György Rétházi
Cultural Attaché
3910 Shoemaker str, NW
Washington DC 20008
www.washington.gov.hu
Office: (202) 686 4114 Cell: (202) 460 3411
E-mail: gyrethazi@mfa.gov.hu
The Hungary Program at the
2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival,
26-30 June and 3-7 July, 2013
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| | The Embassy of Hungary cordially invites you and your friends to the Concert of the Keller Quartet Thursday, April 18th at 8:00 pm Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building |
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| "The players (draw you) in deeper with their own devotion and attention. In the Keller Quartet's playing, everything, even a whisper, is important." San Francisco Classcic Voice Hungary's world-renowned Keller Quartet has been praised by the New York Times for its "expressive potency" and "warm, glowing sound." "They have the courage and they take their time for profound mourning. However,
they never fall into an abyss of sentimentality." Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 7th, 2003 |
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| Judit Szabó - Violoncello |
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| Founded in 1987 at the Liszt Conservatory of Music in Budapest, the Keller Quartet already achieved their international breakthrough in 1990 when winning all prizes and special awards at the Evian and Borciani Competitions. Even though the quartet members have all completed their degrees as soloists, string quartet playing has always been their first choice. Three of the Liszt Conservatory’s most renowned professors took care of the young musicians and can be regarded as their mentors to this very day: Sandór Devich, András Mihály and György Kurtág, who also composes works for the quartet. The Keller Quartet can be characterised by musical curiosity: curiosity about encounters with musicians and composers of all genres, curiosity about unknown works and new forms of programming, where unusual combinations develop their own dramatic tension. Exemplary for this is on the one hand their famous Bach/Kurtág program where parts of Bach’s „Art of the Fugue” are intertwined with works by György Kurtág or on the other hand the performance of the composition „Zwiegespräch” for string quartet and synthesizer by Kurtág father and son at the Vienna “Klangwochen” festival and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. The concert is presented in cooperation of the Library of Congress and the Embassy of Hungary. In a limited number free tickets are reserved for the Embassy of Hungary while the tickets supplies last. For more information please visit the website of the Library of Congress: |
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