BACH 340.3 - Sonate

From March to June, the Cultural Center of Harghita County will present a real musical treat: a series of four concerts featuring Bach's sonatas.
This year marks the 340th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The first concert was in March, the second concert in April, the third will take place on Friday 30 May at 20:00 in the Roman Catholic Church Holy Cross Miercurea Ciuc. The concert is entitled BACH 340.3. – Sonatas.

Program: Sonatas for violin, harpischord and cello
Sonata in G major, BWV 1021
Sonata in e minor, BWV 1023
Sonata in c minor, BWV 1024

Muzicians:
Harpischord: Zsuzsa Csengeri Kostyák 
Violin: Előd Gábor
Cello: Zsombor Lázár
Admission to the concert is free.

Zsuzsa Csengeri Kostyák graduated from the Sigismund Toduță High School of Music in Cluj-Napoca in 2004; she continued her organ studies at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Ursula Philippi's class and studied harpsichord with Erich Türk. She was graduated in 2008. She obtained her MA in organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) in 2010 under the mentorship of Lorenzo Ghielmi. During her years in Switzerland she was the organist of the Christkatolische Kirche of Möhlin. She has held several solo concerts in Cluj-Napoca and throughout Transylvania, and has also performed in Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. She is a regular participant at the Early Music Summer University in Miercurea Ciuc, as a harpsichord accompanist. Between 2011 and 2014, she was the organist of the Cluj Napoca–Tăietura Turcului Reformed Parish in Cluj-Napoca. She is a member of the Saint Cecilia chamber orchestra of Cluj-Napoca as organist and harpsichordist. As of 2016, she has been teaching organ and piano at the Sigismund Toduță High School of Music in Cluj-Napoca.

Előd Gábor completed his secondary education in his hometown, Miercurea Ciuc and graduated in violin performance at Transilvania University of Brașov. During and after his university years he attended various master classes under the guidance of instructors such as Melinda Béres, Katalin Hanke, Leona Varvarichi, Ulrike Titze, Benoit Douchy, Marcel Ponseele, Barnabás Kelemen and Răzvan Popovici, among others. In chamber music and orchestral concerts, he has played with artists such as Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Maxim Rysanov, Mónika Tóth, Steffen Schlandt, Rebekka Hartmann, etc. He is currently a violinist of the Brasov Opera House Orchestra, member of the Concerto Spiralis early music ensemble, violist of the Kronstadt Quartet and guest concertmaster of the Georgius Chamber Orchestra in Sfântu Gheorghe.

Zsombor Lázár - born in 1985 in Miercurea Ciuc, began his musical studies in his hometown, at the "Nagy István" Art School. He graduated in 2008, in cello performance at the Faculty of Music of the University of Brașov, in the classes of professors Răzvan Suma and Anton Niculescu. In 2011 he obtained his master's degree at the University of West Chester (USA), in the class of Professor Ovidiu Marinescu. He obtained his PhD in 2022 at the University of Brasov, on the cello works of György Ruzitska. In addition to his "traditional" musical education, he attended several courses in early music, where he was able to deepen his interpretative stylistic skills under the guidance of Ulrike Titze, Bruno Cocset, Jean Christophe Frish, Ilse Herbert, Mira Glodeanu. 

He is a member of several national and international ensembles, as soloist of the West Chester University Orchestra (2009 - 2011) and the Miercurea Ciuc Chamber Orchestra, baroque cellist of the Codex Early Music Ensemble, Concerto Spiralis Ensemble, Sempre Baroque Ensemble, Baroque Festival Orchestra, Balkan Baroque Band, and was a member of the Evilági Ensemble from Sfântu Gheorghe. 

 Organizers: Cultural Center of Harghita County, Harghita County Council

Partners: Roman Catholic Church Holy Cross,  Transilvania University of Brasov Faculty of Music