Master Class by the Modern Art Orchestra in the Budapest Music Center

The event is open to students of the Liszt Academy and the Bartók Conservatoire, pre-registration is required at Andrea Borzi at borzi.andrea[at]zeneakademia.hu. When registering, please indicate whether you would like to attend the morning and/or the afternoon master class.

Students of the Liszt Academy can receive credits for participating in the master class, please register for the 4-credit Master class subject with Kristóf Bacsó.

Since its foundation in 2005, the Modern Art Orchestra has built up a monumental repertoire of compositions, most of which were written especially for the ensemble by composers of contemporary Hungarian classical and jazz music.

The backbone of their activities is their monthly concert series, which have been held in the halls of their resident venue, the Budapest Music Center, since the opening of the building. As well as presenting contemporary music, they also link to the tradition of jazz music in their series of Legendary Albums. The orchestra's performances present more and more new music from time to time, so that the repertoire is growing, but the effectiveness and means of construction are no longer entirely obvious.

On the morning and afternoon of 24 January, the Modern Art Orchestra will be giving master classes at the BMC Library to give an insight into its methods of operation. The quintet of Kornél Fekete-Kovács (trumpet), Kristóf Bacsó (saxophone), Gábor Cseke (piano), József Barcza Horváth (double bass) and László Csízi (drums) will introduce the methods of orchestral rehearsals to the musicians taking part in the course. The course will also focus on the means of communication between musician and musician, its different planes and possible channels, and the questions of competences and responsibilities that can be linked to the positions in the orchestra.

The master class is supported by the MOL-New Europe Foundation in the framework of the Tuned Up! programme.