IN PARI

IN PARI is a series in which music is wedded to different art forms, as equal partners in a couple, as the series title indicates. This edition explores the connection between music and photography, as photographer Szabolcs Dudás projects his photographs in response to the impressions that cellist Tamás Zétényi and pianist Marcell Dargay generate with their improvisational playing. Meanwhile, the projected images will trigger one new impulse after another in the musicians, with the music and visuals influencing each other in an ongoing cycle.

Composer Marcell Dargay graduated from Budapest’s Liszt Academy with a degree in music composition and music theory. In addition to his work as a composer, he has taught at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music, the Liszt Academy and the University of Theatre and Film Arts. He currently serves as a lecturer with the Faculty of Arts at Budapest Metropolitan University. With incidental music for numerous theatrical pieces under his belt, he spent ten years working as the musical director of Krétakör. He frequently performs as a pianist, publishes writings on music and film music, and gives lectures. He is one of the curators of the Transparent Sound New Music Festival, participates in the work of the advisory committee of the UMZE Chamber Ensemble and the Composers’ Box, and is a full member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

Tamás Zétényi is a prominent musician of his generation, the cellist for the Classicus Quartet and an associate professor at Széchenyi István University in Győr. He plays in dozens of chamber music and ensemble programmes annually, primarily with the Classicus Quartet, the Classicus Ensemble, as well as Trio Passacaglia. Since 2020, he has been performing regularly with jazz guitarist Gábor Gadó, and has recorded several albums for BMC Records as a member of the Gábor Gadó - Veronika Harcsa sextet. He also regularly performs as a solo artist. He has played in various European countries, the USA, and elsewhere as well. As a dedicated performer of contemporary music, he is in an active working relationship with countless composers, taking part in dozens of premieres each year. He considers György Kurtág his greatest source of inspiration, and his most important production is Dixit, a 70-minute piece for solo cello and male choir composed for Péter Tornyai. Zétényi and Dargay’s joint transcription of J. S. Bach’s Lute Suite in C minor, BWV 997, was released by EMB.

Szabolcs Dudás was born in the Serbian town of Bačka Topola, in the former Yugoslavia, and passed his photojournalist exam at the Forum Publishing House in Novi Sad in 1989. After starting out as a freelance photojournalist, he later joined the youth publication Képes Ifjúság in Novi Sad full time, with his images also being published throughout Yugoslavia and in Hungary. Between 1993 and 2011, he worked as a full-time photojournalist for the news and business journal HVG, while also working as a Central European correspondent for the Sipa-Press photo agency. He has worked as a photo and video producer for the European Commission, and has been the photo producer for the European Commission’s representation in Hungary since 2015. He worked as a photographer at the Bárka Theatre, headed the Origo photo section between 2014 and 2016, and served as a photographer for 3+1 art studio in Paris between 2018 and 2021, and photo editor at the weekly journal 168 Óra between 2021 and 2022. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 2023.

This program is held in Hungarian.