Gábor Gadó and Barnabás Dukay

When Barnabás Dukay and Gábor Gadó improvise together, it makes for a surprising show of their very differing musical educational backgrounds and shows the inevitability of their radical musical, spiritual demeanor. The compositions of both musicians and the work they do in common break down any expectations we may have had of jazz or other classical styles. Thus their music and their playing are peerless here and elsewhere, exactly because they start where clichés and the patterns of our expectations leave off.

An evening of two utterly different composers: Gábor Gadó jazz musician and Barnabás Dukay contemporary composer present their work the same evening. In the first part of the evening we will hear the pieces of Dukay, played by UMZE Chamber Orchestra. After the break the compositions of Gadó will be played. The third part is the time of improvisation: Gadó on guitar and Dukay on piano. When they play together, it makes for a surprising show of their very differing musical educational backgrounds and shows the inevitability of their radical musical, spiritual demeanor. The compositions of both musicians and the work they do in common break down any expectations we may have had of jazz or other classical styles. Thus their music and their playing are peerless here and elsewhere, exactly because they start where clichés and the patterns of our expectations leave off.

Gábor Gadó started his musical studies on the violin, then switched to the classical guitar. He graduated in 1983 from the Jazz Department of the Béla Bartók Music Conservatory as a student of Gyula Babos, following which he featured in the bands of the vanguard of Hungarian jazz musicians. Amongst his first partners were Róbert Rátonyi Jr, Ferenc Snétberger, Attila László, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Elemér Balázs and Kálmán Oláh. Later he appeared more and more frequently in international line-ups, for example alongside Gerald Veasley, Randy Roos and George Jinda. The first band he organised was called Joy, and recorded an album entitled Cross cultures. In 1991 he released Special time, the first album under his own name, then toured Europe with Nikola Parov. In 1995 he moved to France, then briefly lived in London too. After five years the Gábor Gadó Quartet was formed in Paris: Matthieu Donarier (tenor saxophone), Sébastien Boisseau (double bass), Joe Quitzke (drums). He first played with his French partners on the album Greetings from the angel, which was followed by Homeward and the outstandingly successful Orthodoxia. Gábor Winand‘s album Corners of my mind, composed by Gábor Gadó, was chosen by the French magazine Jazzman as one of the best albums of the year in 2002. In 2003 his achievements earnt him the Bobby Jaspar prize, awarded by the French L‘Academie du Jazz each year to the European jazz musician of the year the highest international recognition of his work to date. He is a sought-after guest at French and international festivals and clubs, and has performed at the following places: Festival de Châteauroux, Festival de Jazz de Montlouis/Loire, Rencontres internationales de Jazz de Nevers, Festival Crest Jazz Vocal, Festival de l‘Hotel d‘Albret (Paris), Tete Montoliu Jazz Festival (Barcelona), Festival de Jazz de Souillac, Festival de Jazz de Vitrolles, Fete de la musique de Téhéran, Mittel Europa Jazz Festival de Schiltingheim and the Paris Jazz Festival.

Born in 1950 Barnabás Dukay began his musical studies at the Music Secondary School of Győr under Ilona Unger (piano) and István Fekete Győr (composition). Between 1969 and 1974 he studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Rezső Sugár receiving his diploma in 1976. He was member of the New Music Studio from 1970 to 1990 working as composer and performer. He taught solfege and music theory at the Béla Bartók Conservatory from 1974 to 1991, then became a professor at the Department of Musical Theory of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He received a Music Fellowship from the Soros Foundation in 1997 and was honoured with the Erkel Prize in 2000. He was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Award in 2007.

Programme:

Part One:
Pieces of Barnabás Dukay:
Egyedül az Éjszakában
parafrázis egy hangkölteményre A Kútnál című sorozatból – zongorára - Klukon Edit
Elhagyott ösvény a ködös messzeség felé
Monodia - pontosan meg nem határozott hangszerre –
Rozmán Lajos –clarinet
Fölizzás a tüzekben
Nonett - 3 hegedűre, 3 mélyhegedűre és 3 gordonkára
Performer: UMZE Chamber Ensemble -
Artistic Director: Rácz Zoltán
Conductor: Rácz Zoltán

Part Two:
Pieces of Gábor Gadó:
Russian, Russian I. Russian, Russian II.
(Andrej Tarkovszij emlékének ajánlva)
Avicenna
Steps-Intervals
Dance Music
Byzantinum

Fábry Boglárka – marimba, vibraphone
Rozmán Lajos – clarinet, bass clarinet
Laurent Blondiau (B) - trumpet
Gadó Gábor – guitar
Geröly Tamás – percussions
Halmos András – drums
Benkő Róbert, Horváth Balázs – doublebass


Third part:
Dukay Barnabás (piano) és Gadó Gábor (guitar) - free music