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MAKÁM TRIO EVENING

  • csigoartfest
  • Mar 20
  • 3 min read

Updated: 11 hours ago

July 25, Friday, 2025, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM


Under the title Songs of Robinson Crusoe, we can enjoy a concert featuring guitarist, vocalist and composer Zoltán Krulik, violinist Luca Kézdy, and violinist and singer István Bata. As part of this concert, Zoltán Krulik — founder of the Hungarian Heritage Award-winning ensemble established in 1984 — will present his own compositions alongside a selection of world music, enriching this year’s CSIGÓ ART FEST program series.


Salon program: book signing and informal conversation accompanied by a wine tasting.

 

Ticket: 4.500 HUF




Zoltán Krulik  / Photo: István Dallos / 24 Óra
Zoltán Krulik / Photo: István Dallos / 24 Óra

Zoltán Krulik is a composer and a member of the Association of Hungarian Composers, the Music Section of the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, and the Artisjus Classical Composers’ Group. He is a recipient of the Príma Award and the Hungarian Heritage Award. Krulik is the founder, composer, and artistic director of the ensemble Makám.

He began his musical studies in Tatabánya under the guidance of Gyula Vázel. As a Benedictine student in Pannonhalma, he studied Gregorian music with Dr. Kilián Szigeti, then continued his classical guitar studies in Budapest under Miklós Mosóczi. He was introduced to the intricacies of North Indian classical music by András Kozma, a student of Ravi Shankar. On the advice of György Kurtág, he went on to study 19th-century Hungarian instrumental folk music and urban popular music, as well as the music of Sub-Saharan Africa and pygmy hoquetus traditions.

He studied at Eszterházy Károly University, Kandó Kálmán Technical College, and the Artúr Harmat Central Cantor Training Institute. In addition to Makám, he is the founder and composer of the formations Creative Studio Five (C.S.Ö.) and Makám & Kolinda.

He has released twenty-five albums under the labels Munich Records, Hungaroton Classic, Fonó Records, FolkEurópa, and Z Paraván. ARTISJUS registers 420 of his works. His poetry collection The Cheapest Cinema was published by Új Forrás in 2012, while his prose works The Last Paper Plane (2017) and Register Book (2021) were published by Kortárs Publishing.

His compositions have been performed at festivals in Hungary and around the world — from Paris to Delhi, Copenhagen to Venice. He is also a composer of film scores and music for theatre and movement theatre productions.


 Luca Kézdy / Photo: Máté Bugár
Luca Kézdy / Photo: Máté Bugár

Luca Kézdy won the Audience Award at the final of Hungarian Radio’s 2006 jazz violin competition. Her background includes classical music training, as well as studies in aesthetics and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

She founded her own trio, Santa Diver, in 2006. Since then, she has performed at numerous international jazz festivals, including the Chelsea Music Festival (NYC), Voll Damm Festival Jazz Vic (Spain), Gaume Jazz Festival (Belgium), Südtirol Jazzfestival (Italy), Amersfoort World Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Cairo Jazz Festival (Egypt), Sparks & Visions Jazzfestival (Germany), and, of course, all the major Hungarian festivals and clubs. In December 2019, they gave a highly acclaimed concert at the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music.

As a solo artist, she has performed in Rome, at the All Frontiers Festival in Gradisca d’Isonzo, and at the Kiezsalon in Berlin. Other solo performances have taken place at venues such as the Opus Jazz Club, A38 Ship, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Óbuda Social Circle, and the Kunsthalle (Műcsarnok).

She tours internationally on a regular basis. In 2016, she performed a successful duo concert in New York with saxophonist Chris Potter. In March 2017, she held a solo composer’s evening at Müpa – Palace of Arts Budapest. Between 2016 and 2022, she was repeatedly named Violinist of the Year by JazzMa.hu based on votes by musicians, editors, or the public. In 2019, she received the Artisjus Performer’s Award.

Her first solo album, Home, was released in December 2022, followed by her second album Unseen Landscapes in 2023. She also held her first solo exhibition under the same title.


István Bata / Photo: Veronika Szász
István Bata / Photo: Veronika Szász


István Bata was born in 1979 in Törökkanizsa (then Yugoslavia). He began studying music as a self-taught musician. At the age of 20, he spent a year at the Hammido Elementary Music School in Szeged, studying under János Magyar. From 2000 onward, he continued his studies in the bass guitar program at the Kőbánya Music Studio, led by Egon Póka. His teachers included Ottó Ullmann, Béla Lattmann, and Gyula Babos.


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