KURTÁG 95 LIVE STREAM

BMC
18 February, 2021, Thursday, 19:30

Program:

Hankyeol Yoon: Hipab – Premiere
Leonardo Marino: Previsioni del tempo – Premiere
Ligeti György: Aventures
Ligeti György: Nouvelles Aventures
Kurtág György: ... pas à pas - nulle part ... – Hungarian Premiere
Kurtág György: Four Poems by Anna Akhmatova

Conductor:

Péter Eötvös

Gergely Vajda

Martin Rajna 

Jonas Bürgin

Featuring:

Andrea Jőrös – soprano

Devi Suriani – alto

Sarah Defrise – mezzo

Daniel Nicholson – baritone

UMZE Ensemble

Budapest Music Center celebrates György Kurtág's 95th birthday with a four-day online festival. The opening event is organized in cooperation with the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation. The concert introduces the mentored composers and conductors participating in the Foundation's masterclass, while the professors, Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda also make an appeareance as conductors, celebrating the life and works of György Kurtág. The free live stream will be available on BMC's website and Youtube channel, and on the Facebook pages of BMC and the Peter Eötvös Foundation.