Compañia Maria Serrano presents:
Balkan Flamenco

The spanish Flamenco wizard meets the hungarian cimbalom-virtuoso. Together with soloists of the Hungarian National Ballet and members of their companies - 14 artists from Spain and Hungary on stage

“Flamenco meets Balkan Gypsy Music” is the subtitel of the project that Maria Serrano realized together with the hungarian cimbalom virtuoso Kálmán Balogh. for the the prestigious Budapest Spring Festival in Hungary. Both new each other in the 90^th when they where selected to be part of André Hellers production “Magneten”. Together they where touring for several month through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For their exiting new project “Flamenco meets Balkan Gypsy Music” they united 14 dancers and musicians from Spain and Hungary:

Dolores Castillo and her partner Solti Csaba are both solists of the Hungarian National Ballet with a wide range of experiences with hungarian dance. Dolores Castillos father was spanish, so she is very exited about this cooperation. Javier Sanchez danced as Maria Serrano´s partner in productions like FlamenTango and CARMEN. Zoltán Lantos is a violin virtuoso with a classical education at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and 9 years of studies in India. He played on several international jazz- and worldmusic festivals with musicians like Charlie Mariano, Renaud Garcia-Fons or Didier Lockwood. The singer and guitarist Gusztáv Balogh toured with traditinal gipsy music all over Europe. With his band Nomada his is searching new sounds and musical fusions. The saxophon player Mihály Borbély studied classical clarinet and jazz saxophon at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. He toured world wide playing playing folk and world music, jazz and contemporary music with musicians like Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano or Trilok Gurty. The flamenco guitarist Rafael Montilla toured for many years worldwide with the Company of Paco Peña. He studied guitar in his hometown Cordoba. The pianist José Maria Gago studied music in Jerez de la Frontera. He is member of the Compañia Maria Serrano since 2004 and toured worldwide with the productions CARMEN and FlamenTango. Inma “La Carbonera” Rivero is the female voice of the Compañia Maria Serrano. She also works with the band of Spains shooting star Falete. Flamenco singer Quisco de Alcala (Francisco Javier Rodriguez Ramos) is her partner. He is one of the best cantaores of his generation. Pablo Pradas is bassplayer and guitarist. He played with many flamenco, jazz and popgroups in Andalucia.  The percussionist Andrej Vujicic was born in Belgrad and lives since many years in Sevilla. He played with famous flamenco ensembles like the Familia Montoya.