Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Sep-Dec 2015

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september 14 Sep ≥ page 3 • lecture Trading with the Enemy British–Hungarian Commercial Relations during WW2 – Talk by Éva Norton 16 Sep ≥ page 4 • film The Leaving (Az elmenetel), dir. by Barnabás Tóth @ Bristol Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (15–20 September)

14 Oct ≥ page 18 • magyar mind open lecture series New directions for folk music in Budapest – Talk by Naomi Bath 15 Oct ≥ page 19 jazz The Jü Trio @ the Match&Fuse Alternative Festival

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16 Oct ≥ page 21 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families

22 Sep ≥ page 5 • literature László Krasznahorkai in English – George Szirtes in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith

Oct (exact date tbc) ≥ page 21 Hungarian Student College

23–25 Sep ≥ page 6 jazz Anglo-Hungarian Jazz Festival

4 Nov ≥ page 21 • film Hungarian film masterpieces @ SSEES Centenary – Miklós Jancsó

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26 Sep ≥ page 12 concert Bartók 70th Anniversary Concert •

october 10–11 Oct ≥ page 16 • film Son of Saul, directed by László Nemes (2015) @ The 59th BFI London Film Festival

9 Nov ≥ page 26 • monday music soirées György Pauk’s performers class students at the Royal Academy of Music: Julia Pusker, Marta Kowalczyk and Mathilde Milwidsky

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13 Nov ≥ page 21 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families

20 Nov ≥ page 29 • film Béla Tarr’s Autumn Almanac (Ôszi Almanach), 1984 @ Goethe Institut 20 Nov ≥ page 29 • literature European Camarade: Poetry in collaboration – featuring Hungarian poet Kinga Tóth 30 Nov ≥ page 31 • award ceremony Announcing the winner of For Hungarian Culture in the UK Award 2015 30 Nov ≥ page 31 concert Advent Concert

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december 1 Dec ≥ page 32 film Hungarian film masterpieces @ SSEES Centenary – Béla Tarr

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14 Nov ≥ page 23 • film Son of Saul (2015) @ The 19th UK Jewish Film Festival (7–22 November)

11 Dec ≥ page 21 children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families •

8 Nov ≥ page 24 • concert The Bards of Wales: Project and Performance

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A monthly screening will follow a double bill format comprising of an experimental or short film and a feature length documentary film. Each screening will be introduced and followed by a Q&A with filmmakers, critics or relevant speakers.

This series will introduce European documentary cinema to new audiences as well as create opportunities for people interested in film to meet, network and enjoy good films. Δ For the participating Hungarian films in the series please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk

and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon. For further information please also visit www.eunic-london.org

Monday | 14 September | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE the british–hungarian fellowship presents

Trading with the Enemy British–Hungarian Commercial Relations during WW2 Talk by Éva Norton Relations between two countries, whether diplomatic or commercial, can be fraught with difficulty at times; when these countries are at war with each other, these relations are even more fragile. British aid and intervention helped resuscitate Hungary in the inter-war period mainly due to a League of Nations loan. The two countries enjoyed amicable relations in the same period, however, they ended up at opposing sides in the war. As a result, this fragile relationship was further weakened and complicated by the fact that the commercial side of things was regulated by the 1907 Hague Conventions and the UK Trading with the Enemy Act of 1939. The talk aims to explore the complexity and flexibility with which both parties handled their commercial ties in the war, and how this engagement could result in a re-flagged Hungarian ship with its Hungarian crew joining secret Allied convoys in running the gauntlet of Axis U-boats.

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EUNIC London in collaboration with Open City Documentary Festival and Picturehouse Central is planning a European Documentary Film Series for 2015/2016, starting in the autumn of 2015. Throughout one year, the best of Europe’s documentary films made in the past 10 years will be shown.

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Éva Norton was born in Hungary and educated first at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest then at Exeter College Oxford. She first joined the staff of the newly set-up Archives of Contemporary History as a historian and research analyst then the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is married to an Englishman and lives in London. Currently she divides her time between teaching and voluntary work in the Hungarian community in the UK. She is the Chairman of the British-Hungarian Fellowship, the oldest Hungarian cultural organisation in the UK, and Co-Director and Trustee of the Guildford Hungarian Cultural Association. Her publications list includes pieces on the history of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary between 1945 and 1947, ‘Edgar Sanders – A British Spy Behind the Iron Curtain’ and ‘Az Aranyvonat’ (the Golden Train). 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

Wednesday | 16 September | 4pm ≥ Bristol, Watershed Cinema 1

Bristol Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival • 15–20 September

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The Leaving (Az elmenetel), dir. by Barnabás Tóth Encounters Festival is the UK’s leading short film and animation festival and annual meeting place for new, emerging and established filmmakers and industry professionals. The festival presents an annual International Competition, Industry Programme and an inspiring selection of screenings, events and parties during the festival week (15–20 September) in Bristol.

The Hungarian Cultural Centre is delighted that director Barnabás Tóth’s The Leaving (Az elmenetel) is listed in the 2015 Competition, and is able to support his participation at the festival thanks to its successful NKA application. Δ For booking and further information please visit www.encounters-festival.org.uk

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

e LITERATURE László Krasznahorkai in English George Szirtes in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith

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László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary in 1954. He worked for some years as an editor until 1984, when he became a freelance writer. He now lives in reclusiveness in the hills of Szentlászló. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Sátántangó, which he later adapted for the cinema in collaboration with the filmmaker Béla Tarr. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance and has since been honoured with numerous literary prizes, amongst them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. Further books by Krasznahorkai in English are Seiobo There Below, Animalinside and War & War. Δ For more about László Krasznahorkai please visit his website www.krasznahorkai.hu and his English

language publisher New Directions’ website www.ndbooks.com/author/laszlo-krasznahorkai

George Szirtes won the T S Eliot Prize for his book of poems, Reel in 2004 and his two subsequent books, The Burning of the Books (2009) and Bad Machine (2013) were also shortlisted for the same prize. In 2012 he won the Best Translated Book Award in the US for his translation of 2015 Man Booker International winner, László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó. His last book of poems for children, In the Land of Giants won the 2012 CLPE award for best book of verse for children.

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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won this year’s Man Booker International Prize, which he shared with his translators George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. This special event with George Szirtes will shed light on the challenges, complexities and rewards of translating such unique works as those of Krasznahorkai. Former BBC journalist, now independent broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith will lead the conversation with poet and translator George Szirtes, who will also read excerpts from his translator of Krasznahorkai. The event will finish with an audience Q&A.

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His current projects include an opera with the composer Richard Causton and a book of short texts, Notes on the Inner City to appear later this year.

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Rosie Goldsmith is a regular presenter of Crossing Continents, and A World in Your Ear, and has also presented the arts programmes Front Row and Open Book. She has reported from many parts of the world for the BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk, speaks several languages and has lived in Germany, France, South Africa and the USA. Rosie is an experienced radio producer with several award-winning, wellknown programmes under her belt: Eurofile, Asiafile, a series for the 10th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Sonya's Story, and Remembering Alistair Cooke, the radio obituary. 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

23–25 September | 8.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ Anglo-Hungarian Jazz Festival Presented by the Budapest Jazz Club and the 606 Jazz Club with the support of the Hungarian Cultural Centre Three nights of incredible music at the 606 in Chelsea with the jazz superstars of Hungary and Britain celebrating twelve years of cooperation between the leading clubs of the two capitals and following up the roaring success of the previous three inter-club festivals.

