Sebastian Consort & György Philipp
Thursday, 23 August 2007, 6.30 pm
Szokolya, Calvinist Church (5 Mányoki utca)
Free admission.
Members of the ensemble
- György Philipp — counter-tenor
- Imre Lachegyi — recorder
- Katalin Kállay — recorder
- Sándor Szászvárosi — viol
- Mátyás Ölveti — viol
The ensemble was founded in 2003, by Imre Lachegyi recorder artist, with the purpose of popularizing and spreading renaissance and baroque consort music in Hungary. In addition, they intend to find and perform extraordinary, rarely played pieces. The present composition of the ensemble is the so-called “broken consort”: two recorders and two viola da gambas. Their repertoire ranges from medieval times to the baroque period, although they often play contemporary music. In the past years they have had a lot of concerts in Vác, Budapest and throughout the country. They gladly perform at places with a special atmosphere, playing a special programme with a specific composition of performers.
György Philipp
György Philipp started his music studies on percussion with Oszkár Balázs and on violin with Helga Fáth. From 1997 he attended Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music, at the faculty of composing; his professors were Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky. He studied to be a conductor with Tamás Gál and András Ligeti at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, from where he graduated in 2006. Ha has actively participated in the concert group of Budapest Vocal School, first as a student, then, since 2003 as a teacher and conductor. He has been member of Saint Efrem Byzantine Male Choir since 2002. He is also singer in Victoria Chamber Choir of Szeged, and guest singer in a lot of vocal ensembles throughout the country. He has been teacher in several music schools, in the High School of Dance and Baltazar Theathre. He is guest conductor for Weiner—Szász Chamber Symphonics. He is also music assistant in Pesti Theatre, Ágens Company and Hungarian Tale Orchestra.
On programme
Medieval pieces.
