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Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:00
MASTERCLASS OPENING CONCERT ON THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC DAY HONOURING BÉLA BARTÓK
Bartók Music House Rákoshegy (1174, Budapest, Hunyadi Street 50.)
Concert of the winners of the 1st Carpathian Basin International Piano Competition, presented by Emőke Tari Solymosi, music historian and recipient of the László Lajtha and Bence Szabolcsi Prizes.
PROGRAMME:
Béla Bartók:
Three Burlesques, BB 55
Eight Hungarian Folk Songs, BB 47
Two Romanian Dances for Piano, BB 56 – I.
Five Songs, op. 15, BB 71 – 1. My Love, 2. Summer
Two Romanian Dances for Piano, BB 56 – II.
Performed by:
Jutta Bokor (opera singer)
Tamás Kereskedő (concert pianist)
The programme of the opening concert of the masterclass organized within the framework of the 2nd Carpathian Basin Classical Music Festival was compiled from the works of Béla Bartók by Jutta Bokor, mezzosoprano, the president of the committee of the Bartók Music House Rákoshegy, and Tamás Kereskedő, pianist. Bartók lived in the building between 1912 and 1920. The Three Burlesques, the last three of the Eight Hungarian Folk Songs and the op. 15. Lied-cycle were all composed during this period. The concert programme illustrates Bartók’s art from several angles. The Burlesques exemplify his attraction to the grotesque, while the Two Romanian Dances are among Bartók’s earliest works inspired by Romanian folk music. The main source of his inspiration was the 1909 collecting tour in Bihar County. The op. 15 cycle was conceived after his Slovak collecting tour, on poems by two female acquaintances. It was composed very close to the songs on the poems of Endre Ady. The Five Songs, as they are known now, were only published after Bartók’s death.
Performers
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 Jutta Bokor Soloist and ambassador of the Hungarian State Opera House, and a singer of Lieder and oratorio, Bokor studied with Márta Ónody, Gabriella Déry and Yevgeny Nesterenko. She was awarded second prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1985. She sang in the Vienna Volksoper from 1985 to 1990, and also appeared on the stage of Opéra de Montréal, Prague Opera House, Janáček Opera Brno, and in several opera festivals at home and abroad. She worked as a presenter for the afternoon music programme of Bartók Radio, and also presented programmes for a number of other classical music broadcasts. She taught international mastercourses at home and abroad alike. Since 2005 she has been head of the board of the Bartók Music House Rákoshegy, where she has organized classical music courses, folk music and music educational competitions, and has created new works of which she is also the director. In addition, she is organizing and presenting classical music concerts and interactive programmes for children. She devised and directed a children’s opera, Bogáncs, which was also performed at the Hungarian State Opera House. She has inspired contemporary composers to write new works and short operas for children, among them two by Árpád Balázs. She was awarded the Artisjus, Bartók–Pásztory, For Budapest and Pro Cultura Rákosmente prizes.
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 Kereskedő studied with Anikó Szegedi and Ferenc Rados at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He continued his studies from 1975 to 1977 at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Amadeus Webersinke and Kurt Icharew. He worked as a coach at the teacher Training College of the Liszt Academy and the Béla Bartók High School of Music. Between 1984 and 1989 he taught at the Budafok Music School. Since 1986 he has been teaching piano second study at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music. Additionally, he worked as guest teacher at several universities abroad: Yewon Conservatory (Seoul, 1992–1993), Conservatoire De La Gendarmerie Royale (Morocco, 1994–1999), Høyanger Kulturskole (Norway, 2000–2003), and Sultan Qaboos University (Oman Sultanate, 2009).
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