Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Mar-Jun 2011

HCCHungarian Cultural Centrel o n d o n

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1 Mar ≥ page 03

• lecture

Philately – A CulturalBridge

4–8 Mar ≥ page 04

• concert

Lisztomania

9 Mar ≥ page 05

• exhibition

Spicy Collection in London

12 Mar ≥ page 06

• celebration

Hungarian National Day

15–17 Mar ≥ page 06

• dance

DancEUnion DanceFestival

16 Mar ≥ page 07

• dance

In ‘N’ Out – CompanyZadam

15 Mar–16 April ≥ page 08

• exhibition, music,

literature

The Art of Blending in

17 Mar ≥ page 09

• lecture

Public Parks and Urban Spaces

21 Mar ≥ page 10

• monday music soirees

Recitals of the Students of Trinity Laban

24 Mar ≥ page 11

• film club

Poligamy

5, 12, 17, 19, 24 Apr≥ page 12

• film

Hungarians in Glasgow

5 Apr ≥ page 13

• concert

Cseke Gábor Trió

7 Apr ≥ page 13

• talk

Liszt and the KeyboardFranz Liszt in our time

11 Apr ≥ page 14

• literature

Launching ÁgnesLehóczky’s book on Ágnes Nemes Nagy

17 Apr ≥ page 15

• concert

Tamás Vásáry and Tamás Érdi

21 Apr ≥ page 16

• film club

The Seventh Circle

26 Apr ≥ page 17

• monday music

soirees extra

Gábor Somfai

27 Apr ≥ page 18

• exhibition & talk

A different look

6–9 May ≥ page 20

• film festival

Europe’s Cold War in Film

7–8 May ≥ page 20

• festival

May Fair in Regent’s Park– Spiegeltent

11 May ≥ page 21

• literature

European Literature Night

16 May ≥ page 22


Péter Tóth

25 May ≥ page 23

• literature, concert

Launch of John Spurling’sBook of Liszts

29 May ≥ page 24

• film

Csiribiri

2 Jun – 8 Jul ≥ page 25

• exhibition

Unfoldingby Andrea Bátorfi

6 Jun ≥ page 26


Guildhall School studentsConcert

9 Jun ≥ page 28

• jazz

Péter Rozsnyói at the HCC

16 Jun ≥ page 28

• film club

Bibliothéque Pascal

23 & 24 Jun ≥ page 29

• world music

Muzsikás

25 Jun ≥ page 30

• world music

Söndörgô

30 Jun – 2 Oct ≥ page 31

• exhibition

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Tuesday | 1 March | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e LECTURE

the hungarian philatelic society of great britain presents

Philately – A Cultural Bridge

Have you ever looked at postage stamps or postmarks and wondered what they tell youabout a country’s history, language, culture and science? Philately is often thought of asa posh word for stamp collecting but in fact it embraces study of virtually all aspects ofcommunications using postal services. The Hungarian Philatelic Society of Great Britainwill be here to explain why the fascinating subject of Hungarian philately attracts collectors world-wide and how it offers a very special way of experiencing at first handHungarian life throughout the last four centuries.

The earliest Hungarian postal services of the modern era date from the Renaissance but until the 19th century mail was mainly for official purposes and the volume wassmall. Postage stamps were introduced in 1850 and in 1867 the Hungarian Post Office(Magyar Posta) became independent. This is the classic period of Hungarian philately.Great collections of it have been formed and intensive research has generated manyimportant books. The wars and political upheavals of the early 20th century also gener-ated a lot of postal material that has been a subject for philatelic research ever since. In more peaceful times Magyar Posta has produced regular new issues of commemo-rative stamps celebrating virtually every aspect of Hungarian life. Many of these are intricate and beautiful, and fully justify the description of miniature works of art.

The Hungarian Philatelic Society was formed in 1964 to promote the study of Hungarianphilately and foster links with collectors in Hungary and elsewhere. It has close linkswith the Hungarian Philatelic Federation (MABEOSZ), and the Institute for PhilatelicResearch (MAFITT) whose President (Mr Gábor Visnyovszki) is our Patron. The Societyhas about 140 members in the UK and around the world and produces four journals ayear. It meets and holds auctions twice a year at Thame in Oxfordshire.

Δ Further details are on the Society’s website at www.hpsgb.netFree. For reservations, please call 020 72406162 or e-mail [email protected]

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≥ Royal College of Music ✉ Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS

e CONCERT

LisztomaniaThe HCC helps the promotion of this series of concerts in celebration of Liszt.

Friday | 4 March | 6 pm≥ Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, RCMDiscovering LisztA lecture recital given by the renowned concert pianist and Liszt scholar, Leslie Howard.

Saturday | 5 March | 5 pm≥ Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, RCMHungarian MiniaturesA recital of pieces by Liszt, Heller and Kurtág.

Sunday | 6 March | 11 am≥ Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, RCMCsárdásLiszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies and other Hungarian folk dances and folk songs, and Hungarian dancers in celebration of Liszt.

Δ All the events are part of Lisztomania, the RCM Piano Festival.Free, no tickets required. For further information please visit www.rcm.ac.uk

Monday | 7 March | 1.05 pm≥ Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, RCMGrand DuoRCM pianists joined by singers and instrumentalists for a celebration of Hungarian music.

Monday | 7 March | 6 pm≥ Parry Room 3, RCMLiszt and Bach for OrganThe RCM’s organ recital including Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on the name of B.A.C.H.

Tuesday | 8 March | 6 pm≥ Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, RCMPiano Masterclass with Tamás VásáryThe highly distinguished Hungarian concert pianist Tamás Vásáry works with RCM pianists.

The Hungarian Cultural Centre is proud tointroduce Éva Harangi and her collection of still lives. Éva’s ad hoc showcase titled Stillin the HCC is a rare gem from mid-February till mid-March for all visitors to enjoy. Herpaintings are skillfully executed and are softbut powerful; she focuses on representingnature idiosyncratically by using bold coloursin acrylic and oil.

In 2008 Éva Harangi attended The Heatherley’sSchool of Fine Art in Chelsea, to widen herartistic skills in the fields of portraiture, sculpture and printmaking. In 2009 Heatherleyawarded her its prize for painting. She is currently based in London where the multicul-tural and colourful atmosphere has greatlyinfluenced her most recent work.

Wednesday | 9 March | 6 pm ≥ Private viewexhibition open: 7 – 14 march

≥ Chelsea Library Gallery (Public library) ✉ Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, SW3 5EZ

e EXHIBITION

The Art Moments project – Spicy Collection in London

Art Moments is a Hungarian civil initiative, an artistic ‘Tour de Force’ that materializedfirst in the winter months of 2010 in downtown Budapest, the capital of Hungary andwas organised by the team of Hybrid Art Management. The project had over 50 venues

including thefinest of galleriesas well as bars,restaurants, clubshosting 600 worksof art by 80 youngartists.

‘Spicy Collection’is the collection of the 30 worksvoted and judgedto be the most

exiting ones representing the contemporary art of the young generation of today’sHungary. Besides the professional jury’s picks, the visitors of the venues (130.000 visitors in 3 weeks) could vote (over 27.000 votes!) on their favorites both through the official website of the event ww.artmoments.hu and via the official Facebook site(Art Moments) as well.

Spicy Collection will be hosted by the Hungarian Cultural Centers of Germany/Berlin,UK/London, Italy/Rome and Austria/Vienna between February & April 2011. This eventgives young artists (aged 18 to 35) the opportunity to enter the international scene.

The roadshow arrives to London at the Chelsea Library Gallery and will be officiallyopened by Dr Ildikó Takács, the director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre. Enjoy thecollection with a glass of Hungarian wine with the organisers at the Private View on 9 March at 6 pm or simply take a stroll through the exhibition between 7–14 Marchduring opening hours.

