Before the show, Attila Moravecz, chairman of the board of trustees of the Dunaújvárosi Szonáta Zeneművészeti Alapítvány, which hosts the show, greeted the audience. He said that the educational institution, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last year, is looking forward to a busy year. He recalled the famous performers of the New Year’s galas of the past years, then the main events supported by the foundation in the past year, and the tenders won.
We have already become accustomed to the music school spoiling the audience with quality productions year after year, including the performances of the music teachers, when they are able to show in front of the general public what makes them predestined to teach the ins and outs of their instrument, and including those outstandingly talented students who on this forum, they can show their narrower homeland for the first time how they have added their diligence to their God-given talent. It was no different this year either, one of the most promising talents of the music school, the smiling hope, Ádám Bartalos, finally got a chance to perform solo.
Veronika Nagy (harp) and Éva Kaszás (cello) presented their skills in Maria-Theresia von Paradis, pianist, composer and performer’s piece Sicilienne, prompting the audience to actively applaud, then Dániel Kovács (violin) played a set of folk songs consisting of 4 short movements Béla Bartók – In the arrangement by József Szigeti, accompanied by Katalin Matolcsi on the piano, extremely sensitively. The trio Balázs Sütő (flute), Éva Kaszás (cello), Anna Antal (piano) played the Scherzo movement of Beethoven: Trio No. 9 with great pleasure. István Tótin (saxophone) and his student Anna Szántó (saxophone) chose the Danish composer Jacob Gade’s composition Jalousie, which was performed with the piano playing of Katalin Tótin. The roaring storm of applause did not stop here either. The duo of Gabriella Dőr and Katalin Matolcsi came up with a quartet, namely the 5 movements of Zoltán Péter’s Little Latin Suite. Three big orchestras closed the half-time, the harmonica orchestra led by Melinda Juhos with Serge Gainsbourg: Comment te dire adieu, the string orchestra with Erzsébet Pomposné Zelena Shostakovich: Prelude (with piano accompaniment by Irén Tágincevá) and Tímea Csuka: Greans Lives, the Wind Orchestra Zoltán András Balogh under his leadership, he played three plays, all of which were a resounding success.
