The sale of the season tickets for the Pannon Philharmonic's next season begins. Thanks to our chief conductor, Tibor Bogányi's ideas, the 2012 /2013 season is going to have a fair number of Russian, French and North-European composers' works, but the programme includes two scenic operas as well: the edited version of Wagner's Lohengrin and Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
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With the Four Faces of the Piano, the Pannon Philharmonic announces an extraordinary series of concerts at the Palace of Arts. The orchestra starts its tenth season in the capital, where they always have performed at sold-out concerts with programmes and soloists that even the curiosity of the Budapest audience, who could pick out the raisins from the cakes, awoken have. In the next season, four great pianists: Gergely Bogányi, Dezső Ránki, Péter Frankl and Fazil Say will play with the Pannon Philharmonic.
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The audience from Baranya can celebrate the anniversary of the Kodály Centre with a unique concert in each year. As a reminder about the past events: on 9 December 2010, Maxim Vengerov conducted the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra; on 8th-9th December 2011, the orchestra’s founder, George Lickl’s more-than-two-hundred-year-old opera was polished up for a few performances.
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"If I count it right, my husband and I have been subscribers of the symphonic orchestra of Pécs for a round half a century – so if there is a "golden wedding anniversary" between the orchestra and the audience, then we will celebrate it this year. For decades, we have been at all important classical concert in Pecs."- Dr. Elek Sélley and his wife listen to the music of the orchestra of Pécs for nearly half a century.
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The very successful game related to the Masters and Their Pupils concert of June 21 has been closed - as a result, Zsófia Mohai, the student who was the most liked by the audience (her master Melinde Kothencz) and her 9 friends can wonder the stars in the Planetarium of the Zsolnay Quarter; and Attila Gyenis with his 9 friend can visit the Mecsextrém Park. Attila Gyenis is the lucky voter of the 500 participants who has been drawn to win. Congratulation to all to the prizes and thanks to our sponsors for the offers! Help, Classical Music!
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There will be a real prodigy at the evening show, too. Zsófia Mohai is only 14 years old, a petite, frail little girl, a student of the Kontrasztok AMI (Institute for Elementary Art Education, called Contrasts). She is by far the youngest performer but has the most national competition wins; you could say where she entered a contest, there she usually won, as well. As a nine-year-old, she took in her hands the oboe at the first time; and won a competition in the same year. Since then, she “collects” the victories; only the last two years, she could stand up to the podium at dozens of international, national and regional competitions.
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The violinist Adorján Zsófia had been playing at the Pannon Philharmonic for years; and then, four years ago, she chose the teacher career, as a main vocation – she became a violin teacher at the Art High School of Pécs. One of her first students was Miklós Wunderlich from Pécs, whose name could be familiar to the audiences of Baranya as the brother of his, József Wunderlich, who appeared in the television talent search Társulat (Company), recently could be heard to sing in the operetta Princess Czardas.
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The bassoonist Ágnes Herpay is the first musician of the Pannon Philharmonic who has got a PhD; and s going to introduce herself as such a teacher, to the audience of Baranya. She has been put into the programme of the Master and Their Pupils with her student, Szabolcs Szőke. About Szabolcs is necessary to know that he is only 17 years old, but has had a very adventurous life already. He attended elementary school in Germany, where he practised the instrument with the help of Ágnes Herpay through distance learning; and then he returned to his home town, Pécs just to be more immersed in music, here at home.
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Not a year ago, an MSc programme was launched at the opera faculty of the Musicology Institute of the University of Pécs, with three students; but the singers have already found the connection to the audience of Pécs in such a short time. You could hear them in Dénes Gulyás’s Fabulous Opera series and in the scenic version of the opera Julius Caesar, but the real show is coming now: "The Three Soprano" is going to sing well-known arias at the Masters and Their Pupils concert at the Kodály Centre. Andrea Meláth is the head of the department (the audience of Pécs got to like as Judit of the Bluebeard's Castle; she is world famous in this role), she is also a teacher of two ladies of the trio on the stage, Melinda Szente and Ayano Imai from Japan.
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In connection with the Masters and Their Pupils concert, we are launching a game at our Facebook site, soon. If you play, you can win; if you vote for, your favourite Pupil and their Master will be enriched with a precious gift, thanks to our supporters!
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Dr. Zsolt Páva, the mayor of Pécs received the award for the Kodály Centre's 2nd place at the FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Niveau Award Competition of building development, in the communal building category, on 15 May 2012 in St. Petersburg. The building, dreamt of by the architects of the Budapest based Architect Studio Ltd (Ferenc Keller, Richárd Hőnich, Tamás Fialovszky, Benedek Sólyom) have got important honours sixth time already.
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On 26th May, from 6pm, the Pannon Philharmonic is awaiting for the music lovers to the traditional open air concert at the Kodály Centre, where we can have a taste from what the next season can musically offer - with the oral instructions of Maestro Tibor Bogányi chief conductor. The speciality of the evening: The Lappeenranta City Orchestra, which is visiting our city, is going to play together with the ensemble of Pécs.
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The Lappeenranta City Orchestra gives a concert at the Kodály Centre on May 24. But how come a symphonic ensemble of a small Finnish town, which is hardly known in Hungary, to Pécs? Well, the common point is Tibor Bogányi, the chief conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic. He tells about his connection to the Finnish orchestra.
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The charm of violinist Kristóf Baráti lies in the fact that while playing, around him is everything so naturally of course. He stands on a stage smiling, with his Stradivarius, which is worth about one billion forints; and the music flows in the purest and most honest waves out of "Lady Harmsworth" - because such a legendary instrument has an aristocratic name, as well.
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Zoltán Kocsis has followed the development of the classical music life in Pécs for more than a decade, paying particular attention to it - anyway, as the Pannon Philharmonic’s permanent guest conductor too. The world-renowned musician has recently conducted in Pécs, and we asked him for a short evaluation.
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