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GÁBOR Download The "new king of the trumpet"...a light embouchure,
with a smoothly formed note in lyrical phrases, this is how he emphasizes qualities
that one would not have expected at first from Hummel's trumpet concert...Gábor
interprets Paert's "Concerto piccolo sur BACH" with expressive
power and a pure Baroque shine...
BOLDOCZKI
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After his celebrated debut at the Salzburg Festival 2004, the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten ran the headline: "A softly tongued articulation, the greatest agility, an extremely self-confident embouchure, a coloratura style ... a soloist of this quality refines every piece of music."
Gábor Boldoczki was born in 1976 and grew up in Kiskörös, Hungary. With his brilliant play he is the exceptional trumpeter of his generation. Thus, it is not surprising that the renowned German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung named Gábor Boldoczki "the worthy successor" of the all time trumpet king Maurice André. The international press also calls him a magnificent trumpet virtuoso.
At the age of 14 this young exceptional trumpeter won the first prize at the National Trumpet Competition in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. Following his studies at the L.-Weiner-Conservatory, the young musician continued at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Budapest and as a master class student under Professor Reinhold Friedrich before starting his international solo career. By winning the internationally renowned music competition of the ARD in Munich, Boldoczki celebrated his final breakthrough at the young age of 21. He then received the "Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris" at the most distinguished trumpet competition of all - the Third International Maurice André Competition in Paris. In August 1999, Gábor Boldoczki received the coveted Prix Davidoff of the Reemtsma-Foundation for his "technical perfection and fully-developed artistic virtuosity", followed by the highly esteemed Prix Young Artist of the Year in 2002. After previously being awarded the Echo Klassik as Best Newcomer in October 2003, Gábor Boldoczki was again honoured by the German Phono Academy in 2008 as Instrumentalist of the Year.
During his European tour he performs with well known orchestras (e.g. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra, Festival Orchestra Budapest, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Cannes Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) and chamber orchestras (e.g. Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Bach Collegium, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Haydn Philharmonie, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, Vilnius Festival Orchestra, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn) and, furthermore, he gives gala concerts with Edita Gruberova.
Boldoczki was the first trumpet soloist worldwide to be invited to perform the trumpet concerts of Michael Haydn at the Salzburg festival. He gives regularly guest performances at the renowned concert halls such as Musikverein Vienna, Philharmonie Berlin, KKL Lucerne, Palace of Arts in Budapest, among others. Furthermore, he follows concert invitations to South America and China. For considerable time he has been in demand for contemporary music and their world premiere performances. Gábor Boldoczki accompanied for example Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica for the world premiere performance of Georg Peleci's "Revelation" at the music festival "Les muséiques" in Basel. At the International Music Festival in Dubrovnik he premiered the Trumpet Concerto by Boris Papandopulo.
The trade magazine Fono Forum reviewed the CD-recording for SonyBMG with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra as follows: "Boldoczki performs the concertos more elegantly, more smoothly, and more naturally than any of his competitors ... soft, long phrases characterize his Haydn interpretations. The variable tone is one of the many details that make Boldoczki's recording so worth listening to." Sony BMG released further recordings together with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the chamber orchestra "I musici di Roma" and the Sinfonia Varsovia.
Together with Hedwig Bilgram and László Fenyő he recorded his new CD "Gloria" that includes sonatas for trumpet and organ as well as sonatas for trumpet, cello and harpsichord. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "Gábor Boldoczki's virtuoso playing techniques permit breath-taking tempi and wide coloratura binds; his even tone makes the perfect adversary to László Fenyő's dance-like, light bow stroke and Hedwig Bilgram's lively continuo. Boldoczki has often been compared to Maurice André, whom Bilgram worked with for over thirty years. A tradition of Baroque trumpet performance is being continued here, possibly lighter, lively, contemporary."
Boldoczki's "extremely fine and characterful" Shostakovich recording for piano, trumpet and orchestra partnered by the Gulbenkian Orchestra led by Lawrence Foster and the pianist Lise de la Salle was selected by the Grammophone Magazine as "Disc of the Month" in April 2008.
Awarded the Soloist Prize, Gábor Boldoczki will follow an invitation as Artist in Residence at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2010. Gábor Boldoczki will debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yakov Kreizberg in December 2010.
His versatile repertoire ranges from Bach to Penderecki, from Vivaldi to Shostakovich to Hindemith, Takemitsu and Arvo Pärt. Gábor Boldoczki performs on B&S instruments.
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Gábor Boldoczki in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg
"The Hungarian trumpet star Gábor Boldoczki performed Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major and the opera composer Gaetano Donizetti's charming Concertino flawlessly. At times his soft trumpet tone even came close to sounding like a woodwind instrument."
