Ensembles

This collection is a sequel to the composer's earlier book entitled Creative Musical Exercises and is intended to help students and performers (of any level of musical ability) to accept the novel ele...

In his QuatreQuatuors Péter TORNYAI has further developed the twelvenote theme from Ferenc Liszt's Faust Symphony. The piece received 1st Prize in the Chamber Ensemble Category of the New Hungarian Mu...

Poly was written as a homage to György Ligeti and his music. Therefore the musical elements and the titles of the movements refer to those artistic, technical, scientific, acoustic creationsand phenom...

Letters from X was composed in 1981, Fax from X in 2003, and For 51 to LI in 2009. Not only the instruments but also the performers - all three works are dedicated to Zoltán Gyöngyössy and István Luká...

Trance means an altered state of mind in which a person becomes capable of communicating with spirits by the means of a ritual. Echo like sounds have a significant role in the piece, they were achieve...

My composition Chang Tzu's Dream is a homage to the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu (4th century B. C.), who is one of the first important figures in Taoism. His work also influenced Chinese poetry and...

Die Bände der Serie Ad libitum enthalten leichte, mittelschwere sowie für Fortgeschrittene geeignete Duos, Trios und Quartette variabler Besetzung. Die Bände von Ad libitum Familienedition empfehlen w...

The title of the work refers to the ornament-like musical motifs of the solo part. These open the piece and later, during the elaboration of the form, they provide for building blocks. The composition...

Jam Quartet was written in the summer of 2016. The macroform and declamation of the piece are reflected to improvising jazz-musicians, however it remains a reflection instead of imitation of the so-ca...

Gergely Vajda (born 1973) is one of the most talented Hungarian composers of the mid-generation. He is an exceptionally versatile musician, being at the same time a clarinetist, a conductor, and a com...

Suggested instrumentation: two muted trumpets (sounded on both sides of the stage), an oboe (in the centre), an electric organ (background, centre) and a cardboard box (foreground, centre). 'The memor...

From the Foreword: Recent years have seen much increase in the activities of small and medium sized instrumental ensembles in schools at all grade levels, generally as an adjunct of band and orchestra...

From the Foreword: Recent years have seen much increase in the activities of small and medium sized instrumental ensembles in schools at all grade levels, generally as an adjunct of band and orchestra...