Russian music

My graduation concert is going to take place in the Great Hall of the Academy of Music, Budapest on 30th April.

Line-up:

Featuring:

Entrance is free, everybody is welcome!  

To be honest, it was rather easy choosing the pieces for my graduation concert. If I have been thinking about it for 5 minutes, it is possible that the line-up would be undecided until the 30th April, as I have many favourites in music history. Thus I closed my eyes and said 3 pieces. I am satisfied with this „random” selection.

Why the Russian? My father -who graduated from the Academy of Music in Kiev and later became a correpetitor in the opera- and Youri Simonov –my first mentor and conductor teacher- have endeared Russian music to me. With this line-up I pay my tribute to them.

Why have I chosen three pieces concerning matters of death, passing and the end, that is really the question. It is my task as a conductor and a composer also to live in the present therefore the pieces that I choose should be current. A tragic but most beautiful love story in literature, war and a fate of an outcaste, and a sacrificial death incomprehensible in our present culture – devastation and rebirth – the end is a new beginning. Our world is now in this state. We have to live through, because it is so human...