Wednesday 23 September, 8.30pm The first set will see the long-awaited return of singer Juli Fábián, who is one of the boldest improvising vocalists in Hungary. Rather than shunning them, she is actually looking for risks. Juli possesses probably the most sensuous voice on the Hungarian scene. Her improvisations are inventive and original. She can be sexy, romantic or humorous – but she always knows which to be when. Her songs are approachable, often danceable but of a consistently high standard.

She is one of the great favourites with the regulars at London’s legendary 606 Club for a reason. juli fábián

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In the second set the brilliant young Hungarian tenorman Sándor Molnár will produce a beautiful, muscular, dark tone on his horn, playing jazz that sounds like jazz.

He is a soulful hard bop player, so true lovers of the genre will absolutely love him.

Gareth Williams has established himself as one of the UK's leading modern jazz pianists. A fiery and creative player, he has been seen with an impressive array of world-class artists from Jazz/Hip Hop band US3 through to internationally renowned artists such as Joe Lovano, George Coleman and Dave Liebman. MD for highly regarded UK vocalist Claire Martin, Gareth has been featured at the Club on many occasions, most notably in his regular appearances with iconic US sax star Jerry Bergonzi.

Widely regarded as a pianist of international stature. ‘…dynamite pianist’ Evening Standard; ‘…fantastic improviser’ The Guardian.

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István Gyárfás is an absolute master of the modern swing guitar. Gifted with an amazing melodic sense he plays a highly accessible, enjoyable jazz at an extremely high artistic level. In October 2013 he mesmerised the audience in London’s legendary 606 Club when playing with Natalie Williams. This time they will be joined by flautist Steve Rubie, owner of the 606 and also leader of the Brazilian-tinged Latin jazz band, Samara. Steve doesn’t overadvertise himself as a musician. Yet he is a brilliant and spirited jazz player. His impromptu duets with Juli when Steve visited the Budapest Jazz Club produced moments of sheer istván gyárfás  mátyás hofecker  steve rubie  winston clifford  brilliance. We expect nothing less this time.

The bass-player Mátyás Hofecker is one of the rising stars of the Hungarian jazz scene.

Winston Clifford is a leading UK jazz drummer, over the last 25 years working with the likes of Courtney Pine and Monty Alexander. Winston Clifford has established himself as the drummer of choice for both leading UK based musicians and visiting high profile artists. His highly acclaimed guest appearance at the Budapest Jazz Club earlier this year is further testament to his talent and ability.

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Russian born but now UK resident, multi-award winning bass player Yuri Goloubev is unquestionably an international musician of considerable standing. Classically trained Yuri is the youngest musician ever to be awarded the prestigious title of Honoured Artist of Russia in 2001. Since then his commitment to jazz has seen him move from a mix of classical and jazz performances to exclusively jazz. His fluent and powerful playing has been heard with the likes of Julian Arguelles, Tim Garland, Rick Margitza, Ralph Towner and Kenny Werner on a towering CV, which includes performances not only throughout Europe but yuri goloubev, márton juhász also Asia, North and South Americas and South Africa. In the UK he is probably best known for his duo and trio work with the leading UK jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. ‘Remarkable Russian double-bass virtuoso Yuri Goloubev... breathtaking’ The Guardian. Their Hungarian stablemate on the drums will be multiple award winning Márton Juhász, by now a regular feature at such festivals. He performed and recorded extensively both in the US and Hungary. At the 2011 Anglo-Hungarian jazz festival at the 606 Club in London he showed his sensitive and inventive best, backing the world famous alto-sax player Peter King. Since then he became the leader of the highly successful afro-jazz-rock outfit, the Euro-African Playground.

Thursday 24 September, 8.30pm First set: Gábor Bolla (tenor sax) is back again at the 606. Only 26 but an incredible talent who already made it to the semi-finals of the World Saxophone Competition both at the 2003 Montreux (when he was only 15!) – and at the 2004 London Jazz Festival. He is the jazzman that black American tenor-giant David Murray jammed with for two hours during his stay in Budapest. His quartet won First Prize and the audience vote at the Avignon Jazz Festival in 2005. He has played at most of the great European jazz festivals. Presently he lives in Copenhagen and plays in the most prestigious European jazz clubs. Wherever he goes he brings the house down. Gábor Bolla will be partnered at his own wish by Steve Fishwick, who is widely considered to be one of the best jazz trumpet players ever to come from the UK, and is rapidly gaining a global reputation thanks to his gábor bolla, steve fishwick flawless technique and his beautifully flowing, harmonically rich improvisations. He has already played with numerous jazz legends such as George Mraz, Scott Hamilton, Ken Peplowski, Herb Geller, Bob Cranshaw, Lew Soloff, Ronnie Cuber, Anita O’Day – and the list is far from

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his instrument. The drums will be looked after by his brother, Elemér Balázs, who is arguably the best drummer in his country. As for him, it’s best to quote what the American guitar ace, Pat Metheny said of him. ‘Elemér is one of the best drummers around right now in my opinion. He plays with such musicality and finesse and has the ability to listen inside each musical moment with the kind of spontaneous decision making that allows everyone that plays with him to sound their best. He also has a wonderful touch on the instrument – I always enjoy the chance to play with him and to hear him.’

The second set will feature János Ávéd, another great young Hungarian master of the tenor saxophone. He is one of the most imaginative players, a born innovator, a tremendously versatile musician who can turn any material into riveting music.

He is also a most original composer. Three years ago he was picked for the European Saxophone Ensemble with which he toured extensively and with tremendous success.

He will be backed by a top line British rhythm section. Pianist Jim Watson is a session and touring musician of jános ávéd, jim watson formidable repute, who has been featured in a huge variety of bands. His jazz bona fides are just as impressive, having worked with Dave O’Higgins, Julian Argüelles, Jean Toussaint and Peter King among many others. With his fabulous technique combined with good taste and a great

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complete! He won the 2002 British Jazz Awards 'Rising Star' prize. Adam King bass player was born in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1987. He studied Jazz Music at Middlesex University gaining First Class Honours. He took up double bass in the second year of his studies and within 5 years has become one of the most in demand bassists on the UK scene. He has been asked to play with some of the most prolific musicians on the UK and international jazz scene. Adam can often be seen playing at London's top Jazz establishments such as Ronnie Scott's, 606 Jazz Club and Pizza Express Jazz Club.

The pianist will be József Balázs, one of the most remarkable keyboard men of his generation in Hungary. Having made his name in his elder brother’s band, he now leads the fantastically successful East Gipsy Band and is a terrific force to reckon with on

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choice in classic jazz material, he is rightly considered to be one of the most talented jazz pianists in the country. ‘…classy Jazz pianist’ Time Out; ‘Watson… his McCoy Tyner-like percussive chords & torrential right hand lines were a standout’ The Guardian.

Adam King on bass (see First set line-up). The leading drummer of his generation, James Maddren graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2009 with ‘The Principal’s Award For Outstanding Studentship’.

Although still relatively new to the UK scene he has already worked with a host of highly regarded adam king, james maddren musicians and bands, including Gwilym Simcock, Kit Downes, Marc Copland, Stan Sulzman, Seamus Blake, Alex Garnett, Will Vinson, Phronesis and Kálmán Oláh.

Friday 25 September, 8.30pm The first set will see the terrific singer Claudia Campagnol (born Claudia Dancs), who was incredibly successful in the 606 last year. She was born in Hungary to parents who are both professional musicians (her father is a pianist and her mother a singer).

