Hudobne Centrum

Programme

Wednesday 09. 11. 2005 at

PKO Cultural Centre

Nábr. arm. gen. Ľ. Svobodu 3, Bratislava

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Performers:

Amadinda Percussion Group (HU)
Zoltán Rácz
Zoltán Váczi
Aurél Holló
Károly Bojtos

AMADINDA PERCUSSION GROUP (Zoltán Rácz – the artistic director, Zoltán Váczi, Aurél Holló, Károly Bojtos) has been formed in 1984 in Budapest by four musicians, just after having graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. When founding the ensemble central point of their activity has been double. On one hand to present masterpieces of percussion music, unknown to the Hungarian audience so far, on the other hand to perform the music of Hungarian contemporary composers in their country and abroad. One of their principal intention is to inspire Hungarian and international composers to create new pieces. Over the last years, they have also been researching music of traditional percussion cultures – true to the group’s name which refers to a traditional xylophone from Uganda. In their effort to expand percussion repertoire, the members of the Amadinda Percussion Group have composed their own works and have transcribed for percussion outstanding pieces from the classical tradition that they consider suitable for their instruments.

From the very beginning Amadinda has cooperated with world famous artists like John Cage, Peter Eötvös, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, András Schiff. The Amadinda Percussion Group has received the Hungarian Composers Award several times, has been honoured with the Ferenc Liszt Award and received the prestigious state award of the Republic of Hungary – the Kossuth Award – in 2004. The ensemble has also won the First Prize of the Gaudeamus Music Competition Amsterdam. The ensemble’s extensive discography stretches over the whole spectrum of Percussion repertoire and includes the complete works for percussion of John Cage and works of Peter Eötvös, György Ligeti and Steve Reich.
The performance is so astoundingly good and played with such amazing energy, that one is simply swept along. You fulfilled my dreams.“

Steve Reich about Amadinda Percussion Group live recording of Music for 18 Musicians (Hungaroton, 2004)
Zwiebel Quartet [profile of ensemble] (SK)
Marek Zwiebel - 1st violin
Peter Mosorjak - 2nd violin
Peter Zwiebel - viola
Andrej Gál - cello

The musicians of ZWIEBEL QUARTET are members of Bohdan Warchal´s Slovak Chamber Orchestra. Since its foundation at Academy of Music and Performing Arts in 2000 the members of quartet participated at interpretatively courses with musicians of Hagen, Berg, Bartok, Smetana and Amadeus Quartets. They awarded second prize Thomastik-Infeld at International Summer Academy Prague – Wien – Budapest (2002). Zwiebel Quartet has focused on contemporary music repertoire and performed at contemporary music festivals (Melos-Etos, New Slovak Music, Orfeus in Bratislava, Košice, Wien, Ostrava). They are cooperating with composer´s Classes at Academy of Music and Performing Arts and at Universität fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst.
Mátyás Szabó – percussion

Works:

Steve Reich

(1936)
- Music for Five Pieces of Wood
Steve Reich

(1936)
- Pendulum Music (1968) WORLD PREMIERE
Steve Reich

(1936)
- Marimba Phase
Steve Reich

(1936)
- Drumming (Part One) (1971)
Steve Reich

(1936)
- Different Trains (1988) WORLD PREMIERE
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Melos-Ethos

07. 11. 2005 – 17. 11. 2005