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The HCC team:

Dávid Kerényi | Finance ManagerSzilvia Csányi | Head of Administration and Referee of Education Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Judit Kôrös | Consultant, Information Service and Film Events Dr Gábor Egri | Senior Consultant, MusicPéter Pallai | Jazz Consultant

If you are interested in joining the Friends of the Hungarian Cultural Centre please contact Ruth and Robert Wing on 020 7351 7653 or email [email protected]

The Reading Room, our Information Service and the rental of video films are available on Mondays and Thursdays between 11 am and 7 pm.For more information, please call our information consultant, Judit Kôrös.

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 before setting out for any particular event. The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

Hungarian Cultural Centre10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NATel: 020 7240 8448 • Fax: 020 7240 4847 • Message: 020 7240 6162e-mail:[email protected]

Please note that most of our events are now scheduled to start at 7 pm. For reservations please email [email protected].

If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events, pleasesend an e-mail to [email protected]. Thank you for your interest.8

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13–21 October

e FILM

National Schools Film Week

The Hungarian Cultural Centre has worked in partnership with Film Education for four years and assisted in acquiring films for the National Schools Film Week. The Festival’s goal is to support classroom teaching by providing schools with a powerful experience for their students that links directly to elements of the curriculum – supported by an on-line library of resources related to individual films and more generic topics – essentially an extension of the classroom.

Wednesday | 19 October | 10 am≥ Brixton Ritzy ✉ Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton SW2 1JG

Moscow Square (Moszkva tér) 2001, dir. Ferenc Török, 12A cert, 88 minsScreening for secondary schools

April 27th, 1989. It is Petya’s 18th

birthday and his friends gather in Budapest’s Moscow Square topop champagne and begin lengthycelebrations. May Day sees themswimming in the famous HotelGellert and breakfasting on Liberty Bridge, as the politicalclouds begin to lift and it seemsyouth and the country face a brave new future...

The release of Ferenc Török’s debut MoscowSquare seemed to announce the arrival of anew sensibility in Hungarian cinema, one thatcorresponded to a generation that had entirelygrown up in the post-communist era. Petya,Kiegler, Ságodi and their friends spend theirevenings hanging around the clock tower inMoscow Square, while all around them the oldregime is on the verge of collapse. Everyonefeels that something is about to happen: thequestion is whether they make it happen orjust wait for whatever’s coming. For some likePetya and his girlfriend Zsófi, the new worldmeans getting out of Hungary and getting toknow the wide world. Few films have more

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effectively captured that sense of life on the eve of a momentous political and socialtransformation – that unsettling combination of giddy optimism for the future andcreeping fear of the unknown. Török cast his film largely with young people eitherfrom local high schools or the Academy of Drama.

Δ Further information and booking: 020 7292 7300 (Mon–Fri 8.30 am–5 pm) or www.nationalschoolsfilmweek.org

Thursday | 20 October | 10 am≥ Empire Leicester Square ✉ Leicester Square WC2H 7BA

Hungarian Animation: Series of short animated filmsincluding introductions to each film (90 mins)Sreening for primary schools

The Mouse with a Mouth dir. Andrea Kiss (A hazudós egér based on Ervin Lázár’s tale)Hungarian Folk Tales & How I Passed My Childhood dir. Mária Horváth (Magyar népmesék& Hogyan telt a gyermekkorom?)

The Swaggering Porcupine byZsolt Richly (A hetvenkedô sün, basedon István Kormos’ tale) Leo and Fred &The Snowlion dir.Pál Tóth (Leo és Fred & Hóoroszlán)In the Round Four-CorneredForest & Pretty Kitty's Flower dir.Mária Horváth (A Négyszögletû Kerek Erdô &Vacskamati virágja based on ErvinLázár’s tale)

Kecsekmétfilm Ltd. generously com-piled and lent all the animated shortfilms for the festival.

Our hope is for teachers and students to feel massively engaged in the Festival, as it is an incredible opportunity not only to build the adventurous, film-loving audience ofthe future but also to develop the kinds of passion in young people more likely tomake them more receptive to this collectively experienced art form. This is achievedby in-cinema talks and on-line resources, which give teachers the tools to encouragestudents to explore and understand new cinematic worlds.› Nick Walker, Festival Director, National Schools Film Week

Δ Further information and booking: 020 7292 7300 (Mon–Fri 8.30 am–5 pm) or www.nationalschoolsfilmweek.org

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15–30 October

e FESTIVAL

THE EALING AUTUMN FESTIVAL 2011 – Genius of Hungary

This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt and The Ealing Autumn Festival is celebrating his work, legacy and the broader influences on the arts from his country of birth, Hungary.