She was clearly destined to become a performer of real quality. The whole family moved to Sweden when Claudia was a small child and by the age of 12 she could be seen ‘guesting’ on her parents’ gigs in venues all around the country. Claudia rapidly established herself as one of the leading singers of her generation. After several years of working in Sweden and around Europe, including Hungary, where she still has strong ties, she settled in Copenhagen, Denmark claudia campagnol, gareth lockrane where she met and married the Italian drummer, Nicolas Campagnol. Her career is going from strength to strength as she consistently delivers mature performances in a distinctive jazz style, while showcasing an impressive flair for improvisation. A multi-instrumentalist and composer as well as well as performer, her combination of jazz standards and original contemporary material have made her a favourite of audiences everywhere. She will be joined by the incredibly gifted Gareth Lockrane on flute. In 1997 his band ‘The Jazz System’ formed with Osian Roberts was a finalist in the Vienna Jazz Festival Grande Concours de Jazz.

In 2000 Gareth was a finalist in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition.

In 2002 he formed the band Grooveyard with saxophonist Alex Garnett, which released a critically acclaimed CD Put The Cat Out, which went on to win the Best European Jazz Group award in the 2003 Granada Jazz Festival. He also founded his own septet which released the album NO MESSIN in 2009 and went on to win best album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards that year. He also runs a big band. As a sideman Gareth has

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been involved in many diverse projects. Mark Lewandowski is one of the most talented of the new crop of young musicians to hit the UK jazz scene of late. A bass player with a fluent and highly creative musical style, he has in a very short time already won the admiration of a number of the most established UK performers, including the likes of Alex Garnett, Byron Wallen and Phil Robson. ’…remarkable …Lewandowski's bass was

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a dominant feature throughout …he produced some amazing solos with the agility and articulation of a horn player. …a master of the walking bass’ Nottingham Post. They will be joined by the terrific Balázs brothers from the previous day: József Balázs on piano and Elemér Balázs on the drums.

Second set: Tenorman János Ávéd, retained from the night before, is to join club-owner and flutist Steve Rubie’s own band, Samara. Samara is a six-piece jazz/Latin group led by 606 Club proprietor Steve Rubie on sax and flute. The pianist Neil Angilley works with Vanessa Mae, Shirley Bassey and ‘Down to the Bone’. Dill Katz, the bass player, is visiting professor at the Guildhall, drummer Nic France has worked with just about everyone, including Dave Gilmore (Pink Floyd) and Bill Withers, while the percussionist, Dawson Miller, is generally recognised as one of the most versatile and experienced players on the scene. Singer Liliana Chachian is considered to be one of the finest Brazilian vocalists currently working in Europe, with an unerring gift for melody and phrasing. The band's Special Guest will be the Hungarian saxophonist János Ávéd.

The music is an infectious blend of Brazilian Samba, jazz/Latin and Soul, and everyone can have a great time.

‘Cracking Latin-jazz band led by 606 proprietor Steve Rubie on flute and alto saxophone… explores these Latin jazz classics in great rhythmic style’ Time Out jános ávéd, steve rubie

Δ Entry £10 on Wednesday and Thursday, £12 on Friday night. Also, due to licensing laws, if you wish to drink alcohol, you are required to order at least one main course. Bookings by phone: 020 7352 5953 or email: jazz@606club.co.uk

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Saturday | 26 September | 7.30pm

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Bartók 70th Anniversary Concert Featuring • The Joyful Company of Singers, conducted by Peter Broadbent • The New London Children’s Choir, conducted by Ronald Corp OBE • Júlia Pusker (violin) • Renáta Konyicska (piano) Pre-concert talk by Rob Cowan, BBC Radio 3 presenter, 6.30pm–7pm (free for ticket holders) The Hungarian Cultural Centre London in partnership with The Joyful Company of Singers proudly presents the Bartók 70th Anniversary Concert to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók on September 26 1945 with a rare concert and a unique pre-concert talk at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden.

programme • Štyry Slovenské národné piesnié(Four Slovak Folksongs) Sz.70 (1916) for Mixed Choir and Piano Zadalamamka | Na holi | Rada pila, radajedla | Gajdujte, gajdence • Rhapsody No.1 for Violin & Piano Sz.86 (1928) • From Twenty Seven Two and Three-Part Choruses for children’s chorus a capella Sz.103 (1935–36) Ne hagyj itt! | Huszárnóta | Bolyongás | Ne menj el!

Cipósütés • Sonata for Solo violin Sz.117 (1st movement) (1944) • From Twenty Seven Two and Three-Part Choruses for female chorus a capella Sz.103(1935-6) Leánykérô | Keserves | Elment a madárka | Párnás táncdal | Isten veled!

• Román népitáncok (Romanian Folkdances) Sz.57 (1915) Este a székelyeknél (An evening in the village from Hungarian Sketches) BB 103 2 Három Csík megyei népdal (Three folksongs from the Csík district) • Magyar Népdalok (Hungarian Folksongs) Sz.93 (1932) for mixed choir a capella A rab | A bujdosó | Az eladó lány | Dal

The Joyful Company of Singers (JCS) was formed in 1988 by conductor Peter Broadbent to perform a diverse repertoire throughout the year in London and further afield.

An important element of The Joyful Company’s raison d’être is its commitment to contemporary and new music, including first performances, and supported by several highly successful educational projects. Many composers have written music for The Joyful Company such as Michael Berkeley, Judith Bingham, Roxanna Panufnik and Malcolm Williamson among others.

The Joyful Company first came to prominence when it won the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition in 1990.

Since then it has maintained its profile in the music world,

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Performances with orchestras include many with the City of London Sinfonia with the late Richard Hickox and with Sir Mark Elder, Nicholas Kraemer and Stuart Bedford, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Sir Andrew Davies), the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, etc.

Peter Broadbent is one of Britain’s leading choral conductors, enjoying a versatile career with an extensive repertoire ranging from Baroque Music performed on period instruments to contemporary music, including many first performances. Broadbent has conducted the London Mozart Players, Divertimenti Chamber Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Southern Sinfonia, the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, Apollo Voices and the BBC Singers, broadcasting frequently on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Engagements outside the UK include concerts with the Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra & Kodály Chorus in Hungary and a broadcast with the National Chamber Choir in Dublin.

In 2003 he conducted an Atelier at the XV Europa Cantat in Barcelona, and in 2006 the world Youth Choir in their Summer session, giving concerts in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Germany. He adjudicates at International Choral Competitions

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The choir and Peter Broadbent were honoured to receive the Guidoneum Award from the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo in recognition of its achievements and promotion of choral music. In the USA, the JCS has given concerts at Stanford University, in Los Angeles and San Diego, and appeared at the National Convention of the American Choral Directors’ Association in Texas.

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winning an impressive list of national and international competitions leading to many invitations. The JCS regularly appears at major UK music festivals, including Bath, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Chelsea, Presteigne, Spitalfields, Three Choirs, Huddersfield Contemporary Music and the BBC Proms.

Equally prominent in Europe, the JCS has performed at festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia, broadcasting in many countries as well as on BBC and Classic FM.

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all over Europe and in the UK. He gives seminars and masterclasses in the UK, France, Italy, South Africa, the USA and Canada. In 2007 he was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Hungary for his contribution to strengthening Anglo-Hungarian cultural relations.

The New London Children’s Choir offers a unique opportunity for girls and boys aged between 7 and 18 to learn to sing and enjoy all kinds of music, whilst receiving a unique and lasting musical experience and education. Launched by Ronald Corp OBE in 1991, the Choir has appeared in all the major London concert halls with the UK’s finest symphony orchestras and conductors, has collaborated with opera companies and rock bands alike in the UK and abroad, and has made dozens of recordings and broadcasts, including its recording of Ronald Corp's opera The Ice Mountain and several discs with the New London Orchestra of the music of Michael Hurd.

New London Children’s Choir featured in the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival. Recent engagements have included an appearance on Strictly Come Dancing, two advertistements screened in 2014 and the Choir can be heard in the soundtrack for Disney's 2015 film Cinderella.

