SAINT MAURICE FOUNDATION OF BAKONYBÉL
Since its establishment in 1999, the Foundation has been a key player in the local community, an organiser of cultural and artistic programmes, and an initiator and base for artistic groups.
The Benedictine community of St Maurice's Monastery creates and cultivates a musical culture in accordance with the monastic tradition. The monastic schola studies and performs the Latin and Hungarian Gregorian music tradition, while the Ausculta Quartet sings mainly Renaissance and contemporary classical music. In addition to community service, the monastery's activities include training its musical ensembles and promoting artistic education among local communities. In its programmes, it seeks innovative forms, the possibilities of dialogue between classical and contemporary art and the complexity of genres. It collaborates with local and visual artists, writers and craftspeople who pass on the traditions of the municipality. Respect for classical values is combined with innovative 21st century approaches and contemporary improvisation initiatives.
The "Vallis musicalis - a musical valley in the heart of the Bakony" project is open to visitors during the festivities of Easter, Pentecost, Assumption and Advent in Bakonybél, organised by the St Maurice of the Bakony Foundation. It offers a unique experience for concert-goers with free performances, instrument demonstrations, workshops and excellent invited groups and professionals.
The tonus peregrinus is a tone of medieval Gregorian music, which is a bit of an "odd one out out" among the eight canonical tones: it leads the melody from the high to the low, from the dominant tone to the tonic, i.e. the fundamental note. Bakonybél invites the visitor on such a journey: to descend, to seek the foundations, the fundamental questions, to leave behind all that in modern life hinders the path to oneself and to one's fellow human beings.
Events Vallis Musicalis:
14th August 2022 Assumption
16:00 Contemporary evening – Composer’s evening with Lőrinc Szécsi
Ecclesiastical songs; Lőrinc Szécsi: Hellenic Cantata world premiere
18:00 Greek Orthodox choral ensemble
Venue: Church
26th November – 17th December 2022 Advent
Collegium Musicum Jaurinense concert -Farter Áron Kelemen workshop
Voces Aequales concert – Zoltán Mizsei workshop
Orlando Ensemble concert - Pál Vikman workshop
Venue: Church
Events Tonus peregrinus:
4th December – 18th December 2021 Advent
4th December
14:00: Vocal Workshop with Zoltán Mizsei
17:00: "Comes gently"
Advent candle lighting with set and improvised notes
The sung prayer of Zoltán Mizsei's Saturday singing workshop
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18:00, 11th December
"eternal Christmas"
Advent performance by Judit Ágnes Kiss and the UniCum Laude Ensemble
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December 18. 18óra
18:00 18th December
Concert by the Orlando Ensemble, Emese Gyöngyvér Tóth (vocals, psaltery) and Árpád Reményi (lute)
Venue: Church
16th July 2022 Tree Festival
16th July 2022 Tree Festival11:00: Dés András Trio: Jazz playground family concert
Painter Erik Novák’s painting workshop
Woodcarver Milán Kropf's demonstration of his craft
Venue: Monastery yard, Bakony, Odvaskő meadow
Rainfall location: Boldog Gizella Community Centre
13th August 2022 Memory of Minstrels
Film screening from the Cseh Tamás Archive
Exhibition of graphics by Tamás Cseh
Guided exhibition tour with Balázs Csengey Painter Erik Novák’s painting workshop
18:00: The next Day - And We Are Here Now-In memoriam Dénes Csengey – a performance by Zoltán Beck and Krisztián Szűcs
Venue: Boldog Gizella Community Centre, Borostyán- kút
Rainfall location: Boldog Gizella Community Centre
24th-25th September 2022 Gellért Festival in Bakonybél
18:00 24th September
Csillagkórus (Star Choir) and the LousianaDouble Band:Bluegrass Story
Painter Erik Novák’s painting workshop
Woodcarver Milán Kropf's demonstration of his craft
18:00 25th September
A world premiereb by Zsolt Prieger and Franciska Törőcsik: Psalter Monastery yard
Boldog Gizella Community Centre