Wednesday | 19 October | 7.30 pm | e LITERATURE≥ St Stephen House ✉ 62 Little Ealing Lane, Ealing, London W5 4EA

An Evening with George Szirtes

The Hungarian-born poet translator and recipient of many awards including the internationally coveted TS Eliot Prize (2005) will talk about his work and read selections that show the warmth and insight of his writing. His poem ‘Children of Albion’ is particularly relevant to recent events in Ealing and other urban areas.

Δ £10/£5 Further information: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk

Saturday | 22 October | 3.30 pm and 7.30 pm | e CONCERT≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY

Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Travel) Three books of solo piano music by Liszt presented with their sources of inspiration

programme 3.30 pm

Liszt: Années de PèlerinagePremière année: Suisse (First Year: Switzerland) Book 1

Played by Pedro Gomez, Jianing Kong, Sasha Gracheva

Δ £20/£15/£10 www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk

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Liszt: Années de PèlerinageDeuxième année: Italie (Second Year: Italy) Book 2Venezia e Napoli (Venice and Naples) – Supplement to Book 2

Played by Peter Limonov, Carson Becke and Veronika Shoot

Sunday | 23 October | 3 pm | e FILM≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY

part of the hungarian national day at the festival

Children of Glory (Szabadság, Szerelem) 2006, feature, 123 min, dir. Krisztina Goda

Krisztina Goda’s film tells the remarkable story ofthe Hungarian water polo team at the 1956 OlympicGames – a tale of national pride and heroismagainst a polit ical background of terrible adversity.

Δ £5 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk

Sunday | 23 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY

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Muzsikás Mihály Sipos › violin; László Porteleki › violin, tamboura; Péter Éri › viola, flute and Dániel Hamar › bass, gardon

When we heard Muzsikás earlier in the year at the Royal Festival Hall, we loved them somuch we had to ask them back! This outstanding folk music ensemble has pioneered – andearned – global acceptance of traditional Hungarian music-making, touring Europe, NorthAmerica, the Far East and Australasia. Their musical intensity coupled with breathtakingtechnical virtuosity makes their performances exciting, inspiring and wholly memorable.


Wednesday | 26 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT≥ St Matthew’s Church ✉ North Common Road, Ealing Common, London W5 2QA

The Joyful Company of Singers

An evening of Hungarian choral music from a renowned choir that loves Hungarian music. Directed by Peter Broadbent.

This concert is given as part of a Festival week in support of Cancer Research UK.

Δ £15/£10 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk


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Kodály: Liszt Ferenchez (Ode to Liszt)

Liszt: Missa ChoralisLiszt: Ave MariaKodály: Missa Brevis


Thursday | 27 October | 7.15 for 7.45 pm | e FILM≥ Millenium Hall, St Barnabas Church ✉ Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, London W5 1QG

My Way Home (Így jöttem)1964, feature, 108 min, dir. Miklós Jancsó – in Hungarian with English subtitles

This film from the internationally acclaimeddirector, Miklós Jancsó, named Best Director atthe Cannes Film Festival 1972, is generally regardedas his first masterpiece. At the end of World War II, a displaced teenage Hungarian boy strikes up an unlikely and unexpected friendship with a young Russian soldier – moving and powerful.

This event is generously hosted by Pitshanger Pictures. The film is shown as part of a Festival week in support of Cancer Research UK.


Saturday | 29 October | 7.30 pm | e CONCERT≥ Ealing Town Hall ✉ New Broadway, Ealing, London W5 2BY

Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Travel) Three books of solo piano music by Liszt presented with their sources of inspiration

Paganini and the Grandes Études

Années de Pèlerinage is the single collection of worksfor piano by Liszt which maps most comprehensivelyhis progress and development as an artist from his earliest mature years almost to the end of his life. The pieces vary in length and range in character fromthe sweetest, most expressive lyricism to the headiestand wildest heights of virtuosity. This concert brings the conclusion of the cycle. It also brings the opportunity of a lifetime to hear Paganini’s Caprices for violin andLiszt’s Grandes Études de Paganini, inspired by them, in the same concert programme.

The three exceptional young virtuosi, Karim Said, protégé of Daniel Barenboim, Ina Charuashvili (piano) and Ben Baker (violin) are brought to the Ealing AutumnFestival under the auspices of Dmitri Alexeev and Tanya Sarkissova.

Δ £20/£15/£10 Further information and booking: www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk

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Liszt: Années de PèlerinageTroisième année (Years of Travel: Third Year) Played by Karim Said, piano –6 Grandes Études de Paganini 6 Studies for piano by Lisztinspired by PaganiniPlayed by Ina Charuashvili, piano,Ben Baker, violin

THE EALING AUTUMN FESTIVAL 2011 – Genius of Hungary

Wednesday | 19 October | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM

An evening of remembrance – 1956 Hungary 1956: Our Revolution (2006, dir. Mark Kidel)

Mark Kidel’s film Hungary 1956: Our Revolution recalls theHungarian uprising of autumn 1956, which, although failed andwas savagely repressed by the Soviets and their collaboratorsin Hungary, marked a crucial moment in the history of theSoviet domination of Eastern Europe and the Cold War. Thefilm brings together the memories of a varied group of menand women who tell the story of 1956 from a personal point ofview, evoking the inner and outer drama of the events – howthey affected them as people and how they shaped the mood of the city as a whole.The archival footage comes from both official and unofficial sources and includesamazing Russian material that has only recently been discovered. The resulting mix of reminiscences offers a powerful and often deeply emotional account of events, the highs as well as the lows that have universal significance.

