The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians.

Sir Georg Solti
Gábor Gadó Quintet

15 May 2021, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

Jazz it!

Gábor Gadó Quintet Presented by Liszt Academy

Streamed only

Gábor Gadó (guitar), János Ávéd (tenor saxophone), Kristóf Bacsó (soprano and tenor saxophone), András Halmos (drums), Balázs Horváth (double bass)

Guitarist Gábor Gadó is a living legend on the music scene of Europe. His philosophically profound and soaring, unique and original music that simply cannot be pigeonholed into one genre or another exploded like a comet into the public consciousness in the years around the turn of the millennium. By that time Gadó had lived and worked in France for many years. His music is rooted in avant-garde and free styles but he himself far surpassed these definitions, establishing the unique, so-called Gadó style, which has since attracted many devotees both here in Hungary and abroad. The guitarist, winner of the Bobby Jaspar Prize, has headlined at all the leading festivals in Europe and around the world, while he has released nearly a dozen solo albums. He only rarely performs in Hungary but these concerts are always extremely important events in the musical life of our country. This is no different now, when he takes to the stage of the Liszt Academy in the company of his quintet made up of top Hungarian jazz musicians.

 
 
Stream free of charge at the website, Facebook page and Youtube channel of the Liszt Academy.
 

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Supporter:

This concert was supported, in line with the Government decree 1290/ 2020. (VI.5) related to cultural institutions, in order to ease the economic difficulties caused by the Covid19 pandemic.