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A MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar örömmel várja hegedű szakos akadémisták jelentkezését Marc Bouchkov hegedűművész mesterkurzusára.

A virtuóz és sokoldalú belga hegedűművész már fiatalon komoly nemzetközi karriert tudhat magáénak, Európa számos vezető zenekarával lépett már fel (pl. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra), és rendszeres meghívottja például a rangos Verbier Fesztiválnak. A MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekarral 2023. május 12-én lép fel a Zeneakadémia Nagytermében, ahol Csaba Péter vezényletével Ysaÿe: e-moll hegedűversenyének magyarországi bemutatóját játsszák.

Budapesti tartózkodása idején a Zenekar felkérésére mesterkurzust is tart, amelyre aktív és passzív résztvevőket is szeretettel várunk:

Időpont: 2023. május 13., szombat – 11:00-től 14:00-ig

Helyszín: A MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar próbaterme – 1143 Budapest, Stefánia út 61.

Az aktív résztvevők beosztása: a kurzusra minden hallgatónak 40 percet tudunk biztosítani. Az időbeosztás a jelentkezők számától függően is alakul, amelyet a jelentkezési határidő után a kurzus aktív résztvevőinek e-mailben elküldünk. Igény esetén zongorakísérőről a hallgatókat kérjük gondoskodni.

Jelentkezés menete:

E-mailben várjuk a jelentkezéseket az nczvikli@mavzenekar.hu e-mail címre az alábbiak szerint:

Aktív részvételre jelentkezők:

• név, életkor, állandó lakcím, telefonszám, e-mail cím
• oktatási intézmény, tanár neve
• a mesterkurzuson játszani kívánt mű szerzője, címe, hossza

Jelentkezési határidő: 2023. május 11. – 14:00-ig

Passzív hallgatók:

• név, intézmény, e-mail cím

Jelentkezési határidő: 2023. május 12. – 17:00-ig

Részvételi díj:

• aktív résztvevőknek: 4.000 Ft
• passzív hallgatóknak a részvétel ingyenes, de előzetes regisztrációhoz kötött

Részvételi díj befizetése: a mesterkurzus díjáról a visszaigazolt aktív részvevőknek e-mailben számlát küldünk, amit a kurzust megelőzően átutalással kérünk kifizetni. Kérjük, az átutalás közleményébe tüntessék fel a „Mesterkurzus” kifejezést és a résztvevő nevét.

Kérdés esetén Czvikli Nóra, a MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar külügyi menedzsere áll rendelkezésre az nczvikli@mavzenekar.hu e-mail címen, illetve telefonon a +36 20 595 9695 számon.

It is always a pleasure when the MÁV Symphony Orchestra is invited to perform abroad. This time, the ensemble will be travelling to two prestigious concert venues in Austria. The concerts will take place on 22 March 2023 in Klagenfurt at the Konzerthaus and on 23 March 2023 in Salzburg at the Mozarteum. The orchestra will be conducted by Daniel Geiss and the concert will be featuring flutist Sarah Shin and soprano Defne Aydin.

Program:
Mozart: Flute Concerto in D major, K. 314
Mozart: Don Giovanni - "Or sai chi l'onore"
Beethoven: Fidelio - "O wär ich schon mit dir vereint" ("If only I were already united with thee")
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 "Fate"

After the mini-tour, the Hungarian audience can attend the MÁV Symphony Orchestra’s event on March 30 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. The concert will feature Anton Bruckner's Apocalyptic Symphony, conducted by Christoph Campestrini.

"...Beethoven's music demands a part in life. It stirs you up, it shocks you. It makes you cry and makes you laugh. It makes you turn inward and sends you off to battle: it takes a stand, it acts, it fights in every moment...It is as honest, as fervent, as unmasked as music has never been...a confession and a hymn, a defence and an accusation, a manifesto to humanity…",   Bence Szabolcsi: Beethoven – Artist and artwork on the border between two periods

Maxim Vengerov is one of the world's best violinists, often referred to as the greatest stringed-instrument player of our time. He started playing the violin at the age of five and won first prize at the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition for young violinists at the age of 10. In 1987, when his teacher Zakhar Bron left Russia to become a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Vengerov moved after him with his mother and later moved after Bron to Lübeck. In 1990, he won first prize at the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in London, and has been actively giving concerts ever since. In the early years of his career, he released several recordings, which received prestigious prizes (Grammy, Edison, Echo Classic, etc.) In 2005, he suffered a shoulder injury; around this time, he began to intensively pursue his conducting career. In 2010, he was the chief conductor of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra. He teaches at numerous places, including the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and he is also a member or chairman of the jury of several major violin competitions. He plays on an "ex-Kreutzer" Stradivarius violin, made in 1727, with the bow of former string player Jasha Heifetz.

Maxim Vengerov has performed with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra several times since 2019. This year, the audience will be able to admire the virtuoso violinists for the fifth time at Müpa Budapest on March 16, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.

Gábor Takács-Nagy, a Hungarian conductor living in Switzerland, who became world-famous as the founding violinist of the Takács Quartet, has been conducting since 2002. He is a professor at the Academy of Music of Geneva and also teaches conducting masterclasses around the world. He is an Honorary Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Since 2007, he has been Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland); his concerts features world class artists. Since 2011, he has been the Chief Conductor of the Manchester Camerata, a British chamber orchestra based in Manchester. Since 2005, he has been directing the MÁV Symphony Orchestra’s strings workshops and the orchestra's new chamber orchestra series as a musical advisor. He was the orchestra's first guest conductor from 2008, and was chief conductor and artistic director between 2010-2012. Since 2012, he has been the only Guest Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and since 2018, he has been the Permanent Guest Conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. He has received numerous awards, including the Franz Liszt Prize in Hungary in 1982, the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 2017 and the Prima Primissima Prize in 2021.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/568116678509743

The next guest of the Music Show organised by the ZeneMűvek, the Akvárium Klub and the MAV Symphony Orchestra will be the humorist András Kovács Péter (KAP) on March 8.

„The humor is the umbrella of the wise“ – said our ancestors. But how does this umbrella work? How many layers does it have? And what exactly fits under it and what does it protect us from?

With the next guest of the Music Show, the Karinthy-Ring award winner András Péter Kovács, we will primarily discuss what lies beyond humor: the individual, destinies and inspirations. Besides profound topics, there will be room for play as well; we will reveal what makes good musical humor and what is the benefit of laughing.

At the unconventional classical music talkshow created jointly by the ZeneMűvek, the Akvárium Klub and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the audience can meet with prominent figures of different professions. The Music Show is a fusion of the interview and the concert genre, where we talk with our guests about defining factors in reaching their goals.

The specialty of the evening is that the personal contemplation of the invited guest is accompanied by masterpieces from the classical concert repertoire played by the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. Dénes-Worowski Marcell vezényletével.

Tickets: https://akvariumklub.hu/programok/a-zene-showja-7/

Saint-Saëns, the famous French composer, has written a joyful piece in which he portrays the charming and fearsome inhabitants of the forest. It is entitled The Carnival of the Animals. On February 18, we invite you to this musical carnival of our Grandchildren and Grandparents concert series at a new location! The venue is the Eötvös 10 in Terézváros, and the concert will start at 10:30 am and at 3:30 pm. We would love if children made their own animal masks for the occasion, to wear them at the concert. We wish you a lot of fun with your creative ideas and a special concert experience!

We would love if children made their own animal masks for the occasion, to wear them at the concert. We wish you a lot of fun with your creative ideas and a special concert experience!

Tickets:
https://mavzenekar.hu/event/farsangi-mulatsag-unokak-es-nagyszulok-hangversenyei-1030/

The Hungarian premiere of Juraj Filas: Requiem, previously scheduled for January 27, 2023, in collaboration with the Hungarian National Philharmonic, is CANCELLED due to financial reasons. Instead, our orchestra is preparing with an Opera Night.

Gergely Kesselyák, our conductor tonight, has based the program of the concert specifically on three outstanding tenors of contemporary Hungarian opera life. Since he constantly monitors the opera performances of neighbouring countries, he also enjoys working with Hungarian singers of the Hungarian diaspora. This is how Titusz Tóbisz became a member of the ensemble. Tóbisz was born in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, studied in his hometown, then in Fiľakovo, and later at the State Conservatory of Košice. He is a former rock singer, musical singer and currently lead tenor of the State Theatre of Košice. István Horváth was born and educated in Pécs, Hungary. He is an excellent performer of bel canto and lyrical roles. Attila Fekete, who began his studies at the Pikéthy Tibor Conservatory in Vác, is one of the leading tenors of the Hungarian State Opera, and often performs abroad as well. The concert will feature additional short orchestral works between the operatic parts.

Respighi: Rossiniana – finálé
Rossini: Tell Vilmos “Asile hereditarie – Amis, amis…” / Horváth István
Leoncavallo: Bajazzók “Vesti la giubba” / Tóbisz Titusz
Verdi: A kalóz “Ah, si, ben dite…” és sztretta / Fekete Attila
Respighi: Rossiniana (első rész)
Puccini: Bohémélet “Che gelida manina!” / Horváth István
Puccini: Tosca “E lucevan le stelle” / Tóbisz Titusz
Puccini: Manon Lescaut “Donna, non vidi mai” / Fekete Attila
Respighi: Rossiniana (második rész)
Dusík: Pieseň o rodnej zemi / Tóbisz Titusz
Erkel F: Bánk bán “Hazám, hazám” / Fekete Attila

intermission

W. Korngold: Straussiana
Strauss: Rózsalovag “Di rigori armato il seno” / Horváth István
Wagner: A walkür “Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond” / Tóbisz Titusz
Wagner: A nürnbergi mesterdalnokok “Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein” / Fekete Attila
Korngold: A halott város “Oh Freund, ich werd’ sie nicht mehr wiedersehen…”  / Tóbisz Titusz és Fekete Attila
Respighi: Rossiniana (harmadik rész és finálé)
Deraco: Oceano “Un’ oda di cose mi venne… – Addio Fratelli!…” / Fekete Attila
Fekete Gy.: Excelsior! – Liszt F. áriája / Horváth István

TICKETS: https://mav.jegy.hu/program/operaest-nepszeru-reszletek-kesselyak-gergely-l3-133775

In 2023, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra will continue to offer brilliant programs for classical music enthusiasts. The regulars at our season pass concerts and the members of the orchestra’s Circle of Friends form a community worth joining, since beyond serving as a musical experience, quality concerts give a place where people can enjoy meeting in person.

The orchestra has been giving seasonal performances in Budapest since 1947, in prestigious concert halls such as the Franz Liszt Music Academy, the Müpa Budapest and the magnificent Festetics Palace, with renowned conductors and outstanding soloists.

The highly successful Tibor Szőke season pass will be launched in the second half of the 2022/23 season, on 12 January 2023 at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest's Müpa Budapest, and altogether will consist four concerts.

At the first concert, on January 12, our audience will hear a Beethoven recital conducted by János Kovács. From Beethoven’s admirable oeuvre, Symphonies No. 1 and No. 5 (“Fate”) will be performed, along with one of the composer’s earlier works, the concert aria Ah perfido! (Ah Deceiver!), with the soprano Klára Kolonits. Although at the time Beethoven was alien from the world of opera, this work was still a success and has been frequently performed in the composer's lifetime and ever since.

The second concert on February 9 will be conducted by Róbert Farkas, Chief Conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. The program will include masterpieces by Mahler and Tchaikovsky. The evening will feature pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya, a living legend who was born in Tbilisi in 1945 and has lived in Austria since 1978. She performs in the world’s most famous concert halls and has released numerous recordings. In this concert, she will play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major. The concert concludes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, which originally consisted of five movements, but the second movement was later removed by the composer. This movement is Blumine, a beautiful, romantic floral piece which is the overture to the concert and definitely deserves to be heard by the audience of our day.

With spring approaching, our orchestra will step on the stage with real world stars on March 16, 2023. The soloist will be the violinist Maxim Vengerov, a successor of the legendary Russian Violin School, whose playing fascinates violinists all over the world. Gábor Takács-Nagy, the permanent guest conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Beethoven Forever evening, whose brilliant career as a violinist brings extraordinary sensitivity to his conducting on every occasion. The program includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), „the hymn of heroism and heroic behaviour”, according to music historian Dénes Bartha. Maxim Vengerov will perform Beethoven’s famous Violin Concerto.

On the fourth concert of the Masterpass on May 4, the ’The Geniuses of Romanticism’ evening will feature popular works by Berlioz and Liszt, conducted by Grammy Award-winning conductor Charles Dutoit. The two composers met and became friends around 1830. Together they coined the idea of the symphonic poem. The concert will feature Liszt’s first Piano Concerto in E flat major, performed by János Balázs, Liszt and Kossuth Prize-winning musician, as well as Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and the Symphonie Fantastique, which still sounds modern because of the many forms of the fixa idea that permeates it.

For further information on the program and pass purhcase options, please visit our website: https://mavzenekar.hu/szoke-tibor-mesterberlet-2022-2023/

We Wish You All a Happy New Year Full of Music! kíván mindenkinek a MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar!

The MÁV Symphony Orchestra would like to surprise its audience with a special Christmas gift. Choose one of our gift cards, and gift your loved ones with a concert experience.

Our Christmas gift cards are now available at a discount. You can purchase a gift card with the value of HUF6000 for only HUF4800, and a card with the value of HUF 20000 for HUF 16000 before the holidays.

The cards are fully redeemable for MÁV Symphony Orchestra concert passes and concerts, and you can give it further to your loved ones and acquaintances.

You can use the gift card for the MÁV Symphony Orchestra’s programmes when purchasing a ticket online by adding the ticket(s) in the basket and entering the barcode of the voucher in the Gift Card field. The final amount to be paid will be reduced accordingly.

If the value of the tickets to be purchased is higher than the amount on the gift card, the transaction can be completed by balancing the remaining amount by credit card. If the amount of the final purchase price is lower than the amount on the voucher, the difference will remain on your Gift Card, and you can use it for further purchases until the card expires.

You can find out more about our Christmas offers here: https://mav.jegy.hu/gift https://mav.jegy.hu/gift