Schedule
Friday
22 August 2025
22 August
Saturday
23 August 2025
23 August
Sunday
24 August 2025
24 August
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spirituality and music
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Paintings, organs, music. A tour of the Archabbey's collection of organs and fine art
15:00 – 16:15
Studentchapel - Basilic
Ticket: 4500 Ft
The Benedictine monastery of Pannonhalma is a special place not only for its architectural and natural heritage, but also for its musical instruments and works of fine arts. During the walk you can see the abbey's special organs in operation with the help of organist Zsolt Kiss. We will learn about the portative organ, the stops, the mixtures, the origins of the crescendo and decrescendo.
The Benedictine monk Konrád Dejcsics will give an illustrative presentation of the monastery's contemporary collection, tell us about the Eastern church and even about the types of bells. The music and art history tour ends with a light rosé toast.
Route: Student chapel - Basilica - chapter-hall
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spirituality
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My garden - unusual guided tour
16:15 – 17:45
Basilica - Cloister Garden - Arboretum
Ticket: 4000 Ft
On the occasion of the Garden2025 commemorative year, Pannonhalma Archabbey continues its highly successful series of guided tours, this time entitled "My Garden". During the special programme, members of the Benedictine community will be joined by prominent figures from Hungarian cultural, artistic, scientific and ecclesiastical life to guide visitors through the monastery's gardens - and their own inner gardens. All this is an opportunity for an encounter where nature, faith and human experience are deeply intertwined.
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spirituality
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Healing scents. A monk and a perfumer talk about healing, body and soul
16:45 – 17:45
Ticket: 2500 Ft
In the monastery of St. Martin, the arboretum and herb garden are located at the interface between the Abbey and the world. The talk also invites the visiting public to focus on the unique but endangered treasure that has been preserved and cared for by the monastery's monks and staff since the first half of the 19th century. As well as inviting you to discover the medicinal properties, cultural significance of the herb garden's flagship plants.
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04
prayer
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Vesper
18:00 – 18:30
Basilica
Free entry
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05
music
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Opening Concert
19:30 – 21:30
Basilica
Ticket Category 1: 6500 Ft
Ticket Category 2: 5000 Ft
Mendelssohn – Jörg Widmann: Andante
Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor
Mendelssohn: Allegro Brillante op. 92
Jörg Widmann: 5 Albumblätter für Cello und Klavier
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Mendelssohn: Songs, Op. 96
Die Liebende schreibt, Op. 86/3 Wenn sich zwei Herzen scheiden, Op. 99/5 Neue Liebe, Op. 19a/4 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34/2
Mendelssohn: Symphony for Strings No. 8 in D major
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06
prayer
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Vigil, Laudes, Convention
06:00 – 07:30
Basilica
Free entry
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07
spirituality
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Walking the labyrinth
09:00 – 10:15
Arboretum
Ticket: 4000 Ft
The classic labyrinth in the Pannonhalma arboretum is the longest path between the entrance and the centre. The constant pulsation of the path, the ebb and flow of the approach to the centre and the distance from it, makes the labyrinth an inner initiatory path, a meditative journey that, depending on our life situation and our world view, can be an opportunity to meet ourselves and the God within us. During the labyrinth walk, we also draw on the psalms of the Bible, which, by capturing and expressing the diversity of human experience, can bring us closer to all that is within us.
Maximum participant 15 person
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spirituality
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Individual and community walk on the spiritual path
09:00 – 10:15
Arboretum
Free entry
In the monastery of St. Martin, the arboretum and herb garden are located at the interface between the Abbey and the world. The Year of the Garden also invites the monastic community, the monastery's staff, friends, visitors and the wider visiting public to focus on the unique but endangered treasure that has been preserved and cared for by the monastery's monks and staff since the first half of the 19th century. As well as inviting them to discover the healing powers, cultural significance and gastronomic-culinary potential of the herb garden's flagship plants.
Participation in the programme is free of charge, but prior registration is required. Registration here.
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exhibition
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Eastern Europe's common garden, the grotesque Vernissage
10:00 – 10:45
TriCollis
Free entry
The selection of photographs is curated by OFF Bratislava Bratislava, Fotograf Festival Prague and Fotofestiwal Łódź Poland
Participation is free of charge.
Departure from the Main Gate
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10
music and film
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The desert where we will live
10:00
Free entry
continuous screening of the works of documentary filmmaker Gergő Pápai, MMA Fellow |
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11
music
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Chamber concert
11:00 – 12:15
Our Lady Chapel
Ticket: 5000 Ft
Mendelssohn: Clarinet Sonata in E-flat major
Jörg Widmann: Étude No. 2 for violin solo
Mendelssohn: Songs
Bei der Wiege, Op. 47/6 Erster Verlust, Op. 99/1 Der Blumenstrauss, Op. 47/5
Jörg Widmann: Bruchstücke
Five Fragments for clarinet and piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
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12
gastronomy
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Festival lunch
12:00 – 14:30
Dining room
Ticket: 7600 Ft
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13
music and prayer
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Mid-day prayer
13:00 – 13:15
Basilica
Free entry
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14
spirituality
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Silent meditation in the Basilica and in the cloisters garden
13:30 – 14:30
Basilica
Ticket: 4000 Ft
Silence has different meanings and manifestations in different places in the monastic church. The garden, especially the monastery garden, is a place of healing, silence and encounter with God in the Benedictine tradition. The cloister garden, like the one in Pannonhalma, is enclosed by four walls and open only to the sky. At the heart of the monastery is an empty space, which gives God the opportunity to meet man there, and at the same time gives man the opportunity to linger in the presence of God. The garden, bordered by a cloister corridor, reminds the monk or the visitor to the monastery that, however active his life, he always finds the garden of God's presence, and that he has only to take one step to enter this presence. The converse is also true: God's presence is at the centre of our busy lives, no human situation is far from it.
Maximum participant: 25 person
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15
spirituality
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Church and contemporary culture - Conversation with with the editors of the Pannonhalmi Szemle
13:30 – 14:30
Free entry
Participation in the programme is free of charge, but prior registration is required. Registration here.
