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Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra / 100 Gypsy Violins |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Budapest, Hungary |
| Genres | classical music |
| Years active | 1985–Present |
| Labels | Cypress Music (France) |
| Website | 100violins.com youtube.com/100violins myspace.com/100gypsyviolins |
| Past members | |
| László BERKI - (1941-1997) | |
Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra, also known as 100 Violins, is a Hungarian symphony orchestra of Romani (Gypsy) musicians, particularly influenced by Johannes Brahms, Vittorio Monti, Piotr Tchaïkovski, Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss II and more of them.
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In 1985, the soloist and Hungarian Romani conductor, the primas (first violin) Sándor Járóka (The Primas of king and the king of Primas) died.
At his funeral, the community regrouped. Numerous musicians arrived with their instruments on a cold and rainy day to say good bye to their spiritual chief. From a gloomy serenade over a grave was born the "Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra".
Until his death in October 1997 László Berki, the conductor of the National Hungarian State Ensemble, was the leader of the orchestra. His outstanding artistic personality left a remarkable stamp on the orchestra. It is his doing that Hungary's best musicians are members of the orchestra. Names like Lakatos, Lendvai Csócsi, Boross, Berki - all members of the orchestra - are the « crème » of the Hungarian Romani musician dynasties.
Sándor Buffó Rigó is now the President, the Artistic Director and the leader of the orchestra with József Lendvai Csócsi as master of Violins.
One of the most outstanding members of the orchestra is the cimbalom virtuoso Oszkár Ökrös.
From this time the Orchestra has never ceased to play and has already had enormous success over the last years in many world-famous concert halls and festivals, notably in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italia, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey.
Orchestra is composed of :
Orchestra's Directors :
Mains Soloists :
Cypress Music :
And all the Orchestra !
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