Evening of Jewish songs, concert by Béla Szomi and Klemen Juvančič with guests

Béla Szomi was born in Osijek, Croatia, and spent his childhood in the Slovenian village of Čentiba. He finished high school in Murska Sobota and the Pedagogical Academy in Ljubljana. He is known as a passionate musician and the author or co-author of more than two hundred compositions. Among other things, he wrote scores for numerous poems by Slovenian poets, in Slovenian, Hungarian and Romani languages, as well as in the Prekmurje dialect. He has also translated numerous works by the multi-award-winning Hungarian poet Lajos Bence. For twenty-five years, Béla Szomi has also been the program manager and organizer of the ethno-rock festival in Domžale, and at the same time the founder of this musical direction. As part of the evening of Jewish songs, Béla Szomi will perform together with Klemen Juvančič, a new student of the Ljubljana Academy of Music. Szomi and Juvančič form a vocal-instrumental duo that, in addition to singing, also includes the sounds of vibraphone and guitar or accordion and cahon in their musical interpretations. Katja Čibej Fras, granddaughter of a Dachau survivor, and her husband Boris Čibej are also expected to perform as special guests of the concert.

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Večer judovskih pesmi, koncert Béle Szomija in Klemena Juvančiča z gosti

Béla Szomi se je rodil v Osijeku na Hrvaškem, otroštvo pa je preživel v slovenski vasi Čentiba. Srednjo šolo je zaključil v Murski Soboti, Pedagoško akademijo pa v Ljubljani. Znan je kot strasten glasbenik in avtor ali soavtor več kot dvesto skladb. Med drugim je napisal note za številne pesnitve slovenskih poetov, in sicer v slovenskem, madžarskem in romskem jeziku ter v prekmurskem narečju. Prav tako je prevedel številna dela večkrat nagrajenega madžarskega pesnika Lajosa Benceja. Béla Szomi je že petindvajset let tudi programski vodja in organizator festivala etno-rock v Domžalah in hkrati utemeljitelj te glasbene smeri. V sklopu večera judovskih pesmi bo Béla Szomi nastopil skupaj s Klemenom Juvančičem, novopečenim študentom ljubljanske Akademije za glasbo. Szomi in Juvančič sestavljata vokalno-instrumentalni duet, ki ob petju v svoje glasbene interpretacije vključujeta tudi zvoke vibrafona in kitare oziroma harmonike in kahona. Kot posebna gosta koncerta bosta predvidoma nastopila tudi Katja Čibej Fras, vnukinja Juda, ki je preživel Dachau, in njen soprog Boris Čibej.

Organizatorja:
Galerija-Muzej Lendava / Galéria-Múzeum Lendva, Sinagoga Lendava – Slovenski muzej holokavsta / Lendvai zsinagóga – Szlovén Holokauszt Múzeum
Občina Lendava / Lendva Köszég