Steve Reich at the Liszt Academy A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Steve Reich is an icon of contemporary music, the father of minimal music and an honorary professor of the Liszt Academy since 2006. In his music he achieves rediscovery of the sound experience from the banality of endlessly repeated base melodies through variations in rhythm, indeed, and without any exaggeration, in many cases to a complete reinterpretation of the concept of music. Zoltán Rácz is not only one of the world’s most accomplished interpreters of Reich’s ground-breaking compositions, but he is also a master of percussion instruments (as well as leader of the Amadinda Percussion Group now approaching its third decade of music-making) and associate professor at the Liszt Academy. He has enjoyed a professional relationship with Reich lasting nearly 25 years, during which time they have become close friends, and Amadinda regularly perform works by the American genius. What’s more, the apparently light composition Mallet Quartet, which is in fact highly complex in its playfulness, was written specifically for Amadinda (to mark the 25th anniversary of the ensemble).