Kálmán Oláh is not only an excellent pianist, but an original, creative composer, as well. After winning a number of major international artist awards, in 2006, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition in Washington; since the members of the jury, all world-renowned musicians proved his composition Always as the best one. You can listen to his Passacaglia for orchestra & jazz trio again: on March 21 in Pécs – with the Pannon Philharmonic. (Photo by László Dobó)
You can read entire 2009 interview with Kálmán Oláh in Hungarian here. Source: www.kultura.hu