ZAK Ensemble Returns in the Fall 2014 Season
The Contemporary Music Group of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music gives a taste of contemporary classical music in the FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture in October.
In the concert scheduled for 5 October 2014 at 6 p.m. the ZAK Ensemble will perform pieces by both Hungarian and foreign, male and female composers. First in the program will be the chamber work of Paolo Furlani, Italian composer and musician, who is mostly known as a creator of musical theatre works, followed by a composition written by the British Joanna Bailie. The ensemble, made up of current students and alumni of the Liszt Academy, will subsequently play Toccata by the young Hungarian composer Balázs Futó, and Consolazione, a piece by former teacher and professor emeritus of the Liszt Academy Zoltán Jeney. Finally, the audience will be presented the Swedish composer and trombonist Ivo Nilsson's Doppler Wobbler, a concerto for viola, bassoon and ensemble. When composing this double concerto, the author imagined two planets (the soloists) rotating at different speed around a star (the ensemble) by exerting a slight gravitational pull which can be described by the Doppler-effect. In the Hungarian première the two soloists are expected to be Péter Bársony and György Lakatos. Some of the composers will be present personally at the concert. We can meet Zoltná Jeney (Professor Emeritus of the Liszt Academy of Music), Paolo Forlan i (Firenze) and Ivo Nilsson (Stockholm).
Photo by Liszt Academy / Andrea Felvégi
The ZAK Ensemble was formed as part of the EU supported New Music, New Audiences project in Spring 2013 under the artistic coordination of Gyula Fekete, Head of the Composition Department. The members of the group are MA and doctoral students of the Liszt Academy who have passed their basic studies in contemporary music performance. In the spirit of the international initiative, the ensemble directed by conductor Balázs Horváth is dedicated to present new music and new ideas to a wider audience. Their latest greatly successful concert which they gave at the Liszt Academy in May 2014 included only 21st-century musical pieces, with the exception of a Haydn composition. The group's upcoming concert in October will not be lacking in freshness and novelty, either, since they will perform the works of contemporary composers exclusively.