The Debussy NOW! album, released in 2020 with vocalist Veronika Harcsa and harpist Anastasia Razvalyaeva, was nominated for the most innovative recording award by the biggest classical music conference, Classical:NEXT. In the second part of the NOW! series, the trio was joined by a new member, Bálint Bolcsó, a prominent figure on the Hungarian contemporary electronic music scene. On their recording, Schubert’s music undergoes a captivating transformation: improvisations, timbres that range from classical to jazz vocal techniques, and live electronic effects expand the sensual and eerily beautiful universe of the well-known songs into a contemporary space, and even the expressive tools of the human voice and the harp. This time, the electronics move across a broad spectrum from abstract noise to techno, and go far beyond transforming the voice and the harp to create their sound from the musical elements of Schubert’s songs. The great interest in Schubert NOW! is demonstrated by the fact that the trio has been invited to two of the most important European gatherings for jazz and classical music, Jazzahead in Bremen and Classical:NEXT in Berlin, in 2025.
