Setubal

We arrived to Portugal on 20th September. I was so scared that I was not going to have that much concerts as I usually do in Central-Eastern-Europe. (When I say "we" I speak about my wife, our daughter, Manuella and myself.) And now I am so tired I have so much concerts here. Portuguese people are so culturally active that is unbelievable to me.

Today I played in Setubal, a very nice city approx. 50 km from Lisbon. This was my first school concert in Portugal. I played twice for two group of kids (50 kids). Around 45 minutes for each group. I played Tarrega, Villa-Lobos - latin repertoir. And of cours Bela Bartok's pieces. Kids were around 15-16 years old and totally open-minded and brave to ask me about art, my life, repertoir my thinking about art, music, why I'm doing this etc. They were very much intelligent. And actually they started to ask me on their own without any teacher pressure. Maria Joao Reis organised me these two concert and I am very thankful to her. And I got a great bottle of wine too!

They published a short article about me in the local Setubal paper called Setubalense.

Pictures by Maria Joao

Doing more and more concerts in Portugal

I am very happy now because I am doing couple of concerts in Portugal. I am still waiting for confirmations to do more.

Here you can find the list of my concerts sandormester.com
I am looking for an agent...

A nice guy, André - a guitarist also - is organising a concert where three of us will play on 11th of October in Lisbon. The place is called Casa de Lafoes looks cool on the website.

Today we were at Isabel's place in Sintra - she was very nice to us. I tried piri-piri which is a hot, extremely hot chili paprika - you can not imagine...

I still practice 3 hours a day, everyday - that is only enough for me to keep my level of play....