Hungary 1956: Our Revolution was chosen as History Today’s Film of the Year, and won Best Historical Documentary of 2007 in the prestigious Grierson Awards.Mark Kidel is a Bristol-based film-maker, specialising in culture, music and the arts and, with Peter Gabriel, was one of the founders of WOMAD.

Δ Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.hungary.org.uk

Friday | 21 October | 6 pm≥ International Anthony Burgess Foundation ✉ The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY

e MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL

The 6th Manchester Literature Festival brings people together from around the world andprovides a platform for the exchange of views and ideas. It aims to use literature as a wayof opening up opportunities, making connections and stimulating debate across borders.

European Poetry Night featuring Ágnes Lehóczky, Marcelijus Martinaitis & Toon Tellegen

Hungarian poet and translator, Ágnes Lehóczky has two short poetry collections inHungarian, Station X and Medallion, and her first full collection, Budapest to Babel,


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was published by Egg Box in 2008. She was the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize in 2011. Her book on Ágnes NemesNagy Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance was pub-lished by Cambridge Scholars Publishing earlier this year.

Marcelijus Martinaitis is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, he was the recipient of the Lithuanian NationalAward in Literature in 1998, and his most recent book WeLived, Biographical Notes was selected the best Lithuanianbook of 2010.

Toon Tellegen, one of Holland’s best-known writers, has published more than twentycollections of poetry, including Raptors, published in English translation by Carcanet.He is also a novelist and a popular children’s author. The event will be chaired by journalist Rosie Goldsmith, and is presented in association with EUNIC London and the European Commission Representation in the UK.

Δ £5/£3 (includes refreshments) Booking on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Saturday | 22 October | 5 pm≥ Szent István Ház (St Stephen’s House) ✉ 62 Little Ealing Lane, London W5 4EA

maosz – national federation of hungarians in england presents

Freedom in Focus

This evening of remembrance marks the 55th anniversary of the 1956 revolution, and will feature the actors Zoltán Zubornyák, Imola Gáspár, Elsa and Christopher Lusher on the piano.

Δ Please note the event will be in Hungarian.

Monday | 24 October | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CONCERT

monday music soirées

Introducing Grace Francis (piano)

Grace Francis was born in East London and attended the Yehudi Menuhin Schoolwhere she studied with Peter Norris and Louis Kentner. At the Royal College of MusicGrace studied with Irina Zaritskaya where she was awarded the Chappell Gold Medal,the highest award for a pianist. A Wingate Scholarship enabled her to study with

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Martino Tirimo for several years. Amongst other prizes, Grace won the Negrada Piano House Heferer Award at the EPTA International Competition in Zagreb.Grace has given many concerts in Britain at venues such as the Purcell Room, WigmoreHall, Chelmsford and Oxford Cathedrals, Ivy House, Rosehill Theatre, HurstwoodFarm, Kent and Bishopsgate Hall. She has broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3 and her Bath Mozartfest recital will be broadcast in December this year. Following

the success of her Brahms/Lisztrecording she performed theGrieg Piano Concerto in Luganowith the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Ashkenazy. Grace’s DVD isdue to be launched in October and includes works by Liszt and Mussorgsky.

Grace’s forthcoming recitals this year include the Mozartfest in Bath and BrangwynHall in Swansea. She is also performing at a number of literary festivals during theLiszt Bicentenary Year together with John Spurling, author of A Book of Liszts, pub-lished in May.

In April 2012, Grace makes her New York debut at Carnegie Hall where her programmeincludes works by Liszt. Grace’s repertoire is wide-ranging and varied, but she is happiest with the Romantic composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

As David Cairns wrote in his Sunday Times review of her Quartz CD ‘Liszt’s Tarantellaholds no terrors for her, and she makes Liszt’s intricate filigree writing a thing ofenchantment. She is certainly a pianist to watch.’

Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 72406162, e-mail [email protected] or register on our website www.hungary.org.uk


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Ferenc Liszt SposalizioFerenc Liszt Sonata in B Minor, S.178Sergei Prokofiev Visions Fugitives

(selection of movements) Op.22Ferenc Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514

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Thursday | 27 October | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK

John Neubauer, ‘Robin Hoods in East-Central Europe?’

