Opening concert of the series “Great Composers on the World's Stages: George Enescu – Béla Bartók”, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute Budapest
Featuring:
Lucian Ban - piano
Mat Maneri - violin
Romanian-born pianist Lucian Ban and Grammy-nominated violinist Mat Maneri first worked together in 2009 in the Enescu Re-Imagined octet conceived as a celebration and a contemporary jazz re-imagination of the works of the great Romanian composer George Enescu. Couple of years later the two musicians joined up for a concert in the opera house in Targu Mures in the middle of Romania’s Transylvania region. Their music was, as Jazz Times puts it, “as close as it gets to Goth jazz.” Released in 2013 by ECM Records, their Transylvanian Concert album features a program of self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. The album has won critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, including several Best Album of 2013 awards, and has spawned continuous touring. With lots of influences from Enescu and Bartók in their compositions, their concert at the Opus Jazz Club will be also the opening event of the series “Great Composers on the World's Stages: George Enescu – Béla Bartók”, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute Budapest to different stages countrywide....
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Opening concert of the series “Great Composers on the World's Stages: George Enescu – Béla Bartók”, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute Budapest
Featuring:
Lucian Ban - piano
Mat Maneri - violin
Romanian-born pianist Lucian Ban and Grammy-nominated violinist Mat Maneri first worked together in 2009 in the Enescu Re-Imagined octet conceived as a celebration and a contemporary jazz re-imagination of the works of the great Romanian composer George Enescu. Couple of years later the two musicians joined up for a concert in the opera house in Targu Mures in the middle of Romania’s Transylvania region. Their music was, as Jazz Times puts it, “as close as it gets to Goth jazz.” Released in 2013 by ECM Records, their Transylvanian Concert album features a program of self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. The album has won critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, including several Best Album of 2013 awards, and has spawned continuous touring. With lots of influences from Enescu and Bartók in their compositions, their concert at the Opus Jazz Club will be also the opening event of the series “Great Composers on the World's Stages: George Enescu – Béla Bartók”, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute Budapest to different stages countrywide.
Pianist Lucian Ban was raised in a small village in northwest Transylvania, and grew up listening to both traditional and classical music. He studied composition at the Bucharest Music Academy while simultaneously leading his own jazz groups. His approach to improvisation has been influenced by the profound musical contributions of Romanian modern classical composers like Aurel Stroe, Anatol Vieru and of course Enesco. Desire to get closer to the source of jazz brought him to the US, and since moving from Romania to New York in 1999 his ensembles have included many of New York’s finest players.
Over the course of a twenty-five year career, Mat Maneri has defined the voice of the viola and violin in jazz and improvised music. Born in Brooklyn in 1969, Maneri has established an international reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, praised for his high degree of individualism, a distinctive marriage of jazz and microtonal music, and his work with 20th century icons of improvised music. In 1990, Mat co-founded the legendary Joe Maneri Quartet with his father, drummer Randy Peterson and bassists Ed Schuller and John Lockwood. The quartet’s recordings for ECM Records, Hatology and Leo Records were widely acknowledged by critics and fellow musicians as among the most important developments in 20th century improvised music. Maneri’s 1999 solo debut on ECM Records marked his emergence as a musician with a singular, uncompromised voice. Since then, the long list of musicians with whom he has worked includes icons such as Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, Paul Motian and William Parker, as well as influential bandleaders such as Joe Morris, Vijay Iyer, Matthew Shipp, Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Leandre, Kris Davis, Tim Berne and Craig Taborn. Maneri’s recordings as a leader (trio, quartet and quintet) have been documented on Hatology, Aum Fidelity, Leo Records and Thirsty Ear.
Tickets are available for 1800 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket, at jegy.hu and here.
When purchasing tickets online, please don't forget your table reservation, as seating at the Opus jazz Club can only be guaranteed in this case. Tel: (+36 1) 216 7894.
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