hungarian cultural centre - programme brochure sep-dec 2014

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17 Sep ≥ page 3

• open day

Sursum Linguae: Everything you wanted to know about Hungarianbut never dared to ask...

22 Sep ≥ page 4

• talk

Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of theSecond World War– Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

23 Sep ≥ page 5

• talk

From Pest to Palaces, the Extra-Ordinary Life and Career of PhilipAlexius de László

24 Sep ≥ page 6

• hungarian student college

British Banker Mind & Hungarian Heart – life-long sources of energy: a special ’satsang’ for all

1 Oct ≥ page 9

• film, screen talk

& book signing

A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991

2 Oct ≥ page 11

• jazz

Gábor Bolla jazzsaxophonist in London

3 Oct ≥ page 12

• children & families

Kodály-based MusicSessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families

8 Oct ≥ page 12

• literature

All that Still Matters at All– Selected Poems of MiklósRadnóti– Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

13 Oct ≥ page 13

• monday music soirées

Introducing Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy

27 Oct ≥ page 15

• book launch

UK launch of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas

29 Oct ≥ page 16

• magyar mind

Magyars and makars: Tom Hubbard andZsuzsanna Varga inconversation aboutScottish and Hungarianpoetry

30 Oct ≥ page 17

• concert

Távlatot kapott az élet (A Life in Perspective): The Hungarian-Frenchsculptor Ervin Pátkai(1937–1985)

6 Nov ≥ page 19

• lecture

Hungarians in the OttomanEmpire

7 Nov ≥ page 20



10 Nov ≥ page 20

• monday music soirées

Introducing Rita Schindlerharpist

12 Nov ≥ page 21

• dance

Viktória Dányi, CsabaMolnár and Tamara ZsófiaVadas at Currency 2014

12 Nov ≥ page 22

• magyar mind

Hungarian explorers: Sir Aurel Stein

25 Nov ≥ page 23

• exhibition

From Olympic Games to Death– Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

27&28 Nov ≥ page 25

• jazz

Juli Fábián in London

1 Dec ≥ page 25

• concert

Advent Concert Featuringthe Joyful Company ofSingers conducted byPeter Broadbent-Announcing the winner ofthe Award For HungarianCulture in the UK

5 Dec ≥ page 25



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Wednesday | 17 September | 5.30pm – 8.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e OPEN DAY

Sursum Linguae: Everything you wanted to know about Hungarianbut never dared to ask... Eszter Tarsoly, Senior Teaching Fellow (UCL SSEES)

Sursum Linguae is all about languages. The Hungarian Cultural Centre in partnershipwith EUNIC London and UCL SSEES holds an open day when you can learn about theHungarian language and find out how and where you can start learning or studying it.

The open day at the HCC is organised simultaneously with the open day events of our partner organisations at EUNIC London. In order to explore as many Europeanlanguages as possible, you will be able to walk in to the participating culturalinstitutes – marked on a specially designed map – and you can even have your‘European languages passport’ stamped at each venue.

Eszter Tarsoly, an experienced linguist and successfulHungarian language teacher unveils all the mysteriessurrounding the Hungarian language and provides practicaladvice as to how to access and acquire this fascinatingEuropean language. Eszter will guide your linguisticexploration with the help of other invited experts of the field.

The programme includes interactive Hungarian sessions builtaround the following themes: Food, Language History,

Hungarian rap, Hungarian fingerprints in London, Film and Games. There will be two20-minute sessions every hour with a 10-minute break in between.

Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected]. To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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Monday | 22 September | 7pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK

hungarian holocaust memorial year

Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006)by Monica PorterMátyás Sárközi in conversation with the author

Vali Rácz was a celebrated, glamorous singer in Budapestduring the 1930s and 1940s, nicknamed ‘the HungarianMarlene Dietrich’. She sang in nightclubs, appeared onstage and in films, and was a recording star. Her manyadmirers included Franz Lehar, who composed a love song for her. After Hungary entered the war in 1941, shebecame the pin-up of Hungarian troops fighting on theEastern Front.

But when the Nazis occupied Hungary in March 1944, shetook on a new, secret role. At the risk of her own life, shesheltered a group of five Jewish friends in her home andrescued them from the horrors of the Holocaust. Foreight dangerous months she kept them alive…until shewas inadvertently betrayed.

Her eventual arrest by the secret police, followed by the extraordinary twists of fatewhich twice brought her to the brink of death, are told in the book Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War. First published in 1990 and re-issued in2006, it was written by Vali Racz’s daughter, Monica Porter.

Born in Budapest in 1952, Monica Porter emigratedwith her family to the USA in 1956, after the HungarianRevolution was crushed by Soviet tanks. She grew up inNew York but has been based in London since 1970.Following in the footsteps of her father, the writerPeter Halasz, she is a freelance journalist who hascontributed to countless British newspapers andmagazines, and the author of five books.

In 1992 Vali Racz was named a Righteous Among theNations by Yad Vashem. Monica travelled to Jerusalemwith her mother to attend the award ceremony. Also inattendance was one of the Jewish fugitives who hadhidden in Vali’s house in 1944. All five of them survivedthe war. Vali Racz died in 1997.

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Mátyás Sárközi came to London in 1956 as a Hungarian refugee.After finishing his studies he joined the Hungarian Section of theBBC World Service and worked there for almost forty years as a broadcaster. Mátyás Sárközi contributed widely in Hungarianemigré literary magazines and published a number of short storycollections in Hungarian. He wrote more than twenty books, and his correspondence novel Levelek Zugligetbôl (Letters fromZugliget) has been awarded the coveted József Attila Prize. He knew Vali Rácz personally.

Δ For further information please visit www.monicaporter.co.uk and www.valiracz.comFree but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Tuesday | 23 September | 7pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK

the british hungarian fellowship presents

From Pest to Palaces, the Extra-Ordinary Life and Career of Philip Alexius de LászlóAn illustrated lecture by Sandra de Laszlo

Philip de László / László Fülöp (1869–1937) was born in Budapest. From the age of 11he worked as an apprentice in various trades and finally as a photographer’s assistantwhere he copied the portrait photographs he was employed to retouch. His talent was

noticed by a philanthropic nobleman, who helped him gain a state scholarshipto the Arts and Crafts School. He laterwon a place at the Drawing School (nowthe Academy of Fine Art) in Budapest.There he studied under two of the bestand most influential Hungarian paintersof the time, Bertalan Székely and KárolyLotz. Later he also studied in Munich andParis. In 1903 he moved to Vienna then, in 1907, to London where he spent therest of his life. His reputation still remainslargely as a society portrait painter, butwell numbered amongst his sitters wereindustrialists and scientists, politiciansand painters, men and women of lettersand many other eminent, as well asordinary people.

