GYÖRGY AND MÁRTA KURTÁG
Beethoven, Bartók, Kurtág | For String Quartets

FEB 2-6, 2009
Application Deadline: Nov 3, 2008

Gyorgy and Marta
Kurtag

Designed for string quartets, this workshop will focus on works by Beethoven, Bartók, and György Kurtág. Participants will also work on Kurtág's piece Zwiegespräch for synthesizer and quartet, co-written with György Kurtág Jr.-he and Andras Keller will also join the workshop as guest faculty members.

This workshop is part of the Celebrating Hungary concentration at Carnegie Hall, which will present two weeks of folk, symphonic, and new music, as well as educational programs performed by today's most noted Hungarian musicians. This celebration includes the first New York appearance of Kurtág performing his own music with his wife, pianist Márta Kurtág.

Full workshop information will be added to this page at a later date.

Celebrating Hungary

The lasting influence of Hungarian music and artists on European mainstream culture extends hundreds of years, from as far back as Haydn through to one of today’s most celebrated composers, György Kurtág. As part of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture’s Hungarian Culture Year in 2009, Carnegie Hall presents two weeks of folk, symphonic, and new music, as well as educational programs performed by today’s most noted Hungarian musicians. This celebration includes the first New York appearances of Kurtág performing his own music with his wife, pianist Márta Kurtág, plus performances of seldom-heard traditional folk music. Concluding the events is a performance of the great Austrio-Hungarian court composer Haydn’s hugely influential choral masterwork The Creation.