Daniel composes and arranges for big band since 2016, actually he studies in Graz, Austria at the Jazz faculty. For him it is a dream come true that MAO plays his scores – a band he knows well since its formation. Join us the 22nd September and listen to his 2 pieces at our concert!

You can meet all the 9 composers during the 2019/2020 concert program – one each month. And if you’d like to join them during the preparation phase check the dates for the open occasions (where you have to pre-register)!

The music of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and most of all, Hungary are all showcased in the compositions of singer, songwriter, and violin player Edina Szirtes Mókus. She was inspired by earlier joint projects featuring the Modern Art Orchestra to compose specifically for a jazz big band, enhancing it with the sounds of bagpipes, cimbalom, […]

SZEGED, VESZPRÉM, SZEKSZÁRD, NYÍREGYHÁZA, ZALAEGERSZEG, DEBRECEN, GYULA, BUDAPEST, SZOMBATHELY Can’t wait to see you all there!

Gábor as pianist and composer presents his very first own album, featuring MAO. “These pieces are my internal monologues, my agonies, my desires, my fears and happinesses…the ones only I hear deep inside my soul. The ones that sometimes are too fearful to talk about even to myself.” – Gábor Cseke

Saxophonist, composer, arranger and music professor János Ávéd is the soloist and founding member of the Modern Art Orchestra. The big band presents their new album, The Fruit of the Spirit with all original compositions by Ávéd.

The album as the release concert on 20th January are the proof of the transparency of the supposed wall between contemporary classical and jazz spheres.