A Miatyánk Fesztivál 2026. tavaszi évadának fellépője, Hegedűs Gábor kalocsai orgonaművész
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An organ recital by Gábor Hegedűs

The Bakáts Square mechanical organ, renovated in 2024 and equipped with a stepper (Setzer) system in 2025, hosts free concerts by renowned European organists, such as Pedro Alberto Sánchez and Alessandro Bianchi, and also by young Hungarian organists outside Budapest, such as Gábor Hegedűs. The concerts are organized by Szeged organist Levente Kuzma.

Data

  • Date: 9 May, 2026, 7PM
  • Venue: St. Francis of Assisi Parish Church, Budapest, Bakáts Square (map link)
  • Admission is free, and donations for the renovation of the organ façade are welcome.
More about this organ (in Hungarian)

A CV of Gábor Hegedűs

Gábor Hegedűs completed his organ studies at the University of Szeged, Béla Bartók Faculty, and graduated as an organist in 2024 under the guidance of Levente Kuzma.

Since his childhood, music has played a decisive role in his life: he began his career as a wind musician, and during his early university years, as a student of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he strengthened the bass section as a tuba player in the symphony orchestra there. From 2002, Vilmos Leányfalusi, choirmaster and organist of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Kalocsa, introduced him to the mysteries of organ playing and improvisation. From 2005, he participated in the musical life of the cathedral first as a member of the Cathedral Choir and then as an organ accompanist.

In addition to Baroque and modern music, his repertoire is dominated by French Romanticism. At his concerts, he pays special attention to presenting the musical and historical background of the works in a way that is understandable to the audience, but increasingly the characteristics of the given instrument.

Since 2023, he has been the appointed organist of the Assumption Cathedral in Kalocsa.

Program

  • Baldasare Galuppi (1706-1785): Sonate
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and fugue in c, BWV 546  
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier  (chorale prelude), BWV 731
  • Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911): Introduction and Allegro from Organ Sonata op. 42  No. 1.
  • Théodore Dubois (1837-1924): In Paradisum    
  • Joseph Bonnet (1884-1944): Poemes d’automne, Matin provencal, op. 3
The whole program of our festival (in Hungarian)

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