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This year?s festival bears the subtitle ?Haydn and the French? as the ensemble pays homage to Maurice Ravel on the 75th anniversary of his death and to Claude Debussy on the 150th anniversary of his birth, said Budapest Strings secretary Kinga Sebestyén.
The festival will open with a performance of Haydn?s Harp concerto in D major with the Czech soloist Jana Bouskova.
The In Medias Brass Quintet will perform on June 30.
On July 1, Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen will bring a ?marriage of violins? to the palace.
The Budapest Strings will wind up the festival with concerts on July 6-8.
The ensemble will take the stage with a new concert master, János Pilz, who officially took the position from June, Sebestyén said.
Pilz graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music and was concert master for the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra for two years. He won first prizes in the Huba violin competition in 1986 and in the Zathureczky violin contest in 1988. Since 1986, he has been a member of the Keller Quartet. He has been a member of the Pulzus Quartet and the Budapest Festival Orchestra since 2002.
The Budapest Strings artistic director will remain the cellist Károly Botvay.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
