Äneas Humm (Bariton) and Judit Polgár (piano) sing and play songs by Strauss, Mahler, Schoeck, Berg and Ullmann. On the 17th September 2016, 7 p.m. in the chamber music hall of the old Academy of Music in Budapest.
The 20-year-old Swiss singer is one of the most upcoming artists of his generation. He gave his professional opera debut as the voice of Pokayne at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera Kommilitonen! Young Blood in 2014. At such a young age already, the Swiss television SRF made a documentary about him; ''A wonder child is growing up - Aeneas Humm on the way to world –wide fame'', which drew international attention. The young artist currently conducts his studies at the University of the Arts in Bremen, where he is a student of the Hungarian soprano Krisztina Laki.
Judit Polgar was born in Budapest into a musical family. She studied the piano at the Zürich Music Academy in Switzerland. After completing her studies with the ‛Konzertdiplom’, she did further studies in song accompaniment in Zürich and Karlsruhe, which she concluded with a Masters degree with distinction. Judit Polgar was awarded different accompanist prizes, she is a song accompanist in demand with concert appearances at several international festivals. She is one of the founders of ‛Junges Musiktheater Zürich’ and teacher at Kalaidos Fachhochschule Aarau.
Tickets: HUF 1 500, available at the Ticket office of the Academy of Music or at the Liszt Museum.
Program and biographies (PDF, 4 Pages, 461.6 kB) - in German language
