Tuesday, November 3, 2009

And some more videos from LX Factory

Some more videos from LX Factory. Open Day 03, it was on 23rd October in Lisbon.

Serenade - my piece. I improvise always during this piece.



Bela Bartok pieces. The title is "For Children" and this



Evora pictures

Pictures from Auditorio of Evora University's Music College. 26th October during my concert







I took a walk after the concert...


Partying...


Partying...

Ester nice - me tough...

Monday, November 2, 2009

Radio Zero

I did my concert at Radio Zero as well - it was a live play - they were broadcasting that online! Vanessa - journalist student, organiser of Radio Zero concert and live program - sent me two pictures about that



More videos from LX Factory

Some moments of Mozart Variations (Fernando Sor) at LX Factory's Open Day 03



D-major Praeludium by Mauro Giulliani


Villa-Lobos Gavotte-Choros in LX Factory

Me in Lisbon night life

We went a week ago or something like that to the nightlife in Lisbon - it is amazing!!!









Photos about Tejobar last time we went there

Couple of photos from Tejobar the nice place for guitarists in Lisbon.

me feeling good! very good!




Jorge Carlos Amaral de Oliveira owner of Tejobar (on the right) with his friend (wearing glasses)



me playing


visual arts in Tejobar


And one bonus photo from the Hungarian Embassy in Lisbon - we went there to celebrate

Audience

Outside of the bookshop - the main street of LX Factory



The audience was changing a lot in LY Factory - it was a free program everyone was running around continiously




Concert Photos in LX Factory

Photos from my concert









Photos from LX Factory

The bookshop in LX Factory



LX Factory

Now I am uploading lots of things that I could not do - lack of Internet connection in our home.

Francisco Tarrega: Capriccio Arabe

in LX Factroy during Open Day 03 in Lisbon 23rd of October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

LX Factory and Evora

I had my concerts in Lisbon on last Friday in LX Factory and Yesterday in Evora and in auditorio of the university's music college.

I will upload pictures later on. At present I can not use internet as much as would like to - but will be sorted out soon. I hope.

In the LX Factory I played my best concert here in Portugal. It went so fine. The party was chaotic a little...

Yesterday in Evora there were just couple of students on my concert but the hall, the concert hall was so fantastic!!! That acoustic, oh my god!!! The best hall I have ever played in. You don't need ampification for classical guitar - the hall is for two hundred people.

And Evora is such a beautifull city - was a pleasure to be there.

Now I am preparing my play for this Friday for Radio Zero live concert.

You can read about it in Portuguese as well:

Sandor Mester ao vivo na Zero

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

One more video

One more video from Casa de Lafoes by Nuno.

I play two Villa-Lobos Choros and a short Brower etude on this shot.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Tejobar again

We went to Alfama Yesterday with my Ester. I love Alfama I liked this district best in Lisbon. And the square where you can find Tejobar is so romantic I love it!!

I played a bit Yesterday there too as last time which was one month ago. They remembered me and were very nice to me again. The owner of the place reminds me to my grandfather very much who I never wont see again just later on in the skies...

Weather is perfect here in Lisbon, we are having such a great and nice time!! I love this city!!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

More videos from Casa de Lafoes

Video by Nuno Veloso

MS3: Serenade



Francisco Tarrega: Capriccio Arabé

Monday, October 12, 2009

Guitar Festival in Casa de Lafoes

We did the guitar festival in Casa de Lafoes. Me and three other gents. Casa de Lafoes is such a nice place with an extremely hot ambience. I love that hall and the building as well. Casa de Lafoes is a kind of cultural centre on Rua de Madalena quite close to us and it is so cool and elegant!

There were 50-60 people - enjoying the marvellous and unique instrument called guitar. I was the only one of four us who was playing classical music. I played two Choros by Heitor-Villa Lobos, Giulliani: D-major Praeludium, Fernando Sor: Mozart-Variations, Francisco Tarréga: Capriccio Arabé, Bela Bartok: 20 Movements from "For Children" (originally composed for piano). And finally the "Senerade" that I composed for my wife - love of my life. Not a great thing to tell to the audience that you wrote it to me because then you lose lots of female fans!! - told me my wife afterwards.

I enjoyed very much to play there. I got so many great feedbacks from the audience - they were so nice to me. I played as emotional as I could. We were on the beach Today and I could sleep well during the last night and a lot so I was in a great mood.

There is a disco sphere on the ceiling - they use this hall for dancing school as well as other activities.



Sandor Mester playing at Casa de Lafoes:





Giuliani - D-major Praeludium
Recorded by Nuno - very nice guy from Sintra. Lot of THANKS for him!!



Me before the concert. Preparing my nails - concentrating.



Andre - organiser of the festival. Played blues and jazz.



James and his friend. Singing, guitar and percussion



Paulo played jazz standards. This is the most complicated thing to play alone jazz standards!!



A very great friend of mine - Andreas Kemi - he is in Lisbon for couple of days and he came to my concert. I was happy to see him there! We had a great chat in the bar about private life, Portugal's history, economy and lots of things.



All of us after the concert
the four players, singers and Paulo Santos my friend who was the speaker of the night and helping me very much in Portugal

Sunday, October 11, 2009

More picture from Quisque

The view from the quisque





The audience



Me improvising

Concert in the Kiosk

I had the first concert in the kiosk - Quisque - at Miradouro de Săo Pedro de Alcântara. It was planned for weeks that I can play there but it actually it happaned Today. Frederico told Vasco, Vasco told Lius and Nuno that I would play there. Luis and Nuno are two brothers who are running this place at Bairo alto, one street from our home. It is an amazing place in Lisbon you can see Lisbon view, the castle, Se Cathedral. There is a fontain at the middle of the square like in Dolce Vita (Fellini's movie). The weather was very much windy. Luis and Nuno managed to get an amplifier with a mike for me. It went fine. The owners of the

Me, looking around before the concert. I liked the view very much. I enjoyed the place and liked the fact that I can actually play here!




This is what you see from Miradouro de Săo Pedro de Alcântara around 18.00. Most beautifull view, isn't it?





Playing at the kiosk



View around 19.00h



Luis told me that some of his friends were joking with him that he invites to play a Hungarian guitarist when there is Portugal-Hungary football match - what if Hungary will win? I told him that Portugal will win - Hungary has the worst football team of the world. And I was right.

And a bit later - it was a pleasure to me playing there! Lisbon is so fantastic!









I was playing Bela Bartok's pieces as well - transcriptions from "For Children" that was originally composed for piano.



Today I went to the lavandria. It was a nice and sunny Saturday morning. Was not that windy as it usually is.