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Branka Básits

Lead vocal

The Junior Prima Prize-winning singer graduated from the Liszt Academy as a folk singer, but her musicality is not only defined by authentic folk music, as she loves to cross genre boundaries, and her musical freedom and boundlessness can best unfold in world music.
Branka is a Hungarian-Serbian musician, a vibrant, colourful personality and singer. On stage, she sings with great passion and power, but she is also capable of soft and delicate tones that reach the hardest of hearts. The singer's father is Serbian and her mother Hungarian, so she grew up embracing these two traditions, a duality that permeates not only her everyday life and life, but also her entire musical world and art.

Péter Bede

saxophone, tárogató

He started playing the saxophone at the age of 17, after 8 years of classical clarinet studies under the influence of Mihály Dresch. He studied folk music and jazz in parallel: flute at the Óbuda Folk Music School and saxophone at the Postás Music School. It was at this time that he realised that the saxophone playing on the Fanfara Ciocîrlia records he had received from his uncle and the dance music of the Moldavian Csángó region were essentially the same. This experience was only reinforced during the summer folk music camps in Somoska, Moldova, where he was able to experience this culture live. Peter later graduated from the Jazz College and obtained a Master's degree in Folk Music at the Academy of Music, but his interest has remained focused on his adolescent roots, playing the Romanian, Gypsy and Balkan saxophones.

Bence Babcsán

saxophone, clarinet, tárogató

He has loved Balkan folk music since childhood and later honed his skills at the Academy of Music. He is an active member of several world music and folk music formations and has his own orchestra, the Babcsán project. In addition to wind instruments, he also plays the tambourine. In 2018, he graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music with a Master's degree in Folk Woodwind Teacher.

Márton Deáky

saxophone, clarinet

Woodwind folk musician and instrumentalist. In addition to playing music, he spends his weekdays repairing and making instruments, thus supporting the careers of his fellow woodwind players. His musical studies, his instrumental knowledge and some of his inspirations he got from excellent teachers and musicians. In addition to Hungarian folk music and gypsy music, Balkan music, especially Romanian folk music, is close to his heart.

Ákos Kertész

Drums

Musician, master teacher, concert centre manager.

He studied at the Faculty of Music of the University of Szeged and privately as a student of the legendary Gyula Kovács and Imre Kőszegi.

He is a renowned performer on the national and international light and world music scene. In addition to performing and teaching, he gives lectures, master classes, acquires music and makes instruments.

Throughout his career, his music has been featured on numerous albums and DVDs, both with his regular ensembles and as an invited guest.

He is listed as a featured artist on ENJA, Sony music, GRAMY Records, Big Stone Music, Periferic Records, Fonó Music, author releases.

In recent years, he has collaborated with international artists such as Al Di Meola, Mike Stern, Trilok Gurtu, Rhani Krija, Fausto Beccalossi, Tina Guo, Vasil Hadzimanov, Jessy J., Paul Brown, Jóhann Asmundson, Chieli Minucci and many others.

During his career, his work has been recognised on numerous occasions: the Budapest Fringe Award, the Fonogram Award, the "For Culture and Public Education" award, the Pro Urbe award.

Currently, he plays, composes, makes music, plays instruments, teaches, gives lectures and courses in various formations, and is the director of the Music Centre in Szentes.

Family is extremely important to him. He is married and he and his wife have two daughters.

Attila Boros

Bass

Born in 1975 in Pécs, he started playing bass guitar at the age of 12. Initially he played in local rock bands, then he was admitted to the Liszt Academy of Music, where he graduated in 1999 with a degree in jazz bass guitar. Since then, he has performed in numerous productions (concerts and albums) in various styles from avant-garde to world music.

Kornél Varga

Guitar, band leader

After primary music school, at the age of 15, he started to learn guitar on his own. He later retuned the instrument and still plays it today with a special guitar tuning. In addition to studying Irish-Celtic music, he later turned his attention to Hungarian and Balkan music, which has influenced his later work. A member of several folk and world music groups, Edina Szirtes' album Mókus and Fabula Rasa Tesséklássék (Sony Music) - won the Fonogram Award in 2009 in the category World Music Album of the Year.

He has released 14 albums to date, as a member of various groups and as a guest musician on numerous albums.

He continued his studies at the Nyíregyháza College of Singing and Folk Music.

Founder and director of Denagyvilág Festival Hungary.
Fonó Klub Szeged founder and artistic director.
Stage Manager of the Szeged Youth Days (SZIN)
In 2018, he was awarded the Kölcsey Medal by the Municipality of Szeged for his artistic and cultural activities.

"In their music, folk music themes and Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Romanian songs are played in a stylistically faithful way, while the rhythm section supports the melodies with a more modern sound."

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