Boban Markovic Orkestar

• august 26, 2010 thursday 19:00
• Dohány street Synagogue

This will be the first occasion in the history of the Jewish Summer Festival that preceding the usual opening concert the organizers will hold a “Noughth Day”, or day number zero. For this unique occasion a special performer was invited, the world-famous Boban Markovic Orkestar will give an almost two-hour long concert in the Dohány Street Synagogue.
Boban Markovic Serbian trumpetist is recognized throughout the world, he and his band have won several international music prizes. Boban first appeared in the first half of the 90s, when he and his band won the first prize of the Guca trumpet festival for several consecutive times. Later he assisted in composing and performing the score for several Kusturica movies, such as Underground. By the turn of the millennium he was the front man of the most popular Balkan „copper-band”. He made an album with Félix Lajkó, later becoming a colleague of Frank London in 2002. Among his works we can find the search and presentation of the connection between the gypsy music of the Balkans and other musical genres and cultures.
Marko Markovic was considered a real child prodigy. He started playing the trumpet at the age of 5 on his own. His father, the legendary Boban Markovic, due to his astounding amount of tours heard his son play only when the boy was 12, and he was so impressed by his son’s talent, that he made him a member of the Boban Markovic Orekster band at the young age of 14. By this time Marko knew the entire repertoire of the band by heart. The young trumpetist has since then become soloist for the band and main composer. Boban, in order to acknowledge his son’s achievements, gave Marko his band for his 18th birthday, and who since then has toured the world with the band. Critics claim that his knowledge and improvisational ability will eclipse his father’s success.
On the opening act of the Noughth Day not only the artists, but the show in itself deserves praise. The members’ personal art and music will appear on stage, resulting in an improvisational unique world of sounds, created by the band. All of this will appear as a hitherto unknown genre in their own interpretation, including motives of Balkan and Jewish folk- and elements of gypsy music. As such, the crowds visiting the Dohány Street Synagogue on August 26 may well expect the highest level of the performing arts.
Organizers of the concert are the Jewish Tourism and Cultural Center and the INFÓRUM event-organizing agency.