Like other parts of the world, East-Central Europe had its bandits in the eighteenthand nineteenth century. But were they ‘social bandits’, whom public opinion did notregard as criminals, as Eric Hobsbawm portrayed them in his famous study Bandits(1969)? Using select examples, I shall argue that the historicalfunctions and the memory of rural bandits were considerablymore complex in East-Central Europe for two main reasons: (1) depending on the region of their operation, they playednational as well as social functions, and (2) their remembrancerepeatedly shifted in accordance with new medial possibilities.

We may actually speak of East-Central European rural banditswith seven lives, not because they were invulnerable to bullets(as some were claimed to be in folk poetry), but because they die in one medium and revive in another one. They inhabit,roughly in this historical order: (1) historical documents, (2)folklore, (3) popular literature, (4) high literature, (5) film, (6) television, and (7) theentertainment industry. Historical documents do not ‘tell the truth’, they serve socialand national purposes. Folklore usually ignores these documents. Professional writerselaborate on the oral tradition, and the media transpose the stories into visual andmusical art forms. Some outlaws were invented, and some of these inventions actuallyparticipated in the making of flesh and blood bandits. Bandits often follow real or fictional predecessors, making thereby the historical sources all but irrelevant.

John Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His publications

include The Emancipation of Music from Language(Yale 1986), and The Fin-de-siècle Culture ofAdolescence (Yale 1992). He co-edited, among others, a four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (2004–10), and The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe(2009).


Wednesday | 2 November & Thursday | 3 November | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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Nine Suitcases by Béla Zsolt

Translated by Ladislaus Löb, adapted for the stage and performed by David PrinceOriginal music composed and performed by Bethan MorganCostume: Jess KeelerDirected by Lynn Hunter

This stage adaptation of Nine Suitcases captures the devastating blend of angry despairand cool detachment in Béla Zsolt’s book, exposing the cruelty, indifference, selfishness,cowardice and betrayal of which human beings are capable in extreme circumstances. The setting is a Jewish ghetto in Hungary during World War Two. The protagonist is a thinly disguised version of Béla Zsolt himself, struggling to survive in the nightmarish conditions he is forced to endure as he awaits deportation to Auschwitz.Horrifying though Zsolt’s story is, the telling of it is laced with grim irony, occasional memories of human kindness – and grotesque farce.

Béla Zsolt (1895–1949) was an anti-establishment Hungarian-Jewish author and journalist. Labelled ‘decadent’ by his enemies, his output included poetry, countlessarticles and seven novels. Rapidly gaining widespread recognition, he was always

a vehement opponent of both theSoviets and the Christian-NationalistHungarian corporate state that emergedbetween World Wars One and Two.

Nine Suitcases first appeared in 1946 asinstallments in the Hungarian weeklyjournal, Haladás. Zsolt’s intention was topublish it as a memoir in book form – buthe died before he could complete theproject – which accounts for its ratherabrupt ending. Hungary’s communistregime suppressed Nine Suitcases formore than three decades. The book was-n’t published in English until 2004.

Acknowledgements are due to Michael Kelligan,who made the launching of Nine Suitcases possibleby including it in his Spring 2011 series of On theEdge productions in Chapter, Cardiff, and to Tamás Tatai, who has been our generous and sup-portive consultant in all matters Hungarian.


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David Prince trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Hisperformance career began with Theatre-in-Education and small-scale touring onMerseyside. Some Performance Arts lecturing intervened until, eventually, havingreturned to South Wales, David wrote and performed a one-man show (A Gringo’sJourney); and also worked for Theatr Iolo, Theatr na n’Og (including a tour of Cyrano inwhich he played de Guiche), Fluellen, Theatr Clwyd, Welsh Fargo Stage Company andSisbro Productions.

Bethan Morgan has worked in TV, film, stage and radio for over 20 years. She plays avariety of instruments – violin, piano, guitar, flute, drums and percussion – and hasworked as an actor/musician in the West End and for many companies across Britain,including Bolton Octagon, Coventry Belgrade and Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre.

Lynn Hunter has been an actress for longer than she cares to remember and has beenlucky enough to work in theatre, film, television and radio. Her theatre work includesappearances at the Royal National Theatre and Clwyd Theatr Cymru; on television she has appeared in Casualty, Mine All Mine, High Hopes and Belonging. She wasassistant director for the National Theatre of Wales’ The Dark Philosophers; andappeared in Baker Boys, the new BBC Wales drama. She also recently directed NightHorse for Welsh Fargo Stage Company.


2–4 November ≥ The 606 Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ

Budapest Jazz Club at The 606 Club

Three nights of incredible music with the jazz superstars of Hungary and Britain celebrating eight years of cooperation between the leading clubs of the two capitals.

