LA CAFFETTIERA STIOPPÉTA

(A FELROBBANT KÁVÉFŐZŐ)

DIRECTOR | ESZTER MURÁNYI

THE CHOIR WAS FOUNDED IN PERUGIA IN 2004, BY THE STUDENTS OF THE LOCAL SUMMER UNIVERSITY.

WHEN THEY CAME BACK TO BUDAPEST, NEW MEMBERS JOINED THE CHOIR, WHICH CONTINUED WORKING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES AT EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY. THEIR REPERTOIRE INCLUDES MAINLY CHORAL PIECES OF CHURCH MUSIC AND SECULAR MUSIC FROM THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERIODS, AND PIECES BY HUNGARIAN COMPOSERS.

SINCE THEIR FOUNDING, THEY HAVE GIVEN CONCERTS ON A REGULAR BASIS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES OF EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, THEY PERFORMED IN THE HUNGARIAN RADIO’S "CONCERT AT NOON" SERIES AND IN THE LAPIDARY OF THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. THEY HAVE GIVEN SEVERAL INDEPENDENT CONCERTS IN ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH IN BUDAPEST AND AT THE INSTITUTE OF ITALIAN CULTURE, BUDAPEST – AND TOGETHER WITH THE ORCHESTRA OF THE ST. ANDREW'S MUSIC SCHOOL OF SYDNEY IN 2006, WITH THE TENORES FOLK MUSIC GROUP FROM SARDINIA IN 2007 WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A SARDINIAN CULTURAL EVENT AND WITH THE ORCHESTRA OF PERTH MODERN SCHOOL IN 2008.

THE CHOIR GAVE CONCERTS IN SEVERAL OTHER HUNGARIAN CITIES, SUCH AS CSONGRÁD, SZEGED, KECSKEMÉT OR PINCEHELY, WHILE IN 2007 THEY PERFORMED IN MAROSVÁSÁRHELY (TARGU MURES, ROMANIA).

THE CHIOR WAS ON TOUR IN ITALY TWICE IN 2008: THEY GAVE CONCERTS IN UMBRIA – PERUGIA, FABRIANO AND ASSISI – IN MARCH, AND IN AREZZO IN SEPTEMBER, AS THEY WERE AMONG THE THIRTEEN SELECTED PARTICIPANTS OF THE 56^TH INTERNATIONAL POLYPHONIC COMPETITION "GUIDO D'AREZZO".

THEY GAVE A CONCERT ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150^TH ANNIVERSARY OF BERZSENYI DÁNIEL GIMNÁZIUM IN OCTOBER 2008, TOGETHER WITH THE CHOIR OF THE SCHOOL.

THE CHOIR PLANS TO PUBLISH ITS FIRST CD IN 2009.