Δ Admission free. For Private View reservations, please call 020 72406162 or e-mail [email protected]. Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday ≥ 9.30 am – 8 pm, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday ≥ 9.30 am – 5 pm, Sunday ≥ 1 pm – 5 pm


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11 Saturday | 12 March | 5 pm

≥ Szent István Ház ✉ 62 Little Ealing Lane, London W5 4EA

e REMEMBRANCE CELEBRATION

15 March – Hungarian National Day in Remembrance of 1848/1849

The event is organised by the National Federation of Hungarians (MAOSZ) to rememberthe Revolution and the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49, when prominentpolitical figures and writers led Hungary to rise against the oppressing Habsburg rule.

programme

HE János Csák, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary in London opens the event

The Life and Poetry of Mihály Vörösmarty: Hope in spite of hopelessness – talk by Robert Pátkai

Timea Hegedûs’ piano recital

Ádám Horváth and Attila Korpos’ poetry recital

Δ For further information please contact Márta Lindop, President of MAOSZ. Tel: 01444 414042 or [email protected]. Donation of £2 per person requested to cover expenses.

15 – 17 March≥ Southbank Centre ✉ Belvedere Road, London SE1

e DANCE

DancEUnion Dance Festival

Following the success of its first edition, dancEUnion returns to Southbank Centre with three mixed-bill evenings, each featuring a selection of excerpts from full-length performances. With physical theatre, exclusive UK premiers and programme of free events, this is a packed dance festival from emerging choreographers eager to engage, make you think or simply make you smile.

DanceEUnion’s performing artists take part in a series of professional workshops during which they have the chance to work together with their European counterpartsand forge links for possible future collaborations (Thursday 10–Sunday 13 March at the Southbank Centre).

Δ To book your ticket contact the Southbank Centre on 08444 847 9910 or www.southbankcentre.co.uk


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Wednesday | 16 March | 6.30 pm≥ The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

In ‘N’ Out Part of DancEUnion Festival

Ádám Zambrycki and Dániel Szász Company Zadam, Hungary

All the world’s a stage. If this is true, our life is a single performance. The writers,directors, heroes and extras, even the audience, are the performance. The work of Ádám Zambrycki and Dániel Szász is entertaining, playful and ironic, merging

contemporary dance with stand-up comedy.

The performance reacts to thepresent-day problems thrown up on a global level by the balancebetween quality and quantity, artand commodity, show-business andself-expression. The gradually blur-ring boundaries between genresand the different expectations ofaudiences often have a contrastingimpact on one another. All this cre-ates interesting situations for boththe artists and the audience.

‘The performance by Ádám Zambrzycki and Dániel Szász is seasoned with self-ironyand a demand for criticism and self-criticism, in which they scrupulously put them-selves under the microscope. On this occasion entertainment is not an end in itself: it holds up a mirror to creation and criticism, to the method of performance and inter-pretation. Their humour is intelligent, and they do not overstate the problem of criti-cism but hit the mark with a few very accurately formulated, well-aimed sentences.The complex, very humorous In'N'Out is the criticism of criticism.’ Kata Ádám

Zadam Company was founded in 2003 and has continued its creative work ever since.The company has no permanent members, but assembles a company of performingartists who work together on a regular basis. The artists participating in the perform-ances are well-respected, and stage their own productions as well. This artistic workis facilitated by the project-based way in which the company functions.

The event is part of EUNIC London’s cooperation with the EC Representation in the UK and the SouthbankCentre. The Hungarian Cultural Centre supports the Hungarian artists as a member of EUNIC London.

Δ Free. To book your ticket please contact the Southbank Centre on 08444 847 9910 or www.southbankcentre.co.uk


15 March – 16 April ≥ Gallery & Project Space, Great Western Studios ✉ 65 Alfred Road, London W2 5EU

e EXHIBITION, MUSIC, LITERATURE

soapbox events presents

Alien Nation: The Art of Blending inAn exhibition by and about all the aliens who call London home

Alien Nation, a month-long exhibition including art, music and more was inspired byGeorge Mikes’s book How to be an Alien curated by Soapbox Events. It is a one-offgroup show by a collective of London-based artists, photographers, writers and musicians. Whether you’re an alien or not, the capital’s cultural diversity affects us all. This exhibition will be a celebration of that diversity – and the community of alienswho call London home.

Alien Nation celebrates the way George Mikes (Mikes György), theHungarian writer brilliantly captures the extraordinary transitionthat many people experience when first moving to London. Fromthe weather to the incomprehensible social niceties, there’s a lotto adjust to; in spite of these things, foreigners and other ‘aliens’continue to flock here.

“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink” George Mikes, How to be an Alien

The Main ExhibitionA number of high-profile artists have pro-duced their take on George Mikes’s influen-tial book. Their inspiration has come from a chapter, scene, sentence or single phrasewithin it – and their pieces reflect the individual’s take on the topic of being an ‘alien in London.’ The collection includes:painting, illustration, photography, poetry,murals, furniture and more.

Book Illustration ExhibitionIllustrators from the Central IllustrationAgency (CIA) have been invited to visuallyrecreate the book. Each artist has been given a chapter to illustrate.

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Evening EventsThe exhibition itself will be complemented by a number of events throughout the month, including music, poetry, and more.

Artists include: Erica Pal, Mónika Markovits, Nishant Choksi, Lizzie Mary Cullen, Man Cheung, Chris Brown, Tina Mansuwan and more…

Planned in partnership with Idea Generation PR, Great Western Studios, The Central Illustration Agency and the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

Δ All events are free. Opening time: Monday to Friday 10 am – 6 pm, weekends by request. For more information and all details, please visit www.howtobeanalien.com and www.greatwesternstudios.com

Thursday | 17 March | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e FUTURE TALKS – LECTURE

Luca Csepely-Knorr: Public Parks and Urban Open Spaces in Britain and in Hungary at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century

Cultural, architectural and artistic connections between the United Kingdom andHungary were very significant in the late 19th and early 20th century. From the point of Hungarian landscape gardening the influence of English gardens was extremelyseminal, whereas for Budapest, the new and evolving capital, the examples of theEnglish cities were not less important. This presentation will focus on a special fieldof landscape architecture and urban design namely the birth of public parks, and willexamine the significant connections between the two countries in this area.

At the turn of the 18th century,in response to industrialisa-tion and the enormous growthof cities, a new conceptappeared in landscape archi-tecture based on an idea that originated in Germany(Hirschfeld: Theorie derGartenkunst), the public park,which was invented for peoplefrom every layer of society.

This presentation will examine how the principles of laying out public parks, a new andspecial task for landscape designers of the period, changed during the 19th century.The investigation will focus on the question how English landscape architecture andthe evolving new discipline of urban design influenced the Hungarian design theorywith respect to public parks in Budapest.


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visualisation of palm-garden, budapest.

janos hein – ferenc herczog – albert schikedanz, 1896

Luca Csepely-Knorr is a LandscapeArchitect (MSc Corvinus University ofBudapest, Hungary) and holds an MA in Art History (Eötvös Loránd Universityof Budapest, Faculty of Humanities,Hungary). Since 2006 she has been doingher PhD research in landscape architec-ture at the Corvinus University of Buda-pest. Her thesis studies the theoreticalchanges in public park design from thesecond half of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century. Thanks to the RIBAGoldfinger Scholarship, which she wasawarded in 2010, she is currently doing anMPhil course at the Manchester Institutefor Research and Innovation in Art andDesign. Her research focuses on the con-nections between the United Kingdom and Hungary in the field of urban designwith a particular emphasis on the work of Thomas Mawson and Bela Rerrich.

Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 72406162 or e-mail [email protected]

Monday | 21 March | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIREES

Recitals of the Students of Trinity Laban

Rebeca Omordia is a Romanian born pianist. After graduating from the National Music University in Bucharest in 2006, where she studied with the well-known pianistand professor Dana Borsan, Rebeca was granted a scholarship at the BirminghamConservatoire to continue her studies under professors Malcolm Wilson and Mark


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plan of crystal palace park. sir joseph paxton, 1857

rebeca omordia’s programme

Frédéric Chopin:• Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29• Scherzo No. 4 Op. 54 in E Major• Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat Major, Op. 61

Ferenc Liszt:Variations on a Motive by Bach ‘Weinen,Klagen, Sorgen, Sagen’


Racz. She is currently undertaking a postgraduate course at Trinity Laban Conservatoireof Music and Dance in London where she is studying with Mikhail Kazakevich.A winner of many prizes in national and international piano competitions, Rebeca’smost recent awards include Third Prize at Béla Bartók International Piano Competitionin Szeged, Hungary (2010), and First Prize at the Beethoven International Competitionin Arad, Romania (2007), where she was also awarded the Beethoven Prize for the bestBeethoven Sonata.

Mikhail Shilyaev was born in 1979 in Izhevsk, Russia. He started learning the piano at the age of six and wonseveral regional piano competitions at a young age. He studied in Russia, Germany and the UK. As a soloistwith orchestra, he has recently performed with Musik-kollegium Winterthur, the London Soloists ChamberOrchestra, the RNCM Concert Orchestra, the Orchestraof the Trinity College of Music and the GulbenkianSymphony Orchestra. He worked with leading conduc-tors such as C. Warren-Green, P. Rophé and Zsolt Nagy.In 2009 Mikhail received Golubovich Scholarship at theTrinity College of Music and Dance where he is workingtowards his Master’s degree with professor DenizGelenbe. In July 2010 Mikhail won the Bronze Medal atthe prestigious Vianna da Motta International PianoCompetition in Lisbon.

Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail [email protected]

Thursday | 24 March | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e FILM CLUB

Poligamy (2009, feature, dir. Dénes Orosz, 85 min.)

The secret desire of most men is to sleep with every woman they find attractive. Whathappens if their wish comes true? András and Lilla are a young couple, who have beentogether for five years. András writes screenplays for television series and Lilla is an assistant lecturer at a university. Finally they move in together and it seems every-thing is going well. However, there is something wrong. It is as if the essence were missing from their life together. Lilla wants a wedding and a baby, while András... well,he doesn't really know what he wants. Then one day Lilla announces that she is pregnant.András is overcome by mixed feelings.The following morning András wakes up next to

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mikhail shilyaev’s programme

Alban Berg: Piano Sonata Op. 1Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Sonata in A Minor, K 310Ferenc Liszt:Reminiscences de Don Juan, S.418


a beautiful woman who is a complete stranger. From this point on he has relationshipswith a number of women, all very different from each other. Thus begins a journey toexplore all the different stages and possible relationships between men and women.This is the first feature film of Dénes Orosz, who has written scripts, made documen-taries, short films and a film series.

Screenplay: Dénes OroszDirector of photography: Ádám Fillenz

Cast: Sándor Csányi, Kátya Tompos, Béla Mészáros, Adrienn Réti, EszterBánfalvi, Bori Péterfy, Kata Bartsch, RékaTenki, Andrea Osvárt, Nóra Parti, VeraVenczel, Ildikó Incze, Sándor Csikós, Károly Safranek


5 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 24 April≥ Glasgow Film Theatre ✉ 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

e FILM

Hungarians in Glasgow

The Glasgow Film Theatre is delighted to be hosting a tour of films that were shownas part of the Hungarian film showcase 'Check the Gate' in June 2010 in London. Thefilms examine the topic of emigration since the end of the 19th century and illuminatethe reasons why hundreds of thousands of Hungarians left Hungary behind, whetherdue to war, oppression or curiosity. GFT will be showing the following films:

Tuesday, 5 AprilHunky Blues (2009, dir. Péter Forgács, 100 m)

Tuesday, 12 April≤ Somewhere In Europe (1947, dir. Géza Radványi, 104 m)

Sunday, 17 AprilDaniel Takes a Train (1983, dir. Pál Sándor, 95 m)

Tuesday, 19 AprilAmerican Torso (1975, dir. Gábor Bódy, 97 m)

Sunday, 24 AprilThe Last Report on Anna (2009, dir. Márta Mészáros, 103 m)

Δ Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for further details on the season

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Tuesday | 5 April | 7.30 pm Wednesday | 6 April | 7.30 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ≥ 606 Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10

e CONCERT

Cseke Gábor Trió

Gábor Cseke on the piano has becomea leading force in the Hungarian jazzworld. For a long time he was also oneof the mainstays of Hungary’s mostexciting two big bands, the BudapestJazz Orchestra and the Modern ArtOrchestra. He earned high praise fromDave Liebman while the American starwas recording with the former. He isnot only an absolutely amazing soloistbut also one of the finest accompanists you can hear. He is the one who usually backsvisiting foreign artists at the Budapest Jazz Club. You would get glowing references ofhim from the likes of Byron Wallen or Peter King.

Bassist Viktor Hárs is one of the charismatic figures of the Great Generation of Hunga-rian jazzmen, whose own compositions and arrangements also attest to his extraordinarymusical intelligence. He is at home in all jazz styles but is a great innovator at heart.

Drummer György Jeszenszky is a fantastic all-rounder who crops up in the most diverseformations ranging from ethno-jazz through hard-bop right to the outer reaches of theavant-garde. At Liane Carroll’s Budapest gig his playing made her glow with pleasure.


Thursday | 7 April | 6 pm≥ Josefowitz Hall, Royal Academy of Music ✉ Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT

e TALK

liszt bicentenary talk:

Liszt and the Keyboard:how the Wizard cast his Spellsby Alan Walker, 6 pm

The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London continues its events in celebration of theLiszt Bicentenary Anniversary, following on from a series of concerts at King’s Place,London, in January 2011. On this occasion Dr Alan Walker will give a talk on Liszt and

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the Keyboard – how the Wizard cast his spells. In addition to our special guests, this talk will also be open to students and the general public.

Following the talk, a Liszt roundtable discussion will take place at 7.30pm for onehour. The participants will include Dr Alan Walker, Dr Maria Eckhardt (Director of theLiszt Research Centre in Budapest and, until recently, Director of the Liszt Museum,and a distinguished choral conductor). At the time of writing we hope to add thenames of a distinguished pianist, a conductor or composer and a musicologist to actas a moderator so as to elicit a variety of viewpoints.

Δ Free. For reservations please contact the Hungarian Cultural Centre on 020 72406162 or [email protected]

Monday | 11 April | 6.30 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e LITERATURE

national day of poetry

Launching Ágnes Lehóczky’s book on Ágnes Nemes Nagy

The Hungarian Cultural Centre is proud to host the launch ofPoetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance – Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy by Ágnes Lehóczky, Hungarian poet,translator and academic. The evening pays tribute to theHungarian modernist poet and essayist Ágnes Nemes Nagy, oneof the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century.The event will launch the first sustained study in English on herpoetry, poetics prose and translations followed by readingsfrom her work, poetry and prose in English, and a discussion

on issues of translating her work in English introduced by poetand translator, George Szirtes. The renowned translator PeterZollmann will also share his translations of Ágnes Nemes Nagy.