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, and 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, Gyôr 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. Her violin, a G. Gagliano crafted in 1791, is loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music.

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Rob Cowan was born in London in 1948. He first discovered great music as a child convalescing after a long illness. Thereafter, nightly trips to the local library and regular evening classes in violin and cello kept his interest on a busy front burner.

Robert Maxwell gave him his first musical break, sending him round the country promoting Qualiton (the Hungarian national record label) – and Bartók in particular.

Before that, he worked for The Society of Snuff Grinders Blenders and Purveyors (organising ‘snuff months’) and did PR for a modelling school and a cake-mix company.

He later joined the BBC Music Department and launched his own ‘historic’ record label (Melos, in 1969). He spent nineteen years burrowing in the bowels of a major music publishing company (Boosey & Hawkes), first in the education department, then as advertising manager and for the last eleven years, as the company’s music archivist.

From May 1999 to March 2001, Rob devised and presented Classic FM's Sunday night review show CD Choice, and he has long been a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3.

He presented the first run of BBC Radio 3's weekly record magazine Off the Record, was a regular live guest on Record Review (precursor of the current CD Review), presented CD Masters (alongside Jonathan Swain, 2001-6) and The Cowan Collection (2003–6). Rob is a music critic/journalist for The Independent and is Contributing Editor and contributor for Gramophone. He is author of the Guinness Classical 1000 (a thousand chosen masterpieces with a CD recommendation for each one). Δ Tickets: £15 (£12 concession) on the door. For further information please visit our website

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

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 Reichenau (Austria), Ferenc Liszt Week Esztergom (Hungary). Renáta has played 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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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. Renáta is completing her gradaute studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she holds the Gilling Family Scholarship.

Her professor is Pascal Nemirovski.

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October (exact date tbc) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Hungarian Student College

This event is part of the Hungarian Cultural Centre’s initiative called Hungarian Student College organised in partnership with the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA) and the Hungarian Societies of UCLU, LSE, King’s College, SOAS and Imperial College. The Hungarian Student College aims to invite internationally recognised experts of various fields – diplomacy, politics, science, art, business – who can engage and inspire the younger generation. Previous lecturers included: HE János Csák, Ambassador of Hungary in London, Gergely Prôhle, Deputy State Secretary of EU bilateral relations, press and cultural diplomacy, HE Péter Szabadhegy, Ambassador of Hungary in London, Baron William de Gelsey, banker, Professor Péter Somogyi, Professor Tamás Freund and Professor Angus Silver neuroscientists, and film director Kornél Mundruczó. Δ For further details about the date and the speaker please keep an eye on our website and Facebook page.

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

Saturday | 10 October | 8.45pm (VUE7), 9.15pm (VUE5) ≥ Vue Cinema Leicester Square, London

Sunday | 11 October | 1pm ≥ Curzon Soho, London

e FILM The 59th BFI London Film Festival presents The Cannes award winning Hungarian film

Son of Saul, directed by László Nemes (2015) Son of Saul (Saul fia), a compelling Holocaust drama, directed by László Nemes, and featuring Géza Röhrig, who makes his screen debut in this film. Son of Saul has won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize in the main competition section. The film also won the François Chalais Prize and the Vulcan Award. In June 2015 Son of Saul was announced to be Hungary's submission for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The drama is set in early October 1944. Saul Ausländer

59th BFI London Film Festival 7–18 October

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The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® will run its 59th edition from 7–18 October 2015 at venues across the UK capital. Under the leadership of BFI’s Head of Cinemas and Festivals, Clare Stewart, the LFF continues to build on the success of its recent editions with 2014 enjoying its biggest ever audience turn out with 163,000 festival goers – an increase of 7.5% on the previous year. The Festival benefits from both the deep cultural heritage of the BFI and the strength of the UK market (the world’s third largest market for film) as well as the desirability of the capital as a premiere location with its iconic Leicester Square cinemas and the cultural hub of the BFI Southbank. Δ For further information please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk

and the BFI London Film Festival website www.bfi.org.uk/lff

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László Nemes (born in 1977) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Although Nemes was born in Budapest, he grew up in Paris. He is the son of film director András Jeles. He got interested in filmmaking at an early age, when he made horror films in the basement of their Paris home. After studying History, International Relations and Screenwriting, he started working as an assistant director in France and Hungary on short and feature films. For two years, he worked as Béla Tarr's assistant. After directing his first 35-mm short film, With a Little Patience, he moved to New York to study film directing.

From September 2011, he spent five months in Paris as part of a scholarship program arranged by the Cinéfondation, where in collaboration with Clara Royer, he developed the script for Son of Saul.

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(Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz works as a Sonderkommando member, burning the dead. One day he finds the body of a boy he takes for his son.

He tries to salvage the body from the flames and finds a rabbi to arrange a clandestine burial. Meanwhile other members of the Sonderkommando learn about their impending extermination, rise up and destroy the crematorium. Saul keeps focused on his own plan to pay the last honours to a son he could never take care of before.

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New directions for folk music in Budapest Talk by Naomi Bath Introduction by Rachel Beckles Willson

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The táncház mozgalom (folk dance house movement) of the 1970s and 80s has been well documented both in Hungary and abroad. The movement succeeded in bringing a rural tradition to the capital city and in doing so, transformed it in a number of ways.

Magyar népzene (Hungarian folk music) became modernised, urbanised, and its status was elevated by the intelligentsia; it also enjoyed a counter-cultural (anti-Soviet) ethos [Frigyesi].

This lecture-conversation will offer new perspectives on the folk music scene in Budapest today and in recent years. Thanks to numerous initiatives, Hungarian folk music has been experiencing a new wave of popularity, albeit with a very different political significance. The táncház mozgalom celebrated its 40-year anniversary in 2012, one year after the dance-house teaching method was officially added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. 2012 also saw the return of the televised folk music and dance competition Fölszállott a páva, a revival of Röpülj, páva, popular in the 1960s–80s. This time, Fölszállott a páva has had something of a modern makeover, and now bears a striking resemblance to shows like X-factor or Britain’s Got Talent.

Fölszállott a páva is one of many examples which suggest that the folk music scene is evolving in order to attract a younger generation. Folk-rock and folkpop bands are reaching out to younger audiences with the hope of making folk music more popular and fashionable. This can be seen in the use of new performance spaces in Budapest such as ruin pubs and the A38 ship.

Another aspect of the evolution of folk music transmission is discernible at the Liszt Ferenc Zenemûvészeti Egyetem (Liszt Ferenc Music Academy), where a folk department was established in 2007. Now the department offers the highest qualification in folk music available in Hungary through their BA and MA programmes. Increasing numbers of students enrol each year, producing folk musicians and teachers who frequently collaborate with professionals in concerts and at táncház events. The question of how the performance styles have changed as a result of this exposes broader considerations of the impact an institution might have on what was originally a rural oral tradition.

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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 | 15 October | 10.30pm ≥ Vortex Jazz Club 11 Gillett Street, London N16 8AZ

e JAZZ match & fuse in partnership with the hungarian cultural centre presents

The Jü Trio at the Match&Fuse Alternative Festival (15–17 October) After festivals in London (2012), Oslo (2013), Rome, London (2014) and Warsaw (2015), London’s East End sees the biggest festival yet with 24 acts – many in the UK for the first time, new commission by Leafcutter John, new collaborations and premieres and album launches (Get The Blessing, Mopo, Alfie Ryner). The Festival will feature 100+ musicians from the UK, Latvia, Poland, France, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Belgium and Slovenia.

Jü is an experimental trio from Budapest. The band, formed in spring 2012, has by now become one of the most exciting jazz acts on the Hungarian music scene. The music act is a dynamic powerjazz full of psychedelic tunes and improvisation from Budapest's best underground musicians.

