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Binder Quartet - Album Debut Concert at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on December 9, 2014
Where
Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894
When
Fri, December 12, 2014
21:00
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Musicians
About
Featuring:
Károly Binder - piano
Mihály Borbély - saxophone
Tibor Fonay - double bass
Ákos Benkó - drums
Pianist, composer and university teacher at Liszt Ferenc Music Academy, Károly Binder is a significant musician, who vows his talent to new trends, alternative cultures and composition tecnhiques as well as to the synthesis of improvisation systems, without forgetting his own original musical roots. Binder is an autonomous musician whose compositions and piano playing do not represent one single style or genre category. He is a multidimensional artist with unbending determination, who – from the early 70s – moves along the chosen road on which he had no former Hungarian predcessors. In the development of Károly Binder as a composer, the grandiose ouvre of Béla Bartók as well as the folk music of the Carpathian basin, the early Hungarian homeland of the Volga and Kama, and even the American repetitive school of Steve Reich clearly can be traced. Binder is an autonomous musician who apart from playing in his different bands he likes to express his own ideas the best with his solo piano playing. As a solo pianist he is trying to push the boundaries of the modes of expression, so the prepared piano and the different percussive effects cannot be missing from his set of instruments....