The Andrea Navratil Folk Quintet - aka Navia - have worked on the material for this evening with two Hungarian composers and musicians, Dániel Csengery and Szabolcs Mátyássy, with whom they regularly collaborate. Together, their intention and hope is to use the multifaceted tools of today's contemporary and classical musical world to place a new spotlight on the beauty of original folk songs. Their songs will be performed by the Navia quintet, which contains two soloists who are both extraordinarily talented, but who have made their names in very different genres: the folk singer Andrea Navratil (a solo singer for the Kobzos Ensemble, Fonó Folk Band and the Duna Art Ensemble, and a special guest singer in the shows of András Berecz), and the pianist Zsuzsanna Grósz. The quintet is completed by Péter Bede, Csaba Gyulai and Gyula Lázár, three Hungarian musicians who have performed in a wide array of different groups (classical music, folk music, world music, early music). Together, they will take the audience on a journey from the Carpathian Basin to Bulgaria on the wings of the birds so often featured in folk songs. Beyond the migration of birds, these two distant locations are also connected by love. Love, which moves all people: that brings joy to the face, tears to the eyes, a smile to the lips, a twinkle to a glance and profundity to the heart.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest