Mozes & Kaltenecker
Biography Mozes & Kaltenecker
Tamara Mozes
took her degree in piano at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music of Budapest (2007). She continued her studies in jazz singing and improvisation at the Regional Conservatory of Paris (2009-2012) and a er in Antwerp, Belgium.
Scholarship holder of the French Government (2011), prizewinner of several international competitions, she gives concerts on a regular basis and performs at festivals.
A er her first album (’In Spring’, 2010) she recorded her second disc (’Album Of e Ear’, 2014) in Paris with young Parisian jazzmen. In 2012 she made a 3-week concert tour in the USA.
Her new solo album (vocals, piano, composition) will be released in early 2017 by the French label Yolk Records.
Tamara’s music takes inspiration from jazz, pop, chanson and composed music.
Her program o ers an intense emotional and intellectual experience at the same time.
"This is young lady from Budapest has made a big impression on us thanks to her vocal and pianistic abilities." (Pascal Derathé, Jazz-Rhône-Alpes - FR)
"Tamara Mozes stands out due to her musical originality: the singer-pianist o ers the public a new way of performing which has nobody tried before in Hungary. Tamara’s voice is capable of many varieties of expression and the sensibility of blues is always there.” (Kornél Zipernovszky, Fidelio - HU)
Zsolt Kaltenecker
Born in 1970 in Budapest, Zsolt began his classical musical training at the age of eight. After a few years, his interest turned to improvisation and composition. Having graduated in jazz piano from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1996, he embarked on a private trip to New York to study with Jaki Byard in autumn of the same year. He has released sixteen records under his own name, among them the 1999 album “Songs from the 20th Century”, which was awarded the prize for Hungarian Jazz Record of the Year”. Zsolt's piano and synth play often builds on the complete independence of his two hands and is immediately recognizable.
