Programme Brochure January-March 2015

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Jan page 3 film UK Release of White Godand Masterclass withdirector Kornl Mundrucz

11 Jan page 4 concert Sunday morning coffeeconcert featuring Barnabs Kelemen (violin) and Olli Mustonen (piano)

15 Jan page 5 exhibition Hungarian artists works in Adventures of the BlackSquare: Abstract Art andSociety 19152015

22 Jan page 7 award ceremony Announcement of theStudent Ambassadors of Hungarian Culture

22 Jan page 7 film screening, talk National Day of HungarianCulture, Celebrating theRt. Revd. Rbert Ptkai and his achievements inthe UK

22 Jan page 9 jazz Viktor Tth jazzsaxophonist returns to London

23 Jan page 10 children & families Hold in your lap, rock andsing Demonstration and training sessions of the Ringat method by Ilona Grh

27 Jan page 12 concert Royal Philharmonic Orchestrapresents: Duke BluebeardsCastle by Bla Bartk

28 Jan page 13 book launchThomas Kabdebo, Danubius Danubia(Fapadosknyv, 2013)

29 Jan page 14 exhibition The place: Eastern Europein photography practice

2 Feb page 16 monday music soires Bartk Evening with Viv McLean (piano) andDavid LePage (violin)

4 Feb page 17 literatureMtys Srkzi: Cs

5 Feb page 18 lecture Hungarian Avant-Garde?Neo-Avant-Garde? Contemporary or Post-Contemporary Art? By Lszl Beke

11 Feb page 20 symposium Hungarian Student Collegepresents: Hungarian brainresearch

12 Feb page 23 exhibition Great Expectations Memories from the 19th century. Graphic artworks by Ilona Luca Decsi

19 Feb page 24 children & families Kodly-based MusicSessions for Children (05 yrs) and their Families

5 Mar page 24 children & families Kodly-based MusicSessions for Children (05 yrs) and their Families

8 Mar page 25 concert Sunday Morning CoffeeConcert, Kelemen Quartet

9 Mar page 26 monday music soires Renta Konyicska (piano)and Jlia Pusker (violin)

11 Mar page 28 book launch Dramaturgy in the Making.A Users Guide for TheatrePractitioners by KatalinTrencsnyi

19 Mar page 29 jazz Jazz violinist Lajos Srkzireturns to London

21 Mar page 30 education, teacher trainingMotivation and efficiency inHungarian Language Courses

22 Mar page 32 concert Introducing TalentedChildren The FolkChamber Ensemble and St Catharines GirlsChoir Cambridge

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UK Release of White God and Masterclass with director Kornl Mundrucz

White God (Fehr Isten), 2014 When tween trumpet-player Lili has to stay with her dad for a few days, he is notinterested in taking care of her pet dog Hagen and in a fit of irritation leaves it by theside of the road. Bad idea. This sets off events that lead to a full-scale canine uprisingin a film that blends a coming-of-age narrative, political allegory and horror-stylerevenge. Thrills run the gamut, from scenes of Hagen bonding with fellow street muttsto dramatic chase sequences as the dogs tear through the city, finally taking a gory

turn when Hagen reachesbreaking point. Filmedwith a cast of 280 dogsand featuring stagedscenes of animal cruelty,director Kornl Mundruczhas crafted an ambitious,visceral opus, rightfullyearning plaudits at Cannes,including the Un CertainRegard prize, as well asthe Palme Dog for bestfour-legged performance.(Kate Taylor)

Kornl Mundrucz was born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian Universityof Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film-director, whose films premierat the most prestigious festivals all over the world. He directed his short film Aftashortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards. PleasantDays, his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002 forbest first and second feature. He entered the Cannes Residence in 2003. His secondfeature film Johanna an operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc was

presented in the Un Certain Regard in 2005. His thirdfeature film Delta won the FIPRESCI Critics Award inCannes 2008. His film Tender Son was shown in theOffical Selection of Cannes 2010. Mundruczs latestmovie White God won the Un Certain Regard prize atCannes 2014 and was screened at the 58th BFI LondonFilm Festival. White God has also been selected as theofficial Hungarian entry for the 87th Academy Awards.

Details to be confirmed. For further information please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk

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Sunday | 11 January | 11.30am Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

e CONCERT

sunday morning coffee concert featuring Barnabs Kelemen (violin) Olli Mustonen (piano)

An artist of innate musicality with a technical execution that belongs only to the greatest(The Guardian), Hungarian violinist Barnabs Kelemen has captured the attention ofthe music world. With a repertoire that ranges from classical to contemporary music,Kelemen gave the Hungarian premieres of the Ligeti and Schnittke Violin Concertos as well as the Hungarian premiere and world premiere of violin works by Gubaidulinaand Kurtg.

Barnabs Kelemen collaborates amongst others with the American Symphony, BBCSymphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Budapest Festival, Deutsche Radio PhilharmonieSaarbrcken, Helsinki Philharmonic, Het Kamerorkest Brugge, Hong Kong Philharmonic,Hungarian National Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Irish Chamber, KioiSinfonietta, Lahti Symphony, London Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, NDR

Radiophilharmonie Hannover,Netherlands Radio, NorwegianChamber, Orchestra dellaToscana, Pannon Philharmonic,Philharmonia Auckland, TapiolaSinfonietta, TrondheimSymphony and the YomiuriNippon Symphony orchestras.

In 2010 he founded the KelemenQuartet, which received a silvermedal, audience prize and theMusica Viva Grand Prize at theMelbourne International ChamberMusic Competition in 2011. TheKelemen Quartett gave concertsin Florence, Munich, London andtoured in China, India, Australiaand New Zealand.

He performs on a Guarneri delGes violin of 1742 (ex-DnesKovcs), generously loaned bythe State of Hungary.

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Olli Mustonen has a unique place on todays music scene. As a pianist, he has challengedand fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America with his brilliant techniqueand startling originality. In his role as conductor, he founded the Helsinki FestivalOrchestra and as a composer he forms part of a very special line of musicians whosevision is expressed as vividly in the art of re-creative interpretation as it is in theirown compositions.

Tickets: 12.50 (concs 10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

15 January 6 April Whitechapel Gallery 7782 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

e EXHIBITION

hungarian artists works inAdventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 19152015

Bringing together over 100 works by 80 modern masters and contemporary artistsincluding Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Piet Mondrian, Gabriel Orozco and AleksanderRodchenko, this exhibition of the Whitechapel Gallery will trace a century of Abstractart from 1915 to today, shedding new light on the evolution of geometric abstraction.Beginning with Kazimir Malevichs Black and White. Suprematist Composition (1915)the exhibition will explore how abstract art can both underpin socially transformativespaces and filter into all aspects of visual culture.

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Exhibition highlights include anentire wall filled with photographsdocumenting the radio towers ofMoscow and Berlin by AleksandrRodchenko and Lszl Moholy-Nagy amongst others, blow-uparchive photographs of iconicexhibitions running through thehistory of abstraction and aselection of magazines whichconvey revolutionary ideas in artand society through typographyand graphic design.

