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Culture Documents
Events
JANUARY
MARCH
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january
27 Jan page 12
concert
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
presents: Duke Bluebeards
Castle by Bla Bartk
Jan page 3
film
UK Release of White God
and Masterclass with
director Kornl Mundrucz
11 Jan page 4
concert
Sunday morning coffee
concert featuring
Barnabs Kelemen (violin)
and Olli Mustonen (piano)
15 Jan page 5
exhibition
Hungarian artists works
in Adventures of the Black
Square: Abstract Art and
Society 19152015
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. Revd. Rbert Ptkai
and his achievements in
the UK
22 Jan page 9
jazz
Viktor Tth jazz
saxophonist returns
to London
23 Jan page 10
children & families
Hold in your lap, rock and
sing Demonstration
and training sessions
of the Ringat method
by Ilona Grh
28 Jan page 13
book launch
Thomas Kabdebo,
Danubius Danubia
(Fapadosknyv, 2013)
29 Jan page 14
exhibition
The place: Eastern Europe
in photography practice
february
2 Feb page 16
monday music soires
Bartk Evening with
Viv McLean (piano) and
David LePage (violin)
4 Feb page 17
literature
Mtys Srkzi: Cs
5 Feb page 18
lecture
Hungarian Avant-Garde?
Neo-Avant-Garde?
Contemporary or PostContemporary Art?
By Lszl 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
Kodly-based Music
Sessions for Children
(05 yrs) and their Families
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5 Mar page 24
children & families
Kodly-based Music
Sessions for Children
(05 yrs) and their Families
8 Mar page 25
concert
Sunday Morning Coffee
Concert, Kelemen Quartet
9 Mar page 26
monday music soires
Renta Konyicska (piano)
and Jlia Pusker (violin)
11 Mar page 28
book launch
Dramaturgy in the Making.
A Users Guide for Theatre
Practitioners by Katalin
Trencsnyi
19 Mar page 29
jazz
Jazz violinist Lajos Srkzi
returns to London
21 Mar
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e FILM
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Olli Mustonen has a unique place on todays 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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Tickets: 12.50 (concs 10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
15 January 6 April
Whitechapel Gallery 7782 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
e EXHIBITION
hungarian artists works in
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 19152015
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 Malevichs 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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Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
e AWARD CEREMONY
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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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e JAZZ
Viktor Tth jazz saxophonist returns to London
Viktor Tth 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 Tth earned the
title jazzman of the year 2010 on Fidelios 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 the sessions parents get a model for the musical education of their pre-nursery
children based on Kodlys 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 Kodly, the characteristics of the conception, especially regarding
the youngest childrens 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
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11.00am 11.45am Ringat Music Sessions for children (05 yrs) and their families
1.30pm 4.00pm
Teacher training and professional discussion
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e CONCERT
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX
Tickets: 10 58 (Subscription and group discounts apply. Transaction fees may apply.)
Telephone bookings: 0844 847 9910, online bookings: www.soutbankcentre.co.uk
Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.
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e EXHIBITION
Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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 flneur 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 Pl 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 days 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:
MonThurs 10am5pm, Fri 10am2pm
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
Bartk Evening with Viv McLean (piano) and David LePage (violin)
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Bla Bartk (18811945)
Bla Bartk, 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. Bartk 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. Bartk arrived at a vital and varied style, rhythmically animated,
in which diatonic and chromatic elements are juxtaposed without incompatibility.
Within these two creative decades, Bartk 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
Bartk 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
e LITERATURE
Mtys Srkzi Cs
Lszl Cs. Szab (19051984) 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, Mtys Srkzis
biography, entitled Cs (this is how his friends
and colleagues used to refer to Lszl Cs. Szab),
recently published in Budapest by Kortrs, follows
the happenings of his eventful life and summarizes
the critical reception of his work.
Brought up in Kolozsvr, Cs. Szab 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. Szab an important regular contributor of the leading literary
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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. Szabs fascinating life-story had to be rediscovered
episode by episode to write his comprehensive biography.
Mtys Srkzi, 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 Lszl Cs. Szab.
Since Szabs 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. Mtys Srkzi fulfills this task in
his new book Cs, published by Kortrs in Budapest.
Please note this event is in Hungarian.
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e LECTURE
Hungarian Avant-Garde? Neo-Avant-Garde?
Contemporary or Post-Contemporary Art?
By Lszl 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.
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e SYMPOSIUM
Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
Professor Angus Silver is Professor of Neuroscience & Wellcome Trust Senior Basic Fellow
working at UCLs 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 Silvers 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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Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA
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Remembrance
1956
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 womens 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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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 Krdy, psychological insights from Sndor 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 Veszprm (2012), Budapest (2014)
and this year in Moscow together with her husband,
the widely known painter and graphic artist Imre Kri.