Die Welt - 2009
Gábor Boldoczki and the Haydn Philharmonic Graz:
The grand gesture and the details "Gábor Boldoczki performed Haydn's Trumpet Concerto with sparkling virtuosity of the highest musicality."
Kronen Zeitung - 2009
Virtuoso with finesse: Gábor Boldoczki
"The audience went wild thanks to the 33-year-old trumpet virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki. In Joseph Haydn's only Trumpet Concerto Boldoczki blew with artistic skill, forming lyrical arcs, while simultaneously being filmed by Arte. No wonder that the audience raved when Boldoczki performed Hummel's Concerto-Rondo as an encore."
Kleine Zeitung - 2009
Gábor Boldoczki and the Haydn Philharmonie in Eisenstadt:
"The highlight in the final moments – adventurous runs, trills and various other chromatic shenanigans. The young Hungarian trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki performs this piece with great skill and evident joy."
Wiener Zeitung - 2009
Gábor Boldoczki and the Haydn Philharmonie in Graz
"A virtuoso with finesse: Gábor Boldoczki – The audience were beside themselves with joy thanks to the 33-year old trumpet virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki. In the one and only trumpet concerto by Joseph Haydn, his trumpet not only rings forth with great artistry, but he produces lyrical slurs while simultaneously being filmed by Arte. No wonder that the audience went wild as Boldoczki performed Hummel's Concerto-Rondo as an encore."
Kleine Zeitung - 2009
The generous gesture and the details
"Gábor Boldoczki accorded Haydn's Trumpet Concerto such sparkling virtuosity nurtured by supreme musicality."
Kronen Zeitung - 2009
A trumpet shines in Cologne's Philharmonic Hall
"Boldoczki's lean sound flowed through the sparkling runs lightly, smoothly;
he gave the cantilena the cantabile mellifluousness in the andante and blew the
highest tones of the concerto softly to the ceiling of the concert hall. Technique
need not be mentioned here; everything runs smoothly."
Kölnische Rundschau - December 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and the Sinfonia Varsovia in the Cologne Philharmonic
Hall
"Boldoczki understood how to blend the sound of the trumpet into the overall
sound, never letting a shrill tone predominate. He gives a subdued performance
with the Sinfonia Varsovia, which performed without conductor. It was not the
solo part in the concertos by Vivaldi, Neruda and Torelli alone, but this whole
performance succeeded in expressing the subdued brilliance that this music deserves."
Kölnische Rundschau - 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and the Sinfonia Varsovia in the Cologne Philharmonic
Hall
"The contributions of the young Hungarian star trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki
were a great pleasure to hear. He not only made the most of his brilliant virtuosity,
but created a wonderful lyrical mood with his smooth, fine-grain tone."
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger - 2008
The Trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki and the Sinfonia Varsovia in the Liederhalle
Stuttgart
A pristine-blown tone
"The stupendous virtuosity of this Hungarian transformed the arrangement
of the famous Concerto for Solo Violin and Strings in A-minor RV 356 by Antonio
Vivaldi into a masterpiece of high-speed runs, bouncing merrily between registers.
(...) In the Concerto in E-flat Major by Johann Baptist Neruda, arranged for the
trumpet, Boldoczki blew the nimble runs and the expressive, drawn-out melodies
smoothly, his tone pristine and remarkably exceptional."
Esslinger Zeitung - 2008
The new Album "Gloria"
An even tone
Gábor Boldoczki's virtuoso playing techniques permit breath-taking tempi
and wide coloratura binds; his even tone makes the perfect adversary to Lázlo
Fenyö's dance-like, light bow stroke and Hedwig Bilgram's lively continuo.
Boldoczki has often been compared to Maurice André, whom Bilgram worked
with for over thirty years. A tradition of Baroque trumpet performance is being
continued here, possibly lighter, livelier, more contemporary.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - 2008
No Sensationalist
"Characterizing him as the 'Paganini of the trumpet' may possibly be an accurate,
if one-dimensional, description in light of Gábor Boldoczki's scope, because
this young Hungarian has command of a much rarer skill on his instrument: Boldoczki
is a discreet, empathetic, sensitive interpreter, the opposite of a sensationalist.
You can enjoy listening to this 32-year-old performer's soft slur, the brilliant,
never ungainly glaring keynote on his new album Gloria (Sony)."
WAZ - 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and the Chamber Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia at the Meran
Music Festival
An exceptionally gifted talent on the trumpet
"Gábor Boldoczki masters the most difficult passages with amazing
ease and blends in unison with the accompanying voices. His conscientiousness
may definitely be compared to that of the great French trumpeter Maurice André."
