed dean (later becoming bishop) of the English-speaking Lutheran Church in Great Britain. He also served as secretary, later chairman of The Lutheran Council of Great Britain, a federation of all Lutheran churches in the United Kingdom.

In his capacity as leader of the Lutheran community, he was able to establish for the first time a good working relationship with the Church of England. As a result Róbert Pátkai was presented with the Cross of St Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1998. The Hungarian Lutheran Church honoured him with the Bishop Lajos Ordass award in 2010.

In addition to his varied church related duties and activities, he was Radio Evangelist to Eastern Europe from 1966–1993, and Lutheran lecturer at a North London Roman Catholic Seminary for a number of years. Also secretary/chairman of the Hungarian Church-Workers Abroad for four decades.

In the early 1990s he became the first chairman of the National Federation of Hungarians in Britain (MAOSZ). In acknowledgement for his activities in the secular Hungarian community, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross followed by the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Republic. Róbert Pátkai also participated in the activities of the British Hungarian Fellowship, the World Federation of Hungarians and in the Federation of the National Associations of Hungarians in Western Europe.

Róbert with his wife Elizabeth raised three children, twin sons Robert and Thomas and daughter Julianna.  Please note this event is in Hungarian. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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FOR HUNGARIAN CULTURE IN THE UK AWARD 2015 announcement

The Award, which comes with a cheque of £1000, has been previously won by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford (2012) and the Hungarian Children and Parents Group (LMI+ Londoni Magyar Iskola) (2013).

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Application deadline: Friday 30 October 2015. Δ For further information and an application form please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk.

Thursday | 22 January | 7pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ Viktor Tóth jazz saxophonist returns to London ‘Viktor Tóth is one of the most talented musicians in the young generation of jazz artists in Hungary’ said the press when reviewing his 2007 Climbing with Mountains, which, incidentally, won best jazz album of the same year. Viktor Tóth earned the title jazzman of the year 2010 on Fidelio’s countrywide online poll in 2011. Despite this, he still sees himself as a truth seeker and with his musical endeavors seeks to reach oneness with universal harmony. In 2010 he published the album Tartim and in 2011

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In celebration of the National Day of Hungarian Culture the Hungarian Cultural Centre proudly announces its For Hungarian Culture in the UK Award 2015.

Director Dr. Beata Pászthy established the Award in 2012 for non-profit cultural and/or educational organisations operating in the UK for the promotion of Hungarian culture and heritage. The aim of the Award is to help preserve and nurture the cultural identity of Hungarians living in the UK.

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Popping Bopping album came out.

As Viktor Tóth has played with such internationally renowned musicians as Hamid Drake (drums), Henry Franklin (bass), William Parker (bass) John Betsch (drums) Piotr Wojtasik (trumpet) and Mihály Dresch (sax), he has garnered respect as a peer and has grown as a musician from these collaborations. His musical expression is dynamic yet sensitive and he strives to capture the energy of the moment with every performance. He has played throughout Europe and the United States in various jazz festivals.

He leads his own Tóth Viktor Tercett, he composes his own material, he produces music for contemporary dance performances and he collects folk music.

He will be joined by the best musicians on the British jazz scene at the prestigious 606 Jazz Club. Δ Entry: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at jazz@606club.co.uk, on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk

Friday | 23 January | 11am – 4pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EDUCATION / CHILDREN & FAMILIES ’Hold in your lap, rock and sing’ Demonstration and training sessions of the Ringató method

By Ilona Gróh Ilona Gróh, a highly respected infant and early childhood educator, leads the demonstration session and the professional discussion. She is a music teacher and the developer of the Ringató (Rocking) method.

Viktoria Emese Gall will also contribute and assist during the sessions.

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In the sessions parents get a model for the musical education of their pre-nursery children based on Kodály’s principles. Grandparents, fathers and mothers who love singing and playing together with their little ones in a friendly mood are all warmly welcome and encouraged to participate in the program actively.

The material of the training: Discussion of the demonstration session  Instructions of Kodály, the characteristics of the conception, especially regarding the youngest children’s musical education  Aims, tasks, musical materials  Characteristics of the age-group – musical education from birth to school  Development of musical skills – ear for music, singing abilities, sense of rhythm, sense of form, creativity and getting children to listen to music step by step  Indirect effects of musical education  Learning games and songs 

Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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What exactly is Ringató?  It is a group of singing and playing mothers, fathers and their children ranging from a few-month-old babies to three-year-old toddlers.  The goal of the sessions is to help parents get to know the possibilities of the youngest children’s musical education in an affectionate atmosphere.  The method encourages them to become sensitive and responsive to good music.  It is a family program where both grown-ups and children get experiences at the same time. Ringató helps children’s mind improve and the family bonding get stronger.  Ringató is a great way to get to know our musical mother tounge through songs, rhytmical games ’out of clear spring’ (Kodály).

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schedule 11.00am – 11.45am Ringató Music Sessions for children (0–5 yrs) and their families 1.30pm – 4.00pm Teacher training and professional discussion

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Tuesday | 27 January | 7.30pm

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e CONCERT

≥ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók Concert also includes: Berlioz › The Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March Liszt › Piano Concerto No. 2 Charles Dutoit: Conductor Marc-André Hamelin: Piano Andrea Meláth: Mezzo-soprano Bálint Szabó: Bass A masterpiece of 20th century opera, Bartók’s Duke Blubeard’s Castle is a haunting tale of a Duke whose dark secrets are gradually unveiled by his new wife, Judith. Seven mysterious doors await Judith as she returns to Bluebeard’s castle.

