In advanced booking: 2500 Ft / on the day of the concert: 3000 Ft / season ticket is valid
First part:
Kayhan Kalhor szóló – Persian music
Second Part:
Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider (USA)
2 x 45 min with a break
“Kayhan Kalhor’s music speaks from an ancient Persian tradition while sounding timeless and spiritually invigorating today.”
BBC.Com
“Brooklyn Rider is a gifted string quartet that mixes the classics with the contemporary to create music that is emotionally exhilarating and intellectually stimulating.”
Strings magazine
“Kayhan Kalhor is having a hard time doing anything wrong right now: pretty much everything the renowned Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player touches turns into something magical. Like most of his contemporaries, Kalhor delights in cross-cultural collaboration, and this latest cd, created with inventive string quartet Brooklyn Rider is typical. Brisk, bracing, exhilarating and often wrenchingly haunting, it’s a spectacularly successful achievement.”
Lucid Culture
"The string quartet known as Brooklyn Rider is one of the best examples of today‘s numerous, young chamber ensembles busy breaking down the stereotypical barriers that still exist between the stuffy, tuxedo-clad ethos of classical music and the rest of the music world. The group pivots seamlessly between Debussy one minute and an Armenian folk dance the next."
NPR “Tiny Desk concert”
"Brooklyn Rider is not your grandmother‘s string quartet. Violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Chords and cellist Eric Jacobsen are young, vivacious and charming. They stand (with the exception of the cellist) instead of sit and move and dance freely, emoting as they play. Their programming is innovative, and they seem equally at home with Debussy and Phillip Glass... Extremely virtuosic playing and the obvious exuberance and excitement of the players made this one of the concert highlights of the season."
Third Coast Digest (Barbara Castonguay, 2/17/10)
"The group‘s members may well be classical music‘s four greatest walking embodiments of hipsters. You know what? We don‘t care. Brooklyn Rider is a damn fine quartet. And it had plenty to be proud of last night with a concert celebrating its latest album, Dominant Curve."
Time Out New York (Olivia Giovetti, 3/17/10)
"It grooves, moves and looks like an indie rock group, but Brooklyn Rider is indeed a string quartet”
Philadelphia Inquirer (David Patrick Stearns, 3/28/10)
Kayhan Kalhor
kamancheh / iranian violni
The Brooklyn Rider:
Nicholas Cords – viola
Johnny Gandelsman, Colin Jacobsen – violin
Eric Jacobsen – cello
Mathias Kunzli - percussions
