Space: festival no Porto : 21 de Outubro / Rivoli

21.Out.22h Café-Bar Rivoli (piso 3) . Porto

"Eugene Kovax" iniciou-se na primavera de 2004 como projecto de
improvisação livre e informatizado dos húngaros Zoltan Santa e
Gergely Suto, Violonista e Clarinetista da Orquestra Nacional do
Porto. Entretanto também se tornou no projecto a solo de Gergely,
sendo o violino então substituído por um controlador MIDI a sopro, ou
por vezes, por um clarinete. Equipado ainda com um baixo eléctrico, e
um laptop, Gergely arrisca-se a uma performance entre Homem-Orquestra
e DJ-Act em que a principal intenção é conseguir infiltrar uma música
electrónica com ideias espontâneas de improvisação.

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Gergely Suto was born in Budapest in 1972. He studied the clarinet at
Conservatoire de Lausanne, Switzerland. During the last 13 years he
has been playing with such orchestras as Tonhalle Zurich, Hungarian
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, among
others. He is currently bass clarinet player of Orchestra National do
Porto, Portugal. Beside his classical carreer, and since a 1993
collaboration with Swiss contemporary jazz pianists Jacques Demierre
and Sylvie Courvoisier, Gergely Suto has always led experimental
musical projects. Eugene Kovax is the most recent of them.

Zoltan Santa was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1958. After violin
studies in his hometown he became concertmaster of the Debrecen
Philharmony Orchestra and professor of the Debrecen Music Academy.
During six years he was the principal conductor of Madeira Chamber
Orchestra. He is currently a member of Orquestra Nacional do Porto
and professor at Aveiro University. Zoltan Santa always knew how to
improvise, only never tried:) Eugene Kovax is his first improvising
project.