With this ensemble, formed in 2003, Gergely Ittzés, one of Hungary’s leading flautists has assembled his best former students. After studying with him they all graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music or the Debrecen Kossuth University and took part successfully in national and international competitions. The advantage of this similar education is to find more easily the common, homogenous sound and phrasing, which is one of the attractive features of this sort of instrumental combination.
TeTraVERSI played several times in the Hungarian Radio and were invited to perform at the Budapest Fall Festival, the Spring Festival, the Sziget Festival, in Slovakia, Serbia, and the Czech Republic. They can be heard on recordings by Hungary’s major label Hungaroton and the New York based 903 Records. Their forthcoming CD published by Water Lily in California includes Anita Szabó’s transcriptions made after Franz Liszt’s late piano works.
The four musician develop a repertory including music from the renaissance to the newest works, from the philosophic attitude to styles offering light entertainment. They also work on utilising the new possibilities of the flute (discovered and developed by István Matuz and Gergely Ittzés, among others) by commissioning new compositions and trying to produce the most surprising sounds with the four instruments. Fictive Memories, their first individual CD gives a sample of this colourful repertory. The record is published and the quartet is supported by the Fon-Trade Music.
TeTraVERSI plays Trevor J. James alto flute.
Members of the ensemble: Evelin Balog, Katalin Nagy, Judit Paczolay and Gergely Ittzés
Repertoire
Renaissance music:
Music by Machaut, Dunstable, Dufay, Praetorius and others, madrigals, motets etc.
Baroque music:
Original works by Quantz, Telemann and Boismortier, transcriptions of organ pieces and other popular works by Bach, and others
Viennese classics:
Transcriptions of Haydn’s and Mozart’s music for musical clock, etc. Original works.
Romantique music:
Kuhlau’s Quartet, arrangements of works by Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and others
French impressionism:
Bozza, Dubois, Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Fauré, Jongen, Bertomieu, Casteréde, Tomasi…
Contemporary music:
Doina Rotaru, Anthony Newman, Michael Hynes, Robert Dick, Isang Yun, Gabriel Irányi, Pierre Csillag, József Sári, László Sáry, Attila Reményi, Iván Madarász, Barnabás Dukay, László Dubrovay, Gergely Ittzés …
Entertaining music:
Arrangements of ragtime, film hits, jazz standards, Latin melodies, compositions by Mike Mower, András Somos…
In the group besides the four normal C flutes we use piccolo, alto and bass flute. In addition to quartet pieces solos, duos and trios may colour our programs, enlarging the possible literature infinitely. Our repertoire is being enriched constantly by newly obtained scores, transcriptions made by ourselves and others and new works composed for us.
We can identify ourselves with the most concentrated, experimental, contemporary concert programs as well as with traditional settings including many different styles or entertaining and youth concerts, adjusting to the place, the expected audience and the circumstances. Verbal moderation is also possible in order to bring people closer to the quality music. Pipes, recorders, folk instruments also may be introduced in the program.
Some of our realised and planned program concepts:
- ’Offering and Playing’ – Bach: Musical Offering – 4 part canon, Dukay: To the Changing Moon – music for sacrifice, Satie: Nocturne Nr.1 (arr. G. Ittzés), Csillag: Esquisses Traversiéres, Sári: Mill of Time (3 canons from the series), Rotaru: Jeu de Mirroirs, Dubois: Quartet
- ’Choral Variations’ – Bach: Partita „Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig"; Reményi: 6 + 1 movements (Es ist genug); Hynes: 4 corals for Carinthe, Satie: Nocturne Nr.1, Praetorius: Ein Feste Burg, Sári: Farewell to Glenn Gouldtól, Newman: Variations and Contrapunctus on ’Ein feste Burg’ (preferably for a venue in a church)
- ’Four – alone’ – One original solo and a quartet composition by each of the composers like Csillag, Sári, Dubois, Rotaru, Bozza, Newman, Dubrovay and others
- ’Across the music literature’ – Adventures on unknown paths with detours and shortcuts, horse springs from the motet to the ragtime, repetitive music to Tchaikovsky, on an informative way.
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Strauss: Pizzicato Polka
Joplin-Ittzés: Stoptime-Rag
contact address:
ITTZÉS Gergely
H - 2119 PÉCEL, Gyár utca 20.
Tel: +36 70 2768744, +36 28 456294
ittzes@vnet.hu , ittzesgergely@hotmail.com