11th International Percussion Festival Győr
26th March 2010

The town of Győr is home to a long tradition of percussion music. Organized by the Győr Arts and Festival Centre as the Spring Festival's most prominent event, the International Percussion Festival Győr will be held this year for the eleventh time.

Percussion music is a genre that can speak to all kinds of listeners, old and young alike, irrespective of their age. In addition to offering quality entertainment and popularizing percussion music, the aim of this Festival has been to provide an opportunity for local talents and students of percussion to make their debut and show their skills to a wider audience. Representatives of the young generation can personally meet and "share the stage" with renowned percussionists from Hungary and around the world, which is sure to give them motivation to last throughout their lives, thus furthering and making a defining impact on their careers as percussionists.

Pieces belonging to various musical traditions ranging from classical music and jazz to world music and contemporary percussion music all appear at the International Percussion Festival Győr.
For the sake of variety, each year when we set up the Festival's programme structure we take care to complement percussion shows with performances involving other music genres and related arts, instrument demonstrations, as well as workshops.

The exhibition of percussion instruments is another integral part and traditional feature of the Festival. It serves both as a venue for the Hungarian representations of the world's most important musical instrument manufacturers and distributors to present their products, and as a place where Hungary's own master instrument makers can display their skills.

The previous years have seen some of the star musicians of the contemporary world of percussion perform at the Percussion Festival Győr, including such artists as Jojo Mayer, Tom Brechtlein, Tommy Vig, and Billy Cobham. This year's no exception, as we continue this fine tradition with having a real hard rock drummer for our star guest: Ian Paice, the drummer of Deep Purple.

Programme

Venue: Open stage on Baross utca

3:00 p.m.
Concert by the percussion ensemble of the Varga Tibor Music Institute of Széchenyi University

4:00 p.m.
József Sárközi
Mr. Glass, aka József Sárközi, is a world-famous glass musician who draws unforgettable melodies from various glass vessels filled with water.
The artist (who graduated from Hungary's Academy of Music) delivers a show that is absolutely unique in the world: he plays complicated pieces of music on seemingly very simple "instruments", namely drinking glasses, with an amazing virtuosity.

5:00 p.m.
ATARU Percussion Group
ATARU Percussion Group was formed in the spring of 2006. Initially the musicians played traditional music from various sources using drums and other percussion/melody instruments, but they gradually developed an increasingly strong interest in the musical and spiritual heritage of Japan, an interest which continues to this day.

Venue: Richter Hall

7:00 p.m.
Entrance fee: HUF 2,900.00; HUF 2,400.00; students: HUF 1,400.00
Opening Ceremony of the 11th International Percussion Festival Győr
Opening speech by Dr. Rudolf Ottófi, Deputy Mayor of Győr, Town with County Rights

Concert by the percussion ensemble of the Varga Tibor Music Institute of Széchenyi University
1. Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Trio
2. Nigel Westlake: Omphalo Centric Lecture (quartet for mallet instruments)
Performed by: Kata Pajti, Petra Kanyárné Grünwald, Bence Varga, Zsigmond Jenei, Ádám Fazekas
Led by: János Falusi

CSANÁD RÉVÉSZ - A Tribute to Jojo Mayer
This talented young artist, the drummer of Maszkura and Tücsökraj, is one of the most promising members of Hungary's "national junior drummer team". His role model is Jojo Mayer, from whom he has learnt a lot.

The Percussion Ensemble of Győr in concert
The Ensemble was formed more than 30 years ago, and the members of its present lineup (save for minor changes here and there) have been playing music together for a long time. Though a percussion ensemble in the classic sense of the word, the group is always glad to interact with other branches of art and new artistic styles. The Ensemble lovingly fosters and promotes Hungarian folk music. The first item on their programme was inspired by the throbbing beats and melodies of J. Zivkovic; it is a beautiful Hungarian folk song adaptation à la percussion. The second item will be ELAN, a composition by Theodor Burkali. Then the Ensemble will team up with dancers and other musicians to dust off the dance floor - and the audience's eardrums!

András Dés & Bea Palya
Melody and rhythm. Song and mallet. Singer and percussionist.
Body and instrument. The body as the instrument. And not much else.
András Dés and Bea Palya have been playing music together for a very long time now, but this is their first full concert performance as an unaccompanied duet. András Dés's collection of musical instruments includes a large number of percussion instruments with "ethnic origins", from the djembe and the darbuka to the daf and beyond, but elements of the "classic" drum kit are also featured. András is not simply a percussionist: he is a universal musician, a bold provocateur, a creative man of many rhythms who also has the ability to think along melodic lines - and a chance to play music with him is like an immediate and irresistible invitation to an exciting dance.

TRIO OLAMAR's album entitled "Impressions in the Bartók Music House" serves as a trademark of the Trio itself. Their Bartók-inspired progressive jazz music succeeds in preserving the musical roots inherited from the various peoples inhabiting the Carpathian Basin, while fusing them together with the pulse and beat of modern jazz. Their CD has achieved success in Japan too.
The Trio has performed at several festivals in Transylvania and Hungary as well as in Warsaw.
The group's lineup:
ZOLTÁN OLÁH - piano
PÉTER OLÁH - cello
GYÖRGY MARTONOSI - drums (SABIAN, TAMBURO)

Break

Ian Paice (Deep Purple) Solo Concert
The Festival's world star guest this year is the drummer of legendary English hard rock band Deep Purple. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the band are considered by many to have been among the forerunners of heavy metal, although the musicians themselves never categorized themselves as being a heavy metal band. They have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. Ian's artful and unique style of playing is an organic part of the characteristic Deep Purple sound. In addition to Deep Purple, Ian also was a founding member of Whitesnake and collaborated later on with Gary Moore. In the course of his long career he has released several drum tutorial films.

Cry Free - Hungarian Deep Purple Cover Band
Formed in January 1996 as a tribute band exclusively playing Deep Purple songs, Cry Free later completed its name by adding the title "Deep Purple Cover Band" in order to make it perfectly clear to everyone just what its members had decided to dedicate their entire lives to. For 13 years now, Cry Free has been active as Hungary's one and only uncompromising Deep Purple tribute band.
The band's musical ambition has been to deliver the most authentic reproduction possible, while reserving the possibility of adding individual variations where this is possible at all and worthwhile in the light of the original. Improvisation, too, is given a prominent role during the band's concerts - just like it was the case with their source of inspiration, Deep Purple. In addition to the great classics, the huge repertoire of songs to choose from includes a large number of less frequently heard curiosities too, and the band has Deep Purple's entire oeuvre of almost 40 years to pick and choose from.

Venue: RÓMER HÁZ

Workshop with György Martonosi and Csanád Révész - HUF 600, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
This event provides a more informal atmosphere, allowing participants an opportunity to get to know the artist's instruments and the most favoured and most frequent techniques he uses.
Participants can ask questions during this interactive demonstration.
György Martonosi has been running the Drum-Art Drum School since the 1990's; for eleven years he was a specialist contributor to "Zenész" music magazine, and then worked as a specialist contributor with the Hungarian magazine for drummers, "Dobos Magazin". He organizes and partakes in Hungarian and international drum events and international master courses. The author of several textbooks, he teaches courses all over the country.

Percussion Instruments Exhibition and Demo - 4:00 p.m., Richter Hall
This is the place within the framework of the Festival where the representatives of musical instrument manufacturers and distributors can present their range of products. The exhibition gives visitors an opportunity to try out the instruments.

Information:

www.zichypalota.hu
www.percussiongyor.hu
www.gyor.hu