Between 1981 and 2016, UMP Editio Musica Budapest published more than 40 works for wind band, mainly by contemporary Hungarian composers. This tradition is now being continued by five new publications by Árpád Balázs and László Dubrovay.

On March 23, László Dubrovay is celebrated at a festive concert at the Budapest Academy of Music on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

The concerto was composed in 2012, inspired by István Várdai’s play and is dedicated to him. The triple movement structure and the character of the movements follow the patterns of classical concertos, while the thematic connections spanning the movements rather reflect the structural principles of Romantic symphonies.

The programme of the Budapest Music of Our Age Festival, being held for the 39th time this year, focuses on anniversaries of Polish and Hungarian composers. Besides works by Witold Lutosławski, born a century ago, and György Ligeti born 90 years ago, compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Górecki, who are celebrating their 80th birthdays this year, the 80-year-old Miklós Kocsár and István Láng, as well as the 70-year-old László Dubrovay and Zoltán Jeney, are being presented either for the first time in Hungary or in the world.