Curious to know what lies behind the doors, Judith pleads for the doors to be opened one by one. As she discovers what lies behind each door, Judith edges closer to her own fate…

Charles Dutoit is joined by a host of outstanding soloists, who recently performed Duke Bluebeard’s Castle abroad to critical acclaim with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The first half sees Marc-André Hamelin’s unique blend of musicianship and virtuosity as he performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2.

Two Hungarian opera stars Andrea Meláth as Judith and Bálint Szabó as Duke Bluebeard will bring Bartók’s unique work to life.

Δ Tickets: £10– £58 (Subscription and group discounts apply. Transaction fees may apply.)

Telephone bookings: 0844 847 9910, online bookings: www.soutbankcentre.co.uk

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e BOOK LAUNCH

Introduction by Lily Kabdebó, reading by Myrtill Nádasi Thomas Kabdebo will introduce his Danube trilogy in English at the Hungarian Cultural Centre. The writer has been nominated for the Kossuth Prize due to this work. Árpád Göncz President of Hungary (1990–2000) wrote in his letter to the author about the book: ‘After the first pages I was enchanted by the book’s emotional richness and its crystal clear language then its historical authenticity absolutely gripped me.’ Parts of the trilogy will be read out by Hungarian actress Myrtill Nádasi.

Thomas Kabdebo (Kabdebó Tamás) is a Hungarian writer, poet and littérateur who has written over forty books and translated just as many. He has received numerous awards from his native land and in 1971 he was prize-winner of the International Poetry Award. As a student he took part in the 1956 uprising and so was forced to flee to the West. Kabdebo lived in England until he settled in Ireland where he was director of the Maynooth University Library. Born in 1934, he witnessed and experienced several historical episodes during his life. His is one of those lives which serve as a European history lesson.

Myrtill Nádasi is a talented ballerina and actress, who moved to the United Kingdom in her twenties. In Hungary she is mostly known as one of the main characters in the famous movie classic A kôszívû ember fiai (The Baron’s Sons) based on the novel of Mór Jókai.

Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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Thomas Kabdebo, Danubius Danubia (Fapadoskönyv, 2013)

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Wednesday | 28 January | 7pm

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Thursday | 29 January | 7pm (Private view)

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e EXHIBITION

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

‘The place’: Eastern Europe in photography practice Works of PhD Candidates of the Royal College of Art Contributions from artist and filmmaker David Bickerstaff; Hungarian photographer Viktor Németh; artist and researcher Christian Nyampeta, in collaboration with curator of the project Azadeh Fatehrad.

‘A job for the artist which no one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to recombine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world...’ (Victor Burgin, Work and Commentary, 1973)

This project explores two forms of photography practice: fiction and documentary.

The concept is based on re-visiting and recreating ‘existing images’. The events of everyday life could be captured as a social reality in the form of documentation, or from a completely different position – a position of fascination that would, in fact, create a fictional representation. What could differentiate amateur photography and flâneur style in the existing of captured images? How does documentation represent a historical event, and how does it differ from a fictional representation of the same event? By revisiting ‘existing images’, this project tries to answer the questions above, as well as illuminate the life of archive images – the life of the past. Any specific historical event such as a revolution, victory, or catastrophe marks a key point or time in the history of a particular society, country, community.

The mark made or left on the historical timeline necessarily creates a time both before and after the event. Here, we place the emphasis on the period after the event, as we believe the event, whatever it may be, continues to exist in one way or another; the people around or alive after the event will be the ones most affected by it and will have to deal with and digest the effects of it for a long time to come.

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‘The place’: Eastern Europe in photography practice investigates the archive material of the Ukrainian National Film on the fairly recent Chernobyl Disaster, which occurred on 26 April 1986, as well as the Hungarian Police Photo Archive – in particular, photographs by Pál Csattos on 17 June 1986. The exhibition comprises a multi-media installation; a series of printed photographs; two channel videos; and selected publications that have enriched the research. The project enhances visitor interaction by holding a day’s workshop exploring the relation between human agency in response to archive images; more information will be made available online.

Exhibition open: 30 Jan – 6 Feb Opening hours: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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Monday | 2 February | 7pm

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e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Bartók Evening with Viv McLean (piano) and David LePage (violin) Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher, is considered to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Bartók is noted for the Hungarian flavour of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs for voice and piano.

His most productive years were the two decades that followed the end of World War I in 1918, when his musical language was completely and expressively formulated. He had assimilated many disparate influences, in addition to Strauss and Debussy there were the 19th-century Hungarian composer Ferenc Liszt and the modernists Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. Bartók arrived at a vital and varied style, rhythmically animated, in which diatonic and chromatic elements are juxtaposed without incompatibility.

Within these two creative decades, Bartók composed two concerti for piano and orchestra and one for violin; the Cantata Profana (1930), his only large-scale choral work; the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936) and other orchestral works; and several important chamber scores, including the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937). The same period saw Bartók expanding his activities as a concert pianist, playing in most of the countries of western Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union. (www.britannica.com) David LePage was a prizewinner in BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. In 1999 he was appointed leader of the Orchestra of the Swan, with which he regularly appears as soloist and director. David is president of the European String Teachers Association.

