Hungarian Classical Guitarists - Katona Twins, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Antal Pusztai, Gergely Sarkozy, Jozsef Eotvos (Paperback)

Chapters: Katona Twins, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Antal Pusztai, Gergely Sarkozy, Jozsef Eotvos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Katona Twins ("Katona") are a celebrated Hungarian guitar duo which has performed in front of audiences at prestigious venues and at major music festivals around the world. Their performances have been widely reviewed by the music press. The duo comprises identical twins Peter and Zoltan, and are "the classical world's best-known guitar duo." Katona's repertoire spans from the Classical, through to Tango and Spanish guitar. They also work to adapt other classical works to their guitar duo format. Their 5 album releases to date have featured works by, inter alia, Handel, Scarlatti, Isaac Albeniz, Astor Piazzolla. Their programmes also include works by de Falla and Tedesco as well contemporary composers such as Paco de Lucia. They also perform concerti for two guitars and orchestra by Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Bach. Identical twins Peter and Zoltan, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968. From the age of ten, the Katona studied, both individually and as a guitar duo, at the Bela Bartok Conservatory of Music in Budapest, the Academy of Music in Kassel, the Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Tanz (Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts), in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. They also studied under Michael Lewin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Celebrated artists in their own right today, the twins in turn give masterclasses to younger musicians. They made their Carnegie Hall debut in 1998. Katona have toured widely, playing Ireland and other world cities; they have played at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and at the Cheltenham International Music Festival in 2004, with the London Sinfonietta. Michael...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10364643