In Tune - Live with Katie Derham - BBC Sounds
Katie Derham introduces conductor András Keller who leads Concerto Budapest in their most recent tour.
Watch the full interview by clicking HERE!
Regarding the interview, Imre Szabó-Stein, the Orchestra’s International Strategic Chief Advisor, commented as follows:
“It is a great honour and recognition that BBC Radio 3’s iconic programme In Tune conducted a live interview yesterday at 6:30 p.m. UK time with András Keller on the occasion of Concerto Budapest’s third UK tour. The conversation, hosted by Katie Derham—an extremely popular radio and television personality in Britain—took place during peak airtime. We are now sharing this short yet remarkably profound discussion. In just a moment—well, that’s an exaggeration: tomorrow morning—Concerto Budapest sets off on its third major tour of England and Ireland.
Concerto is a place where we like to set the bar very high—sometimes seemingly impossibly high—not only musically, but also in terms of leaving a mark on the international and Anglophone media with the orchestra’s tour, as if it were the event of the year. Let’s admit, this is rather challenging in a country that is one of the world’s classical music strongholds, where the world’s leading orchestras and soloists take to the stage one after another.
Yet in 2022 and 2023 we succeeded: the highly appreciative, serious and extensive reviews in The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the most important music journals served as beacons of our success. Thanks in part to this, full houses await the art and virtuosity we bring—both at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and at London’s Cadogan Hall. The BBC Radio 3 interview signifies our arrival.”