He has recently released a CD of his own music, The Reinvention of Harmony and Imagination. ‘Scintillating... Le Page cast a sinuously flexible spell’. Birmingham Post

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Wednesday | 4 February | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LITERATURE Mátyás Sárközi Csé László Cs. Szabó (1905–1984) was one of the most important figures of the Hungarian emigrant literary community. Highly esteemed as an essayist, extremely popular as a broadcaster and conference speaker, author of a number of important short-story collections and memoirs, he was considered to be a unique creative force to maintain the integrity of Hungarian intellectuals living in the West.

The subject of our book launch, Mátyás Sárközi’s biography, entitled Csé (this is how his friends and colleagues used to refer to László Cs. Szabó), recently published in Budapest by Kortárs, follows the happenings of his eventful life and summarizes the critical reception of his work.

Brought up in Kolozsvár, Cs. Szabó remained under the spell of the urban culture of this scene of his early youth for the rest of his life, even though with his parents they chose to move to Budapest after Transylvania had been awarded to Romania by the Treaty of Trianon. A visit to Paris made him decide to become a writer. His brilliant essays soon made Cs. Szabó an important regular contributor of the leading literary

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Viv McLean (piano), winner of the First Prize at the 2002 Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, has performed at all the major concert halls in the UK and extensively around the world. He has recorded often for BBC Radio 3, numerous international radio stations and CD labels.

‘Extraordinary originality, superb simplicity, and fingers of steel hidden behind muscles of velvet’. Le Monde, Paris

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magazine of the age Nyugat. Eventually he was appointed to head the Literary Department of Hungarian Radio.

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He considered his 1948 flight to the West from Sovietoppressed Hungary a true emigration in the classic sense, and spoke little of his past to his friends and his colleagues at the BBC Hungarian Section where he worked until his last years. Cs. Szabó’s fascinating life-story had to be rediscovered episode by episode to write his comprehensive biography.

Mátyás Sárközi, living in London since the end of 1956, is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster. Working for the BBC Hungarian Section for almost forty years, he became not only a colleague but also a friend of the writer László Cs. Szabó.

Since Szabó’s works are now widely published in Hungary, there was a need to write his intimate biography, and also to summarize his life work as an essayist, author of radio-plays, poetry and short-stories. Mátyás Sárközi fulfills this task in his new book Csé, published by Kortárs in Budapest.  Please note this event is in Hungarian. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Thursday | 5 February | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE Hungarian Avant-Garde? Neo-Avant-Garde?

Contemporary or Post-Contemporary Art?

By László Beke, Ex-Director, Research Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences This lecture will give an overview of the most remarkable artists and works from the period of the 1960s to the present day in Hungary. There is an interesting ideological and aesthetic debate in our country about the ’mainstream’ in art. These discussions run parallel with a new international tendency of an emerging interest in East (CentralEast) Europe in the context of European and Global cultures.

Another aspect of the past few decades in their evaluation is that there is a real growing interest in art – both ’high and low’ – not only among artists and experts but ’everyday people’, the younger genaration in particular.

Gyula Pauer Pszeudo (Pseudo)

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Prof. Dr. László Beke, CSc., dr. habil. is an Art Historian, up to 2011 Director, now Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Art History of the Research Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), Professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, teaching at several Hungarian institutions. Professor Beke taught at the University of Lyon 2 – Louis Lumiere (1988–89) and was Chief Curator of the 19th and 20th Centuries collections at the Hungarian National Gallery (from 1988 to 1995) and General Director of Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest (1995–2000). He has curated numerous exhibitions (including the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1996), has written texts and published books on art, 20th century theory and contemporary trends.

Member of AICA, European Academy of Art and Sciences, Advisory Board of the reviews Arts (Bratislava) and Perspective (Paris), Editorial Board of Acta Historiae Artium (Budapest). Professor Beke was awarded the Széchenyi-Prize of the Hungarian Republic, Chevalier de l’Arts et Lettres de la République Francaise, Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Fine Arts (Bucarest).

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e SYMPOSIUM

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

hungarian student college presents

Hungarian brain research Professor Tamás Freund:

The National Brain Research Program

Professor Angus Silver:

Neuroscience and the Magyars: Links between Hungarian and British neuroscience

Professor Péter Somogyi:

Scientific mentoring in the past and in the information age

Hungarian Brain Research Program In February 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán – along with József Pálinkás, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), and Tamás Freund, the director of the MTA’s Institute of Experimental Medicine – signed an agreement establishing the Hungarian Brain Research Program (HBRP). With a budget of 39 million euros spanning four years, this Program has received the largest grant of any branch of science in Hungary to date. To put the size of the award in perspective, the annual level of funding (approximately 10 million euros per year) is nearly half of the annual National Scientific Research Fund dedicated to the full range of scientific research in Hungary.

The program was prepared in collaboration between leading neuroscientists and governmental experts. Reflecting scientific actuality and strengths of Hungarian neuroscience the HBRP is focused on five thematic pillars. These pillars and their Chairs are the following: Discovery Research Clinical Research, Pharmaceutical Research, Bionic and Infobionic Research, Social Challenges.

The Program’s long-term goal is to strengthen the international competitiveness and societal respect of brain research in Hungary and to contribute to decreasing the societal and economic burden of brain disorders. Establishing a ‘Neuroscience Network of Excellence’ is one of the key points to be addressed in meeting this goal.