Wednesday 2 NovemberFirst Set: George Vukán (pn), Andy Cleyndert (bs), Clark Tracey (drs)Second Set: Daniel Szabó (pn), Julian Siegel (ts, ss), MátyásSzandai (bs), Martin France (drs)

Thursday 3 NovemberFirst set: Peter King (alto-sax) with Alan Benzie(pn), János Egri (bs), Márton Juhász (drs)Second Set: Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (pn), Arnie Somogyi (bs), Tristan Maillot (drs)

Friday 4 NovemberFirst Set: Kálmán Oláh (pn), Mornington Lockett (ts,ss), Tom Mason (bs), James Maddren (drs.)Second Set: Nikoletta Szôke(voc), Kálmán Oláh (pn), József Barcza Horváth (bs),Winston Clifford (drs)Third Set: Natalie Williams (voc) + rhythm section as above

performers:

Alan Benzie (piano) is a tremendously gifted and dynamic musician, voted BBCScottish Young Musician of the Year in 2007 and went on to win a scholarship to theworld famous Berklee School of Music in the US.

Andy Cleyndert (bass) is a bass player in great demand who toured Canada and Chinawith the great Stan Tracey. He also toured Britain and Europe with the Gene HarrisQuartet and worked regularly with the singer Annie Ross.

Arnie Somogyi (bass) is one of the UK’s leading jazz bass players and innovative newbandleaders. He has played around the world with many of the world’s top jazz musi-cians from Steve Grossman, James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Annie Ross and ClareMartin, to Art Farmer, Joey Calderazzo and Bud Shank.

Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (piano) is a leading Roma Gypsyjazz musician from Hungary. Szakcsi Lakatos is con-stantly exploring his ancient roots while preservinghis unique style, and is always seeking new musicalhorizons. Alyn Shipton in The Times wrote of “the bril-liantly eccentric pianism of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos”,while John Fordham of The Guardian simply statedthat “pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos is wonderful”.

Clark Tracey (drums) is the son of the doyen of British jazz, Stan Tracey. He grew upbreathing music. He has accompanied Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks,George Cables, Bud Shank, Red Rodney, Scott Hamilton, Ronnie Scott, John Surmanand Kenny Wheeler – and the list is far from complete.

Dániel Szabó (piano) is one of the most talented andversatile musicians of the new generation in Hungary.Recently he recorded and played in New York withChris Potter and, earlier, with Kurt Rosenwinkel. Back in 2000 he won the Solo Piano Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He is also the winner of the Martial Solal International Piano Prize.

George Vukán (piano), along with Szakcsi, is one of the true founding fathers of the current Hungarian jazz scene. A spell-binding pianist and great improviser with a formi-dable technique. Equally well-versed in classical music andjazz, his imagination and musical wit is hugely enjoyable.

James Maddren (drums) is a tremendously exciting youngmusician who was picked by Gerard Presencer to play the drums for the Anglo-Hungarian Sextet led by himselfand Kálmán Oláh that brought the house down at the Royal


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Academy of Music at the 2008 London Jazz Festival. Since then he has been playingwith the foremost British musicians of his generation, such as Gwilym Simcock and Kit Downes.

János Egri (bass) is an amazing virtuoso Roma bass player, one of the grand masters of his instrument in Hungary. He is a regular member of Lee Konitz’ favourite Hungarian backing group, Trio Midnight and leads several bold experimental groups of his own.

József Barcza Horváth (bass) ’graduated’ from classical music to jazz. He is one of themost inventive exponents of his instrument in a country teeming with world-classbass players. As a member of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos’ New Gypsy Jazz he had theLondon audience spellbound in February 2005 at St. James’ Church, Piccadilly.

Julian Siegel (tenor- and soprano saxophone) has had a major impact on the UK jazzscene since the release of the debut album Close-up (SoundCD1001) in the autumn of2002. Working a fluent bebop intensity into a fresh modern sound, Julian has estab-lished himself as both a remarkable writer and a powerful player on the EuropeanScene. He won the BBC Jazz Award 2007 for Best Instrumentalist.

Kálmán Oláh (piano) won the TheloniousMonk Jazz Composers’ Competition in LosAngeles in 2007. Oláh is one of the mostoriginal pianists on the Hungarian jazz scene.He has played and recorded with a numberof well-known artists, including Lee Konitz,Randy Brecker, Pat Metheny, SteveGrossman, Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucciand Kenny Wheeler. His album with theBudapest Jazz Orchestra earned 4 stars in Downbeat magazine.

Martin France (drums) is a founding member of the extraordinary 1980s big band,Loose Tubes, where he began long standing partnerships with many of its members,including Django Bates. Martin has performed and recorded with some of the world’sbest musicians.

Márton Juhász (drums) won national first prize for solo percussion in 2005, before relocating to study in London. After being awarded the prize for top overall student on his course, in 2007 he was accepted in to Berklee College of Music. Winner of theGolden Drumstick Award (2010)

Mátyás Szandai (bass) is an ex-member of the world-famous Dresch Quartet and in that latter capacity he has already played with tremendous success at the BathInternational Festival and at the London Jazz Festival. He has accompanied top-ranking international stars like Archie Shepp, David Murray, Herbie Mann, ChicoFreeman, Charlie Mariano, and Hamid Drake.