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16
gastronomy
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Cultura Vini
15:00 – 16:00
Abbey Winery, Pannonhalma
Ticket: 5500 Ft
Guided tour of the Pannonhalma Abbey Winery with 5 wine tastings with commentary
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literature
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Back in time - Conversation with Zsuzsa Rakovszky Kossuth Prize-winning writer, poet, translator
15:00 – 16:00
Concert Hall
Free entry
The lecture is free but registration is required. Registration here.
Literature
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literature
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WHITE-BLACK - Readings from the works of Zsuzsa Rakovszky
16:30 – 17:30
Concert Hall
Ticket: 5000 Ft
"there is no present, only the past in disguise"
Readings from the works of Zsuzsa Rakovszky
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19
prayer
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Vesper
18:00 – 18:30
Basilica
Free entry
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20
music
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Evening concert
19:00 – 21:00
Basilica
Ticket Category 1: 6500 Ft
Ticket Category 2: 5000 Ft
Jörg Widmann: 180 beats per minute
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
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Jörg Widmann: „...und wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen...” in memoriam Lars Vogt
Mendelssohn: Concerto for piano and strings in A minor
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21
music
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Midnight concert
22:00 – 23:00
Our Lady Chapel
Ticket: 5000 Ft
Jörg Widmann: Melodie for cello solo
Mendelssohn: Songs
Frage, Op. 9/1 Sehnsucht, Op. 9/7 Der Mond, Op. 86/5 Suleika, Op. 34/4
Jörg Widmann: Nachtstück for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Mendelssohn: Piano sextet in D major Op. 110
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22
prayer
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Vigil and Laudes
06:45 – 07:45
Basilica
Free entry
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23
exhibition
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Paths and Gateways curatorial guided tour
09:00 – 09:45
Exhibition hall of the abbey
Free entry
Participation on the guided tour of the temporary exhibition of the 2025 KERT cultural season is free of charge, but prior registration is required. Registration here.
Paths and passageways The exhibition draws on both the history of the monastery garden and the symbolic interpretations of the garden, which have remained constant through the ages, yet are constantly evolving. Through the metaphor of the garden, the participants in the exhibition reflect on the pressing social and ecological issues of the present and our relationship to spirituality.
The exhibiting artists are Tamás DEZSŐ, Kitti GOSZTOLA, Tibor ISKI KOCSIS, Anikó LORÁNT - Tamás KASZÁS, Dóra MATYUS, Sára RICHTER, Luca Sára RÓZSA
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24
prayer
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Convent Mass
10:00 – 11:15
Basilica
Free entry
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25
music
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Beautiful moments: musical moments past and present - Lecture on music history by Jörg Widmann
11:30 – 12:30
Concert Hall
Free entry
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the music of today
Lecture on music history by Jörg Widmann
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gastronomy
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Festival lunch
12:00 – 14:30
Dining room
Ticket: 7600 Ft
The festival lunch is subject to advance ticket purchase, unfortunately it is not possible to order lunch on site. Click on the ticket purchase link to see the daily menu offer. |
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music and prayer
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Mid-day prayer
13:00 – 13:15
Basilica
Free entry
Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 6 (D minor), Op. 65 1st movement
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exhibition
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Garden of Eden? – Performance
14:00 – 15:00
Arboretum
Free entry
The students of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the University of Theatre and Film Arts are participating in the Arcus Temporum Festival for the fourth year with their jointly created performative projects. This year, the focus of their performance is the motive of paradise.
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music
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Closing concert – FAREWELLS
15:30 – 16:45
Basilica
Ticket Category 1: 6500 Ft
Ticket Category 2: 5000 Ft
Mendelssohn: Songs without words
Andante con moto, Op. 19/1 Presto agitato, Op. 53/3 Velencei gondoladal, Op. 30/6
Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14
Jörg Widmann: Fantasie for Solo Clarinet
Mendelssohn: Songs
Sonntagslied, Op. 34/5 Winterlied, Op. 19a/3 Pagenlied, WoO 17/2 Es weiss und rät es doch keiner, Op. 99/6
Mendelssohn: Songs without words, Op. 109
Jörg Widmann: Lied ohne Worte
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
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30
prayer
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Vesper
18:00 – 18:30
Basilica
Free entry
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artists
Jörg Widmann – clarinet
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Jörg Widmann – clarinet
studied clarinet with Gerd Starke in Munich and Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York and later became himself Professor of Clarinet and Composition, first at University of Music Freiburg and since 2017 as Chair Professor for Composition at the Barenboim-Said Academy Berlin. In June 2024 he was named a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music in consideration of his merits to musical art. He is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg (2007), German Academy of Dramatic Arts and Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (2016) and received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Limerick, Ireland in February 2023.
Jörg Widmann also continues his longstanding chamber music partnerships with renowed artists such as Antoine Tamestit, Sir András Schiff, Carolin Widmann, Sarah Aristidou, Nicolas Altstaedt, Dénes Várjon and the Hagen Quartet, and performs chamber recitals at Musikverein Wien, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and Alte Oper Frankfurt.
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Izabella Simon – piano
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Izabella Simon – piano
Izabella Simon, pianist, graduated at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest as a student of György Kurtág, Ferenc Rados, Jenő Jandó and Sándor Falvai. Since graduation, she has been a regular participant of the most prestigious international festivals such as the Ittingen Festival led by András Schiff and Heinz Holliger, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Beethoven Fest (Bonn), the Marlboro Festival (USA), the Nelson Festival (New Zealand), and Halls as the Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Tonhalle (Zürich), playing alongside musical partners such as Heinz Holliger, Steven Isserlis, Miklós Perényi, Christoph Richter and Radovan Vlatkovic. She attaches particular importance to increasing the popularity of songs, which is underlined by her appearances with Sylvia Sass, Andrea Rost, Ruth Ziesak, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. As a soloist, she has performed with international orchestras as the Kremerata Baltica, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Camerata Bern, Musikkolegium Winterthur Orchester, in addition to a number of Hungarian orchestras. She frequently plays piano four hands, and two piano recitals in Hungary and abroad with her husband, pianist Dénes Várjon. In the past decade they organized and led several chamber music festivals. The most recent one was “Kamara.hu” at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. She has made records with Dénes Várjon (The Great Fuge-Hungaroton), Sylvia Sass (Liszt, Schubert songs-Cant Art) and Andrea Rost (Bartók, Kodály, Ligeti songs-Warner). In 2015, she launched a highly popular concert series for children focusing on classical music, guiding children in the world of other arts with the help of the genres in the framework of a complex performance. Following her highly successful concert held at 92 Y in New York, she has been invited to the famous Bard College as a guest professor in 2010. In order to promote chamber music, she has come up with the idea of the Night of Chamber Music, starring distinguished artists as Steven Isserlis or Ferenc Rados.
izabellasimon.com/eng
photo: Réka Érdi-Harmos
Dénes Várjon – piano
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Dénes Várjon – piano
His sensational technique, deep musicality, wide range of interest have made Dénes Várjon one of the most exciting and highly regarded participants of international musical life. He is a universal musician: excellent soloist, first-class chamber musician, artistic leader of festivals, highly sought–after piano pedagogue.