As a former chair of the IBRO (International Brain Research Organisation) Central & Eastern Europe Regional Committee – in addition to his recent appointment as a member of the European Commission’s President’s Science and Technology Advisory Council – Professor Freund is well-suited to progressing brain research through promoting international collaboration.

The main message is that it is in the best interest of Hungary and of all European countries to consider discovery research into the mechanisms of brain disorders as major priority.

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Professor Angus Silver is Professor of Neuroscience & Wellcome Trust Senior Basic Fellow working at UCL’s Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology Department.

The brain gathers information about the body and the surrounding world, allowing it to build internal representations and to plan and execute movement.

Professor Silver’s lab works on how synapses, neurons and networks transmit and process such information and perform computations. The brain areas the lab investigates include the cerebellum and the sensory cortex. The main aim of the work is

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His main scientific interest is the synaptic and molecular organization, functional architecture and physiology of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex and related structures, the network basis of behaviour-dependent activity patterns in the brain, the changes in neuronal connectivity/chemical architecture underlying addiction or epileptic and ischemic brain damage. He unraveled the molecular cascade of endocannabinoid signaling and its relationship with anxiety. His work shed light on the mechanism by which impulses of our inner world (motivations, emotions, autonomic state) facilitates brain oscillations and memory storage.

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Professor Tamás F. Freund is the Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Neuroscience Department of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest.

He graduated as a biologist at the Eotvos University in Budapest, worked as a student researcher at the Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis Medical School, Budapest under the supervision of János Szentágothai and Peter Somogyi, and spent a total of 4 years in Oxford. He became head of department (1990), then director (2002) of the Institute of Experimental Medicine. He served as president of FENS (2004–2006), member of the Executive Committee of IBRO (1998–2003), and Chairman of IBRO’s Central and Eastern Europe Regional Committee (1999–2003).

He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998), the Academia Europaea (London, 2000), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2001), the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (2001), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014). The major prizes and awards he received include: the KRIEG Cortical Discoverer Award and the Cajal Medal of the Cajal Club (1998, U.S.A.), the Kemali Foundation Award (1998, FENS Forum, Berlin), the Bolyai Prize (2000, Hungary), The Brain Prize (2011, Denmark), and the Prima Primissima Award (2013, Hungary).

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to develop a mechanistic understanding of brain function that links the molecular, synaptic, neuronal and network levels. This requires a multidisciplinary approach that combines the most powerful experimental and theoretical methods available. To achieve this the lab both develops and applies new optical methods for measuring rapid signalling in 3D and new software tools for data acquisition, analysis and modelling.

Application of these new experimental and theoretical approaches allows Professor Silver’s lab to link neuronal mechanisms to information processing, thereby bridging different levels of description of brain function.

Professor Péter Somogyi, PhD., DSc, is director of the Medical Research Council, Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit and professor of neurobiology at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, UK. He graduated in biology and received his PhD in cell biology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. His research training included neurocytology with István Benedeczky, neuroanatomy with János Szentágothai at Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, biochemistry with A. David Smith and Ian Chubb at the University of Oxford, and immunocytochemistry with Claudio Cuello at Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy of Medical Sciences, the Hungarian, the German and the European Academies, and received The Brain Prize in 2011.

Professor Somogyi is recognised for his fundamental work on the identification of cell types in the cerebral cortex and for the localization of signalling molecules in identified synapses of microcircuits in the brain. He pioneered the high-resolutions synaptic dissection of connections in the cerebral cortex defining synaptic links and their temporal dynamics. His vision that explanations of normal and pathological events in the brain can only come from the rigorous spatio-temporal definition of the neuronal circuits that underlie these events has led to the discoveries of novel cell types, rules of neuronal connections, their molecular constituents and temporal dynamics. In general, his work has demonstrated how co-operative interactions in time and space between distinct identified neurons and receptors in the plasma membrane underlie the processing power of the cortex. He has educated and mentored many students and postdoctoral scientists, who are now professors and leaders throughout the world.

Further information: www.mrc.ox.ac.uk/groups/somogyi-group The Hungarian Cultural Centre and the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA), together with the UCLU, LSE SU, King’s SOAS and Imperial Hungarian Societies have joined forces to host a special series of events with the title Hungarian Student College in January 2014. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EXHIBITION

„…drágalátos, ízletes, körte-édes szerelem, amelynek nincs szüksége arra, hogy a lehunyt szemek más nôk alakjait varázsolják az eleven helyébe, és a bujkáló gondolatok távoli édes nők emlékeit idézgessék, mint a nyugalmazott testőr nedvesíti szája szélét a szép királyné emlékével, akinél fiatal korában szolgált…” (Krúdy Gyula)

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Memory to William Morris

Ilona Luca Decsi has always been interested in the life of women and wanted to paint those beautiful ladies of olden days. A few years ago she started to deal with the extraordinary female characters of the 19th century following her long fascination with women of the late middle ages. She has tried to visualise their life stories in her paintings, which was marked by the desire for freedom and the long-aspired changes in women’s lives during the course of the 19th century.

