Pannon Philharmonic

Soloist

About the Programme

The Kelemen Quartet is a dominant and internationally renowned string quartet of Hungary. The programme of this concert proves also that the formation is familiar with every musical era, from the baroque to contemporary music. The four masterpiece that is going to be heard now highlights the important episodes of the 20-year-old history of string quartet, as a genre: there will be a tasting of the ways how the quartet of two violins, the viola, and the cello were used by the Viennese Classics (Joseph Haydn), the mature Romanticism (Johannes Brahms), the early 20th century modern music (Bartók Béla), and the 21st century (Kurtág György).
This October and December, the Kelemen Quartet is on an eight-station tour (Kapolcs, Pécs, Debrecen, Sopron, Hódmezővásárhely, Zalaegerszeg, Kecskemét, Gyula), to make the quartet music popular here in Hungary, too. They play in a new formation, Gábor Homoki has jrecently left the team because he would like to try out himself in other things, besides classical music; his post has been taken by Oszkár Varga, who is Barnabás Kelemen  and Katalin Kokas’s student at the music academy, and has already played numerous international concert hall sas a soloist and a chamber musician, as well. 
The concert is the first station of a national tour; and as is a co-production of the Pannon philharmonic and the Pentaton Concert and Artist Agency.