“Bach for Everyone Festival” at 300 Venues This March

The Bach for Everyone Festival will welcome visitors at more than 300 venues in Hungary and beyond its borders with 500 programs between March 16 and 31 this year.

At the festival’s opening concert on March 16, the audience will be able to hear two newly added Bach works performed on the organ of the Academy of Music.

The concert will feature organist László Fassang, pianist Gábor Farkas, tuba player and festival director László Kovács Zalán, and the M-Bridge Trio.

Highlights of the event will include a concert on March 17 by tuba player László Kovács Zalán at the Hungarian House of Music, and on March 21, a joint choir singing with the audience at Kálvin Square in Budapest, featuring the Budapest Garrison Military Band and the Kálvin János Choir of the Central Reformed Church.

On March 25, at the National Theater, zither player Klára Dudás, a teacher at the Academy of Music, will lead the audience on a musical journey entitled Bach and Folk Music, where the music of Johann Sebastian Bach meets the melodies of Hungarian folk traditions. On March 17, a concert entitled Bridge over the Bach River will be held at the Bishop’s Palace in Sümeg, exploring the intersections of Baroque, Latin, and folk music.

On March 19, Bach and Liszt, the Church Musician will welcome interested listeners to the Lutheran Church in Kecskemét for a concert by the Kodály Institute of the Academy of Music in Kecskemét, featuring organist Márton Levente Horváth and singer Judit Rajk as soloists. The performance will feature both original Bach melodies and those incorporated into the works of Ferenc Liszt.

On March 21, Sándor Szászvárosi on viola da gamba and Katalin Kovács on harpsichord will perform at the joint program of the Bach Marathon and the Bach for Everyone Festival at the Lutheran Church in Cluj-Napoca, and on March 28, the Hungarian Defense Forces Central Band will present wind orchestra arrangements of Bach’s works at the Royal Palace in Gödöllő under the title “A Breath of Bach.”

The festival concerts are free of charge, but advance registration is required at several venues.

In keeping with tradition, the series is again linked to a charity initiative, with the organizers collecting donations for the Institute of Conductive Education, András Pető Faculty.

Via MTI; Featured image: Pixabay

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