Awarded with the Liszt Prize and the Gábor Szabó Lifetime Achievement Award, pianist Kálmán Oláh passionately seeks to break down musical borders with an unquenchable thirst for finding new forms of expression. Beside his many international awards as a performer, his most prestigious accolade is the first prize won at the Thelonious Monk Jazz Composers Competition with his composition Always, selected by a jury of jazz greats from among hundreds of pieces. An album with the same title soon followed, featuring the world-class talents of Jack DeJohnette on drums and Ron McClure on bass.

For this concert, the innovative American saxophone player, Andy Middleton is joining Kálmán Oláh, Elemér Balázs and József Barcza Horváth at Opus Jazz Club. Middleton last visited BMC in July 2016 to play a duo with Kálmán Oláh which proved to be a great success. This concert will be their very first as a quartet, and the outstanding lineup is practically a guarantee for imaginative collective ad libs and extraordinary modern compositions.