The exhibition takes a fresh lookat this new art for a modern age,and asks how art relates tosociety and politics. Curated byIwona Blazwick OBE, Director, and Magnus af Petersens, Curatorat Large, Whitechapel Gallery,Adventures of the Black Square:Abstract Art and Society

19152015, is international in its scope. As well as following the rise of Constructivistart from its revolutionary beginnings amongst the avant-garde in Russia and Europe,the exhibition sheds new light on the evolution of geometric abstraction from continentsacross the globe including Asia, the US and Latin America.

The exhibition includes paintings,sculptures, film and photographsspanning the century from 1915 to thepresent, brought together from majorinternational collections includingModerna Museet, Stockholm; Museumof Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki;National Galleries of Scotland,Edinburgh; Tate, London; and VanAbbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Opening times: TueSun 11am6pm; Thurs11am9pm. Admission 10.95/8.95 concs including Gift Aid donation, 9.95/7.95concs without Gift Aid. For further information and booking please visit www.whitechapelgallery.org

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Thursday | 22 January | 3pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e AWARD CEREMONY

Announcement of the Student Ambassadors of Hungarian Culture

The Student Ambassador of Hungarian Cultureproject is the initiative of the Hungarian CulturalCentre (HCC), which has been launched with the aim to reach university students and to inspirethem through the events of the Hungarian CulturalCentre, and the mission of the Balassi Institute topromote Hungarian culture in the United Kingdom as Student Ambassadors.

The selection process had two rounds: after the first written round, the successfulcandidates proved their capabilities through a presentation where they had theopportunity to elaborate on their action plan.

H.E. Pter Szabadhegy, Ambassador of Hungary in London and Dr. Beata Pszthy,Cultural and Scientific Counsellor, Director will officially announce the names of theselected Student Ambassadors and present them with their Letter of Commission.

Please note this event is by invitation only.

To keep up-to-date please join the page of the Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture on Facebook:www.facebook.com/pages/Student-Ambassador-of-Hungarian-Culture/1478412729099835?ref=hl

Thursday | 22 January | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e FILM SCREENING, TALK

national day of hungarian culture Celebrating the Rt. Revd. Rbert Ptkai and his achievements in the UK

The Rt. Revd. Rbert Ptkai was born in Budapest in 1930. His secondary educationtook place in Szszrgen (now Romania) and Bkscsaba. He studied for the Lutheranministry in Sopron and Budapest. In order to support himself while at the seminary, he worked on the railways and in agriculture during the summer breaks. After hisordination in 1954, he was appointed to be curate and secretary to the Dean of Pest-county in Albertirsa.

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During the Hungarian uprising he headed the Revolutionary Committee first inAlbertirsa, then the whole of Cegld district until the defeat of the revolution ninedays later. In order to avoid the inescapable secret police interrogation, he had nochoice but to leave Hungary.

Rbert Ptkai came to London in lateNovember 1956 and became vicar of the Hungarian Lutheran Church.A few years on, parallel to his Hungarianministry, he was called to serve as pastor of the English-speaking Lutherancongregation in London. Soon after, he was appointed dean (later becomingbishop) of the English-speaking LutheranChurch in Great Britain. He also served assecretary, later chairman of The LutheranCouncil of Great Britain, a federation ofall Lutheran churches in the United Kingdom.In his capacity as leader of the Lutherancommunity, he was able to establish forthe first time a good working relationshipwith the Church of England. As a resultRbert Ptkai was presented with theCross of St Augustine by the Archbishopof Canterbury in 1998. The HungarianLutheran Church honoured him with the Bishop Lajos Ordass award in 2010.

In addition to his varied church related duties and activities, he was Radio Evangelistto Eastern Europe from 19661993, and Lutheran lecturer at a North London RomanCatholic Seminary for a number of years. Also secretary/chairman of the HungarianChurch-Workers Abroad for four decades.

In the early 1990s he became the first chairman of the National Federation ofHungarians in Britain (MAOSZ). In acknowledgement for his activities in the secularHungarian community, he was awarded the Officers Cross followed by the MiddleCross of the Hungarian Republic. Rbert Ptkai also participated in the activities of the British Hungarian Fellowship, the World Federation of Hungarians and in theFederation of the National Associations of Hungarians in Western Europe.

Rbert with his wife Elizabeth raised three children, twin sons Robert and Thomas and daughter Julianna.

Please note this event is in Hungarian.

Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon


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Thursday | 22 January | 7pm 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

e JAZZ

Viktor Tth jazz saxophonist returns to London

Viktor Tth is one of the most talented musicians in the young generation of jazzartists in Hungary said the press when reviewing his 2007 Climbing with Mountains,which, incidentally, won best jazz album of the same year. Viktor Tth earned the title jazzman of the year 2010 on Fidelios countrywide online poll in 2011. Despite this,he still sees himself as a truth seeker and with his musical endeavors seeks to reachoneness with universal harmony. In 2010 he published the album Tartim and in 2011

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FOR HUNGARIAN CULTURE IN THE UK AWARD 2015

In celebration of the National Day of Hungarian Culture the Hungarian CulturalCentre proudly announces its For Hungarian Culture in the UK Award 2015.Director Dr. Beata Pszthy established the Award in 2012 for non-profitcultural and/or educational organisations operating in the UK for the promotionof Hungarian culture and heritage. The aim of the Award is to help preserve andnurture the cultural identity of Hungarians living in the UK.

The Award, which comes with a cheque of 1000, has been previously won by theHungarian Cultural Association Guildford (2012) and the Hungarian Children andParents Group (LMI+ Londoni Magyar Iskola) (2013).

Application deadline: Friday 30 October 2015.

For further information and an application form please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk.

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Popping Bopping album came out. As Viktor Tth has played with suchinternationally renowned musicians as Hamid Drake (drums), HenryFranklin (bass), William Parker (bass)John Betsch (drums) Piotr Wojtasik(trumpet) and Mihly Dresch (sax), he has garnered respect as a peer andhas grown as a musician from thesecollaborations. His musical expressionis dynamic yet sensitive and he strivesto capture the energy of the momentwith every performance. He hasplayed throughout Europe and theUnited States in various jazz festivals.He leads his own Tth Viktor Tercett,he composes his own material, heproduces music for contemporarydance performances and he collectsfolk music.

He will be joined by the best musicianson the British jazz scene at theprestigious 606 Jazz Club.

Entry: 10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at [email protected], on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk

Friday | 23 January | 11am 4pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EDUCATION / CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Hold in your lap, rock and singDemonstration and training sessions of the Ringat method By Ilona Grh

Ilona Grh, a highly respected infant andearly childhood educator, leads thedemonstration session and the professionaldiscussion. She is a music teacher and thedeveloper of the Ringat (Rocking) method.Viktoria Emese Gall will also contribute andassist during the sessions.


