Jenö Lisztes

Grandson of a famous virtuoso on the cimbalom, Jenő Lisztes, who was born in Budapest in 1986, began playing the Hungarian dulcimer at the age of four, guided by Agnes Székely. At the age of twelve he won the Rácz Aladár Cimbalom Competition. Starting in 2005, Lisztes studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and also received training in “gypsy music” from Jenő Soros. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Roby Lakatos Ensemble, and he also has his own jazz trio, the Jenő Lisztes Cimbalom Project. Performances have taken him to New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Together with the violinist Lajos Sárközi Jr., the violist Gyula Bóni and the double bassist Rudolf Sárközi, he plays as part of a “gypsy band” in today’s concert.

July 2021