EAR Ensemble
Artistic Director: Miklós Sugár
Sound Designer: Judit Lőrincz
A concert organised by Filharmonia Budapest within the framework of the
49th Budapest Music Weeks, 34th 'Music of our Age' festival
Electroconcerts 1
Samu Gryllus: 4-5 Steps
István Szigeti: Storm
Iván Madarász: A Character in Search of Four Instruments
Miklós Sugár: Morning
Gyula Pintér: Ikaromania, No. 2
István Láng: Vexed Streams
About the Ensemble
The EAR Ensemble was founded, in an associative form, in the spring of 1991, with the aim of introducing a new musical genre in Hungary, highlighting the co-operation of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, and other musical devices in the newest field of contemporary music.
So far, altogether 34 composers have written 160 compositions for the EAR Ensemble. In addition to performing Hungarian composers' works, we consider it of utmost importance to search for and present foreign pieces.
It comes form our name: EAR (electroacoustic research) that besides our workshop and concert activities, our main aim is to make research work, and to search for the new possibilities of connection between the different instruments and electronics-acoustics, then to use them in the compositions. In these efforts, we are also closely connected to the electroacoustic music studio of Hungarian Radio, while striving for gaining more knowledge also about the most up-to-date international achievements in this musical field, and to present them in Hungary.
(Excerpts from the Budapest Music Center's Artist Database on: www.bmc.hu)