Dolomiten - 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw
The master of trumpet play
"An excellent Hungarian trumpeter"
Gazeta Wyborcza - 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and Hedwig Bilgram in the Stiftskirche Engelszell
Perfect Harmony
Bilgram and Boldoczki find themselves in perfect harmony in their feel for
Baroque tempi, phrasings and gesture, in their effortless virtuosity. Gábor
Boldoczki had the sustained breath of a Belcanto singer on the Baroque mini-trumpet
during the solemn parts. Thus a multi-faceted game with Baroque charm evolved.
There is bound to be no other duo of this kind worldwide, which understands how
to dynamically perform so integratively.
Straubinger Tagblatt - 2008
Gábor Boldoczki and Iveta Apkalna at the Ludwigsburg Festival
The precise tones of a young trumpeter
Gábor Boldoczki' precise tones sound as if they had been played on
a keyboard instrument 200 percent free of ambient noise. Concurrently this 32-year-old
understands how to link seemingly unconnectedly composed sequences closely and
enliven these Baroque compositions with great energy.
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung - 2008
Cool Brass
A next generation star gives the trumpet a new finish
"Boldoczki is the most brilliant figure of the trumpet renaissance. His style
is airy, playful, and elegant. Each tone dances over his long span of breath as
if freely improvised. And this sounds so good that one simply has to listen from
the beginning again and again."
Tagesspiegel - January 2008
Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg
As if the trumpet could sing
"However, the true big hit of the evening was Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in
E-flat-major, a rendition made unique by the tender embouchure of the 31-year-old
Gábor Boldoczki. This short trumpet piece has never been performed in such
an excitingly smooth or such a velvety sweet way. Boldoczki performed as if his
trumpet could sing. The finest bel canto. Superb!"
Abendzeitung - November 2007
Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg
Merrily through the underbrush
"The 31-year old Hungarian Gábor Boldoczki, prize winner of many international
music competitions, has been performing in the league of international star trumpeters
for nearly a decade ... the pastoral andante of the 2nd movement offered opportunity
enough to present not only his technical virtuosity, but also his perfectly refined
and crystal clear sound."
Nürnberger Nachrichten - November 2007
Concerts at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival
Pleasing Melancholy
"Boldoczki's sound is strikingly unobtrusive and warm; even in the highest
tones his performance is finely balanced often creating the feeling that we are
not really listening to a brass instrument, but rather to an occasionally metallic
sounding flute."
Kieler Nachrichten - August 2007
Concerts at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival
Flawless Sound Quality
"Velvety cantilena and fanfare-like, sparkling attacks with pleasantly flowing
fluency thrilled the audience, even rousing the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra."
Uetersener Nachrichten - August 2007
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival
Unheard-of purity of sound
The unheard-of purity of his sound, this soft stroke of tone, the wonderfully
sparkling legato, phrasings, coloratura and this special lustre that encompasses
his tone like a valuable patina – all these things make Boldoczki, who is
the first pick of all big orchestras, festivals and album labels at the moment,
the real king on his instrument.
Nordkurier - August 2007
Master's Concerts Munich
It's Witchcraft
"The Hungarian trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki is hailed as the new star
by the classical music field - and rightly so. Boldoczki's performance with its
razor-sharp precision in even the fastest passages in Donizetti's Concertino verges
on witchcraft. He performed Handel's Suite in D-major with ease and clear radiant
energy, while in Vivaldi's Concert RV 461 the harmoniously heartfelt, slow movement
was especially appealing.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung - 2006
Laeisz Hall Hamburg
Ingeniously Performed
Fortunately there was the young star trumpeter who by far outshone the orchestra's
ability with concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi and a Handel Suite. Boldoczki cultivates
a soft, not overly smooth tone which does not wipe away the idiosyncrasies of
the trumpet embouchure, but rather makes them his trademark. Supremely virtuous,
with uncanny sureness, with the tenderest pianissimos, dabbed staccato passages
and ornaments - Boldoczki himself made the programme an extraordinary experience.
Hamburger Abendblatt - 2006
Master's Concerts Regensburg
High Art
The Hungarian avoided using hard tones and strident accents; instead he came surprisingly
close to the ideal of singing with an accomplished legato recitation.
Boldoczki's aesthetic performance is meant to introduce the audience to another
ideal of tone; all the same it does not allow the grand classical trumpet sound
to be completely forgotten. Neither the vertiginous high tones nor the lightly
clangour, majestic tones were missing in the concluding Suite by Handel and both
encores by Telemann and Donizetti.