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Rachel Beckles Willson is a writer and musician whose research has explored the intersections of history, politics and performance.

She is currently Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is also Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre. Rachel's two most recent books tackle ways in which the politics of historiography affect musical composition, performance and consumption in Ligeti, Kurtág and Hungarian Music during the Cold War (Cambridge 2007) and Orientalism and Musical Mission (Cambridge 2013). Rachel is currently supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a 3-year research project focusing on the oud entitled ‘Reorientations: Migrations of a Musical Instrument’.

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Naomi Bath is currently a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously earned her BA in Music from Oxford University and her MMus in Music Performance Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.

She lived in Budapest for a year (2013-2014) carrying out fieldwork for her PhD thesis. The thesis investigates the role of Hungarian folk music in the construction of a national identity, and examines instances of transformation of the folk music tradition in Budapest today. Later chapters will include themes of place, looking specifically at urban performance spaces in the city, as well as the impact of a recent boost in folk music education, framing the analysis within professionalism and institutionalisation discourses.

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Worlds collide when the raucous Budapest-based power trio Jü (consisting of guitarist Ádám Mészáros, bassist Ernô Hock and drummer András Halmos) joins Oslo-based saxophonist Kjetil Møster for the subversive meeting of the minds on RareNoise Records.

A powerful manifesto for ecstatic, exploratory, envelope-pushing music mixed by Bill Laswell and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper. Jü Meets Møster bridges the gap between free jazz and hellacious, distortion-laced, guitar-driven hardcore rock.

By pushing their instruments to new limits, the members push their entranced audiences from the constantly flowing present into the future. The band opens minds with their clean, open approach and spirited improvisation; always pushing each other and the limits of the composition, but never allowing the structure to fall apart.

Each member of Ju is an accomplished player on the Budapest scene. Beside dozens of Hungarian groups, the members have played with international musicians such as John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Charles Gayle, Chris Potter, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Pamelia Kurstin and Mikolaj Trzaska.

The Norwegian saxophonist Kjetil Møster probably needs no introduction since his unique approach to his instrument, at once technical and energetic, has made him one of the most respected and sought-after musicians in both jazz and rock circles. His own bands include The Core, Moster, Gibrish and BRAT, while he has also performed with Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and as a permanent member of Datarock also touring with Röyksopp & Robyn.

As a multi-lateral network reaching across Europe, Match&Fuse present bold new music from the cutting-edge of numerous contemporary music scenes through festivals and tours, showcasing only the brightest talents through their collective of cultural producers. Δ For further information please visit www.hungary.org.uk and matchandfuse.com

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

Kodály-based music sessions for children (0–5 yrs) and their families

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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 sessions 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. Mária Chambers, founding director and a highly experienced teacher of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Guildford, leads the sessions. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place, please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

≥ UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AH

e FILM ucl ssees centenary film festival presents

Hungarian film masterpieces by Miklós Jancsó and Béla Tarr

This unique educational and cultural event will feature twenty-three films in total: each one will be introduced by an academic specialist and screened in the newly constructed auditorium at UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre between October and December 2015. The festival is being supported by the British Film Institute, the London-based embassies and cultural centres of the countries whose cinemas are being showcased as part of the festival, and charitable organizations dedicated to the promotion of the arts and cultures of Russia and Eastern/Central/Southern Europe.

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To mark the centenary of the founding of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, a film festival is being organized which will showcase the cinemas of the last one hundred years in the countries whose languages are taught as part of SSEES’s degree programmes.

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With the generous support of the Hungarian Cultural Centre, two Hungarian feature films will be screened as part of the festival: • Miklós Jancsó: Csillagosok, katonák (The Red and the White, 1967) on Wednesday 4 November 2015 • BélaTarr: Kárhozat (Damnation, 1988) on Tuesday 1 December 2015

Banned for many years in the U.S.S.R., Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó’s masterful The Red and the White is a haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war.

Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, the story details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with skillful speed from a deserted monastery to a riverbank hospital to a final, unforgettable hillside massacre.

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Attendance is free of charge. Tickets will be issued on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Bloomsbury Theatre box-office. Δ For full details of the festival programme please visit the SSEES website www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees

Saturday | 14 November | time tbc ≥ Cine Lumiére 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT

19th UK Jewish Film Festival 7–22 November

e FILM uk jewish film with the support of the hungarian cultural centre presents

Son of Saul (2015, with English subtitles, 107 mins) Actor Géza Röhrig in attendance for Q&A (tbc) Son of Saul (Saul Fia), directed by László Nemes, featuring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, is a masterful debut feature that brings an entirely fresh visual language to this most challenging of topics. László Nemes’ critical hit at Cannes focuses on Saul, a Jewish member of the Sonderkommando in an unnamed death camp, who after discovering the body of a boy who he takes for his son, is determined to give him a dignified burial. Avoiding the temptation to divide protagonists into good and bad, Nemes paints a disturbingly nuanced picture of the moral imperatives and daily realities faced by all.

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The Red and the White is a moving visual feast where every inch of the Cinemascope frame is used to magnificent effect. With his brilliant use of exceptionally long takes, vast and unchanging landscapes and Tamás Somló's hypnotic black and white photography, Jancsó gives the film the quality of a surreal nightmare. In the director's uncompromising world, people lose all sense of identity and become hopeless pawns in the ultimate game of chance.

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The director of numerous Hungarian cinema classics, Jancsó here creates what many believe to be his finest work.

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Son of Saul has won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize in the main competition section. The film also won the François Chalais Prize and the Vulcan Award. In June 2015 Son of Saul was announced to be Hungary’s submission for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Please see the BFI London Film Festival description for details on director László Nemes on page 17.

The UK Jewish Film Festival takes place in 12 cinemas across London as well as in venues in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow. In 2014, the festival screened 95 international films at 159 screenings and welcomed 15,000 visitors. This year’s festival programme brings viewers a diverse and vibrant collection of contemporary films, comprising over 80 features, documentaries and shorts from all over the world.

The festival offers a unique chance to see important films from over 25 countries, including groundbreaking contemporary features from Hungary, such as Son of Saul. Δ For tickets and more information please visit www.ukjewishfilm.org

Sunday | 8 November | 5pm ≥ St John’s Smith Square Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

e CONCERT The Bards of Wales: Project and Performance Featuring • The English Concert Singers • The English Concert Chorus • The English Concert Orchestra, directed by Music Director Roy Wales • King Edward sung by Welsh tenor Rhys Meirion The Bards of Wales Project has been founded and developed by László Irinyi, the director of Concert Masters International (CMI), Budapest.

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Arany’s ballad is a hymn to civil courage in the face of savage oppression. It tells how in 1277 King Edward I of England attended a banquet in Montgomery Castle to celebrate his victories over the Welsh. Sated with good food and wine, he calls for a Welsh bard to sing his praises, but the bards denounce him as a butcher with the blood of an entire nation on his hands. So, the King sends them one by one, 500 in all, to be burnt at the stake, for none can be found to flatter him as their conqueror.

After ravaging the Welsh countryside in terrible revenge, Edward returns to London where he is haunted for evermore by the shades of the dead bards, spending his days in terror of their torment.

This powerful and colourful story was actually penned as an allegory for the treatment of the Hungarian nation by the Austrians following the failed bid for Hungarian independence from Austria in 1848-49, hence its status as a defining work for Hungary’s cultural identity. It is however amazing that a poet, a scholar in mid 19th century Hungary should have gleaned such specific knowledge of Welsh history and oral tradition. The legend of the ‘Slaughter of the Bards’ was well known in the mid 19th century, although it has faded from view today, but Arany's placing of King Edward's feast in Montgomery Castle in 1277 derives from actual historical events in a corner of Europe remote from Arany's homeland. How he discovered these facts we do not know, but it is a measure of his enormous stature as a writer and scholar that he did so.

And so enter The Bards of Wales Project, which from the beginning is generously sponsored by FBZ Hungaria Ltd. In 2010 László commissioned Karl Jenkins, probably the most performed living composer in the world, to score the work as a cantata for chorus, soloists and orchestra. Karl succeeded in moulding his music around parallel

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Like all Hungarians, László Irinyi studied the poem as part of his country’s national school curriculum, and so found worthy material for a celebration of the cultures of the two nations.

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Since competing in – and winning – the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen with the Budapest University Choir in 1980, László Irinyi became passionately interested in the establishment of creative links between Hungary and Wales. This was no easy goal: Wales and Hungary might share the colours of their national flags, a love of music and even of leek soup – but have little knowledge of each other's culture, except for one fact. On the Hungarian side, one of the most famous of all ballads is the long poem called ‘A walesi bárdok’ – The Bards of Wales – written by János Arany in 1857.

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texts in three languages: Arany's original Hungarian plus an English version by Peter Zollman and a Welsh one by the modern-day Welsh Bard, Twm Morys.

The Bards of Wales was premièred in the Palace of Arts in Budapest in June 2011 with an international cast of singers from Hungary, Wales and England backed by Budapest's MÁV Symphony Orchestra. The work has since had a Welsh language première at the 2012 National Eisteddfod of Wales, a US première in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2014 as well as further performances in Hungary, and now it is the turn of England to host a première performance. The English Concert Singers and the English Concert Chorus, together with the English Concert Orchestra will perform The Bards of Wales under the direction of Music Director Roy Wales at St John's Smith Square in London. The major solo role, that of King Edward, will be sung by Welsh tenor Rhys Meirion, who has already sung the part to great critical acclaim in both New York and Budapest.

The London première marks a major milestone in the development of The Bards of Wales Project. Hungarian and Welsh themes will surely be transcended into the universal imperative to resist the oppressor which was Arany’s fervent desire. Δ Tickets: £25, £20, £15. For more information and booking please visit the website of St John’s Smith Square www.sjss.org.uk. Bookings from the St John’s Box Office on 020 72 22 10 61 or boxoffice@sjss.org.uk

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

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES György Pauk’s performers class students at the Royal Academy of Music: Julia Pusker, Marta Kowalczyk and Mathilde Milwidsky György Pauk Hon RAM, Hon GSM is Ede Zathureczky Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music, a distinguished international concerto soloist, premiering works of many leading composers, a prolific and award winning recording artist and a great interpreter of Bartók.

Recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation, György Pauk was born in Hungary and received his musical education at the Ferenc Liszt Academy. Before

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He retired from stage after turning seventy with a career stretching over half a century.

He gave a series of farewell concerts, playing the Bartók Concerto with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer. György Pauk has a permanent performers class at the Royal Academy of Music and he gives masterclasses at renowned music academies, festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan and China. He has received several public honours in Britain as well as the Highest Order of the Republic of Hungary.

At a Silver Jubilee event recently he was introduced to the Queen.

Júlia Pusker began her musical studies at the age of five. Her violin teacher was Tamás Ittzés and Judit SzásznéRéger. 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 Professor 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.

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He made his London debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel and his USA debut with the Chicago Symphony at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti.

He has performed on all five continents, with most of the major orchestras and conductors, giving an average of eighty concerts a season.

He boasts an exceptionally rich repertoire, also for chamber music, which includes some of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He gave world and national premieres of the works by Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Schnittke, Maxwell Davies and Michael Tippett with the composers conducting. György Pauk is also considered one of the greatest Bartók interpreters worldwide.

Among his numerous recordings there are several award-winning ones.

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settling in London in 1961 he was the First Prize winner of the Paganini and the Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competitions and was already a distinguished concert artist in Hungary as well as in Eastern Europe.

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Her violin, a G. Gagliano crafted in 1791, is loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music.

(Please find further information about Júlia Pusker at the 26 September concert details on page 14.)

Born in Poland in 1991, Marta Kowalczyk began her violin studies at the age of 7. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the Frederic Chopin Music University in Warsaw in 2012. In 2008 Marta won the Eurovision Young Musicians and represented her country at the final event in Vienna. During her studies in Warsaw she was awarded the Sinfonia Varsovia Scholarship, Special Achievement Award from Principals of all Polish Music Academies and the ‘Young Poland’ Prize managed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Marta is also a laureate of numerous prizes at international competitions, including First Prize and the Special Award for the Best Artistic Personality at the International Violin Competition in Bled, Slovenia, First Prize at the International Violin Competition in Belgrade and Third Prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria.

Marta is currently studying towards Master of Arts degree at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor György Pauk. Recently she was awarded a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, The English-Speaking Union Scholarship, the Oetker Scholarship, Stephen Bell Trust Award and the Bach Solo Violin Prize. She has also received the Emily Anderson Prize awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society.

From the age of nine Mathilde Milwidsky attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department, where she was a Tsukanov Scholar and was taught

by Viktoria Grigoreva and then Professor David Takeno. During her time there she won numerous awards, including the Ian Stoutzker Violin Prize, the Hugh Bean Memorial Violin Competition, the Marjorie Humby Competition, and, upon leaving, the Esther Coleman Prize for outstanding contributions to the RCM. She currently studies with Professor György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music, where she holds the Albert and Eugenie Frost Music Trust Scholarship. Mathilde has attended the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, the London Master Classes and the International Holland Music Sessions and has participated in masterclasses with Igor Ozim, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Olivier Charlier, Gerhard Schulz, Alina Ibragimova, Sergei Kravchenko, Tasmin Little, Anthony Marwood and Itzhak Rashkovsky.

Mathilde Milwidsky is described as a ‘superb violinist and captivating musician’ by the conductor John Lubbock OBE. Mathilde made her Royal Festival Hall solo recital debut in 2014 as winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Martin Musical Scholarship.

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Engagements have included recitals at Bergen’s Ruinekerk (Holland), the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, the State Rooms at Westminster and the London Jewish Cultural Centre, as well as concertos at St John’s Smith Square, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Town Hall and the Kings Lynn Festival. She has performed as soloist and chamber musician in Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, and in England at venues such as St George’s Bristol, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and Gloucester Cathedral.

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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

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Friday | 20 November | 7pm ≥ Goethe Institut London 50 Princess Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH

e FILM fassbinder retrospective film festival presents Béla Tarr’s Autumn Almanac (Ôszi Almanach), 119 min, 1984 As part of Goethe Institut's unique Fassbinder retrospective season there will be screenings to explore potental influences the German film director had on other filmmakers. One such screening will feature Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s Autumn Almanac / Almanac of Fall (Ôszi Almanach), which is an intense chamber drama set in a large, claustrophobic apartment. In this dense setting, the inhabitants reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities. Δ For booking and further infomation please visit www.goethe.de/london

Friday | 20 November | 7.30pm ≥ Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA

e LITERATURE the enemies project presents

European Camarade: Poetry in collaboration featuring Hungarian poet Kinga Tóth The Camarade series explores collaboration exclusively between poets, taking the form of events which pair writers to produce and premiere new collaborative poems or artworks, to be performed live. The European Camarade will pair 8 European poets from outside

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the UK with 8 British counterparts. Featuring some of the most dynamic poets & textual artists working across the contemporary European scene, this event will evidence the cross continental dialogue so prevalent in the avant-garde and literary scene.

Groundbreaking and powerfully original Kinga Tóth will represent Hungary alongside the 15 other poets participating.