The remarkable technology of photography, which was invented in this period of time, records enigmatic images. People were elegant, women wearing beautiful dresses full

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Great Expectations – Memories from the 19th century Graphic art works by Ilona Luca Decsi

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of lace and madeira at traditional balls and festivities. Pictures of them preserved these magical moments. Ilona Luca Decsi uses those old photographs for her artwork and applies these on handmade paper. Laced collars, ruffles and petticoats, as well as the later fashion of the 1920s and 1930s, are all depicted in her work. Words from Gyula Krúdy, psychological insights from Sándor Ferenczy, the richness of musical and literary culture of old Budapest and exhibitions her teachers talked about, all inspired her to make this graphic art work series. In addition to her graphic art works, drawings as well as oil paintings will be exhibited.

Ilona Luca Decsi was born in Budapest in 1950.

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and earned her degree there. Since then she has been working as a graphic artist, art-historian and teacher.

Her first exhibition was in Berlin in the Galerie Fundus in 1979. She won the Hungarian Derkovits prize for drawings and etchings. In 1989 Ilona Luca Decsi won a Flemish scholarship and went on to study at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten. She had several exhibitions at home and abroad, including the recent one in Veszprém (2012), Budapest (2014) and this year in Moscow together with her husband, the widely known painter and graphic artist Imre Kéri.

Exhibition open: 13 Feb – 27 Feb Opening hours: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Thursday | 19 February | 11am–11.45 Thursday | 5 March | 11am–11.45 ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CHILDREN & FAMILIES Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre These music sessions are suitable for children as small as 6-month-old. During the session the parents learn and try out songs and games they can use at home with their children, which will help them develop not only their musical skills but create a strong bond between parents and children.

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Δ £6/child/session. To book your place, please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

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Mária Chambers, founding director and a highly experienced teacher of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Guildford, leads the sessions. She plays music, sings and enchants children and parents with the engaging and creative activities.

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Sunday | 8 March | 11.30am ≥ Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

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The Kelemen Quartet, founded in Budapest in 2010, has already gained a reputation as one of the most exciting young string quartets. At the Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia 2011, Ensemble magazine described the musicians in these enthusiastic terms ‘they lit a firework of emotions, wrestling with the emotion in the music”, and praised the Kelemen Quartet as “perhaps one of the greatest discoveries of this competition”.

The Kelemen Quartet’s international acclaim was further enhanced in July 2011 when they received three prizes at the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition: the overall second prize, the audience prize and the Musica Viva Grand Prize, which resulted in an Australian tour in spring 2014. The Kelemen Quartet also received the first prize ex aequo at the Beijing International Music Competition in 2011 and at the International Sándor Végh String Quartet Competition in Budapest in 2012.

The Quartet has performed in Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Croatia, North America and Australia, and collaborated with musicians such as

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Joshua Bell, Pekka Kuusisto, Joseph Lendvay, Maxim Rysanov, Nicolas Altstaedt and pianists Zoltán Kocsis and Ferenc Rados. The Kelemen Quartet received further tuition from Zoltán Kocsis, Péter Komlós, Miklós Perényi, Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet), Ferenc Rados, András Schiff and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

In the 2013–14 season highlights include debuts at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Wigmore Hall, Amici della Musica in Florence, in Munich, at the Franz Liszt Academy Budapest, at Nardodni Dom Maribor, in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (Australia), Wellington, Auckland, Eindhoven and further ahead at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at the Bozar in Brussels and at the Carnegie Hall, New York.

All four of the Kelemen Quartet’s members are prizewinning Hungarian musicians, admired as soloists and as chamber players, and close-knit both professionally and personally.

The Kelemen Quartet’s debut CD has been released by the label Hunnia (2012) featuring works by Bartók and Mozart.

Barnabás Kelemen performs on a Guarneri del Gesú violin from 1742 (ex-Dénes Kovács) and Katalin Kokas performs on a Testore violin from 1698 (Milan), both on generous loan from the State of Hungary. The other two members of the quartet are Gábor Homoki (violin/viola) and Dóra Kokas (cello). Δ Tickets: £12.50 (concs £10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Monday | 9 March | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES Renáta Konyicska (piano) and Júlia Pusker (violin) Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Hungarian pianist Renáta Kriszta Konyicska started studying music at the age of five.

At the age of ten she was accepted at the Special School for Exceptional Young Talents of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in the class of Zsuzsa Esztó. From 2010 to 2014 she continued her musical studies at the same institute under the guidance of László Baranyay, Márta Gulyás and Rita Wagner. She attained her Bachelor’s degree with highest honours in Piano. Renata is completing her graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she holds the Gilling Family Scholarship. Her professor is Pascal Nemirovski.

She has won many prizes in various piano competitions, including first prize at the Zlatko Grgosevic Piano Competition (Croatia), first prize at the Cittá di Gorizia

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Júlia Pusker began her musical studies at the age of five. Her violin teacher was Tamás Ittzés and Judit Szászné-Réger. In 2005, she entered the Special School for Young Talents, Preparatory Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she studied under Katalin Kokas, from 2006 with István Kertész.

In 2011 she moved to London to further her studies at the Royal Academy of Music under the guidance of György Pauk.

She has been a multiple recipient of major awards in competition such as the János Koncz National Violin Competition, the Dénes Kovács Violin Competition, the Georg Philipp Telemann International Violin Competition, as well as the Carl Flesch Violin Competition. In 2007, together with her sister, she was nominated, and in 2011 she received the Junior Prima Primissima Prize in her hometown, Kecskemét. In 2009 she won the Music Scholarship by Yamaha.