‘Reading Ágnes Nemes Nagy, even in translation, one cannothelp but be struck by the fierce intellect, the high seriousness,and absolute concentration manifest in her poetry. It is anintellect that, however, does not work upon us in terms ofideas, but of sensibility. Had she written in English, German or French her work would now be perceived as central to mid- and late-twentieth century consciousness and beyond.

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It would have lodged in our consciousness as a marker in the way we feel the world.As it is we hear her through other voices. Lehóczky goes to the core, negotiating her interpreters, but probing the elements of the work in the original Hungarian. The result is the uncovering of a major figure, as relevant to us now as she was in herown, partly silenced, lifetime.’ George Szirtes, from his preface

Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 72406162 or e-mail [email protected]

Sunday | 17 April | 5.30 pm and 8 pm≥ Hurstwood Farm Piano Studios ✉ The Hurst, Crouch, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 8TA

e CONCERT

hurstwood farm piano concert with

Tamás Vásáry and Tamás Érdi

Hurstwood Farm Music Society (Patron András Schiff) is located in beautiful Kentcountryside, near Borough Green, where the farm grows the UK’s largest crop of cobnutsand is the sole producer of its award-winning cobnut oil. The Society began some twodecades ago and its five annual recitals normally run from late February until July,when the Concert Hall reverts to its original use as a pack-house for the farm’s nut crop.

This year’s programmes in March, April and May all pay tribute to the Liszt BicentenaryAnniversary. Two pianists perform on each month’s concert day with a dinner intervalbetween. The main evening concert is given by Tamás Vásáry, and the preceding oneby the young pianist Tamás Érdi.

A concertgoer pays £20 ticket fee for both recitals and a further £22–50 if dinner isbooked in the Restaurant at the farm. Alternatively, guests are welcome to picnic inthe grounds, or in a covered area in poor weather. There is ample parking space for

tamás érdi’s programme, 5.30 pm

Chopin:• Fantaisie Impromptu Op. 66• Nocturne in E minor Op. 72 No.1• Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23• Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor Op. Posth• Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53

Liszt:• Sposalizio (Deuxième Année

de Pèlerinage: Italie)• Mephisto Waltz No. 1

(Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke)• Consolation in D flat major• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6

tamás vásáry tamás érdi


cars at the farm and a good rail service fromVictoria to Borough Green where there is a taxiservice at the station.

Δ To book tickets, phone 07971 259 658 or [email protected]

Thursday | 21 April | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e FILM CLUB

The Seventh Circle (A hetedik kör) 2009, 107 min, dir. Árpád Sopsits

The film is based on the motifs of two inconceivable and tragic events that recentlytook place in Hungary. It primarily presents the atmosphere in which such things haveactually happened and the situations in which they can happen, and delivers a kind ofdiagnosis of the confused psyche of the times in which we live. The story is aboutteenagers, their odd way of experiencing life and death at the stage when both sexualdesires and a wish for death awaken simultaneously in their souls.

“This film is well shot and carefully edited. Sopsits’ young cast perform wonders withsensitive performances that speak volumes for them and the director.” Dan Fainaru

Árpád Sopsits is alsothe director of themuch acclaimed filmAbandoned (Torzók),2001, which wasHungary’s submissionto the 74th AcademyAwards for the BestForeign Language Film,but was not acceptedas a nominee yet wenton to win Awards as the Grand Prize –

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tamás vásáry’s programme, 8 pm

Schumann: Carnaval Op. 9

Schubert:Fantasia in F minor for four hands D940 Op. Posth. (with Tamás Érdi)

Kodály: Dances of Marosszék

Chopin:Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27 No. 2Scherzo in B flat minor Op. 31 No. 2

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Montreal World Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Award – Berlin International Film Festival,Official Selections: Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney International Film Festivals(among many others).

Director: Árpád Sopsits | Screenplay: Árpád Sopsits | Director of photography: Márk Gyôri

Cast: Benett Vilmányi, Tamás Erôss, Anna Vicsotka, László Krikkay, Gáspár Mesés, Tekla Magyar,Gábor Gavallér, Zsolt Trill, Imre Csuja, Zsolt László, Judit Danyi, Sándor Gáspár, Eszter Szakács,Dóra Létay


Tuesday | 26 April | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIREES EXTRA

introducing the liszt academy network winner

Gábor Somfai

Gábor Somfai › viola | Jordi Morell › viola | Árpád Kákonyi › piano

Gábor Somfai is currently studying with Rivka Golani at TrinityLaban supported by the Liszt Academy Network and a TrinityLaban Scholarship. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he started to play on the violin at age 8, changing to viola at 14 studyingat the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music with János Láposi.Gábor received his bachelor degree from the Ferenc LisztAcademy of Music in 2009. He won several prizes, including 1st Prize at the Third National College String Competition. Gábor has played with the Danubia Symphony Orchestra, the MR Symphony Orchestra and the Ferenc Liszt ChamberOrchestra. He was supported by the Klassz Talents Programmeperforming Yizkor by Ö. Pártos as viola soloist with the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

Jordi Morell is currently studying with Rivka Golani atTrinity Laban supported by the TCM Trust Scholarship.Born in Vilaseca, Spain, he started to play the viola at theage of 6, with Joaquim Miracle at the Music School ofVilaseca. At 13, he gave his first concert as a concertosoloist with the music school orchestra playing theTelemann Concerto for viola. The following year, he wasaccepted for the Oemuc (Youth Orchestra of CataloniaMusic Schools). In 2007, he became a member of JONC

programme

Ferenc Liszt: La lugubre gondola (in memoriam Richard Wagner)Frank Bridge: Lament J. S. Bach: Brandenburger concerto No. 6B. Britten: LacrymaeFerenc Liszt: Consolation No. 3

(National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia). In the last year of the Music School, he performed Trauermusik by P. Hindemith as a viola soloist with the school orchestra.

Árpád Kákonyi was born in Kalocsa, Hungary. His piano and composition teacherswere Ferenc Fuchs, Mariann Ábrahám, István Fekete Gyôr and János Vajda.He won the first prize at the National Youth Piano Competition in 1998 and at theNational Youth Composition Competition in 2001 and 2002. He has already workedwith several talented young Hungarian musicians such as Ádám Banda, István Várdai,László Mezô, Kristóf Baráti and the Accord Quartet. In 2008, Árpád worked with the Hungarian Contemporary Music Ensemble (UMZE) in Budapest and in Hamburg at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival performing and premiering Steve Reich's ‘You Are Variations’. He has played as a chamber musician and piano accompanist in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,Romania, Serbia, Canada and the United States. He also writes music, mostly chamberand oratoric, symphonic and stage works.


Wednesday | 27 April | 7 pm ≥ Private view exhibition open: 27 april – 13 may

≥ 12 Star Gallery ✉ Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

e EXHIBITION & TALK

A different look

The original event was organized last year at the HCC in line with 2010 being the European year combating poverty and social exclusion.

ExhibitionA different look at the 12 Star Gallery is the revival of an exhibition part of a series of events originally hosted at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London in 2010 featuring the Roma culture. We are presenting this photo exhibition in cooperationwith the Romaversitas Foundation and the British Council.

The usual pictures in this topic are well-known and have become a cliché already:adorable children in worn out, dirty clothes playing in front of houses in terrible condition, young adults drinking and smoking and doing nothing, van-dwellers, old ladies with no teeth or musicians at best.

This time we are taking a different look – Peter Rákossy’s uplifting photos portrayRoma university students who, maybe against all odds, are now studying to become


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lawyers, doctors and architects or finishing their PhDs. Conforming to society’snorms, these young people have a heartwarming story to tell about their life plans and future.

TalkBefore the private view we will welcome two of the students whose portraits feature in the exhibition to meet the London audience. They will share with us theirlife experiences and future plans. High-profile experts in the field of Roma issues will also take part in the discussion.

