THE CLASSICAL FLUTE AND GUITAR PROJECT
Experience a new and dynamic quality of the flute guitar duo: through the unique transcriptions of Viennese classical keyboard works, our aim is to highlight musical characteristics of the formation that are traditionally associated with string and keyboard instruments.
Noemi Gyori and Katalin Koltai have been playing together for over twenty years and founded the Dialogue Duo during their first year of studies at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, back in 2002. Through the “Classical flute and guitar project” they set out to reshape the perception of the flute and guitar duo by presenting unique recital programmes, featuring their own transcriptions of keyboard masterworks and historical publications; both specialities and original compositions from the 18th and 19thCenturies.
BAREFOOT MUSICIANS
The Barefoot Musicians was founded by guitarist Katalin Koltai and singer Eva Bodrogi in 2006. Clarinetist Zsolt Bartek joined the group as its third permanent member in 2009.
The ensemble share a passion about new music and the creation of interdisciplinary performances. They strive to bring the works of contemporary composers to the stage, as well as showing older works in a new light by playing them in combination with related modern pieces.
The goal of the three musicians is to provide artists from diverse fields opportunities for creative work and self-expression. Their projects, which have included chamber music, interdisciplinary performances, youth projects, and forays into contemporary experimental music, all aim to foster the open and candid – and thus “barefoot” – communication so vital to beginning a dialogue between artists and audience members of diverse backgrounds, as well as to making classical and contemporary music accessible to and enjoyable for a wider audience.
https://barefootmusicians.com/
KATALIN KOLTAI 