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What exactly is Ringat? It is a group of singing and playing mothers, fathers and their children ranging

from a few-month-old babies to three-year-old toddlers. The goal of the sessions is to help parents get to know the possibilities of the

youngest childrens musical education in an affectionate atmosphere. The method encourages them to become sensitive and responsive to good music. It is a family program where both grown-ups and children get experiences at the same

time. Ringat helps childrens mind improve and the family bonding get stronger. Ringat is a great way to get to know our musical mother tounge through songs,

rhytmical games out of clear spring (Kodly).

In the sessions parents get a model for the musical education of their pre-nurserychildren based on Kodlys principles. Grandparents, fathers and mothers who lovesinging and playing together with their little ones in a friendly mood are all warmlywelcome and encouraged to participate in the program actively.

The material of the training: Discussion of the demonstration session Instructions of Kodly, the characteristics of the conception, especially regarding

the youngest childrens musical education Aims, tasks, musical materials Characteristics of the age-group musical education from birth to school Development of musical skills ear for music, singing abilities, sense of rhythm,

sense of form, creativity and getting children to listen to music step by step Indirect effects of musical education Learning games and songs

Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected]. To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon


schedule11.00am 11.45am Ringat Music Sessions for children (05 yrs) and their families1.30pm 4.00pm Teacher training and professional discussion

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Tuesday | 27 January | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XX

e CONCERT

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents Duke Bluebeards Castle by Bla Bartk

Concert also includes: Berlioz The Damnation of Faust: Hungarian MarchLiszt Piano Concerto No. 2

Charles Dutoit: Conductor Marc-Andr Hamelin: PianoAndrea Melth: Mezzo-sopranoBlint Szab: Bass

A masterpiece of 20th century opera,Bartks Duke Blubeards Castle is a haunting tale of a Duke whose darksecrets are gradually unveiled by his newwife, Judith. Seven mysterious doors awaitJudith as she returns to Bluebeards castle.Curious to know what lies behind the doors, Judith pleads for the doors to beopened one by one. As she discovers whatlies behind each door, Judith edges closer to her own fate

Charles Dutoit is joined by a host of outstanding soloists, who recently performedDuke Bluebeards Castle abroad to critical acclaim with the Royal PhilharmonicOrchestra. The first half sees Marc-Andr Hamelins unique blend of musicianshipand virtuosity as he performs Liszts Piano Concerto No.2.

Two Hungarian opera stars Andrea Melth as Judith and Blint Szab as Duke Bluebeard will bring Bartks unique work to life.

Tickets: 10 58 (Subscription and group discounts apply. Transaction fees may apply.)Telephone bookings: 0844 847 9910, online bookings: www.soutbankcentre.co.uk


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Wednesday | 28 January | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e BOOK LAUNCH

Thomas Kabdebo, Danubius Danubia (Fapadosknyv, 2013) Introduction by Lily Kabdeb, reading by Myrtill Ndasi

Thomas Kabdebo will introduce his Danubetrilogy in English at the Hungarian CulturalCentre. The writer has been nominated for the Kossuth Prize due to this work.

rpd Gncz President of Hungary (19902000)wrote in his letter to the author about the book:After the first pages I was enchanted by thebooks emotional richness and its crystal clearlanguage then its historical authenticity absolutelygripped me. Parts of the trilogy will be read out byHungarian actress Myrtill Ndasi.

Thomas Kabdebo (Kabdeb Tams) is a Hungarianwriter, poet and littrateur who has written over fortybooks and translated just as many. He has received numerous awards from his native

land and in 1971 he was prize-winner of the International PoetryAward. As a student he took part in the 1956 uprising and so wasforced to flee to the West. Kabdebo lived in England until he settledin Ireland where he was director of the Maynooth UniversityLibrary. Born in 1934, he witnessed and experienced severalhistorical episodes during his life. His is one of those lives whichserve as a European history lesson.

Myrtill Ndasi is a talented ballerina and actress, who moved to the United Kingdom in her twenties. In Hungary she is mostlyknown as one of the main characters in the famous movie classic A kszv ember fiai (The Barons Sons) based on the novel of Mr Jkai.

Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected]. To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon


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Thursday | 29 January | 7pm (Private view) Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EXHIBITION

The place: Eastern Europe in photography practiceWorks of PhD Candidates of the Royal College of Art

Contributions from artist and filmmaker David Bickerstaff; Hungarian photographerViktor Nmeth; artist and researcher Christian Nyampeta, in collaboration withcurator of the project Azadeh Fatehrad.

A job for the artist which no one else does is to dismantle existing communicationcodes and to recombine some of their elements into structures which can be used togenerate new pictures of the world... (Victor Burgin, Work and Commentary, 1973)

This project explores two forms of photography practice: fiction and documentary.The concept is based on re-visiting and recreating existing images. The events ofeveryday life could be captured as a social reality in the form of documentation, orfrom a completely different position a position of fascination that would, in fact,create a fictional representation. What could differentiate amateur photography and flneur style in the existing of captured images? How does documentationrepresent a historical event, and how does it differ from a fictional representation of the same event? By revisiting existing images, this project tries to answer thequestions above, as well as illuminate the life of archive images the life of the past. Any specific historical event such as a revolution, victory, or catastrophe marks a key point or time in the history of a particular society, country, community. The mark made or left on the historical timeline necessarily creates a time bothbefore and after the event. Here, we place the emphasis on the period after the event, as we believe the event, whatever it may be, continues to exist in one way oranother; the people around or alive after the event will be the ones most affected by it and will have to deal with and digest the effects of it for a long time to come.


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The place: Eastern Europe in photography practice investigates the archive materialof the Ukrainian National Film on the fairly recent Chernobyl Disaster, which occurredon 26 April 1986, as well as the Hungarian Police Photo Archive in particular,photographs by Pl Csattos on 17 June 1986. The exhibition comprises a multi-mediainstallation; a series of printed photographs; two channel videos; and selectedpublications that have enriched the research. The project enhances visitor interactionby holding a days workshop exploring the relation between human agency in responseto archive images; more information will be made available online.

Exhibition open: 30 Jan 6 Feb

Opening hours: MonThurs 10am5pm, Fri 10am2pm

Free but booking is required. Please call 0207240 8448 or email [email protected]. To keep up-to-date please join the event on ourFacebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon


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Monday | 2 February | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRES

Bartk Evening with Viv McLean (piano) and David LePage (violin)Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Bla Bartk (18811945)

Bla Bartk, Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher, isconsidered to be one of the most important composers of the20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folkmusic, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology,which later became ethnomusicology. Bartk is noted for theHungarian flavour of his major musical works, which includeorchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stageworks, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs forvoice and piano.

