Modern Art Orchestra plays Béla Bartók 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs

The Premiere performance of Modern Art Orchestra plays Béla Bartók 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs was live streamed from Budapest Music Center on the 25th of March 2018. This is a video featuring the live streamed show. The band that keeps You surprised! Modern Art Orchestra is founded, directed and conducted by the world-known trumpetist, composer and arranger Kornél Fekete-Kovács. The band gained the status of an internationally renowned chamber orchestra during its 15-year-long artistic journey and produced a 25 hour-long contemporary composition-repertoire. Finding home and support at Budapest Music Center, György Kurtág’s current home, the band can fulfill its chosen duty of sharing Hungarian classical music from composers like Bartók and Kodály transcripted with respect to the tradition. The formation has a unique voice as a contemporary music workshop also: every member can play classical, jazz, or ethnic music effortlessly resulting in a crossover among genres. The ensemble has published many, internationally acknowledged albums so far, like Kornél Fekete-Kovács’s Foundations. The concert program based on Modern Art Orchestra’s 2018 album, 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, is an excellent example of how Béla Bartók’s cultural heritage is carried on. The original solo piano pieces were transcripted for the grand orchestra by the band’s own composers. They saved the original form and phrases of the songs and connected them with conducted solo performances of Modern Art Orchestra musicians and the stunning invited solo artists like David Liebman. This show is currently invited to international tours. The ensemble has worked together with a world-wide network of the finest musicians, like Kurt Elling or Wallace Roney through Rhoda Scott, Julian Joseph and Mike Garson -- just to name a few. The band’s recent online concert, ‘Tribute to Joe Henderson’ featured Bob Mintzer, Tony Lakatos, Rick Margitza and Gábor Bolla. The newest concept of Modern Art Orchestra is Art Of Virus worldwide composing challenge with 486 composers from 42 countries. Modern Art Orchestra is happy to play at jazz festivals and take on individual tours, just to keep you surprised! Featured soloists: Veronika Harcsa - vocal Mihály Dresch - fuhun László Gőz - bass trumpet David Liebman - saxophone Miklós Lukács - cymbalo The Orchestra: reeds KRISTÓF BACSÓ - ssax, asax, fl DÁVID ÜLKEI - asax, cl JÁNOS ÁVÉD - tsax, fl BALÁZS CSERTA - tsax, cl MIHÁLY BAJUSZNÁCS - bsax, bcl trumpets BALÁZS SZALÓKY FERENC MAGYAR GÁBOR SUBICZ BALÁZS BUKOVINSZKI KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS low brass ZOLTÁN VARGA - frh ATTILA KORB - trb GÁBOR BARBINEK - trb MIKLÓS CSÁTHY - btrb PÉTER KOVÁCS - tuba rhythm section ÁRON KOMJÁTI - guitar GÁBOR CSEKE - piano JÓZSEF BARCZA-HORVÁTH - bass LÁSZLÓ CSÍZI - drums conducted by KORNÉL FEKETE-KOVÁCS CURRENT PROJECTS: Highlights Budapest 20/21 Modern Art Orchestra presents compositions written since and during the times of quarantines. The contemporary pieces authored by Hungarian composers are grand orchestra arrangements and are collected by art director Kornél Fekete-Kovács. The premiers are performed in iconic venues of Budapest, the Hungarian capital. The series aims to bring the authors and the public closer together and give a peek into the genesis of the compositions.    • HIGHLIGHTS BP 20/21 - Modern Art Orchestra...   MAO – Legendary Albums Modern Art Orchestra’s Legendary Albums series presents the most important and unique albums of jazz literature, performed by MAO. By learning and playing these compositions and arrangements, the musicians are paying tribute to the jazz legends and are undergoing an intense process of musical improvement. The band absorbs the material of the original recordings, sticking to the arrangements, forms and compositional features. As improvisation is the blood of jazz, solos are invented by the players in the moment.   / modernartorc.  . (many more on Facebook!) MAO - Art of Virus What kind of new compositions do musicians create in a reduced being filled with life threatening circumstances. Modern Art Orchestra’s Art of Virus project gives answers to the urgent questions about re-defining culture in the form of positive reflection about music, art-theory and performing art from the perspective of music. The artistic aim of the AOV-project based on international cooperation of composers is to symbolize the spreading and the behavior of the virus in the form of a constantly widening (mutating) range of compositions. https://phonicchat.com/aov Latest Premiere: "Fölszállott a Páva" - a Tribute to Zoltán Kodály 3rd February 2022. Modern Art Orchestra Facebook:   / modernartorc.  . Youtube:    / moartorc.  . Website: mao.hu Spotify: Spotify.com/ModernArtOrchestra E-mail: [email protected] KEVESEBB