Widely considered as one of the greatest chamber musicians, he works regularly with preeminent partners such as Steven Isserlis, Tabea Zimmermann, Kim Kashkashian, Jörg Widmann, Leonidas Kavakos, András Schiff , Heinz Holliger, Miklós Perényi, Joshua Bell. As a soloist he is a welcome guest at major concert series, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Vienna’s Konzerthaus and London’s Wigmore Hall. He is frequently invited to work with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras (Budapest Festival Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Russian National Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields). Among the conductors he has worked with Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Iván Fischer, Ádám Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Horst Stein, Leopold Hager, Zoltán Kocsis. He appears regularly at leading international festivals from Marlboro to Salzburg and Edinburgh.
He also performs frequently with his wife Izabella Simon playing four hands and two pianos recitals together. In the past decade they organized and led several chamber music festivals, the most recent one being "kamara.hu” at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. In recent years Dénes Várjon has built a close cooperation with Alfred Brendel: their joint Liszt project was presented, among others, in the UK and Italy.
He has recorded for the Naxos, Capriccio and Hungaroton labels with critical acclaim. Teldec released his CD with Sándor Veress’s “Hommage à Paul Klee” (performed with András Schiff, Heinz Holliger and the Budapest Festival Orchestra). His recording “Hommage à Géza Anda”, (PAN-Classics Switzerland) has received very important international echoes. His solo CD with pieces of Berg, Janáček and Liszt was released in 2012 by ECM. In 2015 he recorded the Schumann piano concerto with the WDR Symphonieorchester and Heinz 1 Holliger, and all five Beethoven piano concertos with Concerto Budapest and András Keller.
Dénes Várjon graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1991, where his professors included Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. Parallel to his studies he was regular participant at international master classes with András Schiff. Dénes Várjon won first prize at the Piano Competition of Hungarian Radio, at the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition in Budapest and at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich. He was awarded with the Liszt, the Sándor Veress and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize. In 2020 he received Hungary’s supreme award in culture, the Kossuth Prize. Mr. Várjon works also for Henle’s Urtext Editions.
denesvarjon.com/bio
photo: Misi Kondella
Zsuzsa Rakovszky
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Zsuzsa Rakovszky
I was born in Sopron in 1950. My father died when I was one year old, my mother raised me alone. She read me poems from a very early age, so I started "“trying to do this kind of thing myself" ” at a very early age.
I graduated from high school in Sopron, then I worked for a year in a textile factory, then I went to university, first in Debrecen, then in Pest. I graduated in Hungarian and English. After that I worked for a few years in the Foreign Language Library in Pest, which was a very useful and pleasant time, because I could regularly read all kinds of English and American periodicals, although they were not easily available elsewhere at that time.
In addition to librarianship, I started translating, and soon I was working as a freelance translator (I was briefly a publishing editor and a reading editor for a magazine, but I always found that I preferred to work independently). In the following thirty-odd years I translated a great deal and a wide variety of texts: poetry, prose, plays, history, philosophy, youth literature, cookery books and advice for cat-keepers...
In addition to librarianship, I started translating, and soon I was working as a freelance translator (I was briefly a publishing editor and a reading editor for a magazine, but I always found that I preferred to work independently). In the following thirty-odd years I translated a great deal and a wide variety of texts: poetry, prose, plays, history, philosophy, youth literature, cookery books and advice for cat-keepers...
My first book of poetry was published in 1981, my first book of prose twenty years later. I am about to deliver the material for my twentieth volume (poetry).
In 2003, my son Tibor and I moved back home to Sopron, where he graduated from high school, and then continued his studies in physics in Pest. After some travelling around the world, he returned home a few months ago and works at the BME in Pest. I still live in Sopron, in the same house where I grew up.
Adél Kováts
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Adél Kováts
graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1983 with a degree in operetta-musical. She began her career at the National Theatre, where she performed prose roles until 1991, but also appeared as a guest in operettas and musicals. In 1992 she was a freelance artist for a year; in 1993 she joined the Radnóti Miklós Theatre. Since February 2016 she is the director of this theater. In 2015 she was voted the 3rd most influential Hungarian woman in culture by Forbes, in 2019 she was ranked 6th.
“The Abbey of Pannonhalma is one of the most important places of my childhood, where I visited several times. It was my first monumental church experience. As a sopronic and Christian child, I felt at home in the world of churches, but the basilica fascinated me. I am particularly pleased to be the host of the Arcus Temporium festival in the year of Zsuzsa Rakovszky′s guest of honour. For me, the KERT, whether I am working hard or just being in it, is always relaxing, as is classical music. They shut out conformity, unnecessary noise, and evoke in me the joy of just being, they simply have a cell renewing and healing effect.
I look forward to welcoming you to this healing festival!”
Konrad Dejcsics OSB
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Konrad Dejcsics OSB
Benedictine monk from Pannonhalma, born in 1980 in Szombathely. He graduated from the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School in Győr. He completed his theological studies at the Sapientia Monastic Theological College in Budapest. He holds a degree in Classics and Philology and a Master's degree in German and Latin from ELTE. His doctoral dissertation is based on the biographies of St. Jerome. Since 2015, he is the cultural director of the Pannonhalma Abbey, managing director of the Benedictine Publishing House, director of the Arcus Temporum art festival, and editorial board member of the Pannonhalmi Szemle.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE)
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE)
was founded in 1981 by a group of young musicians who became acquainted as part of the European Community Youth Orchestra (now EUYO). There are now about 60 members of the COE, who pursue parallel careers as principals or section leaders of nationally-based orchestras, as eminent chamber musicians, and as tutors of music.