His most productive years were the two decades that followed the end of World War Iin 1918, when his musical language was completely and expressively formulated. He hadassimilated many disparate influences, in addition to Strauss and Debussy there werethe 19th-century Hungarian composer Ferenc Liszt and the modernists Igor Stravinskyand Arnold Schoenberg. Bartk arrived at a vital and varied style, rhythmically animated,in which diatonic and chromatic elements are juxtaposed without incompatibility.Within these two creative decades, Bartk composed two concerti for piano andorchestra and one for violin; the Cantata Profana (1930), his only large-scale choralwork; the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936) and other orchestralworks; and several important chamber scores, including the Sonata for Two Pianos

and Percussion (1937). The same period sawBartk expanding his activities as a concertpianist, playing in most of the countries ofwestern Europe, the United States and theSoviet Union. (www.britannica.com)

David LePage was a prizewinner in BBCYoung Musician of the Year and the YehudiMenuhin Competition. In 1999 he wasappointed leader of the Orchestra of theSwan, with which he regularly appears assoloist and director. David is president of theEuropean String Teachers Association.

He has recently released a CD of his ownmusic, The Reinvention of Harmony andImagination. Scintillating... Le Page cast asinuously flexible spell. Birmingham Post

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Viv McLean (piano), winner of the First Prizeat the 2002 Maria Canals International PianoCompetition in Barcelona, has performed atall the major concert halls in the UK andextensively around the world. He hasrecorded often for BBC Radio 3, numerousinternational radio stations and CD labels.Extraordinary originality, superb simplicity,and fingers of steel hidden behind musclesof velvet. Le Monde, Paris

Free but booking is required. Please call 020 72408448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on ourFacebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Wednesday | 4 February | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LITERATURE

Mtys Srkzi Cs

Lszl Cs. Szab (19051984) was one of the most important figures of the Hungarian emigrant literary community. Highly esteemed as an essayist,extremely popular as a broadcaster and conferencespeaker, author of a number of important short-storycollections and memoirs, he was considered to be a unique creative force to maintain the integrityof Hungarian intellectuals living in the West.

The subject of our book launch, Mtys Srkzisbiography, entitled Cs (this is how his friends and colleagues used to refer to Lszl Cs. Szab),recently published in Budapest by Kortrs, followsthe happenings of his eventful life and summarizesthe critical reception of his work.

Brought up in Kolozsvr, Cs. Szab remained under the spell of the urban culture ofthis scene of his early youth for the rest of his life, even though with his parents theychose to move to Budapest after Transylvania had been awarded to Romania by theTreaty of Trianon. A visit to Paris made him decide to become a writer. His brilliantessays soon made Cs. Szab an important regular contributor of the leading literary

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magazine of the age Nyugat. Eventually he was appointed to head the Literary Department of Hungarian Radio.

He considered his 1948 flight to the West from Soviet-oppressed Hungary a true emigration in the classic sense, and spoke little of his past to his friends and his colleagues at the BBC Hungarian Section where he worked until his lastyears. Cs. Szabs fascinating life-story had to be rediscoveredepisode by episode to write his comprehensive biography.

Mtys Srkzi, living in London since the end of 1956, is anovelist, journalist and broadcaster. Working for the BBCHungarian Section for almost forty years, he became not onlya colleague but also a friend of the writer Lszl Cs. Szab.Since Szabs works are now widely published in Hungary,there was a need to write his intimate biography, and also tosummarize his life work as an essayist, author of radio-plays,poetry and short-stories. Mtys Srkzi fulfills this task inhis new book Cs, published by Kortrs in Budapest.

Please note this event is in Hungarian.

Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Thursday | 5 February | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE

Hungarian Avant-Garde? Neo-Avant-Garde? Contemporary or Post-Contemporary Art?By Lszl Beke, Ex-Director, Research Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

This lecture will give an overview of the most remarkable artists and works from theperiod of the 1960s to the present day in Hungary. There is an interesting ideologicaland aesthetic debate in our country about the mainstream in art. These discussionsrun parallel with a new international tendency of an emerging interest in East (Central-East) Europe in the context of European and Global cultures.

Another aspect of the past few decades in their evaluation is that there is a realgrowing interest in art both high and low not only among artists and experts but everyday people, the younger genaration in particular.

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Prof. Dr. Lszl Beke, CSc., dr. habil. is an Art Historian, up to 2011 Director, nowSenior Research Fellow of the Institute of Art History of the Research Centre forHumanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), Professor at theHungarian University of Fine Arts, teachingat several Hungarian institutions. ProfessorBeke taught at the University of Lyon 2 Louis Lumiere (198889) and was ChiefCurator of the 19th and 20th Centuriescollections at the Hungarian NationalGallery (from 1988 to 1995) and General

Director of Mcsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest (19952000). He has curated numerousexhibitions (including the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1996), has writtentexts and published books on art, 20th century theory and contemporary trends.Member of AICA, European Academy of Art and Sciences, Advisory Board of thereviews Arts (Bratislava) and Perspective (Paris), Editorial Board of Acta HistoriaeArtium (Budapest). Professor Beke was awarded the Szchenyi-Prize of the HungarianRepublic, Chevalier de lArts et Lettres de la Rpublique Francaise, Doctor HonorisCausa of University of Fine Arts (Bucarest).



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Wednesday | 11 February | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e SYMPOSIUM

hungarian student college presents

Hungarian brain research

Professor Tams Freund: The National Brain Research ProgramProfessor Angus Silver: Neuroscience and the Magyars: Links between Hungarian

and British neuroscience Professor Pter Somogyi: Scientific mentoring in the past and in the information age

Hungarian Brain Research Program

In February 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn along with Jzsef Plinks,the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), and Tams Freund, thedirector of the MTAs Institute of Experimental Medicine signed an agreementestablishing the Hungarian Brain Research Program (HBRP). With a budget of 39 millioneuros spanning four years, this Program has received the largest grant of any branch ofscience in Hungary to date. To put the size of the award in perspective, the annual levelof funding (approximately 10 million euros per year) is nearly half of the annual NationalScientific Research Fund dedicated to the full range of scientific research in Hungary.

The program was prepared in collaboration between leading neuroscientists andgovernmental experts. Reflecting scientific actuality and strengths of Hungarianneuroscience the HBRP is focused on five thematic pillars. These pillars and their Chairs are the following: Discovery Research Clinical Research, PharmaceuticalResearch, Bionic and Infobionic Research, Social Challenges.

The Programs long-term goal is to strengthen the international competitiveness andsocietal respect of brain research in Hungary and to contribute to decreasing thesocietal and economic burden of brain disorders. Establishing a Neuroscience Network of Excellence is one of the key points to be addressed in meeting this goal. As a former chair of the IBRO (International Brain Research Organisation) Central &Eastern Europe Regional Committee in addition to his recent appointment as amember of the European Commissions Presidents Science and Technology AdvisoryCouncil Professor Freund is well-suited to progressing brain research throughpromoting international collaboration.

The main message is that it is in the best interest of Hungary and of all Europeancountries to consider discovery research into the mechanisms of brain disorders as major priority.

