At the 2008 Jazz Showcase organised by the Palace of Arts, the audience could discover for itself just what treasures are stored away in Hungarian jazz, and how many different directions are being explored. At the concert in the Banner Hall, we heard for the first time Miklós Borbély and the Márton Fenyvesi band, and this led to numerous engagements at Hungarian concert venues and festivals. And while we have seen András Dés, Mátyás Szandai and Szabolcs Oláh countless times in numerous formation...s, this was the first time that their trio performed before an audience at the Palace of Arts, where they performed András Dés’s compositions. Brand new experiments by young yet experienced musicians could be enjoyed at the showcase as well as younger performers, some still at college, who maybe were performing for the very first time. In January 2009, the Festival Theatre and Banner Hall will be filled again with a fresh dynamism. During this three-day series, jazz lovers and Europe’s most influential professionals as well as invited critics and producers can hear the best in up and coming Hungarian jazz from 16.00. At 20.00, as last year, leading senior Hungarian jazz musicians will show off the diversity of jazz. This time three keyboard artists will be giving a concert each in the Festival Theatre. Károly Binder is a musician following his own rules: a lonely creator whose piano play and compositions do not fit any category of style or genre. Since the late 1970’s, the versatile musician has followed the course he set for himself, on which he had no predecessors in Hungary at all, with uncompromising consistency. In his development as a musician, alongside the grandiose oeuvre of Bartók, traces of the folklore treasure from the Carpathian Basin are reflected just as clearly as tunes from the region of the rivers Volga and Kama, the land of origin of the Magyars, while the influence of the American repetitive school joined with the name of Steve Reich are felt just the same. Binder’s work has been acknowledged, among others, with the Ferenc Erkel Prize and the eMeRTon Award to the best pianist, and he has also proven to be the best at numerous international jazz competitions.
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