From the start, the COE’s identity was shaped by its partnerships with leading conductors and soloists. It was Claudio Abbado above all who served as an important mentor in the early years.
With more than 250 works in its discography, the COE’s CDs have won numerous international prizes, including two Grammys and three Gramophone Record of the Year Awards.
In 2009, the COE Academy was created in order to give a select group of exceptional students the chance to study with the principal players of COE and, importantly, to give the students the opportunity to travel “on tour” with the orchestra.
Source: https://www.coeurope.org/orchestra/about-us/
Nicolas Altstaedt – cellist
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Nicolas Altstaedt – cellist
German-French cellist is one of the most sought after and versatile artists today. As a soloist, conductor and artistic director, he performs repertoire spanning from early music to the contemporary.
As a conductor, he works closely with the Scottish and Munich Chamber Orchestras and the OPRF Paris. He conducted in recent seasons the Budapest Festival Orchestra, SWR, OSI Lugano, Warsaw Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony, Orchestra of 18th century, les Violins du Roy, Aurora and Zurich chamber orchestras.
In 2012, Nicolas was chosen by Gidon Kremer to succeed him as the new artistic director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and in 2015 by Ádám Fischer to become the new Artistic Director of the Haydn Philharmonie until 2022, within whom he regularly performed with at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Esterházy Festival and recently on tour in both China and Japan. Nicolas was Artistic Director of the Pfingstfestspiele Ittingen 2019 and 2023.
His most recent recordings for his Lockenhaus Festival garnered the BBC Music Magazine 2020 Chamber Award and Grammophone Award 2020. He received the BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award 2017 for his recording of CPE Bach Concertos on Hyperion with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen and the Edison Klassiek 2017 for his Recital Recording with Fazil Say on Warner Classics.
Source: https://www.nicolas-altstaedt.com/biography
Csilla Csővári - soprano
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Csilla Csővári - soprano
studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest with Erika Sziklai.
At the same time she studied in Berlin on an Erasmus scholarship, where she graduated as an opera and song singer under Julie Kaufmann. She attended international master classes with Kiri Te Kanawa and Julia Hamari.
Her first operatic experience was as a solo singer in the Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera House, where she later became a member of the ensemble. Here she sang a major role in the world premiere of Stockhausen's opera Sonntag aus Licht. She then signed a contract with the Nuremberg Opera House, where she made his successful debut in the title role of Donizetti′s opera Daughter of the Regiment. She has appeared as a guest in various opera houses and concert halls in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Austria. She has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Stuttgart Opera, Dresden Operetta Theatre and the Hamburg Modern Music Festival.
She was awarded first prize and special prize at the international singing competition Les Symphonies d′Automne in Mâcon, France.
She was awarded the Offenbach Prize 2011 by the Cologne Opera Enthusiasts′ Society and in 2014 she was named “Singer of the Year” by the renowned classical music magazine Opern Welt for her performance in a modern opera production.
Until 2020, she is a soloist at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich, where she sang Gretel in Humperdinck′s opera Hansel and Gretel, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Gretchen in Lortzing′s The Poacher′s Chorus.
Source: https://csillacsovari.com/hu/eletrajz
Eszter Karasszon – cellist
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Eszter Karasszon – cellist
was born into a family of musicians. She achieved her first success in a music competition at the age of 8, which was followed by several outstanding results over the years, such as the first prize at the Popper Dávid International Gordon Competition, the Grand Prize at the Dohnányi Ernő Chamber Music Competition, and the first prize at the János Starker National Cello Competition.
Her master at the Academy of Music was Csaba Onczay, Kossuth Prize winner, and she received his doctorate in 2023. She had the opportunity to polish his playing in numerous courses. She participated in the master classes of János Starker, Steven Isserlis, Gustav Rivinius, Emilio Colón, Reinhard Latzko, among others.
She has performed in America, Asia and Israel, at European festivals such as the Folle Journée in France, the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander in Spain, The International Holland Music Session. In Hungary, she is invited to the "kamara.hu" festival, run by Dénes Várjon and Izabella Simon, every year. she is a returning soloist at the Days of Silence, the Valley of Arts Festival and the Klassz a pARTon Festival, among others.
In addition to solo performances, Eszter Karasszon has also had valuable chamber music successes. She has performed with artists such as Iveta Apkalna and David Guerrier. She has worked as a soloist with Péter Eötvös, János Kovács and Ádám Medveczky, among others. She is a member of Concerto Budapest.
Zsolt Kiss – organ
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Zsolt Kiss – organ
organist was born in Kapuvár in 1979. He started playing the piano at the age of 8. At the age of 13, he continued his studies at the János Richter Music Secondary School in Győr, specialising in organ and solfege and music theory. His organ teachers were László Hoffmann and István Baróti.
In 1999 he was admitted to the organ faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, graduating in 2003 under Gábor Lehotka. During his studies, he attended courses by Zsolt Gárdonyi, Dezső Karasszon, István Koloss, Jesper Madsen, János Pálúr and Zsigmond Szathmáry.
He is currently the choir and organ teacher at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma and the choirmaster of St. Martin’s Basilica in Pannonhalma.
He has given concerts in Germany, Austria, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia and in cities in Hungary.
Ágnes Langer – violin
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Ágnes Langer – violin
was born in 1992 in Budapest. She started playing the violin at the age of six. At the age of 14 she made her debut as soloist in Mozart′s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major. In 2003 she successfully participated in the Ede Zathureczky Competition, the Balys Dvarionas International Competition and the Bartók Duo Competition. In 2009 she was third prize winner and audience prize winner of the Yankelevich International Competition in Siberia, and in 2016 she was second prize winner of the Spivakov International Competition. One year later, she won third prize at the Bartók World Competition in Hungary and special prizes including invitations to perform in the 2018/19 season.