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Professor Tams F. Freund is the Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine,Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Neuroscience Department of the PterPzmny Catholic University in Budapest. He graduated as a biologist at the EotvosUniversity in Budapest, worked as a studentresearcher at the Department of Anatomy,Semmelweis Medical School, Budapest underthe supervision of Jnos Szentgothai andPeter Somogyi, and spent a total of 4 years in Oxford. He became head of department(1990), then director (2002) of the Institute of Experimental Medicine. He served aspresident of FENS (20042006), member ofthe Executive Committee of IBRO (19982003),

and Chairman of IBROs Central and Eastern Europe Regional Committee (19992003).He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998), the Academia Europaea(London, 2000), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2001), the AcademiaScientiarum et Artium Europaea (2001), and the American Academy of Arts andSciences (2014). The major prizes and awards he received include: the KRIEG CorticalDiscoverer Award and the Cajal Medal of the Cajal Club (1998, U.S.A.), the KemaliFoundation Award (1998, FENS Forum, Berlin), the Bolyai Prize (2000, Hungary), The Brain Prize (2011, Denmark), and the Prima Primissima Award (2013, Hungary).

His main scientific interest is the synaptic and molecular organization, functionalarchitecture and physiology of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex and relatedstructures, the network basis of behaviour-dependent activity patterns in the brain,the changes in neuronal connectivity/chemical architecture underlying addiction or epileptic and ischemic brain damage. He unraveled the molecular cascade ofendocannabinoid signaling and its relationship with anxiety. His work shed light on the mechanism by which impulses of our inner world (motivations, emotions,autonomic state) facilitates brain oscillations and memory storage.

Professor Angus Silver is Professor of Neuro -science & Wellcome Trust Senior Basic Fellowworking at UCLs Neuroscience, Physiology andPharmacology Department.

The brain gathers information about the body andthe surrounding world, allowing it to build internalrepresentations and to plan and execute movement.Professor Silvers lab works on how synapses,neurons and networks transmit and process suchinformation and perform computations. The brainareas the lab investigates include the cerebellumand the sensory cortex. The main aim of the work is


to develop a mechanistic understanding of brain function that links the molecular,synaptic, neuronal and network levels. This requires a multidisciplinary approach thatcombines the most powerful experimental and theoretical methods available. Toachieve this the lab both develops and applies new optical methods for measuring rapidsignalling in 3D and new software tools for data acquisition, analysis and modelling.Application of these new experimental and theoretical approaches allows ProfessorSilvers lab to link neuronal mechanisms to information processing, thereby bridgingdifferent levels of description of brain function.

Professor Pter Somogyi, PhD., DSc, is director ofthe Medical Research Council, Anatomical Neuro -pharmacology Unit and professor of neurobiology at the Department of Pharmacology, University ofOxford, UK. He graduated in biology and received hisPhD in cell biology at the Etvs Lornd University,Budapest, Hungary. His research training includedneurocytology with Istvn Benedeczky, neuroanatomywith Jnos Szentgothai at Semmelweis MedicalUniversity, Budapest, biochemistry with A. DavidSmith and Ian Chubb at the University of Oxford, and immunocyto chemistry with Claudio Cuello atOxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, theBritish Academy of Medical Sciences, the Hungarian,the German and the European Academies, andreceived The Brain Prize in 2011.

Professor Somogyi is recognised for his fundamental work on the identification of celltypes in the cerebral cortex and for the localization of signalling molecules in identifiedsynapses of microcircuits in the brain. He pioneered the high-resolutions synapticdissection of connections in the cerebral cortex defining synaptic links and theirtemporal dynamics. His vision that explanations of normal and pathological events inthe brain can only come from the rigorous spatio-temporal definition of the neuronalcircuits that underlie these events has led to the discoveries of novel cell types, rulesof neuronal connections, their molecular constituents and temporal dynamics. Ingeneral, his work has demonstrated how co-operative interactions in time and spacebetween distinct identified neurons and receptors in the plasma membrane underlie theprocessing power of the cortex. He has educated and mentored many students andpostdoctoral scientists, who are now professors and leaders throughout the world. Further information: www.mrc.ox.ac.uk/groups/somogyi-group

The Hungarian Cultural Centre and the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad(KMA), together with the UCLU, LSE SU, Kings SOAS and Imperial Hungarian Societieshave joined forces to host a special series of events with the title Hungarian StudentCollege in January 2014.


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Thursday | 12 February | 7pm (Private view) Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EXHIBITION

Great Expectations Memories from the 19th centuryGraphic art works by Ilona Luca Decsi

drgaltos, zletes, krte-des szerelem, amelynek nincs szksge arra, hogy a lehunyt szemek ms nkalakjait varzsoljk az eleven helybe, s a bujkl gondolatok tvoli des nk emlkeit idzgessk, mint a nyugalmazott testrnedvesti szja szlt a szp kirlyn emlkvel,akinl fiatal korban szolglt (Krdy Gyula)

Ilona Luca Decsi has always been interested in the life of women and wanted to paint those beautiful ladies of olden days. A few years ago she started to deal with theextraordinary female characters of the 19th century following her long fascinationwith women of the late middle ages. She has tried to visualise their life stories in herpaintings, which was marked by the desire for freedom and the long-aspired changesin womens lives during the course of the 19th century.

The remarkable technology of photography, which was invented in this period of time,records enigmatic images. People were elegant, women wearing beautiful dresses full

Remembrance 1956 Memory to William Morris


of lace and madeira at traditional balls and festivities. Pictures of them preservedthese magical moments. Ilona Luca Decsi uses those old photographs for her artworkand applies these on handmade paper. Laced collars, ruffles and petticoats, as well asthe later fashion of the 1920s and 1930s, are all depicted in her work. Words fromGyula Krdy, psychological insights from Sndor Ferenczy, the richness of musical andliterary culture of old Budapest and exhibitions her teachers talked about, all inspiredher to make this graphic art work series. In addition to her graphic art works, drawingsas well as oil paintings will be exhibited.

Ilona Luca Decsi was born in Budapest in 1950. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapestand earned her degree there. Since then she has beenworking as a graphic artist, art-historian and teacher.Her first exhibition was in Berlin in the Galerie Fundusin 1979. She won the Hungarian Derkovits prize for drawings and etchings. In 1989 Ilona Luca Decsiwon a Flemish scholarship and went on to study at theKoninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten. She hadseveral exhibitions at home and abroad, including the recent one in Veszprm (2012), Budapest (2014)and this year in Moscow together with her husband,the widely known painter and graphic artist Imre Kri.

Exhibition open: 13 Feb 27 FebOpening hours: MonThurs 10am5pm, Fri 10am2pm


Thursday | 19 February | 11am11.45Thursday | 5 March | 11am11.45 Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Kodly-based Music Sessions for Children (05 yrs) and their FamiliesJointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre

These music sessions are suitable for children as small as 6-month-old. During thesession the parents learn and try out songs and games they can use at home withtheir children, which will help them develop not only their musical skills but create a strong bond between parents and children.

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Mria Chambers, founding director and a highly experienced teacher of theHungarian Cultural Association in Guildford,leads the sessions. She plays music, sings and enchants children and parents with theengaging and creative activities.

