About the orchestra

The brass and reed band of Cziffra György School of Music and Arts was formed  in 1994 by conductor Sándor Hoós.

The porpuse of its formation was to create opportunities for the students, who received musical education, to show their instrumental skill, to get them acquainted with the experience of making music together and also to make them observe  the variety of  brass music.

Pilisvörösvár is a German minority (Swabian) settlement ,where the brass music tradition has always been fairly strong. In addition to getting acquainted with traditional brass music, our students have the  opportunity to play quality light music, traditional marches, polkas, classical music transcriptions and pieces of music composed for bass concerts as well.

Certainly, all the learnt  pieces of music have regularly been performed in our concerts. It is important for us to propagate the traditions of Hungarian brass music not only in our ambiance but also in other countries. Therefore our band systematically participates  in several festivals at home and abroad as well.

Contests:

  1. 1996.International Balaton Festival, Veszprém
    -bronze qualification
  2. 1999. Switzerland, Saas-Fee Alps International Festival of Music
    -concert brass band category: bronze qualification
  3. 2001. Music Festival Dunakanyar - honoured first place
  4. 2002. IV. International contest for schools of music - placed third
  5. 2004. Music Festival Dunakanyar - honoured first place
  6. 2007. Qualifying concert at Pilisvörösvár with a WASBE jury - emphasized gold qualification.
  7. 2010.  V. Prom Festival and International Contest - Balatonföldvár with WASBE jury-placed third

 

Besides contests and festivals we also participate in programmes in Budapest and Pilisvörösvár, such as "Liget Festival and Procession" organized by Budapest Grand Circus or the "Cultural Festival of Pest District". We have already performed several proms in the Budai Vár (Castle of Buda) and national holidays in different points of the country as well.

Our performances abroad

  1. 2000. Germany-Werheim
  2. 2002. Germany Schramberg
  3. 2003. Finland-Kuopio
  4. 2004. Greece-Apsalos
  5. 2005. Tunisia-Monastir
  6. 2006. Tunisia-Sousse
  7. 2006. France-Monaco
  8. 2008. Italy-San Remo
  9. 2009. France-Rouen, Paris
  10.  2010.Turkey-ISTCUP Culture Festival- Sile, Istambul

 

We do our best to promote  Hungarian brass music in countries with a very different musical tradition from ours. Our repertoir mainly contains pieces by Hungarian composers or Hungarian classical music transcriptions but we certainly play symphonical music transcriptions and  sound tracks of famous films too.

Since our country joined the EU it has become very important for us to promote Hungarian culture and music in as many countries as possible. We would like to help our country to become well known in the community she belongs to.

In 2005 we founded a non-profit association "A Tempo" in order to help our band function. Our cooperation with the "Supernova" dance group has considerably increased our artistic level.

Contact:
Dr Ferenc Baska, president
tel. 00 36 70 534 76 43
e-mail: atempo120@gmail.com

Hoós Sándor, conductor tel.: 00 36 20 961 08 43