Mittelbayerische Zeitung - 2006
Liederhalle Stuttgart
A Master at the Embouchure
The Musici di Roma with the Trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki
Gábor Boldoczki - a true artist at the trumpet. When he charges into an
allegro with crackling virtuosity, whispers and amazement run through the audience.
The post-Maurice André international trumpet scene has again found someone
who makes his trade a work of art with unequalled truism, elegant and versatile,
with cantilena full of lovely peace, without sentimental phrases, but with a highly
versatile timbre and technically reliable climaxes.
Eßlinger Zeitung - 2006
Streiber Master's Concert with the Trumpeter Boldoczki and I Musici in the
Castle
A Soft, Cantabile Style
It is possible that many Baroque composers only limited the orchestration for
the "tromba" because the instruments available at the time showed weaknesses
in intonation. Perhaps they were only missing such good trumpeters like Gábor
Boldoczki.
Boldoczki gives his trumpet a clear and lyrical tone and thereby makes it radiant,
yet he does not blare away, but all the superficial loudness that is potentially
inherent to the trumpet is taken back in favour of a soft, cantabile style. The
generous ornamentation performed with lucid clarity amazes, while others at most
scurry through sugarcoated passages. Boldoczki, on the other hand, celebrates
every mordent and trill and thereby creates an extraordinarily clear sound pattern.
Kieler Nachrichten - 2006
Liederhalle Stuttgart
A Bright Moment
"A bright moment on this evening was the trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki
... this musician let everyone know that with him a new and certainly great chapter
in Baroque trumpet literature has begun."
Stuttgarter Zeitung - 2006
Haydn Festival Eisenstadt - Handel meets Haydn
Trumpet Star: Gabor Boldoczki
During the concert featuring the Prague Chamber Orchestra cheers filled the castle's
Haydn Auditorium for Gabor Boldoczki, the new star in trumpet heaven. Showing
brilliant technique, the 30-year-old Hungarian musician has followed the tradition
of Maurice Andre with a style stressing effect. While performing Handel and Michael
Haydn, he reaches towering heights with his miniature instrument and with the
larger trumpet even gives vocal qualities with vibrato to Joseph Hayden's E-flat
concerto.
Die Presse, September 12, 2006
Castle Concert Series Weilburg
A sorcerer thrills audiences with his trumpet.
Equally combined in this soloist are primeval passions, Hungarian temperament,
an extremely high degree of musicality and immense technical perfection.
Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung - 2006
Rheingau Music Festival
The Trumpet Virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki at the Rheingau Music
Festival
"The soloist of the evening played accurately intonated melodies. Today we
are particularly grateful to this trumpet soloist for presenting himself so unpretentiously
in his performance; the circensian quality of this music genre has otherwise all
too long been appropriate for an elder charmer (Maurice André)."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - 2006
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival
A High-spirited Performance
Welcome to the "High Noon" of virtuosos! On Sunday the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Music Festival summoned all to the "Star Wars" of the virtuoso giants. For the
first time the 24-year-old star violinist Julia Fischer and the rocketing star
trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki performed with the Vilnius Festival Orchestra
in the Ulrichshusen Konzertscheune.
During this double Bach concerto (the original version was written for two harpsichords),
both performers gave a high-spirited performance – technically perfect,
with a rich, full-sounding tone even in the fastest passages. But something unique
has been added, budding from two experts egging each other forward: Gábor
Boldoczki's qualities become more audible in this dialogue; a rich, warm, but
not coddled tone, a lyrical timbre whose origin continually keeps its warm intensity
without even one note sounding forced, even singing lightly in the coloratura
– a real jewel as sensitive as the human voice. Music can be so overwhelming
when it stays alive and does not get stuck in the "higher-farther-faster" of a
rigid concert business.
Nordkurier - 2006
Oberstdorf Music Summer
An Effortless Performance on the Trumpet
During the Telemann Concerto Boldoczki amazed with his apparently effortless performance
of the pastoral melodies on the trumpet and the way he brought to mind the original
intimate atmosphere of the composition. With his slender, pointed tone Boldoczki
relied on clever differentiation, intuitive form and elegant wit.
Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung - 2006
Cloister Concerts at Maulbronn
A Fanfare of Angels from the Master Trumpeter
Gábor Boldoczki, a master on the metallic glistening wind instrument. His
highest tones on the high-pitched Bach trumpet remind us of a fanfare of angels,
his legato slur floats with divine clarity. Boldoczki performs with a stylistically
confident sense of delicacy. A stylized phrasing technique, changes in volume
that never shy away from the risk of a true pianissimo - these touch the nerve
of the technically ambitious solo passages. The brightly shining, silver trumpet
unfolds under his light-handed style and is blown perfectly with a frontal, silvery
clean sound.
