Musicians' Café - Live Gypsy Music at Trilla Restaurant
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Musicians' Café - Live Gypsy Music at Trilla Restaurant
Whether it’s the blood-pumping melodies of string gypsy orchestras or the moving tunes of bar pianists, music has always permeated the restaurants, pubs, and cafés of Hungarian cities. The "Muzsikusok Kávéháza" series, launched in the café of the House of Hungarian Music, once a month guides the audience into the world of hospitality musicians. During our café evenings the restaurant atmosphere of Gyula Krúdy’s era comes to life—the age of Pál Jávor, Antal Páger, celebrities carousing with the band, or the era of decadent gentry. The series aims to draw attention to one of our most important hungarikums, the café gypsy music that, unfortunately, has been increasingly pushed into the background these days. This time Oláh Ernő and his band’s evening will demonstrate the art of café music-making.
Our guests are welcomed with a welcome drink, and true to the spirit of Muzsikusok Kávéháza, dinner and drinks are available at the concert venue.
Oláh Ernő — an outstanding primás (lead violinist) — was born on January 7, 1978 in Budapest, as the firstborn child of a renowned, two-child musical dynasty. His father is the celebrated cellist Oláh Ernő, his mother Aranka Gerendai. His younger brother, Dávid, also became a primás. At the age of six he began his musical studies as a student at the Józsefváros Music School, then between 1992 and 1996 he continued his studies at the Bartók Béla Conservatory of Music, where the legendary László Dénes was his teacher. His father soon recognized that his son had a special affinity for Hungarian gypsy music, and thus, as a founding member and section leader of the 100-member Gypsy Orchestra, his son Ernő was already a member of the 100 Tagú Cigányzenekar at the age of 10. At 13 his private teacher was Járóka Sándor Jr., primás, and after the conservatory years he spent his apprenticeship with Béla Berki at the Hága Restaurant, as well as in the orchestra of Jenő Varga Sr. in Prague on the Petrinski Terrace. Later he played with such renowned musicians as Gyula Tomhán (Tyutyu), József Parádi Sr., Kálmán Klein (Öcsi), András Puporka, and Jenő Sörös. In 1997, with his father’s collaboration, he recorded an album released under the title Adj Uram Isten. In 1998, at the age of 20, he founded his own band, and since then he has been fulfilling numerous engagements with this formation. Between 2000 and 2001 he was a member of the Honvéd Art Ensemble led by Antal Szalai. Since 2004 he has been the permanent primás of the Szeged Restaurant. In 2012, at the invitation of his good friends Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen, he performed at the International Music and Arts Kaposfest, where he had the good fortune to share the stage with Ivry Gitlis, one of the greatest violinists of 20th-century classical music, who had recently passed away. In 2017 he was invited across the Atlantic to America, and since then he has been a regular, returning artist in the United States. Numerous television recordings have been made for Duna Television, where he accompanied such excellent song performers as Kovacs Apollónia, Győri Szabó József, Koós Éva, Szoka Júlia, and Buch Tibor. The artist is also a regular guest of Dankó Radio.
The aim of the series is to draw attention to one of the most important parts of Hungarian heritage, the Roma music of the cafés, which sadly is increasingly neglected nowadays.
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