6/child/session. To book your place, please contactMria Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or [email protected]

Sunday | 8 March | 11.30am Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

e CONCERT

sunday morning coffee concert Kelemen Quartet

The Kelemen Quartet, founded in Budapest in 2010, has already gained a reputation asone of the most exciting young string quartets. At the Premio Paolo Borciani in ReggioEmilia 2011, Ensemble magazine described the musicians in these enthusiastic termsthey lit a firework of emotions, wrestling with the emotion in the music, and praisedthe Kelemen Quartet as perhaps one of the greatest discoveries of this competition.The Kelemen Quartets international acclaim was further enhanced in July 2011 whenthey received three prizes at the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition:the overall second prize, the audience prize and the Musica Viva Grand Prize, whichresulted in an Australian tour in spring 2014. The Kelemen Quartet also received the first prize ex aequo at the Beijing International Music Competition in 2011 and at

the InternationalSndor VghString QuartetCompetition inBudapest in 2012.The Quartet hasperformed inHungary, Germany,Austria,Switzerland,Finland, Italy,Croatia, NorthAmerica andAustralia, andcollaborated withmusicians such as

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pianists Zoltn Kocsis and Ferenc Rados. The Kelemen Quartet received furthertuition from Zoltn Kocsis, Pter Komls, Mikls Pernyi, Gnter Pichler (Alban BergQuartet), Ferenc Rados, Andrs Schiff and Gbor Takcs-Nagy.

In the 201314 season highlights include debuts at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival,the Wigmore Hall, Amici della Musica in Florence, in Munich, at the Franz Liszt AcademyBudapest, at Nardodni Dom Maribor, in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Sydney, Brisbane,Adelaide, Perth (Australia), Wellington, Auckland, Eindhoven and further ahead at theConcertgebouw Amsterdam, at the Bozar in Brussels and at the Carnegie Hall, New York.

All four of the Kelemen Quartets members are prizewinning Hungarian musicians, admiredas soloists and as chamber players, and close-knit both professionally and personally. The Kelemen Quartets debut CD has been released by the label Hunnia (2012)featuring works by Bartk and Mozart.

Barnabs Kelemen performs on a Guarneri del Ges violin from 1742 (ex-DnesKovcs) and Katalin Kokas performs on a Testore violin from 1698 (Milan), both ongenerous loan from the State of Hungary. The other two members of the quartet areGbor Homoki (violin/viola) and Dra Kokas (cello).

Tickets: 12.50 (concs 10) For further information and booking please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Monday | 9 March | 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRES

Renta Konyicska (piano) and Jlia Pusker (violin)Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death of Bla Bartk (18811945)

Hungarian pianist Renta Kriszta Konyicska started studying music at the age of five.At the age of ten she was accepted at the Special School for Exceptional YoungTalents of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in the class of Zsuzsa

Eszt. From 2010 to 2014 she continued her musicalstudies at the same institute under the guidance ofLszl Baranyay, Mrta Gulys and Rita Wagner. Sheattained her Bachelors degree with highest honours inPiano. Renata is completing her graduate studies at theRoyal Academy of Music, where she holds the GillingFamily Scholarship. Her professor is Pascal Nemirovski.

She has won many prizes in various piano competitions,including first prize at the Zlatko Grgosevic PianoCompetition (Croatia), first prize at the Citt di Gorizia

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Competition (Italy), first prize at the Smetana Piano Competition (Czech Republic) andthird prize at the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians (The Netherlands).

She has been invited to perform recitals and chamber music concerts in severalfestivals such as Nuits Classiques, Festival de Piano Classique Biarritz (France),Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander (Spain), Internationale Sommerakademieder mdw isa Reichenau (Austria), Ferenc Liszt Week Esztergom (Hungary). Renta has played several times with orchestras, performing concerti by J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Liszt and E. Grieg. She is grateful for support from the Lszl Slyom Foundation.

Jlia Pusker began her musical studies at the age of five. Her violin teacher wasTams Ittzs and Judit Szszn-Rger. In 2005, she entered the Special School for Young Talents, Preparatory Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she studied under Katalin Kokas, from 2006 with Istvn Kertsz.

In 2011 she moved to London to further her studies at the Royal Academy ofMusic under the guidance of Gyrgy Pauk.She has been a multiple recipient ofmajor awards in competition such as theJnos Koncz National Violin Competition,the Dnes Kovcs Violin Competition, the Georg Philipp Telemann InternationalViolin Competition, as well as the CarlFlesch Violin Competition. In 2007,together with her sister, she wasnominated, and in 2011 she received the Junior Prima Primissima Prize in herhometown, Kecskemt. In 2009 she wonthe Music Scholarship by Yamaha.

As a soloist she has performed with numerous orchestras such as the Budapest StringOrchestra, Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Chamber Orchestra, BudapestFestival Orchestra, Budapest Philharmony Orchestra, Danubia Symphony Orchestra,Gyr Philharmonic Orchestra and Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010 she wasfeatured in a documentary called Invisible Strings The talented Pusker Sisters andwas widely recognised all around the world. In 2013 she recorded the chamber versionof Bruckner 2nd symphony with Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy SoloistsEnsemble for the Royal Academy of Musics second disc in their chamber symphonyseries released on Linn Records. Her violin, a G. Gagliano crafted in 1791, is loaned toher by the Royal Academy of Music.

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Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e BOOK LAUNCH

Dramaturgy in the Making. A Users Guide for Theatre Practitioners(Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, 2015) By Katalin Trencsnyi

andNew Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice(Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, 2014)Edited by Katalin Trencsnyi and Bernadette Cochrane

The evening will feature a round table discussion on contemporary dramaturgy on theoccasion of the launch of Dramaturgy in the Making and New Dramaturgy. The booksare introduced by Mark Dudgeon, senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury and PaulSirett, associate dramaturg, Ambassador Theatre group, and associate teacher, RoyalAcademy of Dramatic Art, who will also be chairing the discussion. The guest speakers

are Katalin Trencsnyi (dramaturg,author) and dramaturgs featured in the book: Christopher Campbell(literary manager, Royal Court),Mischa Twitchin (theatre-maker,British Academy post-doctoralfellow, Queen Mary University ofLondon, and a co-founder of Shunt),and Hildegard De Vuyst (dramaturg,Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels and les ballets C de la B, Ghent). The evening concludes with a winereception, accompanied by live jazzby Nick Tomalin (E17 Jazz Collective).

Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary dramaturgical practices in varioussettings of theatre-making and dance to reveal the different ways that dramaturgswork today. It provides a thorough survey of three major areas of practice institutionaldramaturgy, production dramaturgy and dance dramaturgy with each illustratedthrough a range of case studies that illuminate methodology.Through these, a detailedand precise insight is provided into dramaturgical processes at organisations such as the Akram Khan Company, les ballets C de la B (Ghent), the National Theatre, theRoyal Court and Shunt (London), the Schaubhne (Berlin), The Sundance InstituteTheatre Lab (Utah), and the Secret Company (Budapest) among others.The bookfeatures a foreword by Geoff Proehl, author of Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility:Landscape and Journey.


