1200 Ft / Student: 600 Ft / season ticket is valid
Gábor Csalog a pianist with an amazing solo concert dedicated to Cage and Mozart. The highest level of music.
Program:
W. A. MOZART:
Rondo in A minor K. 511
Eine kleine Gigue in G Major
Adagio in B minor K.540
Minuet in D Major K 355
Adagio For Glass Harmonica in C MajorK.356
Sonata in A minor K. 310.
John CAGE:
pieces from Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
Gábor Csalog was only 11 years old when he gained admission to the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music to the faculty of Special Talents. His teachers were amongst others many various well known musicians such as as Erna Czövek, Klára Máthé, Dezsõ Ránki, András Schiff, György Kurtág and Zoltán Kocsis. After graduating from the Liszt Academy of Music, Gábor Csalog continued his studies in the United States at the University of Indiana, working with Professor György Sebők. He established a close professional relationship with several Hungarian composers, which resulted in numerous premiere performances and a number of works dedicated to him. After the year 2000, he become one of the most important artists who interpreted for the first time György Ligeti's new piano works in Hungary. His repertory contains not only contemporary pieces, but oeuvres from the previous periods as well, including a number of rarities. There came a point in the mid 20th century, when John Cage realized that by securing small objects amidst the strings of a piano, he can create a sound that can stand up against an entire percussion band. It is the intention of Gábor Csalog, one of the Trafó’s returning artists, to invoke this beautiful, never-heard-of world of sound in this year’s solo concert, offering a selection of John Cage’s works for prepared piano and Mozart’s piano pieces.
Besides his recitals and chamber music concerts in Hungary he has made guest-performances in nearly in every European capital and in the United States. He is professor of the Bartók Conservatory of Music and at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music at the faculty of chamber music. Könemann Music Budapest has published Chopin's complete works with him performing. In 2003 he was awarded the Liszt-prize. His major recordings include all the Chopin-mazurkas (Hungaroton), The Etudes of Liszt and Ligeti, works of Scriabin, and "The Plays" of Kurtág.
