Curating is for me an “expanded field” of composition, especially in the original meaning of the word: constitute or make up of elements, connecting existing elements and creating new nodes or context to these. Meanwhile curating is also a sort of a research activity, where I usually start with an idea, and explore the possible context and ways of making things happen.
Between 2018 and 2020 together with Zsuzsanna Szálka, we were the Hungarian curators for the Creative Europe Projekt MUSICA FEMINA INTERNATIONAL. We commissioned eight artists to create new works. These were released on an album called Musicafemina Hungary Compillation 2020, and also created 8 show reels with the participating artists can be seen at the YouTube Channel of the project
Recently I became part of the curatorial team of the aNOther Festival in Vienna, which was initiated by our association the International Cultural Plattform in 2010.
I am a co-founder and curator of Átlátszó Hang New Music Festival - name could be translated both as Transparent Sound or See-Through Note to English - is founded and curated together with a friend and colleague Balázs Horváth since 2013 in co-operation with many renown concert halls and organizations in Budapest, the Franz Liszt Academy, the Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Music Center, Fuga Architecture Center, etc. The name of the festival refers to its aims. Transparency in new music means that the audience is involved in interactive workshops and lectures before or during the events to understand better the new compositional ideas. Meanwhile “see-through” in musical meaning refers to compositions with both audible and visual layers - in form of new-music theater or new media, as they are a special focus of the festival. It is very important for us to introduce referential and highly influential pieces of the history of new music as they were during the isolation of the iron-curtain not well presented in the country and these work can help bringing the highly recipient an inquiring audience in Budapest closer to the innovative and versatile world of new music. For me personally this process was also an important part of my doctorate research, which allowed me to get know better, listen to, and often stage works that were strongly connected to my research. Historical works like Stockhausen´s Originale, or Kagel´s Schattenspiel among many many others were premiered this way. This curatorial work is strongly supported by our co-operating partners, like the Goethe Institute Budapest, the Austrian Cultural Forum or the Polish Institute. Since 2021 the festival works in a new structure. I am taking part in the work both of the festival-board and the curatorial board as a member, but not anymore as the artistic director.
