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Ferenc Illenyi & Erich Avinger

Presented by Cypress Creek FACE at The Centrum (at the Cypress Creek Christian Community Center)

November 9, 2010

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Cypress Creek FACE presents Ferenc Illenyi & Erich Avinger, at  3 p.m., Tuesday, November 9, 2010.

The concert will include classical works, a Scarlatti composition for violin and guitar, and arrangements by Paganini, as well as lighter pieces that include spirituals such as “Deep River”, some Hungarian music and other folk melodies.

Ferenc Illényi, violin, has performed as first violinist with the Houston Symphony since 1991. A native of Hungary, Mr. Illényi made his debut in Budapest performing the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky concerti, and was a finalist in the Gyor-Carl Flesch Competition and the Tibor Varga Competition. He has performed many recitals in Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the United States, and has recorded works by Paganini, Saint-Saëns, and Schubert for the Hungarian radio and television. His first teacher was his father, a violinist with the Hungarian State Opera.

He attended Bartok High School of Music in Budapest, studied with Tibor Varga at Hochschulein Detmold, Germany, completed a summer master class in Lenk, Switzerland and earned a master’s degree in music from Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, where he studied with Dénes Kovacs. Mr. Illényi has studied additionally at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada with Zoltan Székely, the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana with Carolyn Plummer, Rice University with Camilla Wicks, and the University of Houston with Fredell Lack.

Guitarist and Composer Erich Avinger (pictured above) has been following his passion for music wherever it has lead him for over 30 years. From jazz, rock and blues to classical and world music, he has ever sought to expand his range of expression for improvisation in varied group settings on the acoustic and electric guitars, bringing those sounds to the world in live performances in the U.S. and Europe and on 3 internationally released CDs, Heart Magic, Si, and Poets, Misfits, Beggars and Shamans on the Heart Music label.