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Mornington Lockett (tenor- and soprano saxophone) is now well-established as one of the great British tenor sax players. After working with the Ronnie Scott quintet for almost three years he went on to be featured on numerous sessions and gigs. He scored a stunning success at the Bridge Festival, Budapest in 2009

Natalie Williams (vocal) was born to a Hungarian mother and British poet, JohnHartley Williams. By 2000, she was touring Europe as a member of the EuropeanYouth Jazz Orchestra. Her 2003 debut, Lucky Old Sun, was a live album that put a new spin on classic jazz standards and was recorded in only two days.

Nikoletta Szôke (vocal) is the brightest singingstar on the Hungarian jazz scene blessed withincredible timing. In 2005 she walked away withthe first prize and the audience prize from thevocalists’ world competition at the 2005 MontreuxInternational Jazz Festival. In Japan her fourthalbum is selling by the thousands! Last year sheperformed with Bobby McFerrin in Budapest.

Peter King (alto- and soprano saxophone), in the words of The Observer jazz critic and author, Dave Gelly, “is the finest alto saxophonist that Britain has ever produced,and one of the finest in the world today”. Coltrane’s one-time drummer, Elvin Jonescalled him ”a wonderful musician, … a master of his instrument.”. To cornettitst, Nat Adderley Peter King is „the world’s greatest altoist”.

Tom Mason (bass) is an amazingly mature and inventive player despite his young age. A stablemate of the drummer James Maddren, he was also part of that fantastic Anglo-Hungarian outfit led by Kálmán Oláh and Gerard Presencer that moved jazz radio pre-senter, Helen Mayhew to call it the best production of the 2008 London Jazz Festival.

Tristan Maillot (drums) is a highly versatile French born drummer who has become one of the mainstays of the UK jazz scene. He has appeared with a host of jazz greats,including Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Bobby Shew, Scott Hamilton, Peter King, Stan Tracey,Dave Newton, Alan Barnes, Gerard Presencer and Jim Mullen.

Winston Clifford (drums) is one of Britain's leading jazz drummers, and an incrediblysubtle player who makes his instrument sing. He has played with the best musicians,including Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Jason Rebello, Gary Husband, Peter King, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Julian Joseph, Andy Sheppard, Jean Toussaint Band, BobbyWatson, Monty Alexander, Gary Bartz, Art Farmer, Archie Shepp and Freddie Hubbard.

In cooperation with the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London

Δ £12 (Wed/Thurs), £14 (Fri) Please also note that due to licensing laws, if you wish to drink alcohol, you are required to order at least one main course. For booking please call 020 7352 5953, email [email protected] or visit www.606club.co.uk


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

e CONCERT


introducing the winner of the 7th

hungarian music festival

Dóra Munkácsi (piano)

Dóra Munkácsi was born in Nagyvárad and graduated in Kolozsvár at the GheorgeDima Music Academy in 2011 where she studied with Dr Adriana Bera. She won thefirst prize of the 7th Hungarian Music Festival in 2011 organised by the HungarianCultural Centre in Bucharest.

Her major recognitions are the Special award for Best Performance of Ferenc Liszt’spiece at the Béla Bartók International Competition in Szeged in 2010, and the Firstprize at the prestigious Victor Giuleanu Piano Competition of the Bucharest MusicAcademy in 2011. She has also been awarded at numerous competitions such as theJeunesses musicales, George Enescu (Bucharest), J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, FerdinandWeiss (Kolozsvár), Weiner Leo (Balassagyarmat), Béla Bartók (Szeged).

She has attended masterclasses of Dana Borsan, Cordelia Hoefer, Attila Némethy,Imre Rohmann, Robert Levin, Georg Sava and Jean Francois Antonioli in Salzburg,Kolozsvár, Nagyvárad, Balassagyarmat and Szombathely. In 2010 she won the Erasmusscholarship to the Liszt Academy of Music where she studied with Balázs Réti.

She has already played numerous solo and chambers music recitals in Nagyvárad,Kolozsvár, Gyulafehérvár, Tulcea and Budapest. She has played with orchestras fromKolozsvár and Nagyvárad under the baton of Romeo Rimbu, Florina Gergo, Matei Pop,Cristian Sandu and Nicolae Moldoveanu.

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programme

Ferenc Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Ville d'Este, S.163Claude Debussy: Images, Book I. L.110

• Reflets dans l’eau• Hommage à Rameau• Mouvement

Ferenc Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H, S.529Béla Bartók: Selection from the volumes of “For Children”Béla Bartók: Suite for piano, Op. 14Béla Bartók: Out of Doors:

• With Drums and Pipes• Barcarolla• Mussettes• The Night’s Music• The Chase


She charmed the jury and audience of the Hungarian Music Festival with her performanceof Ouverture, Allemande and Courante from Bach’s Partita No.4 in D major (BWV 828),Liszt’s Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H and Béla Bartók’s Out of doors suite.


