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Bringing musical variety to Ljubljana this summer is the internationally renowned crossover artist Norbert Kael. This Hungarian pianist, composer and arranger skilfully combines classical music and jazz, inventively transforming famous works from the classical repertoire while retaining their essential melody and character. His passion, style and imaginative concert programmes have wowed crowds all over the world. After graduating from Budapest’s prestigious Franz Liszt Music Academy, he continued his training “across the pond” in America. He won the top scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied jazz with Laszlo Gardony and Joe Lovano. He later moved to New York, where he honed his skills on the classical side with masters such as Seymour Lipkin and Matti Raekallio and on the jazz side with the great Kenny Barron and Wynton Marsalis. In Ljubljana he will perform works by Bach, Scriabin, Bartók, Chopin and Rimsky-Korsakov in a new jazz guise.

Programme:

J. S. Bach, arr. N. Kael: Prelude in C minor, BWV 847

A. Skrjabin, arr. N. Kael: Etude in C sharp minor Op. 2, No. 1

A. Skrjabin, arr. N. Kael: Etude in F sharp minor Op. 8, No. 2

A. Skrjabin, arr. N. Kael: Prelude in G sharp minor Op. 11, No. 12

A. Skrjabin, arr. N. Kael: Etude in D sharp minor Op. 8, No. 12

B. Bartók, arr. N. Kael: Romanian folk dances, Sz. 56, BB 68

F. Chopin, arr. N. Kael: Waltz in C sharp minor

R. Korsakov, arr. N. Kael: The Flight of the Bumblee Bee