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Sandra de Laszlo, Founding Editor of the de László CatalogueRaisonné, married to Damon de László, one of the artist’s 7grandsons. She is a self-taught art historian, starting with theDiploma at the Study Centre for the History of the Fine &Decorative Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1972–73. Foreleven years she worked part-time in the Picture Department atSpink and Son, as a Guide at the then Tate Gallery and at theChelsea & Westminster Hospital for their Healing Arts Programme.

She has been working on the catalogue raisonné since she dared to write her firstletter to an owner, a complete stranger in New York, in 1989. She was co-curator with Christopher Wood and Richard Ormond of the de László exhibition, A Brush withGrandeur, at Christie’s London in January 2004, compiling and editing the catalogueentries for the accompanying book. This exhibition was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of theMagyar Magic festival of Hungarian culture, put on by the Hungarian Cultural Centreto celebrate Hungary’s arrival into the European Union. Sandra was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Plaque for this work.

She was co-curator for the exhibition De László in Holland at the Museum van Loon,Amsterdam, March – June 2006, and British Editor of the book De László in Holland. In 2010 the National Portrait Gallery in London mounted a Special Display: Philip deLászló, Portraits, to celebrate the completion of the indexing of the artist’s papers bySandra’s team – a 5-year endurance test of transcribing and translating some 15,000letters and documents. The catalogue raisonné is still very much in progress and theillustrated picture descriptions are published online – Sandra and her editors arecurrently working to attain the 1,000 mark (the equivalent of some four catalogueraisonné books on paper) – which may be less than one quarter of the final count ofportraits painted by de László.

Δ The copyright for the self-portrait belongs to the de Laszlo Foundation. For further information pleasevisit www.delaszloarchivetrust.comFree but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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

e HUNGARIAN STUDENT COLLEGE

the hungarian student college presents

British Banker Mind & Hungarian Heart– life-long sources of energy: a special ’satsang’ for all

By special guests: H.E. Peter Szabadhegy Hungarian Ambassador to London andWilliam de Gelsey Chairman, Gedeon Richter plc, Senior Advisor, UniCredit Bank AG

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The Hungarian Cultural Centre and the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad(KÜMA), together with the UCLU Hungarian Society have joined to host a specialseries of events in 2014 with the title Hungarian Student College.

The Hungarian Student College aims to invite guest speakers who the youngergeneration can look up to as role models. The College will not leave the audiencewithout a proper guidance. Each time an expert of the field will lead the students inthe exploration of these topics. The audience will have the chance to question andchallenge these opinion-leaders; the lecturers will step in the middle of the arena sothat the discussion will flow in a more direct and friendly manner. The College projectwill offer a series of programmes clustered around a variety of topics, hot ones and ever-greens, including themes starting from Hungary's place in Europe and in the world, to start up culture and entrepreneurship.

This time we have the privilege to welcome William de Gelsey, investment banker, SeniorAdvisor of the UniCredit Bank AG, who will be in conversation about his career with H. E. Péter Szabadhegy, recently appointed Hungarian ambassador to London, who alsocomes from the world of corporate finance. The conversation will touch upon these points:

• Lessons from a really long active life: ’Is a succesful career enough to be enlightened?’Work should become a hobby.

• Constant sentinels of a career (work heritage, knowledge, belief, fidelity). • Mind, heart & determination: rational life management versus endeavour and emotion

– ’chemistry of life’.• Mind & Heart: keeping personal integrity

– performing philanthropic responsibility.• What are the perpetual sources of energy for life?

William de Gelsey MA.,KCSG, Chairman, Gedeon Richter plc, Senior Advisor, UniCredit Bank AG

William de Gelsey, a British subject, the son of the late Baron& Baroness Henry de Gelsey, was educated at the Royal CatholicUniversity Public School (KirKat), Budapest and received an MAdegree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge.He obtained his industrial experience with Imperial ChemicalIndustries followed by Management Consulting.

In 1960 Mr de Gelsey changed for a merchant banking career. First he worked as theManaging Director of Hill Samuel & Co., then as Deputy Chairman of Orion Royal Bank, a multinational investment bank. In 1988 he moved to Vienna to be the Senior Advisor to the Board of Creditanstalt, today’s UniCredit.

Following the privatisation of Gedeon Richter, Budapest in 1994 by Creditanstalt’sHungarian subsidiary, he was invited to join the Board of Richter in 1995 and was madeits Chairman in 1999. The Late Pope John Paul II made Mr de Gelsey a ‘Knight Commanderof the Order of St. Gregory the Great’ (KCSG) in 2005 for his services to the Church

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in having played a significant role in making it possible for the 320-year-old CatholicSchool ‘KirKat’, which was forced to cease to function between 1948 and 2004, toresume its educational mission. Today the Catholic School is back in its original buildingwith 600 pupils being educated under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest. Mr. de Gelsey was awarded the Knight Commander Cross of the Order ofMerit of Hungary in 2011.

H.E. Péter Szabadhegy’s ancestors in Hungary have a longlineage of governmental and military backgrounds. Tengenerations ago in 1686, for example, János Szabadhegyreceived the title of nobility from King Leopold for his heroicdeeds in the battles against the Turks. His parents leftHungary in 1956 meeting and marrying in New York, meaningthat Mr Szabadhegy was raised in the US. After graduatingwith a degree in Accountancy, along with his Masters inEconomics from LSE and an MBA from the University ofChicago, he joined Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan) in NewYork, becoming the company’s youngest Vice President.

In 1991 at the age of 30 he moved to Budapest, restarting his career as a ManagementConsultant at Deloitte for 13 years. There, he was first responsible for consulting tothe Hungarian Banking industry and again became the youngest partner at Deloitte’sCentral and Eastern European firm. It was during his time that he also spent two yearsworking at the Embassy of the Order of Malta in Budapest, and established diplomaticties between Hungary and the Order of Malta, his first experience of diplomacy.

KÜMAThe Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA) aims to help Hungarianstudents gain experience abroad while also encouraging these students to return to Hungary to use their knowledge and experience there. The association operates in a variety of areas ranging from simple data sharing through community-building to fostering social discourse.

UCLUThe UCLU Hungarian Society was formed in January 2014 as an associate body of UCL Student Union with the aim to promote Hungarian cultural, scientific andeconomic achievements among the students of the university. The Society hasaround 50 members at present. Its activities cover three broad areas: organisingacademic, carrier-focused and social activities for students. The Society considersit important to reach out and work with Hungarian students studying at other UKuniversities such as LSE, King’s College, Imperial Colleg and SOAS.

Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon


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Wednesday | 1 October | 7pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM, SCREEN TALK & BOOK SIGNING

halas & batchelor collection celebrates 100 years since the birth of joy batchelor

A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991 by Vivien Halas

2014 marks 100 years since Joy Batchelor, the pioneering animator, was born inWatford. The daughter of a commercial artist and a former golf club manageress, Joy was brought up to believe that talent, ambition and hard work were paramount,and that a woman’s place was not necessarily in the home.

A gifted artist, Joy went to art school in Watford and was offered a place at theprestigious Slade School of Art, but unfortunately there was not enough money forher to attend. She found work at an animation studio creating films about a ‘dreadfullittle koala bear’. Appalled at the quality of the films, she taught herself animation,and soon became so skilled that she trained her colleagues – and was earning morethan her father.

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Joy met John Halas, an animator from Budapest, when she was looking for a betterstudio to work for. John was impressed by Joy’s talent and intuitive sense of movement.He hired her and they both went to Budapest to work on the series The Music Man.Production halted because of the threat of WW2, and at the outbreak of the War, thepair returned to London where they both eventually found work creating animationssupporting the war effort for J. Walter Thompson’s advertising agency.

By 1940, they set up Halas & Batchelor Cartoons. Throughout its history, the studioalways strove to pioneer new styles and techniques from paper cut-out figures tocomputer animation, and it went on to create more than 2,000 films over 50 years. The studio’s best-known work is Animal Farm, regarded as the first British featurelength animation, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2014.

Joy not only animated, designed the characters and wrote many of the early scripts –she was also a producer and director at a time when women in the animation industryworked mostly as painters and tracers. Even today, there are markedly less women in powerful positions in the film industry than men, so Joy Batchelor’s career, as halfof the Halas & Batchelor studio is extraordinary.

Vivien Halas will present her limited editionpublication A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor1914–1991, which celebrates Joy’s energy and talent, and acknowledges her considerableachievements. Her critical eye ensured thatstandards at Halas & Batchelor Cartoons were high. Her drawing style shaped the studio, as did her talent for script writing and being able to take difficult subjects and make themaccessible and entertaining.



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Thursday | 2 October | 8.30pm≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ

Gábor Bolla jazz saxophonist in London

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls him an “improviser of overwhelmingindependence,” saying he plays “as fast as Coltrane”. And yet the Hungarian saxophoneplayer Gábor Bolla, born in 1988, has never seen the inside of the music academy; he taught himself all the skills he has on the tenor saxophone. After practising on the

tenor horn for only six months, he was selected forthe Getxo Jazz Festival in Bilbao, Spain.

At the age of 15 he was nominated for the semi-finalof the highly prestigious saxophone competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Many doors openedafter that. He was invited to play as a guest soloistfor the world-famous Vienna Art Orchestra andplayed with US stars such as Johnny Griffin and KirkLightsey. In 2004, Bolla won the Hans Koller Prize,the Austrian Grammy, as “Talent of the Year” and in 2005 he won the audience and jury prize at theJazz Festival in Avignon. For his debut on Europe’sbiggest jazz label, ACT Records, his album “Find YourWay” invokes on the one hand the spirit of Americanjazz and, at the same time, the roots of his Hungarian

homeland. Echoes of Django Reinhardt, Bartók, Monk, Rollins, Coltrane and evenStevie Wonder fuse in his music into a totally mesmerizing individual sound. GáborBolla will be playing with some of the best British jazz musicians on the London scene.

Pianist Tim Lapthorn leads his own trio with Arnie Somogyi and Stephen Keogh and also plays piano in groups led by amongst others singer Ian Shaw, bassist ArnieSomogyi (Ambulance featuring Eddie Henderson), saxophonist Frank Griffith and, BBC Jazz Award Nominee, singer Polly Gibbons. Tim's many influences include CharlieParker, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder. Bass player Steve Watts,founding member of the group Exhibit A is an inspired, creative musician who isstrongly influenced by anything that he hears. Winston Clifford one of Britain’sleading jazz drummers, an incredibly subtle player who makes his instrument sing. Has played with the best of them, including Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, JasonRebello, Gary Husband, Pete King, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Iain Ballamy, Ronnie ScottBand, Julian Joseph, Andy Sheppard, Steve Williamson Band, Jean Toussaint Band,Slim Gaillard, Bobby Watson, Monty Alexander, Gary Bartz, Art Farmer, Archie Shepp,Freddie Hubbard etc.

Δ Entry to the concert at 606 Jazz Club: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at [email protected], on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk


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Friday | 3 October | 11am – 11.45am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0-5 yrs) and their Families

Kodály-based music sessions for Hungarian children and their families jointly presentedby the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

These music sessions are suitablefor children as small as 6-month-old.During the session the parents learnand try out songs and games theycan use at home with their children,which will help them develop not only their musical skills but create a strong bond between parents andchildren.

Mária Chambers, founding director and a highly experienced teacher of the HungarianCultural Association in Guildford, leads the sessions. She plays music, sings andenchants children and parents with the engaging and creative activities.

Δ £6/child/session. To book your place, please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or [email protected]

Wednesday | 8 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LITERATURE


All that Still Matters at AllSelected Poems of Miklós Radnóti, translated by John M. Ridland and Peter V. Czipott (New American Press, Milwaukee, 2014)British poet Stephen Watts in conversation with translator Peter V. Czipott

Hungary knows Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) as one of thegreat poets of the twentieth century. Abroad, Radnóti isknown primarily as one of the great chroniclers of the


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Holocaust, which took his life. However, his poetic maturity began more than a decadebefore World War II and encompasses a much wider range. In their volume, thetranslators have taken care to present a more extensive overview of Radnóti’s oeuvre,while including all the late poems that comprise his literary testament. Over thecourse of the past decade, they had the opportunity to present samples of their workmore than once to Radnóti’s muse and widow, the recently deceased Fanni Gyarmati,who reviewed their efforts with a keen critical eye and ear. This evening, one monthbefore the seventieth anniversary of the poet’s death, introduces this new bilingualRadnóti collection to the UK. British poet Stephen Watts will engage co-translatorPeter Czipott in a conversation about Radnóti’s life and work, as well as the delights,frustrations and dangers of translating poetry.