17–20 November ≥ Durham

e LIGHT ART

lumiere 2011Péter Kozma

The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London supports the participation of Péter Kozmain Lumiere 2011, the Festival of Light inDurham organised by Artichoke.

Péter Kozma creates spectacular, large-scale light art in public space. His workincorporates cultural, political and artisticissues, creating a colourful, urban theatricalspace. Passers-by instantly become a pieceof the art themselves, as they walk over acolourful carpet, making this the ultimateaccessible piece of art.

Δ Further information: www.lumieredurham.co.uk

Wednesday | 23 November | 6.30 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK

‘Only from the clear spring’ – Ágnes Kôry on Béla Bartók

2011 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt, whose life andwork has been celebrated throughout the year in many countries. But 2011 also representsthe 130th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók, one of the most important composersof the 20th century and arguably the most important Hungarian composer to reachworldwide recognition. So while the Liszt celebrations are most welcome, Bartók alsoneeds to be celebrated for his large body of important scholarly work on ethnomusi-cology, for his excellence as a pianist, for his contribution to education and – last but

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not least – for his compositional output. Bartók himself was a great admirer of Lisztand, regarding piano playing, he could be termed as Liszt’s grand-pupil. Bartók’s pianoteacher at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music was István Thomán who had been

a favourite piano pupil of Liszt and was thusappointed by him to the piano faculty at theAcademy.

Hungarian-born Ágnes Kôry is the founder and director of the Béla Bartók Centre forMusicianship, London, where specialised musicstudies including performance skills are offeredand scholarship is fostered. The Béla BartókCentre for Musicianship (BBCM) offers compre-hensive music education for amateurs and children of all ages as well as provides trainingcourses to further the skills of professionalmusicians. Ágnes Kôry is a graduate of the BélaBartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy

of Music London (DipRAM) and the University of London (BMus, MMus, MPhil). She is a teacher, performer and a researcher in historical musicology. Her wide-rangingresearch interests include instrumentation in baroque music as well as the life andwork of suppressed composers of the Holocaust. Ágnes Kôry is a regular reviewer of concerts and opera for English as well as Hungarian websites on classical music.


30 November – 4 December≥ Science Museum ✉ Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD

e EXHIBITION

The Ladybird of Szeged is coming to Roboville

Robots came from human imagination to infiltrate our culture and invade our work-places. Where are robots in your future? Find out at Roboville, hosted at the ScienceMuseum. It’s your unique opportunity to get up close to robots and talk to their inventors.

Roboville is part of a festival of robots taking placein the Science Museum throughout December.

The Hungarian Cultural Centre proudly welcomesthe famous Ladybird of Szeged which is probablythe sweetest reflex model existing. Built by DánielMuszka with László Kalmár at Szeged University,Hungary, the Szegedi Katicabogár (Ladybird ofSzeged) is a cybernetic animal. It was built to model


conditioned reflexes, associating various stimuli, remembering them and forgettingthem. The Ladybird has light sensors for eyes, a microphone, indicating lights, seventouch sensitive dots on its skin, capacitive memory and two electric motors. Not bad

for a robot built in 1957. To find out more aboutthis historical piece of robotics, visit Robovilleand ask her inventor, Dániel Muszka.

The Festival of Robots at the Science Museum is produced in partnership with the European UnionNetwork of Cultural Institutes and EU CognitiveSystems and Robotics Programme

Δ Daily opening times: 10 am – 6 pm. For further information visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Monday | 5 December | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CONCERT


a christmas concert in celebration of the bicentenary of ferenc liszt

Gábor Farkas (piano)

Gábor Farkas started his music studies at the age of five, and holds an MA degree in piano and teach-ing. He won the first prize, the audience award andthe special award for the best interpretation of a work by Joseph Haydn of the International FranzLiszt Competition in Weimar in 2009.

He was the winner of the Hungarian National Radio’sPiano Competition in 2003 and the Béla Bartók PianoCompetition, Baden bei Wien in 2000, he was award-ed second prize of the Greta Erikson InternationalPiano Competition and third prize of the Franz LisztInternational Piano Competition in 2001.

His uplifting performance enchanted audiences throughout Europe and the world: in recent years he performed in the concert halls of Budapest, Vienna, Baden bei Wien, Berlin, Stuttgart, Strassbourg, Florence, Paris, Calgary, Sakata, Yuza and Tokyo and has worked with conductors such as Ádám Fischer, Zoltán Kocsis andTamás Vásáry. He extended his knowledge at the master courses of many of the most respected piano professors: György Nádor, László Simon, Ferenc Rados, Péter Frankl, Rolf Dieter Arens, Jan Wijn, Brigitte Engerer and William Grant Nabore.

