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Jack Pepper meets Festival Academy Budapest co-founder and Artistic Director Barnabás Kelemen to explore his upcoming concerto marathon, the gypsy violin tradition and a packed 2026 Summerfest… If a ...

BRAMPTON — The strains of flamboyant and melancholy Gypsy violin music come to the Rose Theatre on Saturday, March 29 when the Rose Orchestra presents its next concert. Conductor Richard Hoenich ...

To finish our hour of Hungarian music, here's Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3. Liszt was imitating the sound of Hungarian gypsy musicians, so this spring, the Budapest Festival Orchestra played ...

It's heartfelt gypsy music at its best and it’s coming to the Events Centre, Caloundra. Antal Szalai is considered the best gypsy violin soloist in the world. He comes from a family of gypsy ...

Joszef Lendvai Sr. plays the gypsy violin, while Oszkar Okros is a master of the instrument known as the cimbalom. Together, the two musicians — teaming up with the Budapest Festival Orchestra — put a ...

It’s a good thing that Roby Lakatos persevered. Growing up in the late 1960s in Budapest, Lakatos was the latest addition to a musical family thick with Romani violinists. Generations back, one of his ...