Danubius Music - Productions

	2009 TOUR Five years ago the world famous guitarist, Al Di Meola and the virtuose hungarian flute player, Eszter Horgas played together in Hungary to perform the remake of Bizet’s Carmen. It became a huge success and they got an amazing amount of positive feedback afterwards too. Maybe because they managed to place the original Carmen into nowadays so people could understand and feel the story even better -as Eszter Horgas said. One of this years’ biggest surprise is, Eszter Horgas’ and the world-famous gitar virtuoso, Al Di Meola’s joint production, the „He and Carmen” album. The two stars, forming a band made their second performance in Budapest which became enormous success, and was recorded live and that is their new cd’s material. The National Hungarian Television also recorded theconcert and aired it on New Year’s Eve, which also resulted in countless positive feedbacks from all around the country.

HE AND CARMEN The music itself combining classical, latin and jazz elements made it possible to create a unique, good atmosphered, passionate concert. The guitar and the flute, the two very exciting instruments made a beautiful pair and according to the music they were playing either responding or against each other. The other instruments: the percussions, the piano, the violin, the second guitar or the bass, all played with the finest of musical skill also made the two main intruments’ presence very special and unqiue. The variety of the musicians, the american Al Di Meola, the cuban Gumbi Ortiz, the italian Peo Alfonsi, the hungarian Eszter Horgas and the others made the performance even more original, bringing their own culture, adding their own personality to create a sheer, unique concert smouldering from love and passion.

	MUSICIANS: AL DI MEOLA guitar, ESZTER HORGAS flute, GUMBI ORTIZ percussions, PEO ALFONSI guitar, GABOR CSEKE piano, VIKTOR HARS bass, ZOLTAN LANTOS violin, PETER KASZAS drums. The seven male and one female musicians dramatic performance combined with show elements summones the ghost of Carmen and tells stories about love, sensual pleasures, sadness and finding each other with the help of the various latin rythms and songs. The latin temperamental musical pieces, written by the famous Astor Piazzolla, or one of the finest classical composers’, George Bizet, or Al Di Meola ensured this event to be rememberous. The show is also very visually passionate with High Definition screens and projections, visual effects. It is designed by one of the most acknowledged visual artists in Europe, the Cinetrip Team. Altogether the „He and Carmen” is a very unique and impressive production and it is also very universal and international because of the story it is based on and the temperamental and artistic musical language it speaks.

The band is getting ready for their international tour to present their album and they are awaiting for the applications of international promoters, festivals or countries.

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