Δ Admission free. Opening hours: Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm. For private view reservations, please call 020 72406162 or e-mail [email protected]

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11 Friday | 6 May – Monday | 9 May

≥ Riverside Studios ✉ Crisp Road, London W6 9RL

e FILM FESTIVAL

celluloid curtain film festival

Europe’s Cold War in Film

The Goethe-Institut London, in collaboration with EUNIC London, is proud to present a major European spy film festival to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of theBerlin Wall in 1961.

This unique series of feature films, made at the height of theCold War on both sides of the ‘Celluloid Curtain’, will be screenedover a special ‘spy film weekend’ at Riverside Studios, London.There will be curators’ talks and a panel discussion, chaired by the BBC’s Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera. The distinguished panel includes writer and ‘spy specialist’,Phillip Knightley. Hungarian documentary film director GáborZsigmond Papp will also take part in the panel discussion.

Celluloid Curtain aims to shed new light on the history of the Cold War in Europe and its depiction in film. It will focuson the Cold War ‘spook’ as a cinematic creation of the IronCurtain and look at the legacy of the films and politics of theperiod. This is a subject of great topical relevance: talk of anew Cold War, Wikileaks and ‘spy stories’ dominate our news,bookshops and cinemas today. The festival will feature ZoltánVárkonyi’s spy film Fotó Háber (1963).

Δ For further information contact Riverside Studios on 020 8237 1111 or www.riversidestudios.co.uk

Saturday | 7 May – Sunday | 8 May≥ Regent’s Park, London

e EUROPE DAY FESTIVAL

May Fair in Regent’s Park – Spiegeltent

Come and enjoy some truly European May Fair festivities in and around Spiegeltent,the venue for music, comedy, theatre, dance, film and many more, set up in Regent’s Parkfor the weekend by the Embassy of Belgium/Flemish Representation in celebration ofEurope Day (9 May) and to mark the Tri-EU Presidency of Belgium, Hungary and Spain.There will be cultural events inside the tent with the generous support of the national


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cultural institutes of the EUNICLondon cluster. The theme of theevent is The Green City, the impor-tance of green spaces and greenideas in our capitals and cities, and there will be seminars relatingto this main theme. In the area sur-rounding the tent there will be foodand information stalls for everyoneto enjoy the taste, sound and sight of many European cultures.

Δ For further information please contact Flanders House London on 020 7299 3592 or the HungarianCultural Centre on 020 7240 6162 or visit www.hungary.org.uk

Wednesday | 11 May≥ British Library ✉ St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

e LITERATURE

European Literature Night

After the success of 2010, the European Literature Night is back! The event featurescontemporary European fiction and poetry through the presentation of six Europeanwriters. The writers will have gone through a rigorous selection process before theyare chosen to represent contemporary European writing. The readings will be followedby a panel discussion chaired by the highly-acclaimed literature expert Rosie Goldsmith.

European Literature Night is a unique UK-based initiative involving 24 European cul-tural institutes and embassies (EUNIC), as well as various UK arts organizations, andthe Representation of the European Commission in the UK with the aim to promoteEuropean literature of all genres in the UK, and its English translation and distribution.

ELN began life in May 2009 when the first ELN was held at the British Library inLondon with six writers presenting their work. In the ELN 2 taking place on the 12 May2010 at the British Library seven European writers read and discussed their work in anevent chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. Thirteen European capital cities from Paris throughStockholm to Budapest joined forces to celebrate the best of European literature onthe same night.

For 2011 European Literature Night developed a touring programme. With the keyevent still taking place in London at the British Library on the 11 May 2011. There willbe further ELN events outside London as a part of The Times Cheltenham LiteratureFestival and Manchester Literature Festival in order to expand ELN’s reach, audiencesand formats and provide a platform to as many European writers as possible.

Δ For further information please visit the website of the British Library www.bl.uk

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11 Monday | 16 May | 7 pm

≥ Hungarian Cultural Center


Introducing Péter Tóth › winner of the Los Angeles Piano Competition in 2010

Péter Tóth is considered one of the most promising pianists among his contemporaries.His international appearances earned him resounding reviews from Europe to the Americas.His orchestral solos acclaim him as one of the brightest talents on the musical palette.Despite his young age, Péter Tóth is a veteran on the concert stage. After graduatingfrom the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest (2008), he presented recitals in

Russia, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland,Korea, Japan and China. He comes fromBékéscsaba in Hungary, via Budapest,Wittenberg, Weimar, Bovino (Italy) andLos Angeles, by winning all the GrandPrizes of these respectable InternationalCompetitions. Through his recitals andrecordings, he has won internationalacclaim since 2000.

In 2006 his Liszt CD won the ‘Grand Prix du Disque’ Award from the FranzLiszt Society. Recently he is working on his Doctoral studies at the TexasChristian University with ProfessorDr.Tamás Ungár.Reviewers commend his ‘virtuoso per-formances’… ‘his impressive pianism is quite extraordinarily right for playingLiszt’… ‘His always right, artistic concept(will) impress his audiences’… ‘a philo-sopher and a powerhouse at the piano’.

This evening’s performance is a part of the Los Angeles International LisztCompetition’s BICENTENNIAL Prize-winning tour. It will climax at the Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre’s coveted Liszt Hall in Budapest, where Liszt himself conducted his Master-classes in his time.



programme

1. Funeraillesfrom ‘Harmonies Poetique et Religiouses’ #7

2. ‘Waldesrauschen’Concert Etude #1

3. Fantasie and Fugue on the name of B A C H

4. Legende #2‘St.Francis de Paule marchant sur les flots’

5. Widmung – Dedication

6. Hungarian Rhapsody #6Piano transcription on Schumann’s song


Wednesday | 25 May | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Center

e LITERATURE, CONCERT

Launch of John Spurling’s Book of Liszts John Spurling › writerJános Balázs › pianoJilly Bond › reading, introduced by the writerVali Tóth › presenterMusic by Ferenc Liszt

John Spurling is a playwright and novelist. Since hisfirst play MacRune’s Guevara was performed by theNational Theatre Company in 1969, he has had some 27 plays produced on stage, television and radio. His first two novels, The Ragged End and After Zenda,

were published in 1989 and 1995.

His latest novel, A Book of Liszts, is in the unusual form of fifteenself-contained chapters in different styles from different pointsof view. It celebrates with humour and passion the extraordinarylife of the great Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt,born 200 years ago this year, whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe. A Book of Liszts will be published on May 17th by Seagull Books in theirWorld Literature series.

The 3CD audio-book, Stories from a Book of Liszts, consistingof four chapters from the novel read by Jonathan Keeble and

Jilly Bond, with a selection of Liszt’s music specially recorded at,and in collaboration with, the Palace of Arts – Budapest, by the prize-winningHungarian pianist János Balázs, was released in January by ChomeAudio.

János Balázs (born on 19th September, 1988 in Budapest,Hungary) is a virtuoso on the piano, the youngest Hungarianpianist winning the Liszt Competition. János is one of themost determined followers of Georges Cziffra, performingCziffra's own compositions and transcriptions in his soloconcerts. He completed the masters' courses of DmitrijBaskirov, Noel Flores, Marian Lapsansky, Péter Frankl,Tamás Vásáry and Gergely Bogányi.

He has played together with world-famous Hungarian artists like Tamás Vásáry, Zoltán Kocsis, András Schiff,Márta Sebestyén, Gergely Bogányi and Barnabás Kelemen.

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In a unique concert tour, taking place in Hungary between October 2009 and April 2010, János played all the piano compositions, chamber music and concertos by Frédéric Chopin. The tour was organized by the Budapest Polish Institute. His 3rd CD was recorded in April 2010, featuring Chopin's piano compositions.


