Archive program series

After Budapest, Debrecen has always been the leading centre among Hungarian cities when it comes to beat music, rock, or pop. 

The Hungarian Jazz Day has been present in Hungarian music for 15 years, following the idea of ​​Béla Zsoldos and moving into the House of Hungarian Music within the framework of a series of festive concerts organized by the Hungarian Jazz Association. The aim of the Hungarian Jazz Day is to bring the most successful, best domestic and international performers and soloists of the genre to a wider audience, to introduce themselves to the thousands of festival audience, as opposed to the genre-specific way of performing at club concerts. The 8-10 hour concert, with 60-80 performers a year, is one of the biggest domestic events for the genre. The program will start with a free university performance and a concert by the Sárközi Dina Quintet, and the evening will end with Attila László's latest formation, László Attila's Fusion Circus.

There was hardly a musician at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Storyville nightclub district of the American port city of New Orleans who could have foreseen the vast swathe of music that would be created over the course of a century in bars, brothels, ballrooms and street parties. The performance practice, which evolved from a clash of cultures through the instinctive play of largely untrained musicians, took new directions as the decades passed, first becoming the dance music of America, and then, matured into increasingly serious, elevated artistic pursuits, finding fertile ground on every continent. The House of Music Hungary’s free jazz history workshop will introduce you to the important stages, venues, styles and prominent personalities of this process. The Cities of Jazz series presents the colourful worlds of New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City and New York, cities that played key roles in the development and evolution of jazz, through original sound and image recordings, and the authenticity of personal experience.

From time to time, the House of Music Hungary delegates curatorial duties to an artist who, in a series of weekend programmes, then presents the current state of a musical world close to their heart. The third such weekend, 17-18 September, will be hosted by András Dés, who will host a joint Austrian-Hungarian weekend offering his guests a unique programme of international collaborators and formations that have never before appeared on the same stage. On the first day, outstanding musicians from the middle generation of the Austrian and Hungarian jazz scene will play together for the first time in three ensembles created especially for this evening.

On the first weekend of October, the House of Music Hungary will welcome Ferenc Sebő, who turns 75 this year, with two special curatorial weekends of concerts. On Saturday, 1 October, the Sebő Ensemble will take to the stage with Márta Sebestyén and two special guests, accordionist Petar Ralchev and violinist Georgi Yanev, two of the greats of Bulgarian music.