EUphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The concept of a Central European youth orchestra was born six years ago, in 2010, and nurtured into existence by the then president of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, András Batta, and the leaders of the music conservatory in Zagreb, dean Mladen Janjanin and his deputy Dalibor Cikojević. These founders dreamed of creating an international ensemble renewing year after year, providing not only new opportunities for meeting and making music but also a chance for the conservatory students of this region to learn more about each other’s classical music heritage, orchestral and music teaching culture. After their debut in Budapest in 2011, and a tour starting in Austria in 2013, this year Croatia is the driving force behind the project. Similarly to earlier programmes, this one is also full of specialities: Croatian Blagoje Bersa’s Sunny fields, the concerto for piano by the tragically fated Hungarian-Croatian countess Dora Pejačević (soloist is the Croatian Vedran Janjanin who is spending a year at the Budapest Liszt Academy on an Erasmus scholarship), then this major concert winds up with Richard Strauss’s The Hero’s Life. This year we also welcome new participants into the ensemble since it is joined by students of the music academies of Sarajevo and Banja Luka, who together with their Croatian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Austrian and Serb counterparts rehearse and perform the programme under the baton of Croatian conductor Mladen Tarbuk.