Press News

Budapest, June 30, 2005

Music-lovers can attend a unique concert at 8 p.m. on October 26, 2005 in the Palace of Arts where one of the world’s outstanding jazz musicians, Branford Marsalis, Grammy Prize-winner saxophonist will give a joint concert with the Magyar Telekom Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestra was pleased to hear the news because their joint concert last year with Bobby McFerrin – another world jazz star – was an enormous success.

Branford Marsalis draws on the jazz styles of the 50s and 60s, but as one of the greatest revivers of modern jazz he has created a new musical style which is highly popular with the public.
The Hungarian audience could see him first in 1988 along with Sting; his long and fruitful cooperation with the world famous musician started in that year. In 1999 he appeared in Budapest for the second time, with his own jazz quartet.

Branford Marsalis is also successful in classical music. In 1986 he made his first solo record with a symphony orchestra, performing classical arrangements, titled Romances for Saxophone. In 2001 he published his second classical record with the works of French composers, under the title of Création.

The October concert is unique in several respects, as the artist is traveling to Budapest not in the frame of of a concert tour but just for this special occasion, and he will be giving a joint concert with the Magyar Telekom Symphony Orchestra. The program for the concert will include Ravel’s La Valse and Rhapsody for orchestra and saxophone, as well as Iber’s Concertino da Camera, Debussy’s La Mer, and compositions by Mahler and Vaughan Williams. The concert will be conducted by András Ligeti.

Solo tickets are on sale for the October concert from July 7 in the following ticket offices: Palace of Arts, Concert & Media ticket offices and in the ticket office in Nagymező utca.