Kim Kashkashian & Péter Nagy A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

One of today’s most influential viola players, the Armenian-American Kim Kashkashian has countless links to Hungarian musical culture. Her masters include György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados, she is an authoritative interpreter of 20th century Hungarian (and naturally other) new music, while last year she won a Grammy Award for her Ligeti-Kurtág album. Her chamber partners have included Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, as well as Péter Nagy, head of the keyboard programme of the Liszt Academy’s doctoral school and professor at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart. Their concert brackets two 20th century compositions around two Schumann pieces. Britten’s 1950, movingly beautiful work is structured on a song by English composer John Dowland from c. 1600, while László Tihanyi’s 2011 Eight Invocations to the Lunar Phases – which the composer dedicated to the Kashkasian-Nagy duo – examines the phases of the Moon in eight movements, turning the astronomical phenomenon into a psychological story, meanwhile revealing the most varied forms of cooperation between the two instruments and multiple characters of sound.