September 12, 2019 at 19:00, St. Elisabeth Minster
Baroque period in music was also accompanied by the fight for freedom. Worldview was being changed, the Protestants were fighting for their place on the Earth with the until-then-all-powerful Catholic church, along with the religious mysticism, a man, belief in one’s own abilities and mind come to the front. A new music style, which brought new harmonies, new tones and laid foundations of the music development in the centuries to come, was born in its background.
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Hungarian conductor, organ player and cultural manager Dániel Somogyi-Tóth will introduce a selection of baroque work at the concert. Budapest-native is a graduate of Béla Bartók conservatory in programs composition and piano and a graduate of Ferenc Liszt Music and Arts Academy in programs conductor and organ player. Tamás Gál, András Ligeti and Gábor Lehotka were his teachers. After graduating the university, he was a conductor and art director of symphonic orchestra in Bekes county. The orchestra has gone through a significant artistic, as well as organizational and economic change, while he led it. He managed to increase attendance of concerts and based on that, he got the attention of the symphonic orchestras, which belong to operation of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. He was awarded the Prima award for this job and became an honorable citizen of Bekes. Since 2009, he has been a permanent guest conductor of Budapest’s operetta theatre, with which he worked on several famous works and he has also contributed to organization of international theatrical festivals. He was a conductor in the National Theatre in Pécs in 2010-2011. Since 2011, he has been an art director of Z. Kodály Philharmonic in Debrecen and since April 2012, he has been a music director of Csokonai Némzeti Színház. As an organ player, he has regularly been visiting concerts of important symphonic orchestras, not only at home but also in abroad. He performed in several famous organ concert halls such as Tonhalle in Zürich, National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, Gasteig in Munich, Opera Theatre Tel Aviv and he cooperated with celebrities such as Nigel Kennedy, Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Simonov, András Ligety, Erika Miklós or Bobby McFerrin.
Kíra Petronella Nagy is a soprano soloist of the Csokonai National Theater in Debrecen, Hungary. She earned her Masters degree in Opera Performance in 2019 performing the role of Susana in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Máté Szabó. Since her successful operatic debut as Acis in Händel’s Acis and Galatea in 2017, in a production directed by Péter Gemza, she has been entrusted with a large variety of solo roles in her home theater as well as a guest artist. Recent highlights include solo roles at the Chamber Opera Festival in Eger and at the Bartók+ Opera Festival in Miskolc, and guest appearances in the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Hungary’s National Theater in Budapest, and the Katona József Theater in Kecskemét.
László Kéringer (1964) completed his university studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (choral conducting), University of Miskolc and the University of Debrecen (classical singing). Early in his career he was the artistic director of the Singing School for Boys in Szombathely, after that he was the chorus master of the Csokonai Theater in Debrecen and the Operetta and Musical Theater in Budapest. As of 2010, he has concentrated mainly on his soloist career. As a soloist, he performs regularly on the concert podium and as guest artist in theater productions and is often invited to sing and perform abroad. He is a specialist of baroque and contemporary works.
]]>The orchestra cooperated with numerous world-famous performers (Igor Oistrakh, Gidon Kremer, Giora Feidman, Ivan Moravec, Josef Suk, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sergej Kopčák, Peter Mikuláš, Peter Dvorský, and others) and leading conductors (Natan Rachlin, Thomas Sanderling, Alexander Rahbari, Tadeusz Strugala, Jiří Bělohlávek, Libor Pešek, Václav Smetáček, Ľudovít Rajter, Ladislav Slovák, Ondrej Lenárd, and others). The orchestra presents its regular concert activities mainly in the form of subscription concerts at the House of Arts in Košice (Dom umenia Košice), as well as recordings for radio, television and record label companies.
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]]>Just like one year ago, when the first year of this joint project of theatres from six countries was held in Rzeszów, Poland, this year too, the festival will take the form of national days and it will be dedicated to one main theme – the30th anniversary of the events of 1989. Artists, and also other participants, will reflect on the relationship between democracy and dictatorship, the fall of any regime and the moment of change that brings such a fall, and how a society comes to terms with such a moment. The first and last days of the festival will be Slovak, the second and third dayswill be Lithuanian-Ukrainian or Ukrainian-Lithuanian, the fourth day will belong to Poland, the fifth day will be devoted to Hungary, and the sixth day will be Czech. The programme for each day is covered by the partner theatres of the project – Košice State Theatre, Teatr im. Wandy Siemaszkowej of the Rzeszow in Poland, Csokonai Theatre Nemzeti Szinház from Debrecen in Hungary. The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, Czech Republic, The M. Zankovetska Ukrainian National Academic Drama Theatre of Lviv and the Palace of Culture in the Lithuanian town of Trakai. The programme includes theatre productions of various genres, an exhibition on the landmark events of 1989, discussions with direct participants, but also with people whom the totalitarian regime persecuted, classical music concerts performed by two Philharmonic orchestras, but also a small chamber ensemble and many other events.