Sunday | 29 May | 11 am≥ Hungarian Cultural Center

e FILM

children’s day film screening

Csiribiri 2009, 72 min, in Hungarian

The Hungarian Cultural Centre is proud to entertain children and their families on theoccasion of National Children’s Day, which is celebrated all over Hungary on the lastSunday of May with fun activities and programmes for children.

Judit Halász is a legend in Hungary – for decades she has been singing the poems ofHungarian poets to children, with astonishing success. The songs have become tophits even among adults, and it is these songs that come to life in the film, which is allabout the power of imagination and about how the power of love can create purebeauty and goodness. Judit Halász's picture is a genuine musical family film, toldthrough songs. We recommend it to people of all ages.



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Thursday | 2 June | 6.30 pm ≥ Private viewexhibition open: 2 june – 8 july

≥ Hoopers Gallery ✉ 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0AA

e EXHIBITION

UNFOLDING – On the Border of Two WorldsA photo-graphical installation and animated film by Andrea Bátorfi

In her project on display at the Hoopers Gallery, the artist steps out of the generic framework of the two-dimensional still picture and invites thevisitor to a sensual and meditative journey thatoffers a complex experience. With the help of hernature-documentary images – which she createswith the help of a special procedure – she opens a gate to an invisible reality beyond ordinary per-ception. Paradoxically, inside the exhibition spacethe horizon is gradually expanding.

At the first stage of the journey we meet individualphoto-graphics. The journey of dimension changesproceeds with the so-called lenticular works whichprovide a three-dimensional experience and aredisplayed in light-boxes. In her animated film theartist recounts the great adventure of the spirit.The logically perfectly constructed project startsout from the state of "through a glass, darkly” andthrough conjecture-like, mysterious transitions itleads the spectator to the final light-state.

Andrea Bátorfi creates symmetric compositions frommultiple exposure photographs, pieced together accord-ing to a strict formal order. In the multiple exposurephotographs various accidental natural phenomena witnessed on the bank of the Danube – bare branches,the glitter of light reflected on the surface of the water– are superimposed within a single frame. In the imagesthese familiar, ordinary elements become transparent

because of the successive layers, and from the combination of these layers an invisi-ble, yet for brief moments dimly perceptible dimension shows through.

„...a lace-like pattern emerges, which operates like a light-structure developed fromthe depths of the soul: these are the snapshots of an unknown matrix, which she disentangles from the landscape to show us as road signs.”

dr Béla Máriás, Life And Literature

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The images of a new world organised by order and light seem to be the bearers andkeepers of enormous energies. Through the inviting light-gates and picturesque light-spaces opening in the images we may set out on a journey through dimensionstowards our own barely discovered but continuously expanding interior spaces.

Andrea Bátorfi is an artist as well as an art historian who lives and works inBudapest, Hungary. www.batorfiandrea.hu

Δ For further information please visit the website of Hoopers Gallery www.hoopersgallery.co.ukFor private view bookings please call 020 72406162 or email [email protected]

Monday | 6 June | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre


Concert of the Students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Ashley Fripp Jennifer Miles Eleanor Laugharne Nicholas Allen, › piano › piano › soprano › tenor

Act IAshley Fripp (piano)

Ashley Fripp was described as ‘disarmingly preco-cious’ by the New York times, he has already givensolo recital and concerto performances in many ofthe most prestigious venues throughout the UK,such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, CadoganHall, St. John’s Smith Square, Birmingham SymphonyHall and the Royal Festival Hall. He has madeappearances on BBC television and radio, and hasalso been awarded first prizes at over a dozenprestigious competitions including the 1st GlasgowInternational Competition for Young Pianists in2006 and was a Keyboard Finalist in the BBC YoungMusician of the Year 2004. Recent internationalinvitations have taken him to Poland, Germanyand China.

Ashley studied piano and composition at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music Junior Department. In 2007 he moved to the Guildhall School of Music andDrama, where he is currently the inaugural Yamaha Artist Scholar, studying withProfessor Ronan O'Hora. Future engagements feature performances throughout


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the UK, including a début at Kings Place,London, and a commercial recording of bothChopin Concertos in Germany.

Ashley Fripp gratefully acknowledges generous financial support from the following:The Salters’ Company, Yamaha Music UK Ltd.

www.ashleyfripp.co.uk

Act IIJennifer Miles, pianoEleanor Laugharne, sopranoNicholas Allen, tenor

After gaining a BA Hons degree in music at theUniversity of York, Jennifer Miles continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with a post-graduate diploma in Piano ccompaniment.In 2002 – 2003, she held the Meaker Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. She is currentlystudying for a Masters Degree at the GuildhallSchool of Music and Drama.

Jennifer has given recitals with many outstand-ing musicians in venues throughout the UKincluding the Wigmore Hall, St Martin’s-in-the-Field, St John’s Smith Square and the Norfolkand Norwich Festival. She accompanied a Brassfinalist in the televised BBC Young Musician ofthe Year competition. Jennifer has performedall over the world both as a soloist and as partof various duos with P&O, Fred Olsen and SagaCruise Lines. She was on the Live Music Now!scheme, bringing music to audiences who wouldnot necessarily be able to attend concertsthemselves.

Jennifer also works as a freelance pianist at the Royal Academy of Dance and hasbeen Musical Director of the East Sussex School of Performing Arts for sixteen years.


programme act i

Ferenc Liszt:

• Vier Kleine Klavierstücke, S. 192i) in E majorii) in A flat majoriii) in F-sharp majoriv) in F-sharp major

• La Lugubre Gondola I, S. 200

• Trübe Wolken (Nuages Gris), S. 199

• Années de pèlerinage – Deuxieme Année – Italie, S. 161

No. 1. SposalizioNo. 7. Après une lecture du Dante ‘Fantasia quasi Sonata’

programme act ii

Songs of Ferenc LisztIm Rhein, in schönen Strome Die Lorelei

Soprano › Eleanor Laugharne

Three Petrarch SonnetsI Pace non trovoII Benedetto sia 'l giornoIII l' vidi in terra angelifci costumi

Tenor › Nicholas Allen

S’il est un charmant gazonOh, quand je dorsEnfant, si j'etais roi

Soprano › Eleanor Laugharne

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Wednesday | 8 June | 7.30 pm Thursday | 9 June | 7 pm≥ 606 Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e JAZZ

A road from Bach to Liszt

According to the seasoned critic of Downbeat, John McDonough, a musicians’ musicianis someone whose music is too good for the audience. Pianist Péter Rozsnyói fits thebill perfectly. This enormously gifted, brilliant young pianist is held in great esteem byhis fellow musicians and the cognoscenti. When he was still a student at the FerencLiszt Academy, Britain’s jazz piano legend, Julian Joseph already picked him out as themost talented at his master class in Budapest. Peter’s style is instantly recognizable.He is practically unique inasmuch, unlike JacquesLoussier, he doesn’t jazz up Bach but „bachs up”jazz instead. And he does that more originally andwith better taste than any of his contemporaries.This means an extremely logical construction,which at the same time, is imbued by the spon-taneity and vigor of jazz. He is also a highly origi-nal and gifted composer.

Partnering him on bass will be Tom Mason, a fantastic young musician who has alreadyplayed with the likes of Questlove, Athena, Robin Eubanks, Gwilym Simcock, FamadouDon Moye, the BBC Big Band, not to mention the fantastic Anglo Hungarian Band at the 2008 London Jazz Festival fronted by Gerard Presencer and Kálmán Oláh. Tom’s choice on the drums is George Hart, a brilliant fellow graduate from the RoyalAcademy of Music.


