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Title:
ROBY LAKATOS
When:
12.04.2016  at  20.00 h
Style:
Gypsy Jazz
Price:
15€ (10€ for students under 26 and jobseekers)
Reservation:
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ROBY LAKATOS

Description

Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but a
musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally comfortable
performing classical music as he is playing jazz and in his own Hungarian
folk idiom, Lakatos is the rare musician who defies definition. He is
referred to as a gypsy violinist or “devil’s fiddler”, a classical virtuoso,
a jazz improviser, a composer and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback,
and he is actually all of these things at once. He is the kind of universal
musician so rarely encountered in our time—a player whose strength as an
interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and composer. He
has performed at the great halls and festivals of Europe, Asia and America.

Roby Lakatos was introduced to music as a child and at age nine he made his
public debut as first violin in a gypsy band. His musicianship evolved not
only within his own family but also at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of
Budapest, where he won the first prize for classical violin in 1984. Between
1986 and 1996, he and his ensemble delighted audiences at « Les Atéliers de
la grande Ile » in Brussels, their musical home throughout this period. He
has collaborated with Vadim Repin and Stéphane Grappelli, and his playing
was greatly admired by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who always made a point of
visiting the club in Brussels to hear Lakatos. In March 2004, Lakatos
appeared to great acclaim with the London Symphony Orchestra in the
orchestra’s “Genius of the Violin” festival alongside Maxim Vengerov.



http://www.roby-lakatos.com

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