Freestyle Chamber Orchestra

The ’Free Style Orchestra’ consisting of 21 members is a chamber orchestra that was founded by János Nagy, composer and Máté Pálhegyi, flautist. The formation, as its name indicates, aims at transgressing traditional genre borders. The wholly traditional string orchestra together with a normal quartet  is extended by  ”classical” woodwinds which, if necessary, can play instruments used in jazz as well.

        The orchestra was created in order to complement the lack of  a musical genre that is now furnished by them: a stylistically totally unbound interpretation which at the same time preserves the purest artistic values.

        The evergreen jazz standards as well as the contemporary pieces resound in a basically string orchestral way enlarged by the jazz quartet and the five woodwinds. This way the usual sound of a big jazz orchestra (the big-band sound) is enriched by new and unexpected fine shades of sound.

       The objective is that valuable contemporary music should be available not only for a narrow public but to become a part of one’s everyday life just as it was the case in almost all of the preceding epochs of musical history.

       During playing together improvisation has an important role to play and thus it gives a new sense to the concept of ”chamber orchestra concert” enhancing the continuous stream of  instant musical experience.