MiniPianoFest - Eötvös Károly Library

The MiniPianoFest series, which was a great success last year at Eötvös Károly Library, will continue this summer as well.

On a special summer evening on July 18, when pianos will ring out in the heart of the city, and this time poets will also add to the atmosphere.

Modern classical music, slow melodies, and delicate harmonies fill the library’s open courtyard, where nature, silence, and music come together.

You can curl up in a beanbag with a drink in your hand and just listen to the pleasant electronic music; you can even draw, read, or simply daydream while you’re at it.

The city’s noise fades away.

Time slows down.

And it’s just you, embraced by the music and the summer.

Three exceptional pianists set the mood.

This time, not only music but also literature takes the stage.

The goal of the program is to create a unique, genre-blending evening by complementing contemporary piano performances with literary elementsTo this end, each of the two performers—Andor Sanderson and Marc Charmey—will be joined by a poet or reciter. Between the musical segments, there will be short literary readings and poetry recitations that tie in with the music in terms of mood and theme.

Thus, the event offers both a musical and a literary experience, reinforcing the library’s cultural mission.

The concert will be held outdoors; in case of rain, it will be held indoors.

Admission to the event is free.

🎹CHARMEY (Marc Charmet)

Charmey, whose real name is Marc Charmet, is a French-born pianist and composer who completed his classical studies at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and then, after moving to Budapest, found his own voice at the intersection of modern classical and ambient music.

His musical world bears the influence of Erik Satie, Yann Tiersen, and Nils Frahm: subtle minimalism, simple yet emotionally profound piano motifs, and plenty of silence and space.

His debut album, Monotonies, was released in 2024, followed in March 2025 by his second album, Délicates, on the British label Siril Records.

Charmey is the founder and organizer of the Le Salon de Musique concert series in Budapest, where Hungarian and international ambient and modern classical artists perform. During his live concerts, he often improvises, with the music’s development guided by the audience’s quiet attention and the atmosphere of the venue.

Read by: Anna Bognár

She graduated with a degree in Hungarian and Italian from ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities, then continued her research on the works of Giacomo Leopardi at the Doctoral School of Italian Literature at the University of Debrecen. A multiple scholarship recipient and winner of international literary awards, she studied in Milan, taught in France, and participated in the work on the critical edition of Babits’s works. Her poetry collection Nem dajka dal was published in 2016. She is currently a fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, and her research focuses on the life and work of Miklós Hubay.

🎹FLORA KAPELLER

A Vienna-based pianist, composer, and composer of film music.

Her greatest musical inspirations: Hania Rani, Tigran Hamasyan, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Ludwig Göransson

🎹ANDOR SANDERSON—modern composer and pianist.

- An Evening of Music and Literature -

An evening where music and literature lead the way. Andor Sanderson’s piano-ambient concert in Veszprém—silence, presence, inner journey—where words and sounds blend together, giving birth to a shared, gently undulating literary-musical space, interwoven with an intimate reading by Mercédesz Kónya. Following his successfully presented multidisciplinary performances in Veszprém titled Fragments, Andor will once again perform his emotional and profound pieces in our city.

Read by: Mercédesz Kónya

She graduated from Kőbánya Music Studio with a degree in voice and is currently a student at ELTE majoring in Hungarian literature and film theory. In June 2026, she presented a solo performance titled The Birth of the Modern Woman: The Myth and Magic of Katalin Karády. She has also provided the narration for several of Orsolya Székely’s films.

The source of the description and image is the official Facebook event.