Program

Fluid States | Concert of the MIKAMO Central European Chamber Orchestra

Budapest Music Center, BMC Concert Hall
Mátyás u. 8., 1093 Budapest

This concert invites you to experience music as a continually evolving flow of ideas, traditions, and sounds.

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17 May 2025 Saturday, 7:00PM

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Program:
Nico Muhly: Drones, Variations, Ornaments
Olga Neuwirth: Un posto nell’acqua
Peter Eötvös: New Psalm
John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony
Leoš Janáček: Moravian dances (arr. Ajtony Csaba)

Featuring:
MIKAMO Central European Chamber Orchestra
Igor Gross – percussion
Conductor: Ajtony Csaba

In “Fluid”, we explore how music shapes and reshapes states of being, identity, and perception through five exciting works of varied stylistic origins, spanning contemporary visions and cultural reflections. Olga Neuwirth’s Un posto nell’acqua sets a literary and meditative tone, evoking Herman Melville’s symbolic connection between water, contemplation, and existential reflection. Nico Muhly’s Drones, Variations, Ornaments explores musical fluidity, seamlessly navigating between stability and nuanced shifts. John Adams’s vibrant Son of Chamber Symphony accelerates the pulse, evolving minimalist patterns into dynamic rhythmic dialogues of kinetic energy. Finally, Leoš Janáček’s evocative Moravian Dances, newly arranged for chamber orchestra, bridge past and present by transforming folk traditions into contemporary soundscapes. This concert invites you to experience music as a continually evolving flow of ideas, traditions, and sounds.

The MIKAMO Central European Chamber Orchestra was founded by critically acclaimed Viennese University of Music and Performing Arts graduates in 2007. The ensemble considers concerts Gesamtkunstwerk and regards historic music repertory as the extrapolation of new works from our time. While dedicated to living composers and the repertory of current music, MIKAMO also promotes artistic continuity in defining a Central European musical heritage by regularly performing in defining concert halls of Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Central Europe in general.

The concert is organized by the Sonus Foundation for the Support of New Music and Contemporary Performing Arts, with support from the National Cooperation Fund, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation and the National Cultural Fund.