Peter V. Czipott was born in California to Hungarianémigré parents. Receiving his bachelor’s and doctoraldegrees in physics from the University of California, San Diego, he has pursued a research career in industry,working mainly on development of innovative sensors for medical diagnostics and the detection of concealedthreats and contraband. He has collaborated withCalifornia poet John Ridland since 2002, publishingtranslations of Balassi, Radnóti, Márai, Reményik, Faludyand others in journals in the USA, UK and Australia. In 2010, Dr. Czipott received the Bálint Balassi Memorial

Medallion for services to Hungarian culture. Last year, Alma Classics (Richmond, UK)published Ridland and Czipott’s translations of selected poems by Sándor Márai asThe Withering World. At present, Czipott and Ridland are working on translating thepoetry of Dezsô Kosztolányi.

Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Monday | 13 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES

Introducing Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy

Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest) in2006 as a student of Professor Lóránt Kovács. She also studied in the Hague with EmilyBeynon. Afterwards, on full scholarship, she attended the postgraduate course at theRoyal Academy of Music in London and was tutored by Professor William Bennett. In2008, she was awarded the prestigeous Queen's Commendation for Excellence prize bythe Academy and received her diploma with distinction.


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She attended several international flute master classes (Michel Debost, Peter Lloyd,William Bennett, Aurele Nicolet, András Adorján, Jiri Valek, Jaime Martin, Emily Beynon,Lorna McGhee) and international flute competitions with great success (two 1st andthree 2nd prizes in different categories of competitions at the Summer Academy ofMusic in Semmering, winner of the International Flute Competition in Bukarest and the11th International Flute Competition in Timisoara). In 2008 and 2009, she received theFischer Annie scholarship, and in 2009 she was awarded the highly ranked Junior Prima prize.

Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy is an active orchestral player as well: she has been principal flutistof the Ventoscala Symphony Orchestra since 2003 and the Solti Chamber Orchestrasince 2008. From 2006 to 2008, she was principal flutist of the Royal Academy of MusicSymphony Orchestra in London. She has regurarly been invited as a guest principalflutist in the Fundación Excelentia Symphony Orchestra of Madrid since September 2013.

In 2008 and 2010, Zsuzsa was a teaching assistant of William Bennett at hisInternational Flute Summer Schools. She appeared as a soloist of international fluteconventions in Manchester and New York. Moreover, she regularly gives solo andchamber music concerts in Hungary and abroad. Zsuzsa is currently attending thedoctoral course of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, being also a teacher of theWeiner Leó Conservatory.

South African born pianist Anne Marshall has established herself as a leadingaccompanist based in London. Anne has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Collegeof Music in Advanced Performance, with accompaniment as principal study, where herteachers were Andrew Ball and Roger Vignoles. She was a recipient of an AssociatedBoard Scholarship, and received bursaries from both the Ernest Oppenheimer MemorialTrust and the Apollo Music Trust going on to become an Accompanist Junior Fellow atthe Royal College of Music, supported by the Anthony Saltmarsh Trust. Previousstudies include a Masters degree in performing arts from Pretoria University, studying


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programme

Gaubert: Troisième Sonate pour Flute et Piano1. Allegretto2. Intermède pastoral3. Final

Debussy: Rêverie

Reinecke: Sonata “Undine” Op. 167 1. Allegro 2. Intermezzo. Allegretto vivace 3. Andante tranquillo 4. Finale. Allegro molto agitato ed appassionato,

quasi Presto.

Ian Clark: Touching the Ether

Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso

under Professor Joseph Stanford. Annehas accompanied many distinguishedartists, including Samuel Coles –principal of the London PhilharmoniaOrchestra, Lorna McGhee – principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,Stefan Hoskuldsson – principal of theMetropolitan Orchestra New York, andshe is a is a regular accompanist for SirJames Galway, too. As a solo pianist,Anne has performed with a number ofinternational orchestras including theCape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, theChamber Orchestra of South Africa, theYouth Festival Orchestra of the CzechRepublic, and the Orchestra of theUniversity of Pretoria. Recentbroadcasts include accompanying SirJames Galway in February 2014 andAugust 2012 live on the BBC Radio 3program “In Tune”, and appearing onSummit TV, South Africa, in April 2011.


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

e BOOK LAUNCH

UK launch of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietaspublished in English by Corvina Press, 2014, translated into English by Bernard Adams and introduced by Wendy Bracewell Wendy Bracewell and Bernard Adams talk about the first travel book written in Hungarian

The Hungarian Cultural Centre and Corvina Press Budapest are pleased to jointlypresent to UK audiences the first complete English language translation of MártonSzepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas.

Márton Csombor was born in 1595 in Szepsi (Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia) and left in1616 to study in Gdansk, making the 700-mile journey on foot. In April 1618 he set outon the tour described in this book, returning to Szepsi in August. He was ordained inthe Calvinist Church and in 1619 became a schoolmaster in Kassa (Košice, Slovakia).Europica Varietas, the first travel book written in Hungarian, first appeared in 1620.


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Such is the vitality and sparkle of Márton Szepsi Csombor’sintensely personal narrative that even now the first Hungariantravelogue still holds a strong appeal for the modern reader, andthe success that greeted its publication four hundred years agocomes as no surprise. In the first complete translation of thework into English, the youthful author stands out as a vibrant,energetic personality, a shrewd observer and commentator witha lively interest in the variety of the places that he visits andthe people that he meets. His intention of sharing his experi -ences with his compatriots was amply achieved, and it is muchto be regretted that in 1622, at the age of only twenty-seven,the plague deprived him of further opportunities for travel andus of the chance to read about them.

Bernard Adams was born in 1937 in the English West Midlands. He was educated at KingEdward’s School, Birmingham, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1991 he retiredfrom teaching to concentrate on translating Hungarian literature, and lives in Zánka, Hungary.

Wendy Bracewell is Professor of Southeast European History at the School ofSlavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London, and director of a long-runningresearch project, ‘East Looks West’, that deals with East European travel writingabout Europe, 1550 to 2000.


Wednesday | 29 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LITERATURE

Magyars and makars: Tom Hubbard and Zsuzsanna Varga in conversation about Scottish and Hungarian poetry

Tom Hubbard, novelist, poet and scholar of Scottish literature hasheld professorships in Scottish and Comparative Literature at theUniversities of Connecticut and Grenoble. His interest in Hungarianpoetry stems from a meeting with the Hungarian poet and literaryhistorian Gyôzô Ferencz in Belgium. He has also taught at EötvösUniversity in Budapest. His fiction bears the mark of his passionfor reading literary works in a comparative context, attested to by his novel Marie B. (Ravenscraig Press, 2008), based on the lifeof the Ukrainian-born painter Marie Bashkirtseff.