Kinga Tóth is a poet, philologist and teacher in German Language and Literature, Communication specialist (journalist), copy editor of the art magazines Palócföld and Roham, cultural program organizer, (sound)poet-illustrator, songwriter and front man of Tóth Kína Hegyfalu project. Member of the Leadership of József Attila Association for Young Writers and member of several art projects, associations.

Since its inception in 2011 the Enemies project has curated over 100 events, 9 exhibitions, in 16 nations, involving over 400 poets, writers, artists, photographers and sculptors from across the globe. The Enemies project has been supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the Danish Agency for Culture, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Ireland Arts Council Wales and many other cultural bodies, as well as collaborating with a wide range of institutional partners to create in-depth collaborative curatorial relationships that best utilise the expertise of such institutions as the Rich Mix arts centre, the Saison Poetry Library, the Hardy Tree gallery, the British Museum and many others, achieving its aims across an ambitious spectrum of engagements.

Steven J. Fowler is a poet, artist, curator & vanguardist. He works in the modernist and avant garde traditions, across poetry, fiction, theatre, sonic art, visual art, installation and performance. He has published seven collections of poetry and been commissioned

by Tate Britain, the British Council, Tate Modern, Highlight Arts, Mercy, Penned in the Margins and the London Sinfonietta. He has been translated into 13 languages and performed at venues across the world, from Mexico city to Erbil, Iraq. He is the poetry editor of 3am magazine and the curator of the Enemies project. Δ For booking please visit www.freewordcentre.com and for further information please also visit www.hungary.org.uk and www.theenemiesproject.com

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≥ St. Paul’s Church Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED

e AWARD CEREMONY Announcing the winner of For Hungarian Culture in the UK Award 2015

Application deadline: Friday 30 October 2015.

Previous winners of the award include: the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford in 2012, the LMI+ Hungarian School London in 2013 and the Hungarian Culture and Heritage Society in 2014.

Δ For further information please visit our website: www.hungary.org.uk

Monday | 30 November | 7pm ≥ St. Paul’s Church Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED

e CONCERT Advent Concert Since December 2012 the Hungarian Cultural Centre has invited friends and supporters for a traditional and joyful Advent concert each year. Exceptional Hungarian artists and music always provided a unique opportunity to prepare for the Advent season.

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In January 2015 the Hungarian Cultural Centre invited cultural and educational organisations for the fourth time to submit their applications for its Award For Hungarian Culture in the UK. The winner of the award will be announced before the Advent concert, which will thus also celebrate Hungarian culture and the award-winner.

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for a musical journey through centuries of enchanting music for two flutes, presented by young and aspiring musicians, the Gyôri-Madaras Duo. Last year St Paul’s Church was filled with popular pieces of Hungarian choir literature by Zoltán Kodály and contemporary Hungarian pieces by Miklós Csemiczky and Levente Gyöngyösi, performed by The Joyful Company of Singers. Our audience also had the opportunity to join in with the choir when they were singing well-known English and Hungarian Christmas carols.

This year’s Advent concert details will be announced nearer the date, so please check our website and Facebook page.

St Paul’s Church, also commonly known as the Actors’ Church, was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission by Francis Russell. As well as being the parish church of Covent Garden, it gained its nickname by a long association with the theatre community. 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

Tuesday | 1 December ≥ UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AH

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Hungarian film masterpieces by Miklós Jancsó and Béla Tarr To mark the centenary of the founding of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, a film festival is being organized which will showcase the cinemas of the last one hundred years in the countries whose languages are taught as part of SSEES’s degree programmes. This unique educational and cultural event will feature twenty-three films in total: each one will be introduced by an academic specialist and screened in the newly constructed auditorium at UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre between October and December 2015. The festival is being supported by the British Film Institute, the London-based embassies and cultural centres of the countries whose cinemas are being showcased as part of the festival, and charitable organizations dedicated to the promotion of the arts and cultures of Russia and Eastern/Central/Southern Europe.

With the generous support of the Hungarian Cultural Centre, two Hungarian feature films will be screened as part of the festival: • Miklós Jancsó: Csillagosok, katonák (The Red and the White, 1967) on Wednesday 4 November 2015 • BélaTarr: Kárhozat (Damnation, 1988) on Tuesday 1 December 2015

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Béla Tarr made a dramatic stylistic and critical breakthrough with this brooding and visually striking study of desolation and betrayal set in a small town in Hungary and tracing the cruel love triangle that emerges between a taciturn loner, a nightclub singer and her smuggler husband. The first of five films to date written with novelist László Krasznahorkai and structured around the haunting minimalist music of Mihály Vig, Damnation – with its decaying factories, dingy bars and bleak, expressionistic landscapes – introduced the dark, rainy and irretrievably melancholy realm that is arguably Tarr’s greatest creation.

Attendance is free of charge. Tickets will be issued on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Bloomsbury Theatre box-office. Δ For full details of the festival programme please visit the SSEES website www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees

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REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE STUDENT AMBASSADORS OF HUNGARIAN CULTURE IN 2015 By launching the Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture project in October 2014, the Hungarian Cultural Centre wanted to inspire and motivate university students to promote Hungarian culture in the United Kingdom as Student Ambassadors at their universities.

The call was open to students enrolled at any of the accredited colleges or universities in the United Kingdom.

Nóra Kelemen as student ambassador of hungarian culture I believe that cultural diplomacy has an important role to play in building bridges between countries and individuals. Therefore, as an advocate of the culture of my home country, my responsibility lies in connecting to student communities and inviting them to explore Hungarian cultural values. Being appointed with these responsibilities in a country as diverse and multicultural as the UK, and at a university as vibrant as The University of Glasgow, allows me to communicate and build cultural relationships with students from various countries all over the world.

My action plan consisted of a set of events and programmes.

About half of these were already nóra kelemen, he péter szabadhegy, dr beáta pászthy up and running at the time of my appointment, however the plan includes initiatives which are yet to be implemented.

The action plan aimed to promote Hungarian film and gastro culture, Hungarian literature, folklore and cultural heritage as part of social events, extra-curricular activities, essay writing competitions and newspaper articles.

I believe that this year was really successful and I managed to fulfil my proposed initiatives for promoting, familiarizing and connecting Hungarian cultural values as a Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture. I conducted an inter-society and organized a conference called Hungarian Country Profile where we introduced Budapest, Hungarian traditions, had a folk dance house and a buffet with traditional Hungarian food. We also invited Professor Richard Berry (Central and East European Studies of the University of Glasgow) and Kyle Taggart PhD student to give lectures about Hungary from a historical perspective.

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In our Hungarian folk dance club we learned about the traditions and traditional dances of Kalotaszeg, Mezôség, Sóvidék, Küküllômente, Moldva, Szatmár, Délalföld, Jászság, Somogy, Felvidék, Rábaköz and Bodrogköz. Our club has also been asked to perform in Glasgow and Edinburg at several events.

At the moment I am interning at the House of Terror in Budapest, and also collecting material for the ‘Jó utat’ information package for non-Hungarian students spending an Erasmus exchange year in Hungary. This information pack is to include cultural, folkloric and science festivals, museum, theatres and other cultural institutions, to ensure that the exchange students encounter the Hungarian cultural values and make the most out of their year.

Márk Kendernay as student ambassador of hungarian culture As a future architect I have been mainly working on the promotion of desing and architecture related summer camps, programmes and internship opportunities in Hungary. Numerous international student from the University of Bath got accepted to the Hello Wood design summercamp in Hungary. This visit provides an excellent opportunity for an intellectual adventure while it enables international people to get to know more about Hungary, its tradition, culture and its power as a start up country.

