Jazzation means both vocal world music and virtuoso jazz: exploring the boundaries of the capabilities of the human voice The possibilities are endless, also at Christmas. Now ten years old, Jazzation is Hungary's premier a cappella jazz ensemble, with five international awards, concerts both in Hungary and abroad and a continuously expanding repertoire to its name. Since forming in 2015, the group has made it their mission, in addition to cultivating a cappella singing in professional circles, to popularise the genre as widely as possible. One recent proof of their success is the audience award they won from America's Independent Music Awards for their song Beautiful Love, from their album Twisted, in 2016. Their Christmas programme will feature five-part arrangements of familiar melodies like Jingle Bells, Sleigh Ride and Little Drummer Boy, as well as favourite songs from Jazzation's Christmas album: Zöld az erdő ("The Forest is Green”), Cherry Tree Carol and Hóla, inspired by the Vörösmarty Square Christmas Market. The ensemble's line-up for the autumn and winter of 2017 is also a ‘limited edition' with Gina Kanizsa - a discovery at this year's Hungarian qualifiers for the Eurovision Song Contest - and Katus Várallyay, Attila Fábián and Máté Homor being joined in the quintet by the brilliant singer Cintia Horváth, who is filling in for Sára Bolyki while she studies on a scholarship at Tbilisi's music academy.

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