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MAGYAR MINDOpen Lecture Series

His second novel, The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop has just been published by GraceNote Publications of Crieff, Scotland. It is subtitled ‘a grotesque mystery of Fife’ –and indeed his penchant for grotesquerie may owe as much to his mainland Europeanbackground as to his Scottishness, perhaps even more. Tom’s poetry has appeared in recent book-length poetry collections, such as The Chagall Winnocks (2011) andParapets and Labyrinths (2013). Tom is passionate about testing the capacities of the Scots language for modern poetic purposes.

Zsuzsanna Varga studied in her native Budapest and in Scotland,where she took her doctorate in Scottish literature. She researchedcomparative literature at the University of Essex and UCL, and shehas taught Hungarian studies at the University of Glasgow since2008. Her research interests focus around the concept of travel: of writers, ideas and texts. She has also compiled a bibliography of Hungarian literature in English translation, and regularly reviewsHungarian fiction for the TLS.

Tom and Zsuzsa have worked on Scottish-Hungarian translation projects for over a decade, first for the volume of Hungarian poetry translated into the languages ofScotland (At the end of the broken bridge, Manchester: Carcanet, 2005) and then thehistorical anthology of Scottish poetry in Hungarian translation Skót bárdok-magyarköltôk (Budapest: Ráció, 2007). They will be discussing their collaborations, includingtheir working methods in translation and editing. The programme will include a poetictribute to the painter Csontváry and a few of Tom’s own poems translated intoHungarian. With the Scots dimension this becomes not a bilingual but a trilingual event.


Thursday | 30 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK


Távlatot kapott az élet (A Life in Perspective): The Hungarian-French sculptor Ervin Pátkai (1937–1985)A memorial evening with Rev. Róbert Pátkai and Mátyás Sárközi

The Rt. Rev. Robert Patkai, brother of the artist and Mátyás Sárközi, a widely respectedLondon-based Hungarian writer, will present a personal account of Ervin Pátkai’s life and career on the occasion that a new book has been recently released about theHungarian-French sculptor, published by the Pátkai-Talent Program of the LutheranSecondary School and Art School of Békéscsaba. The Békéscsaba-born Ervin Pátkai,


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who left Hungary after the 1956 revolution, is remem -bered through the memoirs of friends, relatives andcontemporaries in the book Távlatot kapott az élet(A Life in Perspective).

The twenty-year-old Ervin Pátkai fled from Hungary to France in 1956 and settled in Paris where he soonstarted his studies at the École des Beaux Arts’Sculpture Department. After his graduation, heparticipated in the II. Paris Biennale in 1961 with hismonumental public art sculpture, the Kozmosz, forwhich he was given the Grand Prix of the year. The artwork was purchased and alsoexhibited for many years by the Musée d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris. From his grantmoney, Ervin Pátkai sponsored the Magyar Mûhely, the art journal of Hungarianimmigrants in France, which was founded by Hungarian artist in 1962.

The public art sculpture works of ErvinPátkai completely match the leadingtendencies of the 1960s emergingpost-modern conceptualism. Pátkai’slarge-scale ferroconcrete artworks are built around one or more axis withlabyrinthine paths, which arecomparable to an imagined Tower ofBabel. Pátkai was elected as memberof the selection committee of theParis Biennale in 1967, and by this timehe had already exhibited at severalgroup and international art shows. He started lecturing at the UniversitéParis Sorbonne in 1970. Later he wasinvited as member of the art committeeof the new urban construction, ’Le Pavé Neuf’. His oeuvre has beenacknowledged by the French ’Legion of Honour’ Order. He died unexpectedlyin Paris in 1985.

In 2006 the Hungarian University of Fine Art organized an exhibition of Ervin Pátkai’sartworks and this recently released book finally summerizes his unique artisticapproach in the context of such already widely appreciated Hungarian immigrants in France as Judit Reigl, Victor Vasarely, Simon Hantai and Tibor Csernus.

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Thursday | 6 November | 7pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE


Hungarians in the Ottoman Empire

Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were neighbours for almost 500 years, and therelations between the two varied greatly through that time—often obviously hostilebut also, on a more everyday level, mutually beneficial. One indication of the extent of Hungarian-Ottoman contact lies in the surprising number of Hungarians who lived in Ottoman lands. Some of the Hungarians who left Habsburg territory for refuge inthe Ottoman Empire after 1848, including Lajos Kossuth, are still widely remembered,but most ‘Ottoman’ Hungarians are much less known today. Frederick Anscombe willtalk about a few of these less-recognized figures and their contributions to Ottoman life,highlighting in particular İbrahim Müteferrika, a native of Kolozsvár who establishedthe first printing press in the empire in 1728.

Born in the US, Frederick Anscombe holds degrees from Yale University andPrinceton University, but he has lived in various countries of Europe and the Middle

East for most of the last 30 years. Currently he is SeniorLecturer in Contemporary History at Birkbeck, University ofLondon, and his research interests focus primarily upon thehistory of Arab and Balkan lands since the late seventeenthcentury. Among his publications are State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands (2014), The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar (1997), and The Ottoman Balkans 1750–1830 (edited volume, 2006).



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Friday | 7 November | 11am – 11.45am≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA


Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their FamiliesJointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre

+ For further information please see the event in October on page 12

Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or [email protected]

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

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES

Introducing Rita Schindler harpist

Hungarian harpist Rita Schindler is establishing a reputation as a notable musicianwhose playing has been described as being ‘beguiled with a broad range of colours’.She has given solo and chamber music recitals for a wide range of audiences and hasprovided entertainment for British and foreign royalties including HRH the Prince ofWales. Rita has performed professionally with numerous orchestras in Britain and

across Europe, most notably with the highly acclaimed Cityof Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Welsh NationalOpera and the Mid Wales Opera Company. As a soloist, Rita has performed harp concertos with the BirminghamChamber Orchestra, the Central England Ensemble and theSolihull Symphony Orchestra.

Rita began to sing and play the piano at the age of eight. At twelve she was accepted to Zoltán Kodály HungarianChoir School in Budapest, where she later began her harpstudies and in 2004 she was a prize-winner at theHungarian National Harp Competition. Rita began herundergraduate harp studies in 2007 with Catherine White at Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was awarded ascholarship. During her undergraduate years, Rita became a member of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra'syouth orchestra. In 2008 Rita was selected to be a Young

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programme

A. MudarraFantasia que contrahace la harpa de Ludovico

J. DowlandLacrimae Antique Pavan

P. HindemithSonata for Harp

G. FaureImpromptu for Harp, Op.86

Ph. HersantBamyan

C. SalzedoVariations of a Theme in an Ancient Style


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Artist of the Royal Philharmonic Society and became a recipientof a Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award. In 2010Rita won first prize with distinction in the chamber musiccompetition at the North London Festival of Music andDrama, and in 2012 she won the Concerto Competition of theCentral England Ensemble.

Rita has taken part in master classes with renowned harpistsincluding Isabelle Perrin, Karen Vaughan, Gabriella Dall'Olio,

Skaila Kanga, Milda Agazarian, Irina Zingg and Sioned Williams. Alongside her flourishingprofessional career, Rita is currently earning her Artist Masters in Performance at theGuildhall School of Music and Drama in London under the guidance of Imogen Barford.


1–15 November≥ The Place ✉ 17 Duke's Road, London WC1H 9PY

e DANCE

CURRENCY 2014

The Place and Crying Out Loud, in partnership with the European Commission and withthe support of EUNIC, curate in London a festival of fresh-thinking from the edges ofEuropean performance. This isnʼt straightforward dance, circus or theatre but

performance that blurs the borders of all three.These are ideas and forms that swap betweenpeople and places and land somewhere new.Currency is about exchange with added interest.

Hungary is represented at Currency 2014 byViktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár and Tamara ZsófiaVadas, performing their cutting-edge production‘Skin me’ on Wednesday 12 November.

Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas are three youngcontemporary dancers who started working together in the Bloom! dance company.Their first piece entitled ’The End Is Near’ premiered in 2012. This time they areworking independently from the company, as individual artists, staging an originalpiece based on highly personal ideas. Two young experimental musicians have alsojoined the creative process both as composers and active participants of theperformance: Ádám Czitrom and Áron Porteleki.

Δ For booking and further information please visit www.theplace.org.uk.


Wednesday | 12 November | 7pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE

Hungarian explorers: Sir Aurel Stein By Helen Wang, Curator of East Asian Money, British Museum

The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s highly successful MAGYAR MIND Open LectureSeries continues this season! British experts shed light on various aspects ofHungarian art and culture. The lectures are open to all and they cover Hungarian fine art, history, photography, cinema, fashion, architecture, language, literature and music among many others.

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) was born in Budapest in 1862. He studied Sanskrit, Old Persian, Indology andphilology at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig and Tübingen,and map-making as part of his military service in Budapest,before setting out for a career in India. His formal positionsfrom 1888 onwards were as registrar of Punjab Universityand principal of the Oriental College, Lahore and principal of the Calcutta Madrasah. But his real passion was theexploration of Central Asia, China, India and the Middle East.

Stein carried out three expeditions (the fourth was aborted)to the western regions of China between 1900 and 1916, wherehe not only conducted archaeological excavations, but alsogeographical and ethnographical surveys and photographing.Today, he is especially famous for 'discovering' the librarycave at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang.

Stein adopted British nationality in 1904 and he was knighted for his contribution toCentral Asian studies. In 1943, when he was in his 80s, Stein embarked on his long-awaitingexpedition to Afghanistan, but died in Kabul a week after his arrival in the country.

Stein’s Silk Road expeditions were funded by various institutions for which hepromised to collect archaeological and textual artefacts. The intention was that the finds would eventually be allocated proportionately to the funders. Stein’s firstexpedition (1900–01) was funded by the Government of India and the Government of Punjab and Bengal, and it was agreed that the finds should be studied in London and allocated to specific museums later.

Helen Wang looks after the Museum’s collection of East Asian coins and banknotes.Her special interests include the archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein (1862–1943), hisextensive collections, the Silk Road and the use of textiles as money. She has alsopublished other lesser known aspects of the British Museum’s East Asian money

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collection: for example, Chinese secret society money and membership certificates;the logistics of transporting copper for coinage in nineteenth century China; papermoney design in Shanghai in the 1900s; bronze token money of Jiangsu province in the 1930s; images of Mao Zedong on Chinese money in the twentieth century.


Tuesday | 25 November | 7pm (Private view)≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EXHIBITION


From Olympic Games to Death Exhibition and Remembrance

The exhibition pays tribute to those Hungarian Olympic champions, athletes andsports leaders of Jewish origin who died during the Holocaust. To those who becauseof their origin as inmates of a labour camp in Hungary or on front lines in the SecondWorld War or as prisoners in concentration camps suffered the death of martyrs. The exhibition accompanies them along their career throughout their glorious days of success until their discrimination, deprivation and death.

The exhibition also aims to show how important the role of Jewish athletes was in thecreation of the Hungarian and international Olympic movement, in its popularizationand booming Hungarian and international sports life. Visitors will be introduced to the main line of the Olympic champions and athletes such as Attila Petschauer, JánosGarai, dr Oszkár Gerde, András Székely, József Braun and Endre Kabos, not forgettingabout the Chess Olympics champions such as Endre Steiner and Lajos Steiner.

endre kabosjános garaiattila petschauer


There were also patrons and sports leaders of Jewishorigin who took a share in creating the institutionalinfrastructure of Hungarian and international sportslife and then became martyrs. Just to mention FerencKemény, who was the founder of the InternationalOlympic Committee and the Hungarian OlympicCommittee while also the brother–in–arms of baronPierre Coubertin. The legendary sports reporter andjournalist Alfréd Brüll should not be forgotten either,who was not only the leader and patron of MTK – theHungarian Physical Training Circle – but also thechairman of the Hungarian Swimming Association, the Hungarian and the International WrestlingAssociation and one of the founders of the HungarianFootball Association. Thus Brüll played an importantpart in the foundation of several sports, in which laterHungarian athletes became successful.

The VAC – Fencing and Athletics Club – which was founded in 1906and during the dark periods of history pursued and banned, wouldplay a significant role. It was a definitely Jewish sports club inBudapest, with thousands of Jewish sportsmen and sportswomen,Hungarian champions, members of Hungarian sports teams during

decades, among whom several people died during the Holocaust.The VAC still exists in Budapest under the name „ MACCABI VAC”.

This a good opportunity now to revive the memory of martyrs who were forgottenundeservedly and – taking advantage of the international interest – to organize anextraordinary exhibition, with series of programs, full of information and specialmaterials which haven’t been shown yet. We will dedicate a significant role to youngergenerations involving them in order to let them know about Hungarian sportsmen and sports leaders of Jewish origin, who laid down the base of the Hungarian olimpicsuccesses and sports glories in the Modern Era. They finished their mortal spanundeservedly, deprived of their dignity, in some cases suffered a death by torture, and their memory was let tarnished in the past sixty years.

Curators: dr. Lajos Szabó, György Szász, Ádám JusztinDirector: György Szász

Exhibition open: 25 Nov – 10 DecOpening hours: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm


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ferenc kemény


Thursday | 27 November | 8.30pm≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

Friday | 28 November | 7.30pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e JAZZ

Juli Fábián in London

The Hungarian Cultural Centre has regularly been bringing thebest Hungarian jazz talents to London as part of its long-termcooperation with the well-known 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea.

