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Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri – Transylvanian Concert at Opus Jazz Club

Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on May 3, 2016

Where

Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894

When

Wed, May 11, 2016
21:00

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About

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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