MEZEI SZILLARD Quintet

Bogdan RANKOVIĆ – bass clarinet, alto sax
MEZEI Szilárd – viola
Svetlana MARAŠ – piano
Ervin MALINA – double bass
CSÍK István – drums, percussions


Mezei Szilard orchestra plays a contemporary improvised music, mostly performing his own compositions. As a composer, he's interested in relationship beetwen improvisation and composition (like the aleatory of Witold Lutoslawski and creativ music of Anthony Braxton), jazz and authentic folk music. As a young musician, he followed the line of B. Bartók and Gy. Szabados. He is actively employed with scenic music, too, and he also plays Hungarian authentic folk music in authentic instruments (like koboz and oud). From 2001. he works with the choreographer and director Josef Nadj in the Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans in Orléans, France. Their common project "Les Philosophes" became the theater-piece of the year 2001 in France. The piece was successfully performed in the festival of dance in Cannes (France) 2001, in Avignon 2002, in Brugge (Belgium) in the capital of European Culture for the year 2002, in Orléans in October 2002, in Paris in May 2003, in Reggio Emilia (Italy), in Le Havre and in Nantes (France) in 2004.. He played with musicians/improvisers like Matthias Schubert, Tamás Geröly, Róbert Benkő, György Szabados, Mihály Dresch, Michael Hornstein, Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Márkos, Peter Ole Jörgensen, Jens Balder, Ákos Szelevényi.