She has performed in several countries both as soloist and chamber musician, so in Germany, England, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Canada, Spain, Russia, and other countries. She has participated in master classes with Gerhard Schulz, Taras Gabora, Lucia Hall, Nai-Yuan Hu and Roger Chase. She is a regular participant at IMS Prussia Cove, Colmar, France and Casalmaggiore International Festival. She has worked with artists such as José Gallardo, Connie Shih, Pavel Kolesnikov, Roger Chase, Maximilian Hornung, Mihhail Gerts and the musicians of the National Philharmonic of Russia.
Since 2005 she has been a student of Anne Shih at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. In 2017, she was admitted to the Conservatorium Maastricht, where she studied with Boris Belkin. Thanks to the Peter Eckes Kulturstiftung she plays on a violin made by Nicolo Gagliano in 1782.
Source: https://info.bmc.hu/zeneszek/3462-langer-agnes
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Éva Osztrosits – violin
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Éva Osztrosits – violin
Éva Osztrosits started playing the violin at the age of 7, graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, and received her doctorate in 2024.
She has achieved outstanding results in numerous competitions, including 1st place in the sonata category and 2nd place in the string quartet category at the Weiner Leó National Chamber Music Competition.
In the academic year 2017/2018, she taught chamber music at the Liszt Academy of Music as a doctoral student. In the same year, she won the master violin Rogeri and a Sartory master violin for four years at the Ede Zathureczky Competition.
In 2019, the Kruppa quartet was accepted to the European Chamber Music Academy, where they worked with renowned artists from all over the world in many European countries.
Currently, as a dedicated representative of the Korossy Quartet and contemporary music, she is a member of the UMZE ensemble. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Austro–Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra of Debrecen and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020 she was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and a 3-year scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
In the year 2023/2024, she is a scholarship holder of the New National Excellence Programme and this year she also obtained his violin teacher qualification at the Liszt Academy.
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Pál András
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Pál András
In 2006 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of Kaposvár, Faculty of Acting. He then joined the company of the National Theatre of Pécs, where he became one of the most versatile and renowned artists in a few years.
From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of the company of the Hungarian Theatre, and since September 2013 he has been a member of the company of the Radnóti Theatre.
In the course of his career, he has performed with László Babarczy, Imre Csiszár, Tamás Balikó, Attila Béres, László Keszég, Katalin Kővári, János Mohácsi, Sándor Guelmino, Gabriella Molnár Keresztyén, Gábor Czeizel, Géza Tordy, János Vincze, Károly Szívós at the Spinoza House, the Budapest Chamber Theatre, the Kolibri Theatre, the Csiky Gergely Theatre in Kaposvár, the Ódry Stage, the Third Theatre in Pécs and the Pécs Open-Air Festival.
Since 2013 he has been head of department at the Hungarian Theatre Academy in Pest.
Awards:
Best Male Actor in an Episode – IXth Pécs National Theatre Meeting (POST) 2009
Junior Prima Award – 2011
Best actor under 30 – XIIth Pécs National Theatre Meeting, 2012
Source: https://pmsza.hu/tanaraink/pal-andras
Katalin Takács
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Katalin Takács
My existence in the theatre began at the Szkéné theatre, with István Keleti, who was a decisive step towards becoming an actor.
I graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1975.
I was under contract in the countryside for 10 years.
In 1985 was born my son, Dániel Dömölky – and in September I became a member of the Radnóti Theatre, a period I consider significant in the development of my acting skills. Here I played Ibsen′s Nora and András Tolstoy-Nagy′s Anna Karenina, for which I received the Critics′ Prize. In Botho Strauss′s Time and Room, Marie Steuber, for which I was awarded a prize at the theatre festival.
In 1994 I became a member of the New Theatre. Then in 2012 I came to Kaposvár.
In 2016, I moved to the Latinovits Theatre in Budaörs. I got important roles here too. Mama in Requiem for a Dream, Blanche in Tenessee Williams, and Polonius in H:M.L.T.
Many, many theatre roles and film and TV plays were also played during this long period.
I have a Jászai Mari Award and a Merited Artist Award.
I have received the Irén Psota-, Frigyes Hollósi- and Miklós Gábor-awards from the profession.
I have taught at the Ágnes Nemes Nagy Art College, what, alongside acting, has made me happy.
The play, the meeting with the audience in the evenings, the silence as they watch or laugh with relief, the fact that they get a little joy, liberation, feeling, thought from me and I have slightly upset the usual, – well, that′s why it′s worth doing this profession.
The Pannonhalma Archabbey is a special place with its thousand-year history, its natural endowment and its role in the life of the Church.
Visitors are captivated by the spirit of the place and its welcoming atmosphere. In Pannonhalma, everyone can feel a little better. It is good to be here, to listen to a concert. I am happy to be able to perform at the Arcus Temporum Festival. I am especially happy to be able to present the poems of Zsuzsa Rakovszky, whose poetic images are very close to my soul. Without poems, life would be more difficult, for me for sure.
fotó: Domolky Dániel
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Jörg Widmann – clarinet
studied clarinet with Gerd Starke in Munich and Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York and later became himself Professor of Clarinet and Composition, first at University of Music Freiburg and since 2017 as Chair Professor for Composition at the Barenboim-Said Academy Berlin. In June 2024 he was named a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music in consideration of his merits to musical art. He is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg (2007), German Academy of Dramatic Arts and Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (2016) and received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Limerick, Ireland in February 2023.
Jörg Widmann also continues his longstanding chamber music partnerships with renowed artists such as Antoine Tamestit, Sir András Schiff, Carolin Widmann, Sarah Aristidou, Nicolas Altstaedt, Dénes Várjon and the Hagen Quartet, and performs chamber recitals at Musikverein Wien, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and Alte Oper Frankfurt.