Jazz singer Juli Fábián is one of the boldest improvisativevocalists in Hungary, who rather than shunning them isactually looking for risks. She possesses probably the mostsensuous voice on the Hungarian scene. Her improvisationsare inventive and original. She can be sexy, romantic orhumorous – but always knows which one to be and when. Hersongs are approachable, often danceable but of a consistentlyhigh standard. Last time she performed in London sheabsolutely brought the house down at the legendary 606 Club.This time she will be backed by topline British musicians.

Δ Entry to the concert at 606 Jazz Club: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 [email protected], on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk

The concert at the Hungarian Cultural Centre is free but reservation is essential. Please call 020 72408448 or email [email protected]. To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/Hcclondon

Monday | 1 December≥ St Paul’s Church ✉ Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED

e CONCERT

Advent Concert Featuring the Joyful Company of Singers conducted by Peter BroadbentAnnouncing the winner of the Award For Hungarian Culture in the UK

In January 2014 the Hungarian Cultural Centre invited cultural and educationalorganisations for the third time to submit their applications for its Award For HungarianCulture in the UK. The winner of the award will be announced before the Adventconcert, which will thus also celebrate Hungarian culture and the award-winner.

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The Joyful Company of Singers was formed in 1988 by conductor Peter Broadbent to perform a diverse repertoire throughout the year in London and further afield. An important element of Joyful Company’s raison d’être is its commitment tocontemporary and new music, including a high proportion of first performances,

and supported by severalhighly successful educa -tional projects. Manycomposers have writtenmusic for Joyful Companysuch as Michael Berkeley,Judith Bingham, RoxannaPanufnik and MalcolmWilliamson among others.

The Joyful Company firstcame to prominence whenit won the Sainsbury’sChoir of the Year competi -tion in 1990. Since then ithas maintained its profilein the music world, winning

an impressive list of national and international competitions leading to many invita -tions. JCS regularly appears at major UK music festivals, including Bath, Aldeburgh,Cheltenham, City of London, Chelsea, Presteigne, Spitalfields, Three Choirs, HuddersfieldContemporary Music and the BBC Proms. Equally prominent in Europe, JCS hasperformed at festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia,broadcasting in many countries as well as on BBC and Classic FM.

The choir and Peter Broadbent were honoured to receive the “Guidoneum Award” from the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo in recognition of its achievements and promotion of choral music. In the USA, JCS has given concerts at Stanford University, in LosAngeles and San Diego, and appeared at the National Convention of the AmericanChoral Directors’ Association, in Texas.

Performances with orchestras include many with the City of London Sinfonia with the late Richard Hickox and with Sir Mark Elder, Nicholas Kraemer and StuartBedford, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Sir Andrew Davies), the BBC ConcertOrchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, etc.


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Peter Broadbent is one of Britain’s leading choral conductors, enjoying a versatilecareer with an extensive repertoire ranging from Baroque Music performed on periodinstruments to contemporary music, including many first performances. Broadbent

has conducted the London Mozart Players, DivertimentiChamber Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Southern Sinfonia, the GuildfordPhilharmonic Orchestra, Apollo Voices and the BBC Singers,broadcasting frequently on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.Engagements outside the UK include concerts with theDebrecen Philharmonic Orchestra & Kodály Chorus in Hungaryand a broadcast with the National Chamber Choir in Dublin.

In 2003 he conducted an Atelier at the XV Europa Cantat in Barcelona, and in 2006 the world Youth Choir in their Summer session, giving concerts in Italy, Switzerland,France, Belgium and Germany. He adjudicates at International Choral Competitions all over Europe and in the UK. He gives seminars and masterclasses in the UK, France,Italy, South Africa, the USA and Canada. In 2007 he was awarded the “Pro CulturaHungarica” Prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Hungaryfor his contribution to strengthening Anglo-Hungarian cultural relations.

St Paul's Church, also commonly known as the Actors' Church, was designed by InigoJones as part of a commission by Francis Russell. As well as being the parish church of Covent Garden, it gained its nickname by a long association with the theatrecommunity. The Hungarian Cultural Centre organised its first highly successful Advent concert in St Paul's Church in 2012 and we are returning this year with anotherfantastic concert programme and famous London-based choir singing pieces ofHungarian composers.


Friday | 5 December | 11am – 11.45am≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA


Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their FamiliesJointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre

+ For further information please see the event in October on page 12.

Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or [email protected]

27 Sept, 6pm≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’sRoad, London, W6 8RDAnnual General Meeting

o Free but booking is required. Pleaseemail [email protected]

25 Oct, 6pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little EalingLane, London, W5 4EARemembering the HungarianUprising of 1956

o Free entry. For more informationplease email [email protected]

maosz (national federation

of hungarians in the uk)

Every Sunday, 5pm≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’sRoad, London, W6 8RD

Worship and Sunday School forchildren

Every first Sunday of the month, 3pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’sRoad, London, W6 8RDWomen’s Circle

7 Sept, 5pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’sRoad, London, W6 8RDFirst worship in the new academic year

29 Nov, 12am–3pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little EalingLane, London, W5 4EAChirstmas Market

the hungarian reformed

church in the uk

All October ≥ Museum of Cambridge

Hungarian Embroidery Exhibition

11 Oct, 7.30 pm ≥ West Road Concert Hall,Cambridge

Howard Williams dir. HungarianConcert – Cambridge Sinfonia

Orchestra: Kodály – Háry János,Bartók – Piano Concerto 3 , withErvin Nagy, Seiber – Viola Elegy,with Penny Veryard.

12 Oct ≥ Fitzwilliam College Chapel,Cambridge

Tyrone Landau (tenor) & Geoffrey Morris (guitar), perform lunchtime concert

CD launch; A most attractiveoccupation: Seiber Folk Song Cycles(CDs on sale)

18 Nov ≥ ARU, East Road, Cambridge

Film evening: Károly Makk’sAnother Way or a Mikós Jancsófilm

cambridge szeged society

programme

7 Sept, 1pm ≥ SS Peter and Paul Church, 38 Camborne Avenue, London, W13 9QZ

The Feast of St Stephen of Hungary

Sung Mass at 1pm. Celebrant andpreacher: Dr. György Jakubinyi,Archbishop of the Roman CatholicArchdiocese of Alba Julia,Transylvania. The St Stephen Choir will perform during the Mass.Conductor: Gergely Kaposi. Liturgywill be followed by lunch at StStephen House (62 Little EalingLane, W5 4EA). We will also becelebrating the 60th Anniversary of ARKME (Association of RomanCatholics in Great Britain).

o Advanced booking only. For tickets please visitwww.ticketsource.co.uk/date/111940or call 07858399572

27 Sept, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London

Autumn Ball

With three course dinner, live music,folk dance presentation and raffle prizes.