As a soloist she has performed with numerous orchestras such as the Budapest String Orchestra, Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Budapest Philharmony Orchestra, Danubia Symphony Orchestra, Győr Philharmonic Orchestra and Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010 she was featured in a documentary called Invisible Strings – The talented Pusker Sisters and was widely recognised all around the world. In 2013 she recorded the chamber version of Bruckner 2nd symphony with Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy Soloists Ensemble for the Royal Academy of Music’s second disc in their chamber symphony series released on Linn Records. Her violin, a G. Gagliano crafted in 1791, is loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music.

The programme includes pieces by Schumann, Chopin and Bartók. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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She has been invited to perform recitals and chamber music concerts in several festivals such as Nuits Classiques, Festival de Piano Classique Biarritz (France), Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander (Spain), Internationale Sommerakademie der mdw – isa Reichenau (Austria), Ferenc Liszt Week Esztergom (Hungary).

Renáta has played several times with orchestras, performing concerti by J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Liszt and E. Grieg. She is grateful for support from the László Sólyom Foundation.

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Competition (Italy), first prize at the Smetana Piano Competition (Czech Republic) and third prize at the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians (The Netherlands).

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e BOOK LAUNCH

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Dramaturgy in the Making. A User’s Guide for Theatre Practitioners (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, 2015)

By Katalin Trencsényi

and New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, 2014) Edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane The evening will feature a round table discussion on contemporary dramaturgy on the occasion of the launch of Dramaturgy in the Making and New Dramaturgy. The books are introduced by Mark Dudgeon, senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury and Paul Sirett, associate dramaturg, Ambassador Theatre group, and associate teacher, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, who will also be chairing the discussion. The guest speakers are Katalin Trencsényi (dramaturg, author) and dramaturgs featured in the book: Christopher Campbell (literary manager, Royal Court), Mischa Twitchin (theatre-maker, British Academy post-doctoral fellow, Queen Mary University of London, and a co-founder of Shunt), and Hildegard De Vuyst (dramaturg, Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels and les ballets C de la B, Ghent).

The evening concludes with a wine reception, accompanied by live jazz

by Nick Tomalin (E17 Jazz Collective).

Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary dramaturgical practices in various settings of theatre-making and dance to reveal the different ways that dramaturgs work today. It provides a thorough survey of three major areas of practice – institutional dramaturgy, production dramaturgy and dance dramaturgy – with each illustrated through a range of case studies that illuminate methodology.Through these, a detailed and precise insight is provided into dramaturgical processes at organisations such as the Akram Khan Company, les ballets C de la B (Ghent), the National Theatre, the Royal Court and Shunt (London), the Schaubühne (Berlin), The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (Utah), and the Secret Company (Budapest) among others.The book features a foreword by Geoff Proehl, author of Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey.

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Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Thursday | 19 March | 8.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ Jazz violinist Lajos Sárközi returns to London The Hungarian Cultural Centre has regularly been bringing the best Hungarian jazz talents to London as part of its long-term cooperation with the well-known 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea.

Young and talented violin and guitar virtuoso, Lajos Sárközi comes from a long-standing Roma musical dynasty in Hungary. His father, a maestro of traditional Hungarian Gipsy music started to teach him the violin at the age of five. Young Lajos went on to study classical music and at the age of twelve he came first at a national violin competition. Two years later in 2005 he came first at the International Georg Philipp Telemann Violin Competition in Poland.

Without ever turning his back on classical music, he soon discovered jazz and in 2006,

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Katalin Trencsényi is a London-based dramaturg. She completed her PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As a freelance dramaturg, she has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre, Corali Dance Company and Company of Angels among others. From 2010 to 2012 Katalin served as president of the Dramaturgs’ Network.

She is also one of the contributors to The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (Routledge, 2014).

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New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has been transformed since the emergence of live art, devised and physical theatre, dance theatre and experimental performance. With essays, case studies and interviews drawn from practitioners and scholars across Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the USA, it offers a uniquely international overview of current practice.

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still only 15, he also managed to win the first prize at the national jazz violin competition organized by the Hungarian Radio. He is a fierce jazz player fusing his fiery Gipsy temperament with his classical technique and displaying a distinct bent for bebop.

He is equally formidable as a guitar player. On this occasion at 606 he will be backed by top-line British musicians. Δ Entry: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at jazz@606club.co.uk, on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk

Saturday | 21 March | 9.30am – 4pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING Motivation and efficiency in Hungarian Language Courses Professional development training for teachers of Hungarian

By Orsolya Maróti, Head of the Hungarian Language Department, Balassi Institute, Budapest The Hungarian Language Department of the Balassi Institute organises numerous courses for students wishing to learn Hungarian. Each year there are hundreds of students who enroll in these courses. The department holds conferences and workshops centred on Hungarian as a Foreign and as Heritage Language. In addition, they publish magazines and help their network of guest lecturers with professional support.

The goal of the department is to develop and improve the language knowledge of schedule non-Hungarians as well as second and third 9.30am – 10.00am Registration generation Hungarians who grew up abroad.

10.00am – 11.30am 11.30am – 11.45am 11.45am – 1.15pm 1.15pm – 2.30pm 2.30pm – 4.00pm

Workshop I Coffee break Workshop II Lunch break Workshop III

Time spent on studying should be interesting and efficient. How can we now achieve this goal in teaching Hungarian as a Foreign and as Heritage Language? These workshops, led

by Orsolya Maróti, will provide participants with some answers to this question and many others. Apart from learning the secret of great exercises, they can have a look at the Balassi booklet 4 and 5, which will be published in autumn 2015. Hungarian language teachers from all over the UK are welcome to these sessions organised by MOKKA (Teachers of Hungarian as a foreign language in the UK) in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Centre London.

