Fonogram - Hungarian Music Awards Winners Announced

2011. March 04.

On March 2, 2011 the Fonogram - Hungarian Music Awards were presented for the 19th time. Several artists, bands and orchestras were recognised in the various categories who have either previously performed at the Palace of Arts or will be doing so in the near future.

In the category of Jazz Album of the Year, the winner was Fekete-Kovács Quintett and the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra for their album Integro/Grandeur, which the audience will have a chance to enjoy live on the 15th of April at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.
World Music Album of the Year and Authentic Folk Music Album of the Year were both performed for the very first time at the Palace of Arts. In the former category, the award went to Nikola Parov’s Dreamtime, which was first performed on the 6th of October 2010 at the Festival Theatre by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. The piece will be staged two more times by the Palace of Arts in the spring of 2011, on March 6 and May 4. In the other category, the winner was Rendhagyó prímástalálkozó – Prímás Parádé (Extraordinary Fiddlers’ Meeting). The performance involving the greatest musicians of the genre that served as the basis for the recording proved to be a huge success on May 30, 2009.
Barnabás Kelemen, Zoltán Kocsis and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra took home the award for Hungarian Classical Music Album of the Year for their Bartók Violin Concerto recorded at the Palace of Arts.
The award for Alternative Music Album of the Year was presented to Bin-Jip for the album Enter.  The band performed at the Palace of Arts in the fall of 2010 during the Electronic Music Festival, while the band’s singer Veronika Harcsa will be taking to the stage of the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall at the closing night of Jazz Spring 2011 with her other group, the Veronika Harcsa Quartet.

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