25 Oct, 6pm ≥ St Stephen House, London

Remembering the HungarianUprising of 1956

o For further information pleasecontact the MAOSZ Director, MártaLindop: [email protected]

8 Nov, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London

Disznótoros Lakoma (Pigfest) With dinner, live music, folk danceand raffle prizes.


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For more information on theHungarian Reformed Church’sprogramme please call 02087488858

oFor further information on theCambridge Szeged Societyprogramme please visit www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

hcc recommends

Hungarians in the North of England (Észak-angliai magyarok) offer regularcommunity and cultural events.

o Further information:www.facebook.com/groups/eszakangliaimagyarprogramok

hcc recommends

17 Oct, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Nick Thorpe: A Journey Upriverfrom the Black Sea to the Black Forest

Nick Thorpe, a BBC journalist andfilm maker based in Budapest,introduces his book about theDanube (Yale, 2013)

24 Oct, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Judit Bródy: Ancient Networking –Letterwriting from the 15th to the20th century

Judit was a science librarian and isan author of several books

7 Nov, 8pm≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Trevor Haydu-Jones: ‘Lost Property-One Coronet’

The story of the Margit crowncurrently in the Nemzeti Múzeum in Budapest and the provenance of which has been obscure.

21 Nov, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

A discussion of the book The Door (Az Ajtó) by MagdaSzabó (translated by Len Rix)

28 Nov, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

An evening of Jazz with singerKatalin Sztankovics

September≥ Various venues across the UK

Scalarama in association with A Nos Amours present Béla Tarr’stouchstone of durational cinema –Sátántangó in a brand new 35mmprint. This legendary film, running atjust over 7 hours, deals with thecollapse of a collectivised Soviet-era farm in rural Hungary.

o For more information please visitwww.scalarama.com

oxford hungarian society

michaelmas term 2014

oFor further information please visitwww.hungsoc.com

13 Sep 10am–1.30pm OPEN DAY27 Sep, 11 & 25 Oct, 8 & 29 Nov,6 Dec 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey

Educational activities for childrenon Saturdays

Hungarian language, music,folkdance, craft, play groups forchildren (0–14 yrs’ old)

3 Oct, 7 Nov, 5 Dec, 11–11.45am≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

Kodály-based Singing and MusicGroups for Children (0–5 yrs’ old)and their families

o Tickets: £6.50 /1st child, £4.00 /2nd

child. Advanced booking only.Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 [email protected]

13 & 27 Sep, 11 & 25 Oct, 8 & 29Nov, 6 Dec, 10am–1.30pm≥ HCA, Guildford, Surrey

Hungarian language groups for adults on Saturdays

o Tickets: please contact MariaChambers for fee information.Advanced booking only.Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 [email protected]

15 & 29 Sep, 13 Oct, 3 & 17 Nov,1 Dec, 8–10pm ≥ HCA, Guildford, Surrey

Hungarian folkdance and folksinging group

o Tickets: please contact MariaChambers for fee information.Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 [email protected]

21 Sep, 10.30am–2pm ≥ Alice Holt Forest Farnham Surrey

Community event IAutumn 10 km cycling and 5 km walking challenge for all

o Free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, parking fees apply.Advanced booking only.

6 Dec, 11am–2pm

Cultural event IHungarian traditions –Celebrating St Nicolaus Day

o free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, £8.00/guests.Advanced booking only

hungarian cultural association’s programme

oFor further information on theHungarian Cultural Association’sprogramme please contact MariaChambers. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.ukwww.magyartanodaguildford.org.ukwww.hcaguildford.org.uk andwww.magyartanodaguildford.org.uk

scalarama

hcc recommends

5 Sep, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central BaptistChurch, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue,London, WC2H 8EP

Soma Mamagésa: Self-confidence,self-love, self-healing

o Tickets: £22, in advance £18.

stage in london

19 Nov, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central BaptistChurch, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue,London, WC2H 8EP

Péter Kálloy-Molnár: Ôsember ‘Caveman’ A one-man play about relationshipsbetween men and women.

2 Dec, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central BaptistChurch, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue,London, WC2H 8EP

Prof. Dr. Emôke Bagdy’s lecture

o Tickets: £22, in advance £18.

26 Oct, 6pm ≥ St John’s Waterloo Church’Memorial Day’ Concert

Programme: Beethoven: EgmontOverture, Hubay: Violin Concert No. 2,soloist: Vilmos Oláh, Beethoven:Symphony No. 5. Conducted by Edward Farmer.

o Tickets: £15, concession : £12Tickets in advance: £12, concession: £9

6 Dec, 7.30pm ≥ St John’s Waterloo ChurchChristmas Concert

Programme: Flute and Harp Concert, soloists: Edit Paulik (flute) and Rita Schindler (harp), Surprise composer: guitar concert (based on Kodály-motifs), soloist: Gábor Podhorszky, Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Conducted by Edward Farmer.

o Tickets: £15, concession : £12Tickets in advance: £12, concession: £9

11 Jan 2015, 6pm ≥ Venue TBC New Year’s Gala Concert

Programme includesStrauss and other popularclassical music pieces.

THE HUNGARIAN

CULTURAL CENTRE IS

SEEKING STUDENT

AMBASSADORS TO

PROMOTE HUNGARIAN

CULTURE AT THEIR OWN

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P lea se send us a n em a il w ith yo ur C V a nd m o tiva tio n letter by Friday 14 November.F o r f ur ther in f o rm a tio n p lea se v isit o ur web site www.hungary.org.uk

For further information please visit www.stageinlondon.com

london hungarian symphony orchestra (lhso) For further information please visit www.lhso.co.uk

HUNGARIAN CULTURE CALLING!

D o you have what it takes to be an ambassador? A re you passionate about H ungarian culture?

A re you ready to share it at your own U niversity? T hen why not apply for the position of H ungarian

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The HCC team:

Dr Beata Pászthy PhD | Cultural and Scientific Counsellor – DirectorGyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Barbara Révész | Junior Programme Manager Andrea Kós | Office ManagerFruzsina Kováts | Finance ManagerBalázs Szaszák | IT Consultant

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 London10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NATel: 020 7240 8448 • Fax: 020 7240 4847E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]

If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events and sign up for our newsletter, please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk.Alternatively, find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/hcclondon and Twitter @HCCLondon. Thank you for your interest.

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