Projects

Ajtony Csaba is the musical director fo the Vienna-based Central European Chamber Orchestra. It was founded in 2005. It came into being owing to the enthusiasm and adventurous spirit of an international group of alumni of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

The SALT New Music Festival and Symposium in Victoria, BC, has been organized since 2011 by Tsilumos Ensemble and lead Ajtony Csaba “Salt is necessary not only for taste but for survival, so think of that in the aesthetic realm: it’s a matter of taste, but we do need it for our own survival.”

The NewSpiritMusic concert series is a significant event of the contemporary music life of Budapest, Hungary since 2017. With the artistic direction of Ajtony Csaba, the series aims to reconnect new music, spirituality and the unique acoustic experience of sacral spaces.

Projects in this stream probe the use, “abuse” and significance of traditional elements in today’s music performance.

Further to the norming function of conducting, the past thirty years demonstrated an emerging exposure of the qualitative component of conducting

Today, the romantic concert ritual of a “theatre for the ears” gradually trades place with a more comprehensive consideration of available components that can define and shape the “user experience” of a music performance. Performances in this stream show experiments which open up the traditional setting of performances.

While piano music written today is nothing short of challenging, a new and exciting task for the player to solve is the rapid alternation between instruments and techniques. A pianist focusing on new music today must be knowledgeable about synthesizers, interactive computer patches linked to keyboards, piano harmonics, extended techniques on — and in — the piano, and a set of other keyboard instruments from harpsichord to toy piano.