“Baroque reflected in the present” — chamber music evening

Accord Quartet, Imre Lachegyi, Dániel Váczi

Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Nagymaros, Catholic Church (2 Szent Imre Square)

Performing

Accord Quartet

• Péter Mező — violin
• Csongor Veér — violin
• Péter Kondor — viola
• Mátyás Ölveti — cello

• Imre Lachegyi — recorder
• Dániel Váczi — sopranino saxophone

Programme

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge — Contrapunctus a 3 BWV 1080
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite in d minor BWV 1011 (saxophone transcription by Dániel Váczi)
• Péter Zombola: 1st String Quartet
• György Miklós Fehér: Poem In Memory of An Angel (first performance)
• Gergely Barta: Ecloga (first performance)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Musikalisches Opfer — Ricercar a 3 BWV 1079

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Our festival endeavours to draw representatives of different styles into the focal point of early music. This concept is given particular emphasis this year, first of all at the concert “Baroque reflected in the present”, which is held on the second day of the festival in the Catholic Church of Nagymaros. The movements from two monumental pieces by J. S. Bach provide a frame for a special performance when one can experience how early music is reflected in the modern one. The renowned young jazz musician, Dániel Váczi plays Bach’s cello suite in d minor in his special instrument, the sopranino saxophone. Accord Quartet and recorder artist Imre Lachegyi perform pieces of contemporary composers: Péter Zombola, György Miklós Fehér and Gegrely Barta, two of which will be premieres.

Accord Quartet

Accord Quartet was formed in 2001, by four students of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. They set connecting of our “modern world” and classical music as their objective, by means of performing chamber music with new thoughts at new venues. They regularly give concerts both in Hungary and abroad. They performed at the Budapest Autumn Festival (2004, 2005, 2006), Budapest Spring Festival, in the Hungarian Radio, the Academy of Music, the French Institute of Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. They were awarded three high-class instruments from the Republic of Hungary, a French and an Italian master violin and an Italian master cello in June 2005. Their first CD was released in November, 2004. Besides participating in international courses, they were awarded the Thomastik—Infeld Prize in Austria, at the Vienna—Budapest—Prague International Summer Academy in 2002, in 2003, the Kodály First Prize, at the same venue and in 2004, the Bartók First Prize. They were given the First Prize of the National Chamber Music Competition Leó Weiner in 2003. They were awarded Artisjus Prize (prize for contemporary music premieres and playing) Hungary. From October of 2006 they are studying in Madrid in the Esculea Superior de Música de Reina Sofia.

Imre Lachegyi

Imre Lachegyi started his music studies at the age of four, in the Bartók Béla School of Music in Vác, then in the Secondary School of Music in Szombathely, playing brass instruments. From 1986 he studied theory of music at the Liszt Ferenc College of Music in Debrecen, then at the ELTE Teacher Training College. He graduated in 1991 as a choirmaster and teacher of music. He started to play the recorder in 1986; his teachers were György Róbert and László Czidra. He got his second degree in 2002 as early music — recorder teacher and chamber musician at the Conservatory of the University of Szeged. There he was taught by László Lőrincz. He founded his own early music ensemble in the ‘90s; with whom he gave a lot of concerts and released two CDs. He is director of Sonora Hungarica Consort. He has recently founded his own ensemble, the Sebastian Consort. They play mostly early music, but they also perform Romantic, 20th century and contemporary pieces. Lately he has started dealing with folk and improvisative music. He has arranged a lot of pieces for the recorder, also for a recorder consort. He often plays his own pieces too. He has released five albums yet.

Dániel Váczi

Dániel Váczi was born on 1 October 1972. He played the violin for ten years, then at the age of 17 he started studying the alto saxophone. Subsequently he also took up the rarely applied sopranino saxophone. In 1998 he obtained a diploma at the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences as a biologist. He attended the music theory and composing course with Iván Madarász. He also attended the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music for a year, where he learnt to play the saxophone from Mihály Borbély. He formed his trio playing his own compositions in 2001. Besides his trio, he also plays in the bands Kada, Fragment, and the Plastic Septet. He participated in recordings with Gábor Gadó, Yonderboi, Timeles Life, János Vázsonyi, Nigun, Chalaban and Gábor Winand, and one of his songs can be heard on the prize winning album Different Garden of Gábor Winand.