Global Village – Open University of Music: Alex Torres
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Flamenco was born in the slums of the so-called Andalusian triangle – Seville, Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera – where the Roma poured out their pain through this music woven from Moorish, Jewish and Spanish threads. Loss, dignity and pride all at once, in a single voice. The word used for this is duende, the almost transcendent force that wells up from within, which cannot be imitated, only experienced. Many misunderstandings surround flamenco; we will try to turn these misunderstandings into understanding by the end of the evening.
What do they sing about, what is the audience shouting during the performance, why do they keep clapping all along, what is the role of dance, how did it become a field for guitar virtuosity, what role did the Franco dictatorship play in the genre’s international triumph?
Our guest will be Peruvian guitarist and flamenco musician Alex Torres.
Alex Torres
Peruvian-born guitarist Alex Torres, who lives in Budapest, fuses the passion of flamenco with Latin American and contemporary musical influences. The son of legendary Peruvian musician Pepe Torres, he completed his jazz studies at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and studied flamenco in Seville, Spain. As an active figure in Hungarian musical life, he has performed on the stages of Müpa Budapest, the Erkel Theatre and the Sziget Festival, among many other prestigious venues. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated in various genres with outstanding artists of the Hungarian music scene. In addition to his session work, he also leads his own solo project as a guitarist and composer.
One evening, two programmes around flamenco. We will present two faces of the Spanish genre, and a discounted combo ticket is available for the Világfalu+ performance and the Cantes Malditos concert! Flamenco was born in the slums of the so-called Andalusian triangle – Seville, Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera – where the Roma poured out their pain through this music woven from Moorish, Jewish and Spanish threads. In the Világfalu: Open Music University, Balázs Weyer and Alex Torres will give a musical overview of the genre in the Lecture Hall. Then the flamenco evening continues in the Concert Hall with the performance of Cantes Malditos, featuring the flamenco tradition, its dark branches, as well as noise, echoes and feedback, slide guitars, and songs about death and loss.
30.09.2026 Flamenco Day
18:30 Világfalu – Open Music University: Alex Torres
20:00 Cantes Malditos – Pedro de Dios & Antonio Fernandez (ESP)
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