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Budapest Hungary
Pepsi Sziget
"Moment of Creation"   Woodstock
"Moment of Creation"   Leiden
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"Moment of Creation"   Harlingen
"Moment of Creation"   Kapolcs
"Moment of Creation"   
Szentendre
"Moment of Creation"   Budapest
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Molly paints with her hands.  Eszter  drags  Kinga by the hand pulling her towards the canvas.  The music is wailing  if you look closely at the photo in the upper middle you can see Judit  Bálványos on the Saxophone and Adam Javorka on the viola

Bálványos Ensemble (1998-2000)

The Bálványos Ensemble started performing in 1998. They play category-free improvisational music, often working with visual artists and dancers. They either play at exhibitions, where they use the artworks as inspiration for their music, or they use artworks 'live' or on slides at their concerts. They have performed in big museums and small galleries all over Hungary, the Hungarian radio, where they played classical music as well. They play for the film of one of the best known Hungarian film director, Jancso Miklos, and they often work with dancers. They were invited in the Netherlands, in a contemporary dance school in Arnhem, where , besides a performance, they improvised with the dancers in classes and rehearsals, and in Leiden, where they performed at several stops of the Art Route. Bálványos Judit graduated from Berklee College of Music, and played several concerts in Boston and New York during her four year stay in the US. Javorka Adam studied classical, jazz and folk music, and Varga Zsolt started his musical journey in jazz.


Bálványos Judit - alto saxophone

studies
1992 - 1995
Berklee College of Music", performance major
before 1992: Bartok Bela Conservatory-jazz major, free improvisation workshops in Hungary
performances
Boston: Berklee College of Music, Willow Jazz Club, Book Cellar Café, Cambridge Library, Harvard Hungarian Society, Cambridge Library Central Square Branch
Green Street Dance Studio, Actor's Workshop Theatre:
performances with dancers
New York: ABC No Rio, Knitting Factory
Hollandia: Worden library
Dresch Mihaly's jazz group, Budapest
recordings:
1994. Bálványos Ensemble: Forlorn (cassette)
studio recordings in Boston

Javorka Adam
- viola

studies
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy- jazz major, Berzsenyi Daniel Teacher Training College (teacher's diploma), Weiner Leo Conservatory,
performances with
Youth Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio and Television, Juventutis Chamber Orchestra, a Marcato Ensemble, EAR(association of electro-acoustic composers) Dohnanyi Symfonic Orchestra.
with his own group
R.S.9. Theater, Kozgaz Jazz Club, Szombathely and Eger
music for theater and film
R.S.9 Theater, films by college students, KompMania dance group
recordings with
Sugar Miklos; CD with the orchestras above, radio, TV

Varga Zsolt
- tenor saxophone

studies
jazz schools
performances
MC. Loecky, R.S.9. Theater, Kozgaz Jazz Club, Szombathely and Eger, film and theatre pieces, Goethe Institute