Thursday | 16 June | 7 pm≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e FILM CLUB

Bibliothéque Pascal (Bibliothéque Pascal) 2010, 111 min, German-Hungarian coproduction, dir. Szabolcs Hajdú

Mona Paparu is bringing up her three-year-old daughter alone. Because of a tripabroad she has to leave the child with her aunt. The Child Protection Agency takes the little girl away from the aunt. When Mona returns home she has to give an account


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to the CPA on how she spent her time abroad. The film tells the story of her travels,her love and the story of her life in Western Europe... as recounted by Mona Paparu.‘Truth is stodgier than fiction in Szabolcs Hajdu's visually impressive BibliothequePascal, a dark sex-trafficking fairy tale from Central Europe. The talented writer-helmer imbues a crude and ugly business with a surrealistic beauty as he transformsthe disturbing memories of a Hungarian-Romanian femme sold into the sex trade into stories and tableaux with Terry Gilliamesque touches. The pic, which won the top gong at the Hungarian Film Week and also unspools in Berlin's Forum section,

is tailor-made for fests; but thestory's semi-Freudian acrobat-ics won't wash with mainstreamauds.’ Boyd Van Hoeij

Director: Szabolcs HajduScreenplay: Szabolcs HajduPhotography: András Nagy

Cast: Orsolya Török-Illyés, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu, Andi Vasluianu, Shamgar Amram, Mihai Constantin , Lujza Hajdu, Ion Sapdaru


Thursday | 23 June | 10 pm Friday | 24 June | 7.45 pm≥ The Clore Ballroom, ≥ The Anvil, BasingstokeLevel 2, Royal Festival Hall

e WORLD MUSIC

Muzsikás

Hungary’s world-renowned musicians are back in London! Muzsikás is the firstHungarian folk ensemble accepted by the classical music scene, as they fuse traditional Hungarian music with the classical compositions of Bartók, Kodály, Kurtág and Ligeti. This is a unique opportunity to see and hear them in London.

Δ For ticket information contact the Southbank Centre on 0844 875 0073 or visit www.southbank.co.uk

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Saturday | 25 June | 9 pm≥ Hall One, Kings Place ✉ 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

e WORLD MUSIC

songlines encounters at kings place:

Söndörgô

Söndörgô (pronounce Shoendoergoe) is one of the most active and interesting worldmusic groups in Hungary. They play a style of music that is hugely attractive, but littleknown and quite different from the traditional, fiddle-led Hungarian repertoire. Theiraim is to foster and preserve Southern Slavic traditions of the Serbs and Croats as

found in various settle-ments in Hungary. Mostof these communitiesare situated along theDanube, but quite isolat-ed from each other.

The group was foundedin 1995 in Szentendre, a small Hungarian townnear Budapest, with

long-established Serbian tradition. The Eredics brothers got acquainted and startedto play music together with (bass player) Attila Buzás during their high-school years.Partly because of family reasons (Kálmán Eredics, the father of the Eredics brothers,was a founding member of the Vujicsics ensemble), all the group members are pro-foundly touched by, and drawn towards Southern Slav folk music. Söndörgô’s missionis to research it, arrange it and perform it on stage. The current members of the groupare: Áron Eredics, Benjamin Eredics, Dávid Eredics, Salamon Eredics and Attila Buzás.

Unlike most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörgô is not playing brass band music, it is a tamburitza band. The tambura is a small and agile plucked instrument similar tothe mandolin, which is occasionally supplemented by wind instruments and accordion.Söndörgô’s traditional repertoire is made up of material gathered by Béla Bartók andTihamér Vujicsics as well as learned from old masters of the tradition.

Söndörgô performs regularly in festivals in Hungary and around Europe. They willpresent here their new album Tamburising – Lost Music of the Balkans with the singerand actress Kátya Tompos.

‘Söndörgô are proving themselves to be one of Europe’s most versatile and excitingbands.’ Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine

Δ For ticket information and booking please contact Kings Place on 020 7520 1490 or visitwww.kingsplace.co.uk


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30 June – 2 October 2011≥ Royal Academy of Arts ✉ Piccadilly, London

e EXHIBITION

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th CenturyBrassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi

‘We need photographs to communicate our particularities and our national character’wrote Rudolf Balogh in 1914. At the time, photography – like other forms of Hungarianart – was firmly under the influence of European practice, but within decadesHungary’s photographers had achieved worldwide recognition. Among Balogh’s coun-trymen were individuals who would leave their home country to profoundly influencethe course of modern photography: Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, LászlóMoholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi are each known for the important changes theybrought about in photojournalism, art and fashion photography. Their legacies cannotbe underestimated; Capa was a co-founder of Magnum Photos, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who himself took up photography after seeing an image by Munkácsi, later

said ‘Whatever we havedone, Kertész did first’.Hungary produced aremarkable number ofleading photographers.By following their pathsthrough Germany, France,America and elsewhere,the exhibition will signalkey points of departurein modern photography.

Many Hungarians trav-elled the world with theircameras, but othersremained in Hungary producing innovatoryphotography across abroad range of genresand styles. From theearly twentieth century

André KertészSatiric Dancer, Paris, 1926 Gelatin silver print, 25.2 x 20.3 cm

Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

professional and club photography of Rudolf Balogh and József Pécsi, to the morerecent documentary and art photography of Péter Korniss and Imre Benkô, Hungaryhas sustained an active photographic tradition, in which different European influenceshave been interpreted through a particularly Hungarian sensibility. A presentation ofkey works by selected photographers, alongside contextual material providing a back-drop of political and economic change in Hungary, will explore the diversity and rich-ness of Hungary’s photographic milieu between c. 1914 and c. 1989.

The varied subject matter will include ‘Magyar style’ images of rural Hungary; urbanite‘New Photography’ in Budapest and Berlin; Paris as defined by Brassaï and Kertész in their evocative images of street life and the émigré community to which they bothbelonged (Picasso, Mondrian, Chagall et al); innovative fashion shots by Munkácsi;powerful photojournalism of war, and social documentary in post-war Hungary. Theexhibition will consist of about two hundred photographs, almost all black and white,reflecting the fact that many were taken for reproduction in newspapers; throughoutexamples of magazines and books it will chart the dynamic relationship with the illus-trated press – central to Hungarian photography at home and abroad.

The narratives of those who left Hungary will be interwoven with those who remained,bringing together photographs which were taken ‘worlds apart’ but between whichthere are echoes and dialogues. The collection of these individual stories will manifestthe powerful cultural connection between Hungary and photography, and chart funda-


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Martin Munkácsi, Nude, 1935. Gelatin silver print, 27.7 x 35.5 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

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mental changes in twentieth-century photography, such as the advent of the hand-held camera, the increasing influence of photojournalism and themovement of photography into the gallery and art market.

The exhibition is curated by independent scholar Colin Ford with Péter Baki, Director of the Hungarian Museum of Photography in Kecskemét, from which the majority of the photographs will be loaned. Additional material will travel from the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and other holdings in Hungary and the UK. Royal Academy Publications will produce an illus-trated catalogue of the exhibition with contributions from the curators and theHungarian-born English poet and writer George Szirtes.