Pforzheimer Zeitung - 2006
European Weeks Passau
Captivating Purity
"The soloist Gábor Boldoczki performed Leopold Mozart's Concerto for
Trumpet and Orchestra in D-major with a consistently clear and captivatingly pure
intonation. Boldoczki performed Joseph Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet with an equally
captivatingly pure intonation. He took good time for each phrase in the cadenza
of the first movement, then again to force the pace in the final passages. The
virtuosity and maturity Boldoczki showed in the finale was cause for continual
audience applause."
Passauer Neue Presse - 2006
International Masters Concerts Homburg
The Paganini of the Trumpet
"Boldoczki performed each piece from Albinoni to Hindemith and Hidas to Takemitsu
with full concentration, with a grandiose technical ability and with a touching,
stylistically confident sensitivity. This is not just the acrobatic magic of a
virtuoso, but each phrase is well thought-out hitting the true nerve of the music.
Thereby still taking every risk, he never tries to avoid pianissimo or fortissimo.
During the encore this musician reveals himself as the Paganini of the trumpet."
Saarbrücker Zeitung - 2006
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Superior in Form
"The Hungarian trumpet soloist Gábor Boldoczki serves due respect
to Shostakovich's humorous music."
FAZ - 2006
Masters Concerts Frankfurt
Firmly in the Saddle
"The Hungarian trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki was an excellent Shostakovich
interpreter who outstandingly strikes this composer's broken cosmos of phrasings
with his differential instrumental temperament."
Frankfurter Rundschau - 2006
Festival Hall Baden-Baden
A Master with a Liking for Transcriptions
"Great soloists and ingenious musicians like Boldoczki plays vertiginous
figures as if they were whispers formed out of one smooth line - and as if that
were not virtuoso enough, Boldoczki treats even dynamic graduations lightly and
easily; he models the main lines with elegance and continuously gives the impression
that even the softest pianissimo can even be played a little softer."
Badisches Tagblatt - 2005
Philharmonic Hall Cologne
Boldoczki at the Master's Concerts
"Boldoczki performed a violin concerto by Vivaldi, then an oboe concerto
by Marcello. It flashed and sparkled...continuous applause and encores."
Kölnische Rundschau - 2005
Musikhalle Hamburg
A bold, breathtaking performance at the Laeiszhalle: Trompetissimo
"The gifted Hungarian lived up to his reputation as a spirited virtuoso with
his breathtaking performance...he let the legato lines float with incredible subtlety
through the concert hall."
Die Welt - 2005
Master's Concerts Lindau
A trumpet enriches the sounds of the violin
"This exceptional artist proves once more that tones can be produced by a
trumpet that are in no way inferior in lightness, tonal purity and even speed
to those of the violin."
Schwäbische Zeitung - 2005
Lisinski Hall Zagreb
A Distinguished Orchestra and the Trumpet Virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki
"Showing brilliant style and a bright sound Gábor Boldoczki performed
joyfully and harmoniously in excellent dialogue with a good-humoured ensemble,
the Zurich Chamber Orchestra."
Vjesnik - 2005
Master Concerts Tonhalle Zurich
A wonderful, festive atmosphere
The trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki effortlessly danced with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
The 29-year-old Gábor Boldoczki is currently causing a sensation with his trumpet.
The same can be said for his performance of music by Vincenco Bellini and Michael
Haydn in the Tonhalle on Saturday: flawless, with a full-frontal, crystal-clear
sound and an indisputably musical accuracy. For all his effortless virtuosity
the friendly, young Hungarian also has a special flair for a smooth melody and
an appeasing song.
"Tages Anzeiger" Zurich - 2005
Master Concerts Tonhalle Zurich
The Phenomenal Trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki
"Gábor Boldoczki performed Michael Haydn's Concerto in D-major with sparkling
trills and a versatile legato proving that he is not only skilled in technique
but also possesses creative power endowed with a fantasia of sound. Sudden transitions
and a virtuoso arpeggio show the soloist's agility at its best. The cadenzas include
a good amount of sentimentality as well as courage. In the encore while performing
Telemann Boldoczki once again brought to light what a devil's trumpeter he is."
Neue Züricher Zeitung - 2005
Weilburg Castle Concerts
A marvellous, outstanding trumpeter
"Gábor Boldoczki is outstanding among the young international class of trumpeters.
In the Concert in A-minor for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo by Johann Sebastian
Bach, originally written for solo violin, Boldoczki excellently demonstrated an
elegant sound that made one sit up and take notice. His performance was flawless,
whereby his tremendous feeling for coloratura while using double tonguing made
the exceptional quality of this virtuoso audible. This was solo performance to
perfection."
Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung - 2005
Festival Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
A Furious Start to the Festival
"Visitors were treated to a musical highlight with the concerto for trumpet in
E-flat Hob. Vlle:1 by Joseph Haydn and after the intermission with the Handel
concerto for trumpet. The soloist mastered the high notes brilliantly and with
great sensitivity, while achieving a very confident embouchure. This magnificent
trumpet virtuoso was the first soloist world wide to interpret the trumpet concertos
by Michael Haydn at the Salzburg festival. Soon this young guest star of the 15th
festival will embark on a tour of South America, Japan and China. We thank him
and the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor for these brilliant
interpretations of the compositions performed on the first evening of the festival
in this Hanseatic city."
Wismarer Blitz on Sunday - 2005
Festival Mecklenburg-West Pomerania / Award-winning soloist
An Unforgettable Musical Event
"Out of all others it was the award-sinning soloist Gábor Boldoczki, who showed
exceptional brilliance on the trumpet. On Sunday evening he demonstrated his virtuosity,
his expressive style, giving his interpretations a romantic-profound, yet coincidingly
festive atmosphere, e.g. in the Suite "Aus Holbergs Zeit" by Edvard Grieg. The
28-year-old enchanted his audience as well in the second piece from the concertos
for trumpet by Joseph Haydn with his tremendous joy of performing."
Ostsee-Zeitung - 2005
Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Bremen / Master's Concerts
The High Art of Coloratura
"Gábor Boldoczki made a great show of his tremendous skills in the concerto for
trumpet in E-flat by Joseph Haydn; the radiance of his smooth tone without any
shrillness, the pleasant lyricism in his beautiful cantilena, the magical sound
of the passages and ornamentations."
Weser Kurier - 2005
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Debut Concert of Germany Tour
The Hungarian Gábor Boldoczki's celebrated debut concert of the tour
"The young Hungarian trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki was heralded as a prodigy-scamp.
But this young trumpeter, who is regarded as a worthy successor of Maurice André,
was anything but a scamp. Rather the word prodigy fits this exceptional trumpeter
better because Gábor Boldoczki knows how to draw soft, polished tones from his
trumpet which hold the whole world in amazement. He delicately traces every sound
curve. His technical finesse is outstanding. Every tone colour is produced with
a clear intonation and rhythmical stability. The audience enthusiastically cheered
his unbelievably musical brilliance with seemingly endless applause."
Badische Neueste Nachrichten - 2004
Stadttheater Fürth
Superior perfection with extra brilliance
"On Sunday a classical elite ensemble performed in the city theatre in the form
of the Polish Chamber Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia. And they brought a world wide
star as soloist with them: Gábor Boldoczki, who adds an extra brilliance to this
extraordinary evening. This 28-year old trumpeter, already awarded many international
prizes (including the ARD competition) proves himself a specialist in virtuoso
Baroque music with highlights by Vivaldi and Telemann. In Fürth he was only able
to take his final bows after several encores accompanied by uproarious applause.
In the concerto for trumpet in A-minor op. 3 by Antonio Vivaldi the soloist celebrates
a lyrically rich largo in the middle movement; in the presto finale he creates
contrast with a passionate verve."
Fürther Nachrichten - 2004
Subscription concerts Fulda
Irresistible charm
"The fifth subscription concert in the Fulda Fürstensaal came to an enthusiastic
end as the Fulda Musikfreunde celebrated the exceptional trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki
with standing ovations and demanded many encores with their applause. After only
a few measures Gábor Boldoczki, the young trumpet comet succeeded in charming
his audience. His smooth and elegant sound and his loosely sprinkled allegro motif
sequence are tonal phenomena of irresistible charm."
Fuldaer Zeitung 2004
Master concerts Münster
Charming devil's trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki fills the whole furious concert
evening
After all, this Hungarian has what is called a "singing tone". A tone, alive and
breathing, which is carried effortlessly over even the most virtuoso ornamentation,
one that is so compact and clear but still so singable that even a violin virtuoso
could turn green with envy. This young exceptional trumpeter simply succeeds at
everything with his inspiring talents at the trumpet: even seemingly trite tunes
sound fresh and new, arrangements eagerly wait to be heard, a rarely played piece
like Neruda's concerto in E flat major becomes an early classical treat even when
Boldoczki imitates Paganini's violin in the third movement of Telemann's trumpet
concerto. It is his sheer breath-taking tempo and precision that could rightly
earn him the reputation of being the "devil's trumpeter"."