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Our Lady Chapel
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Our Lady Chapel
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Beautiful moments: musical moments past and present - Lecture on music history by Jörg Widmann
11:30 – 12:30
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Closing concert – FAREWELLS
15:30 – 16:45
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Izabella Simon – piano
Izabella Simon, pianist, graduated at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest as a student of György Kurtág, Ferenc Rados, Jenő Jandó and Sándor Falvai. Since graduation, she has been a regular participant of the most prestigious international festivals such as the Ittingen Festival led by András Schiff and Heinz Holliger, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Beethoven Fest (Bonn), the Marlboro Festival (USA), the Nelson Festival (New Zealand), and Halls as the Carnegie Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Tonhalle (Zürich), playing alongside musical partners such as Heinz Holliger, Steven Isserlis, Miklós Perényi, Christoph Richter and Radovan Vlatkovic. She attaches particular importance to increasing the popularity of songs, which is underlined by her appearances with Sylvia Sass, Andrea Rost, Ruth Ziesak, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. As a soloist, she has performed with international orchestras as the Kremerata Baltica, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Camerata Bern, Musikkolegium Winterthur Orchester, in addition to a number of Hungarian orchestras. She frequently plays piano four hands, and two piano recitals in Hungary and abroad with her husband, pianist Dénes Várjon. In the past decade they organized and led several chamber music festivals. The most recent one was “Kamara.hu” at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. She has made records with Dénes Várjon (The Great Fuge-Hungaroton), Sylvia Sass (Liszt, Schubert songs-Cant Art) and Andrea Rost (Bartók, Kodály, Ligeti songs-Warner). In 2015, she launched a highly popular concert series for children focusing on classical music, guiding children in the world of other arts with the help of the genres in the framework of a complex performance. Following her highly successful concert held at 92 Y in New York, she has been invited to the famous Bard College as a guest professor in 2010. In order to promote chamber music, she has come up with the idea of the Night of Chamber Music, starring distinguished artists as Steven Isserlis or Ferenc Rados.
izabellasimon.com/eng
photo: Réka Érdi-Harmos
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Dénes Várjon – piano
His sensational technique, deep musicality, wide range of interest have made Dénes Várjon one of the most exciting and highly regarded participants of international musical life. He is a universal musician: excellent soloist, first-class chamber musician, artistic leader of festivals, highly sought–after piano pedagogue.
Widely considered as one of the greatest chamber musicians, he works regularly with preeminent partners such as Steven Isserlis, Tabea Zimmermann, Kim Kashkashian, Jörg Widmann, Leonidas Kavakos, András Schiff , Heinz Holliger, Miklós Perényi, Joshua Bell. As a soloist he is a welcome guest at major concert series, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Vienna’s Konzerthaus and London’s Wigmore Hall. He is frequently invited to work with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras (Budapest Festival Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Russian National Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields). Among the conductors he has worked with Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Iván Fischer, Ádám Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Horst Stein, Leopold Hager, Zoltán Kocsis. He appears regularly at leading international festivals from Marlboro to Salzburg and Edinburgh.
He also performs frequently with his wife Izabella Simon playing four hands and two pianos recitals together. In the past decade they organized and led several chamber music festivals, the most recent one being "kamara.hu” at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. In recent years Dénes Várjon has built a close cooperation with Alfred Brendel: their joint Liszt project was presented, among others, in the UK and Italy.
He has recorded for the Naxos, Capriccio and Hungaroton labels with critical acclaim. Teldec released his CD with Sándor Veress’s “Hommage à Paul Klee” (performed with András Schiff, Heinz Holliger and the Budapest Festival Orchestra). His recording “Hommage à Géza Anda”, (PAN-Classics Switzerland) has received very important international echoes. His solo CD with pieces of Berg, Janáček and Liszt was released in 2012 by ECM. In 2015 he recorded the Schumann piano concerto with the WDR Symphonieorchester and Heinz 1 Holliger, and all five Beethoven piano concertos with Concerto Budapest and András Keller.
Dénes Várjon graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1991, where his professors included Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. Parallel to his studies he was regular participant at international master classes with András Schiff. Dénes Várjon won first prize at the Piano Competition of Hungarian Radio, at the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition in Budapest and at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich. He was awarded with the Liszt, the Sándor Veress and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize. In 2020 he received Hungary’s supreme award in culture, the Kossuth Prize. Mr. Várjon works also for Henle’s Urtext Editions.
denesvarjon.com/bio
photo: Misi Kondella
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Zsuzsa Rakovszky
I was born in Sopron in 1950. My father died when I was one year old, my mother raised me alone. She read me poems from a very early age, so I started "“trying to do this kind of thing myself" ” at a very early age.
I graduated from high school in Sopron, then I worked for a year in a textile factory, then I went to university, first in Debrecen, then in Pest. I graduated in Hungarian and English. After that I worked for a few years in the Foreign Language Library in Pest, which was a very useful and pleasant time, because I could regularly read all kinds of English and American periodicals, although they were not easily available elsewhere at that time.
In addition to librarianship, I started translating, and soon I was working as a freelance translator (I was briefly a publishing editor and a reading editor for a magazine, but I always found that I preferred to work independently). In the following thirty-odd years I translated a great deal and a wide variety of texts: poetry, prose, plays, history, philosophy, youth literature, cookery books and advice for cat-keepers...
In addition to librarianship, I started translating, and soon I was working as a freelance translator (I was briefly a publishing editor and a reading editor for a magazine, but I always found that I preferred to work independently). In the following thirty-odd years I translated a great deal and a wide variety of texts: poetry, prose, plays, history, philosophy, youth literature, cookery books and advice for cat-keepers...
My first book of poetry was published in 1981, my first book of prose twenty years later. I am about to deliver the material for my twentieth volume (poetry).
In 2003, my son Tibor and I moved back home to Sopron, where he graduated from high school, and then continued his studies in physics in Pest. After some travelling around the world, he returned home a few months ago and works at the BME in Pest. I still live in Sopron, in the same house where I grew up.
Adél Kováts
graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1983 with a degree in operetta-musical. She began her career at the National Theatre, where she performed prose roles until 1991, but also appeared as a guest in operettas and musicals. In 1992 she was a freelance artist for a year; in 1993 she joined the Radnóti Miklós Theatre. Since February 2016 she is the director of this theater. In 2015 she was voted the 3rd most influential Hungarian woman in culture by Forbes, in 2019 she was ranked 6th.
“The Abbey of Pannonhalma is one of the most important places of my childhood, where I visited several times. It was my first monumental church experience. As a sopronic and Christian child, I felt at home in the world of churches, but the basilica fascinated me. I am particularly pleased to be the host of the Arcus Temporium festival in the year of Zsuzsa Rakovszky′s guest of honour. For me, the KERT, whether I am working hard or just being in it, is always relaxing, as is classical music. They shut out conformity, unnecessary noise, and evoke in me the joy of just being, they simply have a cell renewing and healing effect.
