Amadinda Percussion Group

Performing on several percussion tools, including Polynesian log drums, Chinese gongs, tin cans, bike tires, and frying pans, the Budapest-based Amadinda Percussion Group skillfully combine the masterpieces of percussion music, the task of contemporary Hungarian composers, and new compositions by bandmembers. Acquiring their name from an African-style device that they produced themselves, the group is constantly on the celebrate the joys of polyrhythmic music. Graduates from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, the people from the Amadinda Percussion Group rank among Hungary’s leading music artists. Artistic movie director Zoltan Racz, who shows on the Liszt Academy, was a founding member and the main tympanist for the Budapest Event Orchestra, with whom he performed from 1992 until 1996. Zoltan Vaczi has generated himself as a specialist on the original music of Hungary. Aurel Hallo proceeds to teach in the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music in Budapest. Furthermore to their personal active routine as overall performance and recording performers, the Amadinda Percussion Group offers collaborated with John Cage, Bruno Canino, Peter Eötelevisionös, Rosemary Hardy, András Keller, Zoltan Kocsis, György Kurtág, Andras Schiff, and mezzo-soprano Katalin K? rolyi. Through the Amadinda Percussion Group’s debut tour of THE UNITED STATES in 1998, bandmembers offered master classes in the Juilliard Conservatory of Music and Yale University or college.