I have also cooperated with the TEDx Society at the University of Bath. They are organizing a huge conference in March where I am planning to invite Hungarian lecturers.

Also, as sport plays an important role in forming and sustaining communities, after a successful charity run in Brussels organised with the help of local Hungarians in 2013, I would like to take my experiences and create a similar community event addressed to both Hungarians and those interested in Hungarian culture. I am organizing this charity run in London in autumn, with the help of HCC and Hungarian Interchurch Aid (Ökumenikus Segélyszervezet). I believe this philanthropist approach must have an increasing relevance in our image of culture today and in the future. Δ For further information please visit www.hungary.org.uk and the Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture Facebook page.

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I supplied The Glasgow Guardian with cultural reviews on various cultural affairs such as a book review of the Nobel Prize winning piece of Imre Kertész, Fatelessness.

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hca (hungarian cultural association) guildford, surrey Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 September, 5, 12, 19 October, 16, 23, 30 November 8pm–10pm Hungarian Folk Dancing and Music group on Mondays for youth (11+) and adults

Sat 24 and Sun 25 October ≥ Cecil Sharp House London Dance Around the World

Saturday 28 November, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 7. Teaching Sessions

Saturday, 5 December 10am–2pm Hungarian St Nicholas Day

Saturday 14 November, 2pm-6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 6. Teaching Sessions

Saturday, 5 December 10am–2pm Hungarian Christmas Celebration o Further information maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mob: 00 44 7843 054 940 www.hcaguildford.org.uk www.magyartanodaguildford.org.uk

Saturdays 5 and 19 September, 3 and 17 October, 14 and 18 November, 5 and 19 December, 10am–1.30pm

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

Saturdays 5 and 19 September, 3 and 17 October, 14 and 18 November, 5 and 19 December, 10am–1.30pm

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Hungarian Youth Group for 11–18 years old

Hungarian Folkdance and Folk Singing Group for adults and young people Saturdays 5 and 19 September, 11 & 18 May, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 Jun 8pm–10pm Hungarian as a Foreign Language Groups for adults Saturday 5 September, 10am–2pm Autumn Family Trip to Wisley Saturday 3 October, 10.30am–2pm ≥ St Saviour's Church, Woodbridge Road, Guildford GU1 4QD Kolompos Együttes – Szüreti mulatság • £9/£10/£11/£12.50

Saturday 12 December, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 8. Teaching Sessions + Luca-Party o

Hungarian Language, Music, Folkdance, Craft, Play Groups for children (0–11 years old)

Saturdays 5 and 19 September, 11 & 18 May, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 Jun 8pm–10pm

Saturday 5 December ≥ Venue, time TBC Christmas Party with Kolompos Concert

Saturday 5 September, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 1. Teaching Sessions+Opening Assembly Saturday 19 September, 2pm–6pm Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 2. Teaching Sessions+ Committee Meeting

Further information LMIplusz@gmail.com www.magyariskola.org.uk www.facebook.com/pages/LondoniMagyar-Iskola-/76055522263

hungarian reformed church in london Saturday, 28 November 12pm–3pm ≥ 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RD Christmas fare with traditional Hungarian dishes, Hungarian arts&crafts and raffle prizes

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Saturday 3 October, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 3. Teaching Sessions Saturday 17 October, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 4. Teaching Sessions+AGM Saturday 31 October, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 5. Teaching Sessions + October 23 Assembly Saturday 14 November, 2pm–6pm ≥ Sotheby Mews Centre N5 2UT 6. Teaching Sessions

o For further information please visit www.reflondon.hu

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

hungarian culture and heritage society o For more information please visit www.hchs.org.uk

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szt. istván ház st stephen house, london Sunday 6 September, 1pm ≥ St John The Evangelist Church, 44 Boston Park Road, Brentford, TW8 9JF The Feast of St Stephen of Hungary Liturgy by László Kiss-Rigó, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Szeged, Hungary, followed by lunch at St Stephen House (62 Little Ealing Lane, W5 4EA).

Lunch for ARKME-members: £10, for non-ARKME members: £15 Saturday 26 September, 6pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Autumn Ball – With three course dinner, live music, folk dance presentation, raffle prizes, etc.

Thursday 1 & Friday 2 October, 7pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Ahogyan a víz tükrözi az arcot theatre play by the Osonó Theatre Company, from Transylvania

Saturday 5 December, 12pm-5pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Christmas Fair

o For mor information and booking please visit www.stageinlondon.com www.facebook.com/stageinlondon

o For mor information and booking please visit • ticketsource.co.uk/szentistvanhaz • facebook.com/szentistvanhaz.london

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hungarian folk dance group (hunique) Every Monday at 7pm ≥ The Catholic Centre, 2 Dukes Avenue, London W4 2AE Hungarian folk dance sessions

Friday 9 October 2015, 6pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP Lecture by Soma Mama Gésa (in Hungarian) • Tickets: £18/ £22 Saturday–Sunday, 10–11 and 17–18 October 2015, 10am–6pm ≥ 269a Jacksons Lane, Archway Road, London N6 5AA Courses by Soma Mama Gésa (in Hungarian) £120/person/weekend

o Further information: www.hunique.co.uk www.facebook.com/HUNique HungarianFolkDanceGroup

maosz (national federation of hungarians in the uk) o For more information please visit www.maosz.co.uk

oxford hungarian society Sunday 18 October, 10am ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Marriage Retreat Sunday 18 October, 5pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA 1956 before the uprising through the eyes of Britain – Free Public Lecture (in Hungarian). Speaker: Dr. Andrea Csurgai-Horváthné Glavanovics Saturday 24 October ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Remembering the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 Saturday 21 Nov, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Pigfest With dinner, live music, folk dance, raffle prizes, etc.

Friday 23 October 2015, 7.30pm ≥ Posk Hammersmith, 238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF Concert of Soma Mama Gésa Tickets: £9 (advanced booking)

o For further information please visit www.hungsoc.com

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Concert of Illés-Fonográf Tribute Band • Tickets: £14/ £18

October 2015 (Date TBC) ≥ New North London Synagogue 80 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 2SY

Thursday 29 October 2015, 7.30pm ≥ The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London NW1 7NL

Hungarian musical life during World War 2; the work of OMIKE’s Artist Action Talk by Ágnes Kôry • Admission free

Concert of BlackBirds – The Beatles Tribute Band Tickets: £15 (advanced booking) Saturday 14 November 2015, 6pm ≥ City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DE Lecture by Professor Emôke Bagdy and Dr. László Buda

December 2015 (Date TBC) ≥ Senate House Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Lecture series organized by Senate House Library: Hungarian musical life during World War 2 Talk by Ágnes Kôry • Admission free

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FAREWELL FROM THE DIRECTOR After nearly four fantastic years at helm of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London I am bidding farewell to the institute, its friends, patrons and my colleagues as I am returning to my medical profession in Hungary from October 2015.

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who trusted and supported me along the way during these years in London and the UK. I thank our friends, guests and audience for their passion for Hungarian culture and for attending our events unfailingly. I thank the many outstanding artists and academics who have accepted my invitation to share with us the best of their art and knowledge.

I also thank the many British and international cultural and diplomatic organisations that we have collaborated with on some of the most memorable projects.

Likewise I thank the many UK-based Hungarian cultural and educational organisations and the Embassy of Hungary in London for the numerous collaborations we had. Finally I gratefully thank my colleagues, the HCC team for their dedicated and passionate work, which they always carry out with joyful flair and in cheerful spirits.

I wish my successor as Director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London all the best for the forthcoming years in office, hoping that my work in the past four years will serve as solid ground for remarkable future successes and achievements.

Dr. Beata PĂĄszthy PhD Cultural and Scientific Counsellor Director

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.

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