I look forward to welcoming you to this healing festival!”
Konrad Dejcsics OSB
Benedictine monk from Pannonhalma, born in 1980 in Szombathely. He graduated from the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School in Győr. He completed his theological studies at the Sapientia Monastic Theological College in Budapest. He holds a degree in Classics and Philology and a Master's degree in German and Latin from ELTE. His doctoral dissertation is based on the biographies of St. Jerome. Since 2015, he is the cultural director of the Pannonhalma Abbey, managing director of the Benedictine Publishing House, director of the Arcus Temporum art festival, and editorial board member of the Pannonhalmi Szemle.
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Paintings, organs, music. A tour of the Archabbey's collection of organs and fine art
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Individual and community walk on the spiritual path
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE)
was founded in 1981 by a group of young musicians who became acquainted as part of the European Community Youth Orchestra (now EUYO). There are now about 60 members of the COE, who pursue parallel careers as principals or section leaders of nationally-based orchestras, as eminent chamber musicians, and as tutors of music.
From the start, the COE’s identity was shaped by its partnerships with leading conductors and soloists. It was Claudio Abbado above all who served as an important mentor in the early years.
With more than 250 works in its discography, the COE’s CDs have won numerous international prizes, including two Grammys and three Gramophone Record of the Year Awards.
In 2009, the COE Academy was created in order to give a select group of exceptional students the chance to study with the principal players of COE and, importantly, to give the students the opportunity to travel “on tour” with the orchestra.
Source: https://www.coeurope.org/orchestra/about-us/
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Opening Concert
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Closing concert – FAREWELLS
15:30 – 16:45
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Nicolas Altstaedt – cellist
German-French cellist is one of the most sought after and versatile artists today. As a soloist, conductor and artistic director, he performs repertoire spanning from early music to the contemporary.
As a conductor, he works closely with the Scottish and Munich Chamber Orchestras and the OPRF Paris. He conducted in recent seasons the Budapest Festival Orchestra, SWR, OSI Lugano, Warsaw Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony, Orchestra of 18th century, les Violins du Roy, Aurora and Zurich chamber orchestras.
In 2012, Nicolas was chosen by Gidon Kremer to succeed him as the new artistic director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and in 2015 by Ádám Fischer to become the new Artistic Director of the Haydn Philharmonie until 2022, within whom he regularly performed with at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Esterházy Festival and recently on tour in both China and Japan. Nicolas was Artistic Director of the Pfingstfestspiele Ittingen 2019 and 2023.
His most recent recordings for his Lockenhaus Festival garnered the BBC Music Magazine 2020 Chamber Award and Grammophone Award 2020. He received the BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award 2017 for his recording of CPE Bach Concertos on Hyperion with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen and the Edison Klassiek 2017 for his Recital Recording with Fazil Say on Warner Classics.
Source: https://www.nicolas-altstaedt.com/biography
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15:30 – 16:45
Basilica
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Csilla Csővári - soprano
studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest with Erika Sziklai.
At the same time she studied in Berlin on an Erasmus scholarship, where she graduated as an opera and song singer under Julie Kaufmann. She attended international master classes with Kiri Te Kanawa and Julia Hamari.
Her first operatic experience was as a solo singer in the Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera House, where she later became a member of the ensemble. Here she sang a major role in the world premiere of Stockhausen's opera Sonntag aus Licht. She then signed a contract with the Nuremberg Opera House, where she made his successful debut in the title role of Donizetti′s opera Daughter of the Regiment. She has appeared as a guest in various opera houses and concert halls in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Austria. She has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Stuttgart Opera, Dresden Operetta Theatre and the Hamburg Modern Music Festival.
She was awarded first prize and special prize at the international singing competition Les Symphonies d′Automne in Mâcon, France.
She was awarded the Offenbach Prize 2011 by the Cologne Opera Enthusiasts′ Society and in 2014 she was named “Singer of the Year” by the renowned classical music magazine Opern Welt for her performance in a modern opera production.
Until 2020, she is a soloist at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich, where she sang Gretel in Humperdinck′s opera Hansel and Gretel, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Gretchen in Lortzing′s The Poacher′s Chorus.
Source: https://csillacsovari.com/hu/eletrajz
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Eszter Karasszon – cellist
was born into a family of musicians. She achieved her first success in a music competition at the age of 8, which was followed by several outstanding results over the years, such as the first prize at the Popper Dávid International Gordon Competition, the Grand Prize at the Dohnányi Ernő Chamber Music Competition, and the first prize at the János Starker National Cello Competition.
Her master at the Academy of Music was Csaba Onczay, Kossuth Prize winner, and she received his doctorate in 2023. She had the opportunity to polish his playing in numerous courses. She participated in the master classes of János Starker, Steven Isserlis, Gustav Rivinius, Emilio Colón, Reinhard Latzko, among others.
She has performed in America, Asia and Israel, at European festivals such as the Folle Journée in France, the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander in Spain, The International Holland Music Session. In Hungary, she is invited to the "kamara.hu" festival, run by Dénes Várjon and Izabella Simon, every year. she is a returning soloist at the Days of Silence, the Valley of Arts Festival and the Klassz a pARTon Festival, among others.
In addition to solo performances, Eszter Karasszon has also had valuable chamber music successes. She has performed with artists such as Iveta Apkalna and David Guerrier. She has worked as a soloist with Péter Eötvös, János Kovács and Ádám Medveczky, among others. She is a member of Concerto Budapest.
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Zsolt Kiss – organ
organist was born in Kapuvár in 1979. He started playing the piano at the age of 8. At the age of 13, he continued his studies at the János Richter Music Secondary School in Győr, specialising in organ and solfege and music theory. His organ teachers were László Hoffmann and István Baróti.
In 1999 he was admitted to the organ faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, graduating in 2003 under Gábor Lehotka. During his studies, he attended courses by Zsolt Gárdonyi, Dezső Karasszon, István Koloss, Jesper Madsen, János Pálúr and Zsigmond Szathmáry.
