JAZZ CLUB IN SZENTENDRE! - TUESDAY EVENING with MIHÁLY BORBÉLY QUARTET

First Tuesday from 7 P.M.  to 10 P.M.

First Tuesday evening  all those who like jazz and have never given up hope for listening music in live are welcome in the pleasant atmosphere of Dunaparti Művelődési Ház. The Cave [Barlang] is an ideal place for a jazz club where we can sitlistening musicalso  undisturbed  and where musicians can feel comfortable and at ease. Small clubs were namely the birth-place of and the vital force for this kind of music, the  cosy little places where musicians and the audience can find inspiration in each other and share unique experiences of the moment. 

Adress: Dunaparti Művelődési Ház  Szentendre Dunakorzó 11/a.  Phone: 06- 26- 312- 657

Mihály Borbély - saxophone, tárogató, flutes

He studied classical clarinet and jazz saxophone at Béla Bartók Conservatory and Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Through his career in addition to his original instruments (clarinet and alto saxophone) he has specialised in playing unusual wind instruments (tárogató, folk flutes, kaval, dvojnice, fujara, ocarina, bombard, zurna) as well as soprano and tenor saxophone.

He is one of the founding members of the famous Vujicsics folk group, and he is equally active participant – either as a leader or as a soloist – in various world music, jazz and contemporary music groups (Mihály Borbély Quartet, Balkan Jazz Project, Quartet B, Borbély-Dresch Quartet). He also a member of various line-ups (Binder-Borbély Duo, Eastern Boundary Quartet, Attila László Quintet, Kálmán Oláh Sextet).

He has participated in countless recordings and has given concerts in Hungary, throughout Europe, in the USA, in Mexico and in Australia, and has performed at large festivals with Hungarian and international musicians in different genres mentioned above. Some of the groups and musicians he has worked with:

Paul Bley, Steve Coleman, Allegre Corea, Joe Fonda, Kyle Gregory, Trilok Gurtu, Tony Lakatos, Herbie Mann, Bob Mintzer, Michel Montanaro and his „Vents d’Est”, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Gerard Presencer, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Saxophone Summit (Michael Brecker-David Liebman-Joe Lovano), Arnie Somogyi „Improvokation“, Michael Jefry Stevens, Jirí Stivín, Jens Winther, Yurodny.

The Bokros Ensemble, Nikola Parov, Márta Sebestyén, Sebő Ensemble, Hungarian World Music Orchestra, Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Modern Art Orchestra, Mihály Dresch, István Grencsó, Imre Kőszegi, Zoltán Lantos „Mirrorworld“, Attila László Band, Kálmán Oláh and the Trio Midnight, Syrius, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, as well as Péter Eötvös, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, UMZE Chamber Ensemble, Group 180.

Teaching is an important part of his life and musical philosophy. He has been active in educating young musicians since 1979. He has been a teacher at Béla Bartók Conservatory since 1986, and at the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy since 1990. In the latter he was head of department between 1997 and 2000. Apart from the above mentioned activities he has also given lectures and lead courses at various places both in Hungary and abroad, e.g. Birmingham Conservatory, DISTIL England/Scotland, Royal Academy of Music, London (GB); Conservatoire de Lyon (F); Hochschule für Music C.M von Weber, Dresden (D); Morelia Conservatory (MEX); Lamantin Jazz Camp, International Clarinet, Tárogató and Saxophone Camps, Szombathely Bartók Seminar, International Creative Music Education Institute (H), etc.

He got several prizes and awards such as "Best soloist" of the Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival, State prize "For Minorities" (as a member of the Vujicsics ensemble), three eMeRTon prizes, Artisjus Music Foundation Prize, „Jazz Album of the Year“ for the Mihály Borbély Quartet "Meselia Hill" (Gramofon, 2005), Knight's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

Dániel Szabó - piano

Born into a family of musicians, Daniel Szabó started playing the piano at the age of four. He received an all-compassing training in the arts at the Ferenc Martyn School of Free Arts in the town of Pécs. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs, he received his BA-degree from the Jazz faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 2000.

He began giving concerts quite early: he frequently performed all across Europe as a child in various bands as well as a soloist. Then came a long list of competition victories. He won the International Jazz Piano Competition held in Lithuania in 1997. He was joint winner at the Gábor Füsti Balogh Talent Contest for Jazz Pianists organized by the Hungarian Radio in 1998, and this achievement led to his first trio album published by Warner Music Hungary. In 2000 he came first at the Jas Hennessy Solo Piano Competition that was part of the Montreux Jazz Festival. After that he was invited to give solo concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators in New York. In 2001 he was granted admittance and full scholarship to the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, where he performed together with names like Randy Brecker, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Vince Mendoza, Dave Carpenter and Peter Erskine. He got the Fulbright scholarship in 2003 and began his postgradual studies at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, where he got his master’s degree from in 2005. During these productive years in Boston he had two outstanding professors: Bob Brookmeyer in composition and arrangement, and Danilo Perez in jazz piano. Other renowned professors of his were Jerry Bergonzi, Steve Lacy, George Garzone, Michael Cain, Allan Chase and Ken Schaphorst. In concerts organized by NEC Daniel Szabo performed with Maria Schneider, Joe Lovano, George Russell, Harvey Mason, Herb Pomeroy, George Garzone and Tim Hagans, thus becoming an active member of Boston’s multicoloured musical life. He won the “4^th International Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition” in Paris, in 2006.

His trio has been regularly performing at international festivals, concert halls or clubs and often collaborates with renowned international jazz artists: they have joined forces with Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Ellis, Rosario Giuliani and Flavio Boltro in the past years. The band’s last album containing a complete program of originals composed by Szabo features New York-guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel whose band Szabó has already toured with throughout Europe. The album called Frictions, as first jazz edition from Hungary, has been released under the label of Warner Jazz, London in 2007. In 2008, pianist-composer Szabó was invited by Danilo Perez to play with his trio and Marta Topferova at the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia) as part of the Mellon Jazz Up Close-series – the concert ended up with a standing ovation.

Balázs Horváth - double bass

He was born in 1973, Budapest, Hungary. After his first diploma of bassguitar he continued his studies on double bass at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, where he graduated in 2003 and in between in Paris at the Conservatoire Supérieur de la Musique. He studied there with Riccardo Del Fra, Daniel Humair and Francois Théberge.

He’s played with Dave Liebman, Herbie Mann, Dewey Redman, Kyle Gregory, Ben Castle, Al Foster among others, including many Hungarian jazz musicians. He is a member of Mihály Borbély’s groups: the Mihály Borbély Quartet (which won the prize of the best hungarian jazz album and the eMeRTon prize in 2005), the Quartet B, the Balkan Jazz Project and the Borbély-Dresch Quartet. He also plays in Dániel Váczi’s Trio, Trio Minor (this group won first prize of the competition of the Hungarian Jazz Federation in 2008). He’s played with Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Modern Art Orchestra, Kőszegi Imre Quartet, Nagy János Trio, Elsa Valle’s groups, Fenyvesi Márton Trio (this group won first prize of the competitions of the Hungarian Jazz Federation in 2007 and the Balatonfüred Jazz Festival in 2008).

István Baló - drums, percussions

One of the leading drummers in Hungary who got his diploma from Faculty of Jazz, Béla Bartók Conservatory. He won fame not only as a drummer, but also as a teacher. During his carreer in Hungary and in Europe his partners in live concerts and recordings were: David Murray, Dave Samuels, Archie Shepp, Dimenzió, Binder Quartet, Dresch Quartet, György Szabados, In Line, István Regös, Gyula Babos, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos among others.