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Our e-mail addresses have been changed
Our previously used e-mail addresses (ending with @consort.hu) have been deleted. See our new e-mail address on the Contact page. More »
Arbos Jazz Evenings has ended
The Arbos Jazz Evenings concert series was organised for the last time in 2014/15, and for ten years between 2005 and 2015 it has been the most important jazz event in the city of Vác. The decision to discontinue the series was taken due to the enthusiastic but year by year decreasing audience, lack of financial resources and other technical reasons. More »
Imre Lachegyi’s new album “Visio” with his own compositions has been released
Visio, the new album by Imre Lachegyi has been released. It is the first CD by Lachegyi on which he plays his own compositions instead of early music, and his bandmates are his children — Róza (violin), Anna (cello) and Máté (piano) — and the excellent jazz drummer Szilveszter Miklós. More »
New CD edition of the Foundation has released
On 16 December, the Consort Music Foundation will release its second CD, featuring trios by the great German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann performed by four distinguished Hungarian early musicians: Imre Lachegyi on recorder, Dániel Papp on violin, Aino Oláh on harpsichord and Sándor Szászvárosi on viola da gamba. Their performance of the chamber works of Georg Philipp Telemann, who is considered by many to be the greatest master of Baroque music besides Bach, is sensitive, virtuosic and flawless. More »
ARBOS Jazz Evenings in memoriam Szabados György
Consort Music Foundation pays tribute to the recently deceased Kossuth Prize-winning pianist and composer György Szabados by dedicating the ARBOS Jazz Evenings 2011 to him. Szabados was a leading figure in improvised music in Europe, one of the greatest Hungarian artists of our time, and a regular performer at the ARBOS Jazz Evenings. More »
New image and logo for Consort Music Foundation
The new image of Consort Music Foundation has got ready, wherein the most emphatic element is the new logo. This emblem is a work called Combat by the artist János Saxon-Szász painted in 1993, which has been used for the Foundation’s logo as a noble offer of the artist. At the same time we have renewed our image and our website as well, the latter has been reconstructed not only in its appearance, but it has been enriched in its content and has been made structurally more perspicuous and aesthetic. More »
Our Foundation needs your support
Since its establishment in 2003 Consort Music Foundation has been organised a number of concerts and series of a high standard, published a CD, and started the Börzsöny Baroque Days early music festival, in which among renowned Hungarian performers we have invited world-famous ensembles like The Hilliard Ensemble and London Baroque. The value-making work of our Foundation can be financed only by sponsorhips, competitions and private support. You can also help us by your donations. Please read our introduction in the Press Room and the Foundation section, get information about our latest and forthcoming programmes, and get a line on how to support us on the Help Us page. More »