Westfälische Nachrichten 2004
Kultur- and Kongreßhaus Luzern
The triumph of youth
"The young trumpeter Gábor Boldczki confirmed his reputation as a soloist of the
extra-special class at his anxiously anticipated performance. Brilliant technical
ability, a smooth tone and a genuine creative ability distinguish him. There is
nothing martial inherent in Boldoczki's trumpet style, which rather aims towards
vocalism and expression."
Neue Luzerner Zeitung 2004
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
Prodigy Trumpeter Performs Brilliantly in the Dome
"It is unbelievable how effortlessly the young musician accomplishes complicated
passages, how he coaxes warm tones from the instrument, how he seems to sing on
his trumpet and all this with a cheerful, mischievous expression. Even the Concert
in E flat major by Haydn, whose 3rd movement is a popular tune from musical request
programmes, regained its original character through Boldoczki."
Dithmarscher Rundschau - 2004
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival
Splendid Scenery Backdrop for Concert
"The outstanding Gábor Boldoczki gave a guest performance in the venerable cathedral."
Ostseezeitung - 2004
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival
Excellent Trumpet Performance
It was a celebration of excellent trumpeting which could not even be diminished
by the echo in the cathedral. Boldoczki has a simple, silvery bright sound, an
unbelievably smooth legato, and at the same time a bubbling staccato. What separates
him from many others of his virtuoso colleagues is the attitude he shows while
performing: he aims not only to exhibit his virtuoso skill, but pursues a musical
idea giving his tones that additional bewitching melodiousness, never losing control
over the shaping of every tone even while performing with the highest virtuoso
deftness. The applause demanded an encore.
Schweriner Volkszeitung - 2004
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival
"The King of Trumpet" thrills his Audience with his Gifted Ease
"The soloist of the evening was the Hungarian trumpet virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki
performing two trumpet concerts by Michael Hayden S he played these with an amazing
perfection. The high-pitched solo instrument unfolded a wonderful sound in the
ruin, and with gifted ease Boldoczki performed the trills, intervals and ornaments
of his part. Especially the soloist's cadenza, during which the sound of the trumpet
rose all alone through the open roof high up into the endless evening sky, left
the audience in an atmosphere of festive glory.
Nordkurier - 2004
Carinthian Summer
Sound in Perfection
"The Carinthian Summer has apparently found in Gábor Boldoczki a new trumpeter
who is capable of impressively maintaining the unforgettable art of trumpeting
usual for this festival. The winner of renowned trumpet competitions performed
brilliantly with extraordinary virtuosity, a continuous and simply pure style,
and a convincingly accented tone."
Neue Kärntner Tageszeitung - 2004
Carinthian Summer
Wildly Acclaimed Debut at the Carinthian Summer
"The Carinthian audience has a new favourite. His name is Gábor Boldoczki. Not
only is mere virtuosity the strength of this young musician, much more he amazes
us with the great sensitivity of his flawless performance."
Kleine Zeitung - 2004
Salzburg Festival
The Radiant Smile of the Trumpet
"The 28-year old Hungarian trumpet star Gábor Boldoczki was in a class of his
own. His smile was just as radiant as his sound so pure, solid and yet possessing
a melody which would make every coloratura soprano or violin virtuoso green with
envy. And thereby Boldoczki did not win popularity with delicacies, but with a
completely unknown repertoire."
Salzburger Volkszeitung - 2004
Salzburg Festival
Lightly Tongued Articulation and Coloratura Style
"Gábor Boldoczki amazed the audience. The greatest agility, an extremely self-confident
embouchure - other trumpeters can also be described this way. What sets him apart
is his exact, finely varied and lightly tongued articulation. A soloist of this
quality refines every piece of music."
Salzburger Nachrichten/Die Presse - 2004
Passau European Weeks
Long-lasting Applause for Gábor Boldoczki
"Gábor Boldoczki's embouchure is as gentle as the small waves of the Vltava River
when they lap over the stones. In his hands Telemann's Sonata in D Major and Johann
Sebastian Bach's Concert in A Minor became a revelation."
Passauer Neue Presse - 2004
Schwetzing Festival
Gábor Boldoczki's Delicate Virtuosity
"With his versatility Gábor Boldoczki performs not only highly ambitious
solo concerts of the Baroque Age, he especially shines by giving the slow movements
of each piece a calm, clear tempo."
Mannheimer Morgen - 2004
The Lake Constance International Festival
Flowering Warm Tones from the Trumpet
"Gábor Boldoczki, the master of sound. His embouchure starts up seemingly without
effort, his trumpet has a light silvery sound, his ornamentation and interpretations
of Tartini, Purcell and Handel are excellent. Thereby he is also truly a master
of virtuosity. Wherever he gives a guest performance, he thrills his audience
in sold-out concert halls."