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His debut CD recording entitled Anevening with Liszt was published in2008 winning the prestigious GrandPrix of the Ferenc LisztInternational Society in 2009 as thebest Liszt recording of the year. Hissecond album was also publishedby Warner Music in 2011.


Saturday | 10 December | 11 am≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM

Hungarian Animation: Series of short animated films (90 min) Matinee screening for schools

The Mouse with a Mouthdir. Andrea Kiss (A hazudós egérbased on Ervin Lázár’s tale)

Hungarian Folk Tales & How I Passed My Childhood dir.Mária Horváth (Magyar népmesék& Hogyan telt a gyermekkorom?)

The Swaggering Porcupineby Zsolt Richly (A hetvenkedô sün,based on István Kormos’ tale)

Leo and Fred &The Snowliondir. Pál Tóth (Leo és Fred &Hóoroszlán)

In the Round Four-Cornered Forest & Pretty Kitty's Flower dir. Mária Horváth (A Négyszögletû Kerek Erdô & Vacskamati virágja based on Ervin Lázár’s tale)

Kecsekmétfilm Ltd. generously compiled and lent all the animated short films for the festival.


programme

Ferenc Liszt:

Waldesrauschen – Concert Etude, S.145/1Liebestraum – Nocturne for Piano No. 3 in A-flat MajorValse Impromptu in A-flat Major, S. 213Les jeux d'eaux à la Ville d'Este, S.163Wiegenlied S.198Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A MinorAve Maria: Die Glocken von Rom S.192Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-sharp MinorVenezia e Napoli (Gondoliera, Canzone, Tarantella) S.162

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1 Thursday | 15 December | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM

Szinbád1971, dir. & screenplay by Zoltán Huszárik based on Gyula Krúdy’s stories, starring Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai and Éva Leelôssy

The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggeringalong the border between life and death. He believes to have found beauty in theorganically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories cometo life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart: Florentin, Lenke,Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter,Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the friedpheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, i.e. himself, Szindbád,with whom she ran away and drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting search for perfection makes it impossible forSzindbád to find peace in a single woman’s love, and his loneliness is dissolved only atthe table laid by motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In thespiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szindbád experiences the completeness of life,and that moment he reaches true Death.


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Sunday 9 Oct, 4.45 pm – 5.15 pm≥ St Paul’s Cathedral, London EC4

Sunday Evening Recitals: Organ Music from Hungary Recital by Malcolm Rudland

programme

Hector Berlioz: (arranged by Henri Busser) Hungarian March(from The Damnation of Faust) Dezsô d’Antalffy: Drifting CloudsIstván Koloss: Réflexions(Grave – Rubato – Allegretto –Lento – Con Moto) Dezsô d’Antalffy: Sportive Fauns(after Böcklin)

o Free

Friday 14 Oct ≥ Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL London

Csík Zenekar feat Presser Gábor & Kiss Tibor

o £20/£25 www.drumandmonkey.org

Saturday 15 Oct, 7.30 pm ≥ Posk Jazz Café, 238–246 KingStreet, London W6 0RF

Bolygo Music Presents:Fusio Group (Hungary) at theEast European Jazz Festival

o £7

Friday 4 Nov, 6 pm ≥ 229 The Venue229 Great Portland Street,London W1W 5PN

Sound of Europe – Music Festival Featuring Félix Lajkó, Antal Brasnyó,Magdi Ruzsa, Hobo, Ghymes and theHungarian folk dance group H-UNique

o £25. Tickets available at NemesisTattoo and Body Piercing Studio, 3 Buck Street, Camden Town, LondonTel: 02074820063www.229thevenue.comwww.gigantic.com

Sunday 20 Nov ≥ The Garage, 20–22 HighburyCorner, N5 1RD London

Bödôcs Tibor Stand-up Comedy


Saturday 10 Dec ≥ 229 The Venue229 Great Portland Street,London W1W 5PN

KFT


The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London is one of the 19 Hungarian cultural insti-tutes under the direction of the Balassi Institue in Budapest Hungary. The aim ofthe Balassi Institute is very similar to those of other well-known insitutions suchas the British Council, the Goethe Institute and the Institut français. These aimsare to project an attractive image of the homecountry and to spread linguistic knowledge, culture and information about it.

The Balassi Bálint Institute, founded on January 1,2002, was launched in the spirit of the above-mentioned objectives. As a legal successor, withfull authority, of the Hungarian Language Institute (with a history of nearly half a century) and of the International Hungarological Centre (established in 1989) the new institute carries on the basic activities of these two institutions, to whichseveral new ranges of duties have been added, according to its Deed of Foundation.

In order to strengthen its message abroad and within Hungary, the Balassi Institute designed and introduced a new visual identity, which the 19 Hungarian cultural institutes all over the world have adopted as of September 2011.

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London WC2E 7NA

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Fax: 020 7240 4847

Message: 020 7240 6162

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