Orsolya Maróti (MA Hungarian Literature, Linguistics and Language Pedagogy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; MA Hungarian as a Second Language and Hungarian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; MA Cultural Anthropology,

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Δ Participation at the teacher training workshop is free but booking is required.

Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

Sunday | 22 March | 3pm ≥ St James’s Church Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London W2 3UD

e CONCERT introducing talented children

The Folk Chamber Ensemble The Chamber Group of Dugonics András Piarist Gymnasium from Szeged

St Catharine's Girls' Choir Cambridge By supporting this concert in partnership with the Cambridge Szeged Society, the Hungarian Cultural Centre launches its new project Talented Children, which aims to introduce exceptional young talents from Hungary to London audiences.

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MOKKA was founded in February 2013 upon the initiative of the Hungarian Cultural Centre with the aim to provide teachers of Hungarian as a Foreign or a Second Language with the possibility to meet regularly. These meetings offer participants a platform where they can build professional contacts and share their experiences, ideas, difficulties, and some useful learning materials. In addition, MOKKA helps to organise teacher training sessions, develop start-up projects based on participants’ ideas, as well as to jointly promote Hungarian as a Foreign Language in the UK. Meeting three to four times a year, membership to MOKKA is open for everyone who teaches Hungarian either at a University, at a Hungarian Saturday School, as a private teacher, in any institutionalised surrounding or other form of language education. The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London provides the location for these meetings and it also offers further information regarding membership to MOKKA, dates and schedules for future meetings, which can be requested by contacting the HCC.

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Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; PhD in Linguistics, University of Pécs) works as the Head of the Hungarian Language Department at the Balassi Institute. She has been teaching foreign (HSL) and heritage students (HHL) for 17 years at the Balassi Institute and at Corvinus University in Budapest. She also teaches linguistics and language pedagogy at Eötvös Loránd University and at Károli Gáspár Protestant University. She has also worked with Hungarian language teachers as a teacher trainer (HSL and HHL) in Canada, in the Netherlands, in Germany and in many other countries where there are Hungarian language courses for heritage and HSL students.

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The Piarist Mastery School (Piarista Mester Tanoda) is the Elementary Level Art School of the Dugonics András Piarist Gymnasium. Folk music with koboz, fiddle and folk singing has been taught here since its foundation in 2001. The PMS regularly attend state contests, providing recordings on the Táncház Society CD issues and play an important role in the cultural life of their town Szeged, while following classical and innovative ways in preserving and teaching folk music. One of their programs is the cultural mission called “If I were a river…” through which the school regularly visits the Csángó Hungarians in Moldova to bulid bridges of friendship and saving jems of our common culture.

The Folk Chamber Ensemble is formed by the school’s koboz, fiddle and folk song students, along with their master teachers who include: Tünde Fábri-Ivánovics – vocals, bells, drums Lajos Vass Grand Prize, holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize twice, Kölcsey Award and the Szeged Culture Award and a Gold Ring – folk singer, folk singing teacher Dániel Lipták – violin, vocals holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize – folk fiddler and folk violin teacher) Géza Fábri – lute, tamboura, vocals Bács-Kiskun County Arts Award, 'Parallel Culture' Lifetime Achievement Prize minstrel – koboz (plucked lute) and folk music instruments teacher Mester Tanoda Alapítvány foundation is the permanent supporter of the Folk Chamber Ensemble.

The St Catharine's Girls' Choir Cambridge – the only college-based girls' choir in the UK – was founded in 2008. The choir sings weekly in the College Chapel and gives regular concerts. Its repertoire extends from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century, with several works written specially for it, by the likes of Nigel Hess, Christopher Fox and Jeremy Thurlow.

In its first six years, the choir has given performances in such distinguished venues as St Paul's Cathedral, St David's Hall, Cardiff and St John's Smith Square; and sung services in the Cathedrals of Ely, Lichfield and Gloucester. The choir has toured to Poland and Hungary, and are regularly asked to participate in major choral/orchestral works such as Bach's St Matthew Passion, Mahler's Third Symphony and Holst's The Planets. Δ Further information: www.mestertanoda.hu, www.mentesmaskent.hu Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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17 Jan, 6.30pm ≥ St Stephen House Hungarian Dance, Live Folk Music, Dance teaching o www.hunique.co.uk huniquedance@hchs.org.uk 1 Feb, 5pm & 2 Feb, 7pm ≥ St Stephen House Osonó Theatre from Transylvania presents: „Ahogy a víz tükrözi az arcot” A special play for a small audience (max. 45 people per show). o Booking by phone or email is necessary: Mob: 07858399572, Email: szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com Free entry. Donations are welcome.

More info: osono.ro/hu

7 Feb, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House Spring Fancy Dress Ball (Jelmezes Farsangi Bál) with three course dinner, live music, entertainment by actors from Hungary, fancy dress competition, raffle prizes and more. o Tickets and info: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/136211 Seated event with limited places.

Advanced booking only.

