Artist Talk: Levente Fazakas, Géza Kóré, Rémusz Eötvös
Artist Talk: Levente Fazakas, Géza Kóré, Rémusz Eötvös
The Heveder Orchestra, Géza Kóré and Rémusz Eötvös will perform a concert featuring very characteristic figures of Transylvanian traditional music life. Their lives and performing careers are full of novelistic twists and turns, anecdotes and extraordinary stories. The lives and fates of székelys and gypsies of Székelyföld, interspersed with music and dance. Soma Salamon talks to Géza Kóré, Rémus Eötvös and Levente Fazakas, the Heveder's lead fiddler.
Transylvanian Hungarian and Roma folk music from Őrkő to Székelyszenterzsébet
The musicians of the Heveder Hungarian Folk Ensemble may be young, but they are carrying on a long tradition.They music they play is straight from the villages of Transylvania and Hungary (Hungarian, Romanian and gypsy folk music). They come from the Hungarian populated city of Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfântu Gheorghe) in eastern Transylvania. Heveder was founded in 2002. Since then, the group has become a perennial favorite at festivals and as dance musicians in Transylvania. Heveder has also frequently toured throughout Hungary, Romania, Western Europe and in 2011 they toured 6 weeks in the USA. In 2008 and 2009, Heveder was featured on Hungarian television receiving awards for their performances. The group’s first CD, “Eresszed, hodj menjem”, “Let It Go”, was released in 2009. The group’s second CD (Székely) was released 2011 especially for the US tour.
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