PROJECTS
Solo Projects
Vibes & Wires
In Gábor Palotás’s fourth solo project, the vibraphone and the snare drum take center stage. The title Vibes refers both to the English name for the vibraphone—an instrument mainly used in jazz—and to the slang term for “good vibrations.” The word Wires alludes, on one hand, to the snare drum wires, and on the other, to the instrument and the project itself, which connects the worlds arising from the composers’ different personalities like a wire mesh. Gábor has imagined five new vibraphone pieces around his six-movement work written for solo snare drum, allowing the sounds of the two instruments to alternate throughout the concert.
Program of Vibes & Wires:
Sára Iván: Sleeper
Árpád Solti: A Broken Watch
Bálint Baráth: PigmeLus
Balázs Horváth: Zweistimmig dreiteilig
Dávid Magda: Hamadryads
Gábor Palotás: Snare Drum Adventures
Marimba Clouds
After his graduation in 2009, Gábor Palotás took a special interest in percussion compositions written by Hungarian composers. This activity inevitably involved the birth of new works. Marimba Clouds aims to provide a comprehensive selection of the diverse mosaic of Hungarian composers of our time.
Program of Marimba Clouds:
Zoltán Csaba Marján: Lemuria - The Fallen Civilization
Bálint Baráth: Canabasic
Gábor András Virágh: Capriccio per marimbafono
Gábor Palotás: Shadows in the Forest
Ákos Nagy: Wailing of Pendulum
Máté Balogh: öi-(jj)
Árpád Solti: P-cock fun tas(t)y! - frOmmage à Co-die
Percussion Charm
The aim of Percussion Charm is to show the diversity of metallic percussion sounds in the light of Hungarian works. The idea of the project is centered around metal percussion instruments such as the vibraphone, cymbals, triangles, gong and mores. Only Hungarian works are included in this program.
Program of Percussion Charm:
Árpád Solti: Cooltrain
Palotás Gábor: Countdown
Gábor Virágh András: Metal Music
Bálint Baráth: S.H. to Rhythm
Balogh Máté: Silenzio!
Ákos Nagy: Ripples on the Ice of Enceladus
Hungarian Marimba Sections
In his solo project made in 2019 Gábor Palotás returns to marimba. The pieces in his approximately 60 minutes long show reflect the diversity of Hungarian composer's mind and carry unique and colorful tones in them.
Program of "Magyar Marimba Metszetek" (Hungarian Marimba Engravings)
András Gábor Virágh: Capriccio per marimbafono
Balázs Horváth: Surface Studies
Levente Kovács: Introduzione e Capriccio
Bálint Baráth: Janus
Gábor Palotás: Shadows in the Forest
Gergely Győrffy: Pedrolino
Árpád Solti: Decaf Coffee