Exhibition open: 13 Feb 27 Feb
Opening hours: MonThurs 10am5pm, Fri 10am2pm
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Kelemen Quartet
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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 Quartets 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
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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 Zoltn Kocsis and Ferenc Rados. The Kelemen Quartet received further
tuition from Zoltn Kocsis, Pter Komls, Mikls Pernyi, Gnter Pichler (Alban Berg
Quartet), Ferenc Rados, Andrs Schiff and Gbor Takcs-Nagy.
In the 201314 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 Quartets members are prizewinning Hungarian musicians, admired
as soloists and as chamber players, and close-knit both professionally and personally.
The Kelemen Quartets debut CD has been released by the label Hunnia (2012)
featuring works by Bartk and Mozart.
Barnabs Kelemen performs on a Guarneri del Ges violin from 1742 (ex-Dnes
Kovcs) 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
Gbor Homoki (violin/viola) and Dra Kokas (cello).
Tickets: 12.50 (concs 10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Jlia Pusker began her musical studies at the age of five. Her violin teacher was
Tams Ittzs and Judit Szszn-Rger. 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 Istvn Kertsz.
In 2011 she moved to London to further
her studies at the Royal Academy of
Music under the guidance of Gyrgy Pauk.
She has been a multiple recipient of
major awards in competition such as the
Jnos Koncz National Violin Competition,
the Dnes Kovcs 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, Kecskemt. 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,
Gyr 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 Musics 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 Bartk.
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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).
Renta 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 Lszl Slyom 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
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New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice
(Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, 2014)
Edited by Katalin Trencsnyi 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 Trencsnyi (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 Schaubhne (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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e JAZZ
Jazz violinist Lajos Srkzi 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 Srkzi 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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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.
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
Workshop I
Coffee break
Workshop II
Lunch break
Workshop III
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introducing talented children
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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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The Piarist Mastery School (Piarista Mester Tanoda) is the Elementary Level Art
School of the Dugonics Andrs 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 Tnchz 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 Csng Hungarians in Moldova to bulid
bridges of friendship and saving jems of
our common culture.
The Folk Chamber Ensemble is formed by the schools koboz, fiddle and folk song
students, along with their master teachers who include:
Tnde Fbri-Ivnovics vocals, bells, drums
Lajos Vass Grand Prize, holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize twice, Klcsey
Award and the Szeged Culture Award and a Gold Ring folk singer, folk singing teacher
Dniel Liptk violin, vocals
holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize folk fiddler and folk violin teacher)
Gza Fbri lute, tamboura, vocals
Bcs-Kiskun County Arts Award, 'Parallel Culture' Lifetime Achievement Prize
minstrel koboz (plucked lute) and folk music instruments teacher
Mester Tanoda Alaptvny foundation is the permanent supporter of the Folk Chamber Ensemble.
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Dance teaching
o www.hunique.co.uk
huniquedance@hchs.org.uk
1 Feb, 5pm & 2 Feb, 7pm
St Stephen House
Oson Theatre from Transylvania
presents: Ahogy a vz tkrzi 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
15 Mar, 5pm
St Stephen House
4 Mar, 6pm
MRC Anatomical
Neuropharmacology Unit
Pter 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.
Somogyis friend, Daniel OKeefe,
recipient of the Nobel Prize.
13 Mar, 8pm
Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
o
For further information please visit
www.hungsoc.com
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. Pter Szabadhegy
The Hungarian Ambassador
gives a talk to the Oxford
Hungarian Society.
Celebrating Hungarian
Folk Songs and Singing
o Tickets: 10. Advanced booking only.
24 Jan, 8pm11pm
HCA Guildford, Surrey
hcc recommends
10 & 24 Jan, 10am1.30pm
7 & 21 Feb, 10am1.30pm
7 & 21 Mar, 10am1.30pm
HCA Guildford, Surrey
Hungarian Language, Music,
Folkdance, Craft, Play groups
for children (014 years old)
Hungarian Youth Group
for 1114 years old
Hungarian as a Foreign
Language Groups for adults
Hungarian Folkdance and
Folk Singing Group
15 Feb, 3pm6pm
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, 10am2pm
HCA Guildford, Surrey
Celebrating Easter: 5 km family
walk with Easter Egg Hunt
Devils Punchbowl Surrey
o Tickets: free for HCA enrolled children
and their parents, parking fees apply.
Saturdays 12am1pm
Welfare information
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For further info on the Hungarian
Cultural Associations 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
78 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
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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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