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Júlia Karosi Quartet (hu) at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on April 23, 2019
Where
Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894
When
Sat, May 11, 2019
20:00
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Musicians
About
Júlia Karosi has been known on the Hungarian jazz scene as a defining figure in the genre for years now. In 2009, she founded the Júlia Karosi Quartet, whose repertoire consists mostly of her original compositions, a blend of classical music and modern jazz. Her 2014 album Hidden Roots, released in New York, delves deeply into the relationship between her musical roots and jazz. This exploration produced original compositions and Hungarian folk song arrangements which received critical acclaim both at home and abroad. Motivated by this success, Karosi continued her research into the deeply rooted culture of Hungarian music, where she found renewed inspiration at the source: the works of Bartók and Kodály. Since 2018, she has been working on vocal arrangements of Bartók and Kodály works on a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts. ...