BÉLA SZAKCSI LAKATOS
Improvisations on jazz standards and original themes
The charm of Szakcsi's concerts is that he only decides on the spot, at the moment, what he is going to play. We can count on the jazz standards and classics promised in the concert title. In the past 15 years, besides working on his jazz repertoire, he has been studying the works of classical composers (Stravinsky, Bartók, Richard Strauss), playing Mozart's piano concertos, the Brandenburg concerto with jazz cadences, but also holding thematic concerts marked by improvisation on the works and themes of Liszt, Beethoven, and Bartók. In 2010, BMC recorded and released his solo improvisation concert where he touched on themes and compositions by Béla Bartók, György Kurtág and Péter Eötvös. In his performance, jazz and classical music form an inseparable union, as everything he has played and studied lives in his imagination and his fingers, producing improvisations in abundance. He plays themes from his solo albums released in the United States, his ballet Kristoforo, improvises on Gypsy songs, achieving an incredibly rich sound by using the piano like a cimbalom. If we ask the Kossuth Prize winner Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, what type of artist he considers himself he replies without hesitation: the most improvising artist. And improvisation is what makes him extraordinary.
Cecília Szőke
Tickets: 2000 Ft, Student tickets: 1000 Ft
Sponsor: National Cultural Fund