Three Faces of Baroque Scored for Guitar & Cimbalom
Three Faces of Baroque Scored for Guitar & Cimbalom
How can we play Baroque works on instruments that didn't even exist at the time? Is there a difference between the styles of the Frenchman, Couperin, the German Bach and the Italian Scarlatti? What characteristic genres do we find at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, and what do you need to know about them? In this joint concert, the guitarist Miklós Környei and the cimbalom player András Szalai will seek the answer to these questions – in both music and speech. At this event, the pair will perform the works of the finest composers of the late-Baroque era with unusual instrumentation, devoting special attention to the most important genres of this period and also the distinctive features of the German, Italian and French Baroque.
Miklós Környei began his musical education at the age of six as a student of Sándor Szilvágyi at the Béla Bartók Conservatory. In May 2011, he graduated from the Liszt Academy from the class of guitarist József Eötvös, while his chamber music teachers were accordionists Károly Botvay and János Devich, and violinist Sándor Devich. Környei regularly performs in concert as a soloist both at home and abroad, and is also devoted to performing chamber music.
András Szalai studied at the Béla Bartók Conservatory before graduating from the cimbalom and composition departments of the Liszt Academy, where his teachers were Ilona Szeverényi, István Fekete Győr and János Vajda. Szalai's main fields of interests are early music arrangements and 20th century and contemporary solo and chamber music performances. He has performed the works of numerous Hungarian and international contemporary composers over the last two decades.
The two musicians played the solos in the premiere of Bálint Karosi's Double Concerto for guitar, cimbalom and string orchestra in January 2022, accompanied by the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra.