Mobile: 07858399572

15 Mar, 5pm ≥ St Stephen House

maosz (national federation of hungarians in the uk) o Free entry. For more information, please email artalindop@hotmail.com

cambridge szeged society programme o For more information please visit www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

4 Mar, 6pm ≥ MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Péter Somogyi and Linda Katona: Time and Space in the Brain The eminent neuroscientist and his fellow researcher introduce us to the labyrinth of brain cells which help us to perceive time and space.

They also discuss the work of Prof.

Somogyi’s friend, Daniel O’Keefe, recipient of the Nobel Prize.

13 Mar, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

oxford hungarian society michaelmas term 2014 1 Jan, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Alpár Lázár: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Alpár, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, guides us through some of the mysteries of sleep and circadian rhythms.

The Budapest House: A Life Rediscovered by Marcus Ferrar Ferrar, former Reuters correspondent for Eastern Europe, introduces his new book, which takes us through the history of 20th-century Hungary through the eyes of a Hungarian Jew retracing his roots.

6 Feb, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Osono Theatre: As Water Reflects the Face Osono Theatre is an independent theatre company from Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), Romania. Their performance is about social and personal problems from all over the world, and aims to establish a dialogue with the audience.

o For further information please visit www.hungsoc.com

the hungarian cultural association’s programme 14 Jan 10am–10.30am (0–3 years old group) 10.30am–11.15am (3–5 years old group) 11.15am –12.00am (school groups), ≥

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RINGATÓ Music group with Dr. Gallné Gróh Ilona and Gall Viktória 24 Jan, 2pm–6pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey

Organ Concert – Organist: Levente Kuzma from Hungary Mr Kuzma has given concerts in many European countries and made his debut in USA in 2013. He is serving as music director at the Piarists Church in Szeged and he is the artist director of the “Lieto” Music and Art School.

In addition he is organist in residence of the Szeged Symphony Orchestra.

13 Feb, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

20 Feb, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Traditional Hungarian Folk Dance Workshop

o www.kuzma-levente.hu szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com Free entry. Donations are welcome.

Mobile: 07858399572

H. E. Péter Szabadhegy The Hungarian Ambassador gives a talk to the Oxford Hungarian Society.

o Tickets: £10 (HCA Members)

Young Researchers at Oxford Doctoral and post-doctoral researchers present the cuttingedge work they are doing in Oxford.

Celebrating Hungarian Folk Songs and Singing o Tickets: £10. Advanced booking only.

24 Jan, 8pm–11pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey

£12 (Guests). On the door: £12 (HCA Members) £14 (Guests).

Advanced booking only.

hcc recommends 10 & 24 Jan, 10am–1.30pm 7 & 21 Feb, 10am–1.30pm 7 & 21 Mar, 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey • Hungarian Language, Music, Folkdance, Craft, Play groups for children (0–14 years old) • Hungarian Youth Group for 11–14 years old • Hungarian as a Foreign Language Groups for adults • Hungarian Folkdance and Folk Singing Group 15 Feb, 3pm–6pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey Hungarian traditions: CARNIVAL o Tickets: HCA members £6.00/child £2.00/adult. Guests: £8.00/child and £2.50/adults. Advanced booking only.

12 Apr, 10am–2pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey Celebrating Easter: 5 km family walk with Easter Egg Hunt “Devil’s Punchbowl” Surrey o Tickets: free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, parking fees apply.

Saturdays 12am–1pm Welfare information

o Free for HCA members.

Saturdays 10am–1pm Hungarian Library The Hungarian Library offers over 500 books cd’s and dvd’s to children and adults. o Free for HCA members Saturdays 9.30am–1.30pm Hungarian Coffee Shop The Coffee Shop offers traditional Hungarian hot and cold food.

o For further info on the Hungarian Cultural Association’s programme please contact Maria Chambers.

Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk www.magyartanodaguildford.org.uk www.hcaguildford.org.uk facebook.com/HCAGuildford

hungarian school of st albans o For further information please visit www.hungarianschool.co.uk, or email hungarianschoolofstalbans@gmail.com.

Info on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ StAlbansHungarianSchool

stage in london 7–8 March ≥ Watford, Wimbledon, Ealing Carnival Day for Families Costume show for children and adults, creative games, balloon-disco, Hungarian foods and a lot of gifts. o Tickets: £3.00 (Adult), free for children.

For further information please visit: www.hchs.org.uk or contact us: info@hchs.org.uk Info on Facebook: facebook.com/hungary.hchs?fref=ts

hungarian folk dance group (hunique) Two folk dance classes a week, one for beginners and one for advanced dancers. For members of the advanced group we offer regular public appearance possibility with the dance group.

Monthly Hungarian dance house with live music. o For further information please visit: www.hchs.org.uk or contact us: huniquedance@hchs.org.uk Info on Facebook: facebook.com/hunique.dance

8 If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events and sign up for our newsletter, please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk.

Alternatively, find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/hcclondon and Twitter @HCCLondon. Thank you for your interest.

The HCC team: Dr Beata Pászthy PhD | Cultural and Scientific Counsellor – Director Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Barbara Révész | Junior Programme Manager Andrea Kós | Office Manager Fruzsina Kováts | Finance Manager Balázs Szaszák | IT Consultant

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 on our website and Facebook page before setting out for any particular event.

The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA Tel: 020 7240 8448 • Fax: 020 7240 4847 E-mail: andrea.kos@hungary.org.uk and bookings@hungary.org.uk

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