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New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice is the first bookto explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgyand the role of the dramaturg has been transformed since the emergence of live art,devised and physical theatre, dance theatre and experimental performance. Withessays, case studies and interviews drawn from practitioners and scholars acrossEurope, Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the USA, it offers a uniquelyinternational overview of current practice.

Katalin Trencsnyi is a London-based dramaturg. Shecompleted her PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at EtvsLornd University, Budapest. As a freelance dramaturg,she has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre, Corali Dance Companyand Company of Angels among others. From 2010 to 2012Katalin served as president of the Dramaturgs Network.She is also one of the contributors to The RoutledgeCompanion to Dramaturgy (Routledge, 2014).


Thursday | 19 March | 8.30pm 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

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Jazz violinist Lajos Srkzi returns to London

The Hungarian Cultural Centre has regularlybeen bringing the best Hungarian jazz talentsto London as part of its long-term cooperationwith the well-known 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea.

Young and talented violin and guitar virtuoso,Lajos Srkzi comes from a long-standingRoma musical dynasty in Hungary. His father, a maestro of traditional Hungarian Gipsy musicstarted to teach him the violin at the age offive. Young Lajos went on to study classicalmusic and at the age of twelve he came first ata national violin competition. Two years later in2005 he came first at the International GeorgPhilipp Telemann Violin Competition in Poland.Without ever turning his back on classicalmusic, he soon discovered jazz and in 2006,

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organized by the Hungarian Radio. He is a fierce jazz player fusing his fiery Gipsytemperament with his classical technique and displaying a distinct bent for bebop. He is equally formidable as a guitar player. On this occasion at 606 he will be backedby top-line British musicians.

Entry: 10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at [email protected], on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk

Saturday | 21 March | 9.30am 4pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING

Motivation and efficiency in Hungarian Language Courses Professional development training for teachers of Hungarian

By Orsolya Marti, Head of the Hungarian Language Department, Balassi Institute, Budapest

The Hungarian Language Department of the Balassi Institute organises numerouscourses for students wishing to learn Hungarian. Each year there are hundreds ofstudents who enroll in these courses. The department holds conferences and workshopscentred on Hungarian as a Foreign and as Heritage Language. In addition, they publishmagazines and help their network of guest lecturers with professional support.

The goal of the department is to develop and improve the language knowledge of non-Hungarians as well as second and thirdgeneration Hungarians who grew up abroad.

Time spent on studying should be interestingand efficient. How can we now achieve this goal in teaching Hungarian as a Foreign and as Heritage Language? These workshops, ledby Orsolya Marti, will provide participantswith some answers to this question and many

others. Apart from learning the secret of great exercises, they can have a look at the Balassi booklet 4 and 5, which will be published in autumn 2015. Hungarian languageteachers from all over the UK are welcome to these sessions organised by MOKKA(Teachers of Hungarian as a foreign language in the UK) in collaboration with theHungarian Cultural Centre London.

Orsolya Marti (MA Hungarian Literature, Linguistics and Language Pedagogy,Etvs Lornd University, Budapest; MA Hungarian as a Second Language andHungarian Studies, Etvs Lornd University, Budapest; MA Cultural Anthropology,

schedule9.30am 10.00am Registration10.00am 11.30am Workshop I11.30am 11.45am Coffee break11.45am 1.15pm Workshop II1.15pm 2.30pm Lunch break2.30pm 4.00pm Workshop III


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Etvs Lornd University, Budapest; PhD in Linguistics,University of Pcs) works as the Head of the HungarianLanguage Department at the Balassi Institute. She has beenteaching foreign (HSL) and heritage students (HHL) for 17years at the Balassi Institute and at Corvinus University inBudapest. She also teaches linguistics and languagepedagogy at Etvs Lornd University and at Kroli GsprProtestant University. She has also worked with Hungarianlanguage teachers as a teacher trainer (HSL and HHL) inCanada, in the Netherlands, in Germany and in many othercountries where there are Hungarian language courses forheritage and HSL students.

MOKKA was founded in February 2013 upon the initiative of the Hungarian CulturalCentre with the aim to provide teachers of Hungarian as a Foreign or a Second Languagewith the possibility to meet regularly. These meetings offer participants a platformwhere they can build professional contacts and share their experiences, ideas,difficulties, and some useful learning materials. In addition, MOKKA helps to organiseteacher training sessions, develop start-up projects based on participants ideas, as

well as to jointly promote Hungarian as a Foreign Languagein the UK. Meeting three to four times a year, membershipto MOKKA is open for everyone who teaches Hungarianeither at a University, at a Hungarian Saturday School, as aprivate teacher, in any institutionalised surrounding or otherform of language education. The Hungarian Cultural Centrein London provides the location for these meetings and italso offers further information regarding membership toMOKKA, dates and schedules for future meetings, which canbe requested by contacting the HCC.

Participation at the teacher training workshop is free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected]

Sunday | 22 March | 3pm St Jamess Church Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London W2 3UD

e CONCERT

introducing talented children The Folk Chamber Ensemble The Chamber Group of Dugonics Andrs Piarist Gymnasium from SzegedSt Catharine's Girls' Choir Cambridge

By supporting this concert in partnership with the Cambridge Szeged Society, the Hungarian Cultural Centre launches its new project Talented Children, which aims to introduce exceptional young talents from Hungary to London audiences.


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The Piarist Mastery School (Piarista Mester Tanoda) is the Elementary Level ArtSchool of the Dugonics Andrs Piarist Gymnasium. Folk music with koboz, fiddle andfolk singing has been taught here since its foundation in 2001. The PMS regularly

attend state contests, providing recordingson the Tnchz Society CD issues and playan important role in the cultural life of theirtown Szeged, while following classical andinnovative ways in preserving and teachingfolk music. One of their programs is thecultural mission called If I were a riverthrough which the school regularly visits the Csng Hungarians in Moldova to bulidbridges of friendship and saving jems of our common culture.

The Folk Chamber Ensemble is formed by the schools koboz, fiddle and folk songstudents, along with their master teachers who include:

Tnde Fbri-Ivnovics vocals, bells, drums Lajos Vass Grand Prize, holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize twice, KlcseyAward and the Szeged Culture Award and a Gold Ring folk singer, folk singing teacher

Dniel Liptk violin, vocals holder of the Young Master of Folk Art Prize folk fiddler and folk violin teacher)

Gza Fbri lute, tamboura, vocalsBcs-Kiskun County Arts Award, 'Parallel Culture' Lifetime Achievement Prizeminstrel koboz (plucked lute) and folk music instruments teacher

Mester Tanoda Alaptvny foundation is the permanent supporter of the Folk Chamber Ensemble.

The St Catharine's Girls' Choir Cambridge the onlycollege-based girls' choir in the UK was founded in2008. The choir sings weekly in the College Chapeland gives regular concerts. Its repertoire extendsfrom the early Middle Ages to the 21st century, withseveral works written specially for it, by the likes of Nigel Hess, Christopher Fox and Jeremy Thurlow.

