The most exotic "Czardas" by Monti - Géza Hosszú Legocky 'aka' Gezalius & the Kazakh Folk Symphony

One of the best and most exotic performance of Czardas by Monti.
Gezalius & The Kazakh Folk Symphony Orchestra from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Geza Hosszu Legocky "aka" Gezalius
Biography

Geza Hosszu Legocky already impresses the most demanding audiences whilst affirming a non-conventional mind-set with various musical genres. Born in Switzerland as an american citizen from Hungarian-Ukrainian parents, Geza Hosszu Legocky began to attract the audience at the age of 6, after entering the Vienna Music Academy as a special gifted violin prodigy.

At the age of 7 he toured with the Udine Chamber Orchestra in Italy where he shocked his first audiences with his special gift for the Violin. At the age of 10 he won the 1st prize at the international competition “Prima la Musica” which presented him to a wider audience. A year later Francois Gerard invited him to play in the Hollywood Movie “The Red Violin” alongside with actor Samuel L. Jackson.

At the age of 12, he is invited to perform at the famous Verbier Music Festival as a special guest performer with legendary Ida Haendel and Vadim Repin. At the age of 14 he made his big Debute Performances with the NHK Philharmonic Orchestra with Charles Dutoit, and also with other Orchestras such as The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra under M.w.Chung, The Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra under Jacek Kapszsyk, just to name a few. Geza had also the great privilege to collaborate on projects with Chamber Orchestras such as The Kremerata Baltica, performing the Bach Concerto No.1 at the great “Salle Pleyel” in Paris. His exceptional gift for music and his capacity to transmit his emotions directly into the heart of his Audiences lead him to work in his early career with living legends such as Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Charles Dutoit, Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, Ivry Gitlis and Ida Haendel. The latter has described Geza as the most gifted Violinist not only of our time, but she also compared him to Violinists from the golden age of Violinists like, for instance, Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Ivry Gitlis… In 2001 he has been chosen to take part at the Dorothy Delay Symposium at the great Juilliard School of Music in New York, and has been acclaimed to be the most gifted Violinist of his age not only by Dorothy Delay but by american Violinist Robert Mcduffie as well, who invited him a few months later to perform at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado for millions of listeners.

His intention in bringing his qualities in classical music to other genres such as folk, gypsy, jewish, Jazz and even Pop music has made him an unique figure. In 2003 he founded a gypsy-jewish Group, “The 5 DeViLs”, for a Project in Switzerland at the Progetto Argerich, and he had an immediate success. The concert was recorded by EMI classics and was chosen among grammy nomination. One year later he came back to the same Festival to perform the Schumann Sonata No.1 with legendary pianist Martha Argerich, and it was chosen as best chamber music performance of the year 2004. Since than he has toured all over Europe, South America, The United States and Asia.

Going back to his interest in different genres, in 2010 Geza returned to the Salle Pleyel in Paris to perform a “Concert de Tango”, broadcasted by Mezzo and Arte. This concert was attended by the legendary Film Composer Michel Legrand who invited him to perform alongside his wife, the renowned harpist Catherine Michel, his own works, such as the famous “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “Summer of 42” and some of his Oscar nominated movie compositions.

in 2009 Geza has been chosen to play a Stradivarius Violin dating 1715, which belonged to legendary hungarian Violinist “Joseph Joachim” and was lent to by the Nippon Music Foundation. Today Geza performs on a “Lorenzo & Tomasso Carcassi” Violin dating 1766.

Since May 2011, Geza has been spending a lot of energy to form an exceptional orchestra of young prodigy soloists in Budapest, the “Bohemian Virtuosi”. In 2012, Geza and his Bohemian Virtuosi Ensemble, gave four concerts in Italy, including the Festival in Ravello where he invited Martha Argerich to perform with him again.

In 2017 Gezalius is invited for a special project for the memory of the jewish Holocaust by the Unescu Foundation to perform at the "Maison de la Poesie" Concert Hall for the Homage to Elie Wiesel performing Solo Works by E.Bloch between readings of Elie Wiesel by world famous Actor: Michael lansdale, with who Geza has already participated a project at the Crans Montana Festival, where he was honored to be Artistic Director to the Music festival "Sommet du Classique au jazz" founded by President of the Festival "Chrisine Rey" and as honorary President, non other than Michel Legrand.