Our Heritage Is the Bridge Between Us

Date/Time

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 / 18:00 - 21:30

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Details of the Evening

18:00 Dinner
poster

Poster

19:00 Sándor Haáz presents The Children’s Philharmonic Orchestra from Szentegyháza, AKA „Fili
19:15 Dr. Szilvia Bába presents her research work about the Hungarian diaspora and the artistic work of Judit Józsa
19:30 Kormorán, Ferenc Gulyás and Alpár Babos: Hungarian Folk Music and Dance
20:30 Meet our Guests

About the Artists

Nóri Fehér és Álmos Gáspár

Nóri Fehér and Álmos Gáspár


Nóri Fehér and Álmos Gáspár are members of the new/renewed Kormorán ensemble. Founded in 1976, the ensemble introduced a unique fusion of folk and international rock music into the Hungarian musical landscape of the era. By the apogee of their activity they had produced more than a hundred albums, and generated several incidental theatre music scores, rock operas and film scores. In 2011, five of the founding members left the ensemble to form the Örökség (Heritage) group. The ranks have been replenished by new talents.

Nóri Fehér

Nóri Fehér


Nóri Fehér: born in 1989., is native of Zenta, in the former Yugoslav Federation, presently making home in Mohol. Exposed to music since childhood, she has learned to play the violin and the piano, while later taking lessons in singing. Growing up she sang blues and jazz with a local band, crisscrossing Voivodina, only to end up in Szeged, studying musical ethnography at its university. Recently, she has been adopted by the new Kormorán, as singer.

Álmos Gáspár

Álmos Gáspár


Álmos Gáspár: took after his multi-talented father very early on. Violins, bass guitars, keyboards, dulcimers ceased to keep their secrets from the fingers of this folk musician since high school. Most of his adult years he has been the first violin and leader of the well known Wild Roses Folk Ensemble of Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania. Then, since 1992, on the invitation of the Budapest State Folk Ensemble he has enriched that ensemble’s orchestra. He has to his credit several LDs, film scores, and three kids.

Ferenc Gulyás

Ferenc Gulyás


Ferenc Gulyás folk musician extraordinaire, is well known to the Ottawa public, since his unforgettable performance and presentation of countless folk instruments. Founding member of the Nox and Örökség Ensembles, he contributes to the success of those groups as folk instrumentalist. He also holds the title of Knight of Hungarian Culture, he is an ethnographer, a cultural anthropologist, and he teaches folk music performance at Szeged University.

Babos Alpár

Babos Alpár


Babos Alpár, folkdance instructor hails from Kolozsvár, Transylvania, where he had encountered the authentic elements of folklore in the surrounding villages from a young age. Transplanted in 1995 to Hungary, he became a member of the Bihari János Folk Dance Ensemble. In 2004 he has founded the Fonó Dance Group, which has participated in many international tours. He has instructed Hungarian folk dance in London, United Kingdom, and Adelaide, Australia.

Sándor Haáz

Sándor Haáz


Sándor Haáz, choir master, music teacher, member of the Hungarian Arts Academy, conductor of the Children’s Philharmonic of Szentegyháza, Transylvania.
Being the music teacher and choir master of the local High School, he has brought under the same roof the choir of the School and the modest brass band, to build on them a splendid tool of youthful musical expression. To the orchestra has been added a string section in the earnest, and after more 800 performances, home and abroad, the Philharmonic has a tremendous pull. Children from the surrounding area are competing for the occasional freed-up place in it. Since 1990 they had visited and performed in several European countries.

Sándor Haáz in the Hungarian Wikipedia

Szentegyházi gyermekfilharmónia

Szentegyházi Gyermekfilharmónia

33rd Anniversary of the Children’s Orchestra from Szentegyháza, AKA “Fili” “Fili” Performing in Zürich
“Fili” Performances “Voice of Children in Europe”

Dr. Szilvia Bába

Dr. Szilvia Bába


Dr. Szilvia Bába Phd in sociology, has been active since 2002 in all aspects of her chosen field of study, Hungarians of the Diaspora. The sheer number of projects she is involved in is staggering, and were supported by frequent field trips in adjacent, formerly Hungarian territories, continued with studies and research projects all over the world, where Hungarian is or was once spoken. She has one book, one independent publication, and more than 30 journal papers to her credit. As member of the Board of Trustees of the Judit Józsa Art Foundation, she will talk about the artist.

Judit Józsa

Judit Józsa


Judit Józsa native of Korond, hub of painted folk pottery, is a ceramist and art historian, presently living in Budapest, where she runs her own folk art gallery and workshop. The gallery’s stated purpose is the support and propagation of authentic Hungarian folk art and artists, held against the highest standards. Her commitment to the cause has been doubled by the establishment of the Józsa Judit Art Foundation. For her work she has been recently awarded the title of Knight of the Hungarian Culture. www.jozsajudit.hu

Dinner Menu

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Pork „Pörkölt” with Noodles and Dill Pickle

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Jam Tart

cup of coffee

Coffee and Tea

drinks

Soft drinks, beer, wine and liquors available at the bar.

Admission to the presentations and concert is free. However, in order to help cover the travel costs of the performers, we suggest donations of $10, $7 and $5 per adult, youth or student and child, respectively, in top of the price of the dinner.

Dinner is by reservations only. The price of the dinner does not contain donations to the guest presenters and performers. Please make your dinner reservation by 9 PM the day prior to the event. Reservations made on the web are confirmed by e-mail.

Bookings

Bookings are closed for this event.