Schwäbische Zeitung - 2004
Kiel Master Concerts
A blazing brass show
"Cheering follows his trumpet play...because first he breathes weightlessly
his long, long lines that are actually meant to be performed by violins in the
original version, then he presents a light Largo till finally he dances light
as a feather towards the final movement ... from Gábor's performance one
can already anticipate the audience's standing ovations.
Kieler Nachrichten – 2003
Culture and Congress Hall Lucerne
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra with Gábor Boldoczki
Iridescent masquerades in style
Neue Zuger Zeitung 2003
The Cologne Philharmonic
Perfect performance technique: Sinfonia Varsovia and trumpeter Gábor
Boldoczki at the Philharmonic
...then there was the trumpet prodigy Gábor Boldoczki. The way he played
the works of Vivaldi, Neruda and Telemann - with a light spring in his tone. For
the first encore, he imitated Paganini's virtuoso violin; for the second
encore, he played Schumann's Träumerei ("Reverie") as if he
were accompanying Peterchens Mondfahrt ("Peter's journey to the moon").
A marvellous rascal!
Kölnische Rundschau (Cologne Rundschau) 2003
Alte Oper Frankfurt
A sounding Easter bouquet, a resounding Whit sun ball
... the young trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki shapes the solo part with
beautiful tone and a technically mature, continual flow. Especially delightful
is finally being able to enjoy the much performed Haydn trumpet concerts without
any musical frills or without any pomposity.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2002
Munich Master Concerts
Living up to one's reputation
From the beginning Gábor Boldoczki, the 26 year old Hungarian soloist
on trumpet, confirmed the rumours concerning his reputation as an "exceptional"
musician and a "worthy successor to Maurice Andre" with his wonderfully
clear and strong tone. Accompanied by the 33 year old Martin Bernreuther at the
organ, Boldoczki held the audience spellbound with his light and brilliantly virtuoso
performance at this well attended concert... Gábor, the great soloist,
thrilled the audience – among them patroness Karin Stoiber and the Hungarian
Consul General Györiigy Gyarmathy – with his outstanding abilities.
Süddeutsche Zeitung 2002
Master Concerts Muenster
Falling in love with a trumpet
There is a new name to remember: Gábor Boldoczki! ... the 26-year-old
"Gábor" took the audience in the Great Hall at the Schoneberg
Master Concert in Muenster by storm on Tuesday... during Antonio Vivaldi's
Concert for Trumpet and Strings in A-minor he performed the difficult and very
fast runs of the Presto so lightly as if it were nursery rhymes ... in Telemann's
popular Trumpet Sonata in D-major he played such a soft, elegant Piano. But all
these were apparently only finger practice pieces in comparison to the encores.
Gábor had to search in his grab bag of trumpets twice (piccolo trumpet,
E-flat trumpet...) to calm the audience. First, he pulled a peppery, briefly
even roguish jazzy version of Paganini out of his coat sleeves, then the "Carnival
in Venice"-melody ("My hat, it has three corners"), and a Schumann
daydream, with perfect clarity like a mountain lake. If the quoted term "a
marvel at the trumpet" sounded a bit pretentious in the beginning, it was
by this time certainly no exaggeration anymore.
Muenstersche Zeitung December 2002
Master Concerts Lindau
Warm trumpet sounds
The highly musical young trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki fills all expectations
..."the marvel at the trumpet of the 3rd millennium" ... a
highly musical, superior trumpeter in a lively ensemble with the Budapest Franz-Liszt
Chamber Orchestra ... the Hungarian's effortless virtuosity held everyone
in suspense momentarily during the first movement of Hertel's concert: echo
effects in dynamic, a lively, breathing, warm tone with stylistically exact ornamentation
make each high note of his instrument rich in colour and full of life... the
Hungarian showed a great line and vast breath in the slow movement, above all
he proved his artistic abilities to develop a tone, to let it blossom and sing
with his instrument...again the warm singing sound of the Adagio was thrilling,
while the impulse he created in the finale set a lively dialogue into motion.
Schwaebische Zeitung 2002
Festival Hall Baden – Baden, Germany / "Festspielhaus Baden"
Brilliant Baroque – Duet with Edita Gruberova
... the singer had brought along a young trumpeter: As much a brilliant duet
partner as a virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki with his intonation and brilliant
technique is well worth listening to in the two Baroque works for trumpet by Tartini
and Marcello... Sound the trumpet by Henry Purcell and Haendel's Aria
Let the bright Seraphim are duets in perfect harmony.
Badisches Tagblatt 2001
Tonhalle Duesseldorf
Without conductor
... Gábor solves the equation brilliantly and with ease
Rheinische Post 2001
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