On the first day of the festival, Sunday, 8 September, in addition to the opening ceremony at the lower gate there will also be two unusual events. Even before the opening of the festival, a “Free Zone” will open in the city centre–a theatrical happening created especially for TRANS/MISIE 2019 which uses situations occurring in synchrony in the town centre to consider the various forms of freedom and unfreedom. It has been prepared by Julia Rázusová as director. As the theme of freedom also raises the question of the history of faith in our country, the opening of the festival will include, again in the city centre, a performance of Košice playwright Karol Horák’s play“KošiceMartyrs (Our Kingdom is not of this World).”The performance is being held with direct financial support from the city of Kosice, in cooperation with the office of the Archbishop of Košice and the Secondary Art School.
In addition to the varied programme of festival events, the organizers also offer a number of accompanying activities and Košice will come alive during TRANS/MISIE. In the spaces of the historic building of the Košice State Theatre there will be a festival village that will not only be the information centre of the festival, but also a place for pleasant meetings between the festival guests and also the audience, with delicious food, tastings of Tatra tea, and especially tasting the special festival beer TRANS/MISIE that Košice’s Hostinec brew-pub has prepared for the festival. For lovers of street art, the organizers are preparing an interesting workshop on creating graffiti. Since Košice is this year’s European Capital of volunteering, organizers are working closely with the Košice region volunteer centre and the City of Košice and volunteers will look after the comfort of guests and visitors to the festival.
The TRANS/MISIE International Festival of Arts project began in the middle of June 2017 in the Polish town of Lancut near Rzeszow, where representatives of theatres from six countries signed a memorandum for its creation. Project partners share border locations, aiding mutual exchange of cultures. This aids a non-centrist view of matters. It is based on regional communities and the unique identity of border areas. The basic aim of the festival, which will take place in a different city and country every year, is building a common space for sharing ideas and values, inspiration and motivation, putting forward art events. The premiere edition of TRANS/MISIE took place in late August and September 2018 in the Polish town of Rzeszow and its organizer was Teatr im. W. Siemaszkowej. The title of the festival was –“1918, End and Beginning.”
]]>The TRANS/MISIE International Festival of Arts project began in the middle of June 2017 in the Polish town of Lancut near Rzeszow, where representatives of theatres from six countries – Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Ukraine – signed a memorandum to create it. The signatories to the memorandum were directors of the Teatr im. Wandy Siemaszkowej of the Rzeszow in Poland, Košice State Theatre, Csokonai Theatre Nemzeti Szinház from Debrecen in Hungary. The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, Czech Republic, The M. Zankovetska Ukrainian National Academic Drama Theatre of Lviv and Lithuania’sPanevėžys Theatre, which was later replaced by the Palace of Culture in the town of Trakai.
The project partners share border locations, aiding mutual exchange of cultures. This aids a non-centrist view of matters. It is based on regional communities and the unique identity of border areas. The basic aim of the festival, which will take place in a different city and country every year, is building a common space for sharing ideas and values, inspiration and motivation, putting forward art events. The main programme focus of TRANS/MISIE is interdisciplinarity in the arts (theatre, opera, music, film, visual arts, photography, performance, new media, etc.). Therefore, the name is TRANS/MISIE. TRANS means “across” and it represents crossing borders and the search for new means of expression and exceeding limits. MISIE, means “mission” and it refers to the role of art in the everyday lives of communities not only local ones but also global ones. Every year, the festival also offers a different basic theme connected with history.
The premiere edition of TRANS/MISIE took place in late August and September 2018 in the Polish town of Rzeszow and its organizer was Teatr im. W. Siemaszkowej. The title of the festival was – “1918, End and Beginning.” It was based on the hundredth anniversary of the events of 1918 that were of great importance for Central and Eastern Europe, bringing new independent states and a new arrangement of borders.
The main topic of the second edition of the festival in Košice is the 30thanniversary of the events of 1989. The events of the festival will focus not only on the fall of communism and the commemoration of this anniversary, they will also reflect on the relationship of democracy versus dictatorship, the fall of any regime and the moment of change that brings such a fall, and how a society comes to terms with such a moment. As with the inaugural year of the festival, in Košice there will be individual days, from Sunday 8 September to Saturday 14 September devoted to different countries and the programme will be prepared by foreign partner theatres together with their partners. The first and last days of the festival will be Slovak. The programme will be the work not only of the Košice State Theatre, but also of other Slovak cultural institutions.
TRANS/MISIE will flood Košice with art not only on both stages of the State Theatre in Košice, but also in the premises of the domestic partners of the festival – in the House of Art, which is the base of Košice State Philharmonic, the Barracks/Kulturpark, at the Tabačka Kulturfabrik, at the East Slovak Museum, at the East Slovak Gallery, at the Vojtech Löffler Museum, or in the Košice Puppet Theatre. In addition to the main programme, the organizers have also prepared a rich “off programme”, which will include for example the festival village in the historic building of the Košice State Theatre.
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