Szilárd Mezei, Máté Pozsár, Ernő Hock
Biography Szilárd Mezei, Máté Pozsár, Ernő Hock
Szilárd Mezei
He was born in Serbia (then Yugoslavia) as a member of the Hungarian minority in the multiethnic region of Vojvodina. He is a violinist, violist, double bass player, composer and member of various formations (from duo to nonet). His orchestra plays contemporary improvised music, mostly performing his own compositions. As a composer, Mezei is interested in exploring the relationship between improvisation and composition (similarly to Witold Lutoslawski's aleatoric and Anthony Braxton's creative music methods), incorporating elements of jazz and authentic folk music as well. Mezei is also very actively involved in composing scenic music and plays authentic Hungarian folk music on genuine folk instruments (koboz and oud).
Máté Pozsár
is a Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and teacher from Budapest. He plays most improvised music or modern jazz with several bands and projects. As a music theory teacher at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, he is a big fan of music theory. Since a couple of years he has been developing a conceptual compositional method which is based on harmonies and voices inherent in the modal and the polymodal harmonics. In his music, the pure theory and the spontaneous intuitive playing is always in balance.
Ernő Hock
The Hungarian double bass and bass guitar player studied at the Jazz-bass Department of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 2003. He is of the most the sought after bass player in Hungary. He was a member of the Grencso Collective, the Dresch Quartet and the formations of Béla Ágoston. Currently he's playing with the Qualitons, the Dzsindzsa and formations Ju. He lived in Berlin for a time where he had the opportunity to play with Axel Dorner, Rudi Mahall and Jean-Paul Bourelly. Other inspiring and great musicians were partners of him, like Charles Gayle, Chris Potter, Kjetil Moster, Istvan Balo, Lajos Rozman and the leader of the Hungarian avantgard-jazz movement György Szabados.