He is currently the choir and organ teacher at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma and the choirmaster of St. Martin’s Basilica in Pannonhalma.
He has given concerts in Germany, Austria, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia and in cities in Hungary.
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Paintings, organs, music. A tour of the Archabbey's collection of organs and fine art
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Mid-day prayer
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Ágnes Langer – violin
was born in 1992 in Budapest. She started playing the violin at the age of six. At the age of 14 she made her debut as soloist in Mozart′s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major. In 2003 she successfully participated in the Ede Zathureczky Competition, the Balys Dvarionas International Competition and the Bartók Duo Competition. In 2009 she was third prize winner and audience prize winner of the Yankelevich International Competition in Siberia, and in 2016 she was second prize winner of the Spivakov International Competition. One year later, she won third prize at the Bartók World Competition in Hungary and special prizes including invitations to perform in the 2018/19 season.
She has performed in several countries both as soloist and chamber musician, so in Germany, England, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Canada, Spain, Russia, and other countries. She has participated in master classes with Gerhard Schulz, Taras Gabora, Lucia Hall, Nai-Yuan Hu and Roger Chase. She is a regular participant at IMS Prussia Cove, Colmar, France and Casalmaggiore International Festival. She has worked with artists such as José Gallardo, Connie Shih, Pavel Kolesnikov, Roger Chase, Maximilian Hornung, Mihhail Gerts and the musicians of the National Philharmonic of Russia.
Since 2005 she has been a student of Anne Shih at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. In 2017, she was admitted to the Conservatorium Maastricht, where she studied with Boris Belkin. Thanks to the Peter Eckes Kulturstiftung she plays on a violin made by Nicolo Gagliano in 1782.
Source: https://info.bmc.hu/zeneszek/3462-langer-agnes
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Éva Osztrosits – violin
Éva Osztrosits started playing the violin at the age of 7, graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, and received her doctorate in 2024.
She has achieved outstanding results in numerous competitions, including 1st place in the sonata category and 2nd place in the string quartet category at the Weiner Leó National Chamber Music Competition.
In the academic year 2017/2018, she taught chamber music at the Liszt Academy of Music as a doctoral student. In the same year, she won the master violin Rogeri and a Sartory master violin for four years at the Ede Zathureczky Competition.
In 2019, the Kruppa quartet was accepted to the European Chamber Music Academy, where they worked with renowned artists from all over the world in many European countries.
Currently, as a dedicated representative of the Korossy Quartet and contemporary music, she is a member of the UMZE ensemble. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Austro–Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra of Debrecen and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020 she was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and a 3-year scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
In the year 2023/2024, she is a scholarship holder of the New National Excellence Programme and this year she also obtained his violin teacher qualification at the Liszt Academy.
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Our Lady Chapel
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Pál András
In 2006 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of Kaposvár, Faculty of Acting. He then joined the company of the National Theatre of Pécs, where he became one of the most versatile and renowned artists in a few years.
From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of the company of the Hungarian Theatre, and since September 2013 he has been a member of the company of the Radnóti Theatre.
In the course of his career, he has performed with László Babarczy, Imre Csiszár, Tamás Balikó, Attila Béres, László Keszég, Katalin Kővári, János Mohácsi, Sándor Guelmino, Gabriella Molnár Keresztyén, Gábor Czeizel, Géza Tordy, János Vincze, Károly Szívós at the Spinoza House, the Budapest Chamber Theatre, the Kolibri Theatre, the Csiky Gergely Theatre in Kaposvár, the Ódry Stage, the Third Theatre in Pécs and the Pécs Open-Air Festival.
Since 2013 he has been head of department at the Hungarian Theatre Academy in Pest.
Awards:
Best Male Actor in an Episode – IXth Pécs National Theatre Meeting (POST) 2009
Junior Prima Award – 2011
Best actor under 30 – XIIth Pécs National Theatre Meeting, 2012
Source: https://pmsza.hu/tanaraink/pal-andras
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Katalin Takács
My existence in the theatre began at the Szkéné theatre, with István Keleti, who was a decisive step towards becoming an actor.
I graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1975.
I was under contract in the countryside for 10 years.
In 1985 was born my son, Dániel Dömölky – and in September I became a member of the Radnóti Theatre, a period I consider significant in the development of my acting skills. Here I played Ibsen′s Nora and András Tolstoy-Nagy′s Anna Karenina, for which I received the Critics′ Prize. In Botho Strauss′s Time and Room, Marie Steuber, for which I was awarded a prize at the theatre festival.
In 1994 I became a member of the New Theatre. Then in 2012 I came to Kaposvár.
In 2016, I moved to the Latinovits Theatre in Budaörs. I got important roles here too. Mama in Requiem for a Dream, Blanche in Tenessee Williams, and Polonius in H:M.L.T.
Many, many theatre roles and film and TV plays were also played during this long period.
I have a Jászai Mari Award and a Merited Artist Award.
I have received the Irén Psota-, Frigyes Hollósi- and Miklós Gábor-awards from the profession.
I have taught at the Ágnes Nemes Nagy Art College, what, alongside acting, has made me happy.
The play, the meeting with the audience in the evenings, the silence as they watch or laugh with relief, the fact that they get a little joy, liberation, feeling, thought from me and I have slightly upset the usual, – well, that′s why it′s worth doing this profession.
The Pannonhalma Archabbey is a special place with its thousand-year history, its natural endowment and its role in the life of the Church.
Visitors are captivated by the spirit of the place and its welcoming atmosphere. In Pannonhalma, everyone can feel a little better. It is good to be here, to listen to a concert. I am happy to be able to perform at the Arcus Temporum Festival. I am especially happy to be able to present the poems of Zsuzsa Rakovszky, whose poetic images are very close to my soul. Without poems, life would be more difficult, for me for sure.
fotó: Domolky Dániel
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Back in time - Conversation with Zsuzsa Rakovszky Kossuth Prize-winning writer, poet, translator
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Evening concert
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Music and Film
The desert where we will live
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Midnight concert
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Mid-day prayer
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Paintings, organs, music. A tour of the Archabbey's collection of organs and fine art
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Chamber concert
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Vesper
