The Night of Museums 2025

The basic aim of the program, running for two years now and organized by the House of Hungarian Music and Lumen Café / Prepost Records, is to provide regular performance and networking opportunities for students of music academies. Further goals of the series include enabling joint music-making and permeability between different musical departments and directions, as well as between secondary and higher education institutions. The work of the performing students has been and continues to be accompanied by a professional curatorium.

The name “Kipakolás” (“Unpacking”) is borrowed from the end-of-year art showcase of the University of Fine Arts, where students “unpack” that year’s works as part of a public exhibition. Here, students, teachers and visitors can see what occupied whom during the year, what they achieved, what they created.

At Lumen Café – in cooperation with the House of Hungarian Music – we have been trying, for the second year now, to establish a similar tradition with the participation of various music education programs. It offers students a regular opportunity to present themselves, where, by listening to each other, they can show in the form of a concert series what each of them is working on during a given period, both to one another and to the audience. In addition to introducing the programs and schools, the series also aims to connect students from different institutions with each other and inspire them to work together.

SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN KIPAKOLÁS:
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Electronic Music Media Arts
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Jazz Department
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Folk Music Department
University of Pécs – Electronic Music Media Arts specialization
Bartók Conservatory – Jazz major

PERFORMERS

Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Jazz Department

Kiss-Bátori-Papp Trio
The members of the Trio study in the jazz department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and form a band with the assistance of department head and ensemble teacher Kristóf Bacsó. Their repertoire consists of well-known jazz compositions and pieces composed by Lénárd Bátori.

Tamás Kiss – drums
Lénárd Bátori – piano
Tamás Papp – double bass

Venue: Concert Hall

Sharp5
Sharp5 was founded in 2023. The band plays modern jazz, primarily their own compositions. Their first concert took place at the House of Hungarian Music, and this experience laid the foundation for their subsequent joint music-making. Since then, they have performed, among others, at the Opus Jazz Club and the Budapest Jazz Club as the opening act for the Krisztián Oláh Quartet, as well as at numerous other venues. In 2025, at the 6th National Jazz Music Competition, the band won first prize in both the individual and ensemble categories.

Melissza Fehér – saxophone
Péter Bán – guitar
Bence Mózes – piano
Dávid Csikó – bass guitar
Gábor Rigó – drums

Venue: Outdoor Stage

Bartók Conservatory – Jazz major

Bartók Conservatory Creative Improvisers Youth Orchestra
The large ensemble of the LFZE Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music consists of more than 20 musicians who play music based on free improvisation process models. The ensemble is led by teachers Péter Ajtai and Máté Pozsár. Among the members of the orchestra there are both jazz and classical musicians. In 2024 they performed at the House of Hungarian Music as part of the New Music project, and in September they appeared in the “Konzis concerts at the Academy of Music” series. The concert features free jazz classics and guided improvisations. The ensemble’s work continues the tradition of Hungarian free music, whose roots lie in collective creation and spontaneity, while also seeking new forms and structures of improvisation.

Venue: Outdoor Stage

One of the formations is led by pianist Attila Vajda. Modern, mainstream, consisting only of original compositions; this talented musician is now releasing his first album. His guest musicians are: Balázs Tóth – saxophone, Sándor Suke – double bass (both coming from the Academy of Music).

The other formation is led by Máté Damó (bass guitar, double bass), also with original pieces and a lot of improvisation.

Venue: Concert Hall for both acts


University of Pécs – Electronic Music Media Arts specialization
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Electronic Music Media Arts

Bori Sinkó (LFZE)
Bori Sinkó is a sound designer, composer and improvising musician. She studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. The focus of her art is the real-time shaping of recorded sounds and the creation of spatial sound experiences. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the sounding environment and human perception, as well as questions of acoustic ecology. In her improvisations she treats recorded sounds as living material: the recordings become continuously evolving sound textures that are rearranged in the given moment and thus become active shapers of the musical dramaturgy.


Vendel Vajda (LFZE) solo
Vendel Vajda is an electroacoustic composer, whose main area of interest is acousmatic spatial composition. His works are characterized by a timbre- and gesture-focused approach, dynamic transformations of detailed and distorted materials, and the synthesis and juxtaposition of organic and mechanical sound worlds.

András Ákos Mizsei (PTE) solo
“I am András Ákos Mizsei, also known as börtön/kántor. I have been studying Electronic Music Media Arts in Pécs for one and a half years. I started working with electronic music at the same time as I started university; before that I created sound material for my own moving-image works. Sonically, my music is atmospheric and ambient-based, which I like to complement with various sound textures and vocal elements. The latter always helps a lot with transcendence. Faith is a recurring theme in my work.”

Simon Szalai-Szabó (PTE) solo
In the music of Simon Szalai-Szabó, the basic sound material is provided by samples and their real-time manipulation. Various environmental, everyday and found sounds are layered and mixed in the process. The original sound sources are placed in a new context, lose their usual meaning and, ideally, create a new, autonomous sounding system.
Venue: Sinkó and Vajda: Concert Hall; Mizsei and Szalai-Szabó: Outdoor Stage


Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – Folk Music Department

Bére Banda
We are a band of music academy students in our twenties, whose goal is to make as many people as possible fall in love with the bourdon sound ideal of medieval origin. Bourdon music is a mature and refined sound world that, perhaps precisely because of its simplicity, contains hidden depth and can therefore offer something new to people today as well. Its essence is that varied melodic and rhythmic play is performed over a sustained tone. We present this musicality, which is an organic part of authentic folk music yet appears only as an underground stream in today’s dance-house practice, in chamber formations where, depending on the region, the singing is accompanied by bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, E-flat clarinet, violin, flute or ütőgardon (a percussive bass lute). In addition to popularizing traditional bourdon lineups from Transdanubia, Upper Hungary, the Southern Great Plain and Transylvania, we also see it as our task to reconstruct old instrument combinations.

The members of the band:
Petra Buglyó – vocals, ütőgardon
Zsombor Tulipán – E-flat clarinet
Miklós Félegyházi – bagpipe
Marcell Horváth – violin, hurdy-gurdy