Luca Kézdy, a classical-trained violinist, won the Audience Award at the Hungarian Radio Jazz Violin Competition in 2006. In addition to her own project, Santa Diver, and solo performances, she has collaborated with numerous musicians on various projects, including Chris Potter, Stefano Di Battista, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Zoltán Lantos, Tibor Márkus, Mihály Borbély, Ágnes, Ádám Török, and Tereskova, to name just a few. She has performed at all major Hungarian festivals and clubs, as well as at numerous international jazz festivals such as the Chelsea Music Festival (NYC), Sparks & Visions Jazz Festival (DE), Voll Damm Festival Jazz Vic (E), Gaume Jazz Festival (B), Südtirol Jazzfestival (IT), Cairo Jazz Festival (ET), and Kietzsalon Festival (DE)....
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Luca Kézdy, a classical-trained violinist, won the Audience Award at the Hungarian Radio Jazz Violin Competition in 2006. In addition to her own project, Santa Diver, and solo performances, she has collaborated with numerous musicians on various projects, including Chris Potter, Stefano Di Battista, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Zoltán Lantos, Tibor Márkus, Mihály Borbély, Ágnes, Ádám Török, and Tereskova, to name just a few. She has performed at all major Hungarian festivals and clubs, as well as at numerous international jazz festivals such as the Chelsea Music Festival (NYC), Sparks & Visions Jazz Festival (DE), Voll Damm Festival Jazz Vic (E), Gaume Jazz Festival (B), Südtirol Jazzfestival (IT), Cairo Jazz Festival (ET), and Kietzsalon Festival (DE).
In March 2017, she had her own authorial evening at the Palace of Arts. In 2019, she received the Artisjus Performer Award. Her debut solo album, Home, was released in December 2022, followed by Unseen Landscapes in autumn 2023, which was accompanied by her first solo exhibition of the same title. She represented Hungary as a delegate artist at the Babylon Europa 2024 international meeting organized by Eunic Berlin and was the musical performer at the opening of the Hungarian exhibition held at the European Council building in July this year.
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