In its first six years, the choir has given performances in such distinguished venues as St Paul's Cathedral, St David's Hall, Cardiff and St John's Smith Square; and sungservices in the Cathedrals of Ely, Lichfield and Gloucester. The choir has toured toPoland and Hungary, and are regularly asked to participate in major choral/orchestralworks such as Bach's St Matthew Passion, Mahler's Third Symphony and Holst's The Planets.

Further information: www.mestertanoda.hu, www.mentesmaskent.huFree but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email [email protected] keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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o Free entry. For more information,please email [email protected]

14 Jan 10am10.30am (03 years old group)10.30am11.15am (35 years old group) 11.15am 12.00am (school groups), HCA Guildford, Surrey

RINGAT Music group with Dr. Galln Grh Ilona and Gall Viktria

24 Jan, 2pm6pm HCA Guildford, Surrey

Celebrating Hungarian Folk Songs and Singing

o Tickets: 10. Advanced booking only.

24 Jan, 8pm11pm HCA Guildford, Surrey

Traditional Hungarian Folk Dance Workshop

o Tickets: 10 (HCA Members) 12 (Guests). On the door: 12 (HCA Members) 14 (Guests).Advanced booking only.

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o For more information please visitwww.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

cambridge szeged societyprogramme

oxford hungarian societymichaelmas term 2014

maosz (national federationof hungarians in the uk)

the hungarian culturalassociations programme

oFor further information please visitwww.hungsoc.com

1 Jan, 8pm Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

The Budapest House: A LifeRediscovered by Marcus FerrarFerrar, former Reuters correspondentfor Eastern Europe, introduces hisnew book, which takes us throughthe history of 20th-century Hungarythrough the eyes of a Hungarian Jewretracing his roots.

6 Feb, 8pm Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Osono Theatre: As Water Reflects the FaceOsono Theatre is an independenttheatre company from SfntuGheorghe (Sepsiszentgyrgy),Romania. Their performance isabout social and personal problemsfrom all over the world, and aims toestablish a dialogue with the audience.


Young Researchers at OxfordDoctoral and post-doctoralresearchers present the cutting-edge work they are doing in Oxford.


H. E. Pter SzabadhegyThe Hungarian Ambassador gives a talk to the Oxford Hungarian Society.

4 Mar, 6pm MRC AnatomicalNeuropharmacology Unit

Pter Somogyi and Linda Katona:Time and Space in the BrainThe eminent neuroscientist and hisfellow researcher introduce us tothe labyrinth of brain cells whichhelp us to perceive time and space.They also discuss the work of Prof.Somogyis friend, Daniel OKeefe,recipient of the Nobel Prize.

13 Mar, 8pm Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Alpr Lzr: Sleep and CircadianRhythmsAlpr, a research associate at theUniversity of Cambridge, guides usthrough some of the mysteries ofsleep and circadian rhythms.

62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA

17 Jan, 6.30pm St Stephen House

Hungarian Dance, Live Folk Music,Dance teaching

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1 Feb, 5pm & 2 Feb, 7pm St Stephen House

Oson Theatre from Transylvaniapresents: Ahogy a vz tkrzi az arcot A special play for a small audience(max. 45 people per show).

o Booking by phone or email isnecessary: Mob: 07858399572, Email:[email protected] entry. Donations are welcome.More info: osono.ro/hu

7 Feb, 6pm till midnight St Stephen House

Spring Fancy Dress Ball (JelmezesFarsangi Bl) with three coursedinner, live music, entertainment byactors from Hungary, fancy dresscompetition, raffle prizes and more.

o Tickets and info:www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/136211Seated event with limited places.Advanced booking only. Mobile: 07858399572

15 Mar, 5pm St Stephen House

Organ Concert Organist: Levente Kuzma from Hungary Mr Kuzma has given concerts in manyEuropean countries and made hisdebut in USA in 2013. He is serving asmusic director at the Piarists Churchin Szeged and he is the artist directorof the Lieto Music and Art School. In addition he is organist in residenceof the Szeged Symphony Orchestra.

o [email protected] entry. Donations are welcome.Mobile: 07858399572

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10 & 24 Jan, 10am1.30pm7 & 21 Feb, 10am1.30pm7 & 21 Mar, 10am1.30pm HCA Guildford, Surrey

Hungarian Language, Music,Folkdance, Craft, Play groups for children (014 years old) Hungarian Youth Group for 1114 years old Hungarian as a Foreign Language Groups for adults Hungarian Folkdance and Folk Singing Group

15 Feb, 3pm6pm HCA Guildford, Surrey

Hungarian traditions: CARNIVAL

o Tickets: HCA members 6.00/child2.00/adult. Guests: 8.00/child and2.50/adults. Advanced booking only.

12 Apr, 10am2pm HCA Guildford, Surrey

Celebrating Easter: 5 km familywalk with Easter Egg Hunt Devils Punchbowl Surrey

o Tickets: free for HCA enrolled childrenand their parents, parking fees apply.

Saturdays 12am1pm Welfare information o Free for HCA members.

Saturdays 10am1pm Hungarian LibraryThe Hungarian Library offers over 500books cds and dvds to children and adults. o Free for HCA members

Saturdays 9.30am1.30pm Hungarian Coffee Shop The Coffee Shop offers traditionalHungarian hot and cold food.

oFor further info on the HungarianCultural Associations programmeplease contact Maria Chambers. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.ukwww.magyartanodaguildford.org.ukwww.hcaguildford.org.ukfacebook.com/HCAGuildford

o For further information please visitwww.hungarianschool.co.uk, or [email protected] on Facebook: www.facebook.com/StAlbansHungarianSchool

hungarian school of st albans

78 March Watford, Wimbledon, Ealing

Carnival Day for Families Costume show for children andadults, creative games, balloon-disco,Hungarian foods and a lot of gifts.

o Tickets: 3.00 (Adult), free for children.For further information please visit:www.hchs.org.uk or contact us:[email protected] Info on Facebook:facebook.com/hungary.hchs?fref=ts

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Two folk dance classes a week, one for beginners and one foradvanced dancers. For members of the advanced group we offerregular public appearancepossibility with the dance group.Monthly Hungarian dance housewith live music.

o For further information pleasevisit: www.hchs.org.uk or contact us:[email protected] Info on Facebook:facebook.com/hunique.dance

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The HCC team:

Dr Beata Pszthy PhD | Cultural and Scientific Counsellor DirectorGyngyi Vgh | Head of Programming and Communications Barbara Rvsz | Junior Programme Manager Andrea Ks | Office ManagerFruzsina Kovts | Finance ManagerBalzs Szaszk | IT Consultant

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 on our website and Facebook page before setting out for any particular event. The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NATel: 020 7240 8448 Fax: 020 7240 4847E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]

If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events and sign up for our newsletter, please visit our website www.hungary.org.uk.Alternatively, find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/hcclondon and Twitter @HCCLondon. Thank you for your interest.

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