Δ Royal Academy of Arts opening times:10 am– 6 pm Saturday –Thursday 10 am– 6 pm Friday General enquiries: 020 7300 8000, Book tickets: 0844 209 0051 (international callers please telephone +44 (0)844 209 0051)www.royalacademy.org.uk

Exhibition organized by the Royal Academy of Arts on the occasion of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU 2011

Károly Escher Bank Manager at the Baths, Budapest, 1938

Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 17.9 cm

Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

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Thursday 10 March, 7.30 pm≥ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

Joining in with the celebrations of Franz Liszt’s bicentenary, the Philharmonia Orchestra,Tomás Netopil and Marc-AndréHamelin will perform the compos-er’s Second Piano Concerto

Tomás Netopil conductorMarc-André Hamelin piano

programme

Wagner: Overture, The FlyingDutchman; Liszt: Piano ConcertoNo. 2; Brahms: Symphony No. 1

o Tickets £8-£45Philharmonia Orchestra BoxOffice Freephone 0800 652 6717,www.philharmonia.co.uk

Tuesday 15 March, 1.05 pm≥ Trinity Laban KeyboardDepartment (Old Royal NavalCollege Chapel, Greenwich)

Liszt Keyboard ConcertTranscriptions – Trinity Labanpiano students perform Lisztworks in celebration of his 200th

anniversary, highlighting his transcriptions.

programme

Caroline Seredynski–Schumann–Liszt: “Liebeslied”; KennethO’Neil– Saint-Saens–Liszt: “Danse Macabre”; ChristineOctaviani: Rigoletto Paraphrase;Maria Nemtsova–Schubert–Liszt: 3 songs; Mikhail Shilyaev:Reminiscenes de Don Juan

Wednesday 23 March, 6.15 pm≥ Long Gallery

talk Hungary and the Presidencyof the EU by Klára Breuer, DeputyHead of Mission at the Embassy ofthe Republic of Hungary in London.

o www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk or [email protected]

Saturday 26 March, 5.30 pm & 8 pm≥ Hurstwood Farm Piano Concerts

Mark Bebbington, 5.30pmChopin: Sonata in B minor Op. 58;Wagner (Arr. Liszt): Liebestodfrom Tristan und Isolde; Liszt:Mephisto Polka S217; Verdi (Arr.Liszt): Rigoletto Paraphrase deConcert › › ›


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Hiromi Okada, 8pmBach (Arr. Brahms): Chaconne in D minor for the Left Hand; Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villad’Este (Troisième Année de pèle-rinage), Funérailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses);Beethoven: 33 Variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli Op. 120

Sunday 27 March, 6.30pm≥ Kings Place, Hall One

Kodály Quartet (Attila Falvay violin, Erika Tóth violin, JánosFejérvári viola, György Éder violin)

One of Hungary’s most famousstring quartet performs mid-peri-od Haydn, Mendelssohn and musicfrom their own countryman,BélaBartók.

programme

Haydn String Quartet in G Op.54/1 (Hob. III:58); Mendelssohn:String Quartet in D, Op. 44/1;Bartók String Quartet No. 5

o Tickets are £16.50, Saver Seat£9.50. Kings Place Box Office: 0207520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk

Wednesday 13, Thursday 14,Friday 15 April ≥ Budapest, Hungary

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra performs in 3 Budapest venues.

o www.cambridge-szeged-socie-ty.org.uk contact Julia SeiberBoyd at [email protected] or [email protected]

Friday 15 April, 7.30pm ≥ Shoreditch Church, ShoreditchHigh Street

The Joyful Company of Singersconducted by Peter Broadbentwith Gavin Roberts (Organ) continues the LISZT bicentenarycelebrations with a performanceof VIA CRUCIS, and the atmos-pheric Dusk Songs by BASCAaward-winning Kerry Andrew.o www.jcos.co.uk

Tuesday 3 May, 1.05 pm≥ Trinity Laban KeyboardDepartment (Old Royal NavalCollege Chapel, Greenwich)

Liszt Keyboard ConcertAnnées de Pèlerinage – As part of the Liszt 200th anniversary celebrations, Trinity Laban pianostudents perform a selection ofhis Années de Pèlerinage. ExactProgramme TBC

Friday 6 May, 7.45 pm≥ Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge

Cambridge Chamber EnsembleA concert of chamber music in oneof Cambridge's best-known col-leges, to include Mozart's Duo forViolin & Viola K424 and Brahms'Piano Quartet in G minor Op 25,together with Haydn Piano Trio No 24. in D and a selection ofTranscendental Etudes by Liszt.Established professional artistsfrom the Cambridge area will bejoined by the exciting youngChinese violinist, Chen Xie fromthe Royal Academy of Music.Interval refreshments are includedin the ticket price (£10, studentsunder 21: £5).

o Contact Julia Seiber Boyd on 01223 506064, or [email protected] [email protected]

Saturday, 14 May, 8 pm≥ Garage (Highbury)

QuimbyQuimby, which has established its position among the very bestHungarian bands, plays alternativerock music influenced by a refresh-ing mixture of blues, psychedeliceffects and even Gypsy and Latinfolk tunes.

Quimby's shows are characterizedby a special and vibrating relation-ship with the fans. It is going to betheir 2nd gig after their last year'ssold out UK debut.

o www.drumandmonkey.org

Thursday 19 – Monday 23 May ≥ Szeged, Hungary

Cambridge delegation includingthe Mayor & her consort, attendBridge Fair in Szeged.

o Contact Julia Seiber Boyd [email protected].

Sunday 29 May, 5.30 pm & 8pm≥ Hurstwood Farm Piano Concerts

Grace Francis, 5.30pmMussorgsky: Pictures at anExhibition; Prokofiev: VisionsFugitives; Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet104 (Deuxième Année dePèlerinage: Italie), Tarantella(Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage:Italie, Venezia e Napoli)

Stephen Hough, 8pmBeethoven: Sonata in C sharpminor Op. 27 No.2 (Moonlight);Janácek: Sonata 1. X. 1905 (Fromthe street); Scriabin: Sonata No. 4 in F sharp major Op. 30, SonataNo. 5 Op. 53; Liszt: Sonata in Bminor S178

Thursday 23 Jun, 7.30 pm≥ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

Philharmonia OrchestraBartók: Concerto For OrchestraEsa-Pekka Salonen conductor,Christian Tetzlaff violin;

programme

Kodály: Dances of GalantaBartók: Violin Concerto No. 2Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is probably his best-known work.All the hallmarks of Bartók’s musicare here: fierce rhythmic energy,vivid extremes of colour, folkthemes interwoven with gloriousmelodies.

o Philharmonia Orchestra BoxOffice Freephone 0800 652 6717,www.philharmonia.co.uk

Tuesday 28 Jun, 6 pm≥ Recital Hall, Royal College of Music

Royal College Of Music Chamber Series

programme

Kodály: SerenadeEnescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minorLigeti: 10 StückeBartók: Sonata No. 2

o Royal College of Music BoxOffice: 020 7591 4314,www.boxoffice.rcm.ac.uk

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The HCC team:

Dr Ildikó Takács | DirectorDávid Kerényi | Finance Manager

Szilvia Csányi | Head of Administration and Referee of Education Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications

Hanna Kiss | Consultant, Visual Arts Judit Kôrös | Consultant, Information Service and Film Events

Dr Gábor Egri | Senior Consultant, MusicPéter Pallai | Jazz Consultant

If you are interested in joining the Friends of the Hungarian Cultural Centre please contact Ruth and Robert Wing on 020 7351 7653 or email [email protected]

The Reading Room, our Information Service and the rental of video films are available on Mondays and Thursdays between 11 am and 7 pm.

For more information, please call our information consultant, Judit Kôrös.

The information in this brochure is believed to be correct at the time of going to press, but as this may be three months or more before the events take place, we strongly advise

you to confirm dates, times and availability before setting out for any particular event. The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

Hungarian Cultural Centre10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Tel: 020 7240 8448 • Fax: 020 7240 4847 • Message: 020 7240 6162e-mail:[email protected]

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Please note that most of our events are now scheduled to start at 7 pm. For reservations please email [email protected].

If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events, pleasesend an e-mail to [email protected]. Thank you for your interest. �

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