News
April 2009 In April 2009 Kalman Olah received the prestigious award "The Best Composer of the Year 2009" from Society ARTISJUS, Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors' Rights |
January 2009 Downbeat critic Chris Robinson picks Images one of his favourite jazz releases in 2008: http://chris.jlou.org |
December 5, 2008 Kálmán receives "The best jazz record of the year" prize of Gramofon Classical & Jazz magazine for Always |
December 1, 2008 First performance of Kálmán's new piece Passacaglia for Orchestra & Jazz Trio by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and the Kálmán Oláh Trio |
November 16, 2006 Kálmán and British trumpetist Gerard Presencer present their new Anglo-Hungarian septet project at the London Jazz Festival |
November 4 & 8, 2008 Kálmán Oláh Trio appears at the European-Arabesque Jazz Festival in Cairo |
September, 2008 New album of Kálmán Oláh & The Budapest Jazz Orchestra called Images is released by Hungaroton Records including Kálmán's latest works for bigband including "Images for Jazz Orchestra" (In memoriam Bela Bartok) www.hungaroton.hu |
Maj 2, 2008 The performance of Kálmán's Concerto for Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Band at the Palace of Arts in Budapest featuring the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra with Laszlo Kovacs and special guests Jack DeJohnette, Ron McClure and Gerard Presencer |
April 14-18, 2008 Kálmán performs his bigband works in Helsinki with the UMO Jazz Orchestra |
Jan 19, 2008 Kálmán appears at the Michael Brecker memorial concert at the Palace of Arts with Tony Lakatos, Randy Brecker, Rick Margitza, Gary Thomas, Boris Kozlov & Adam Nussbaum |
March, 2007 Kálmán receives the "Gabor Szabo Award" of the Hungarian Jazz Federatio |
Sept 18, 2006 Kálmán receives $10,000 BMI Award as the winner of the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition. Jacky Terrason, John Patitucci and Terry Lyne Carrington perform his winning piece Always at the Thelonious Monk Institute's 20th Anniversary Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. bmi.com www.monkinstitute.org |
June, 2006 United States debut of Always, Kálmán's new album with Jack DeJohnette and Ron McClure, is released by Memphis International Records www.memphisinternationalrecords.com |
March, 2006 Kálmán receives the "Liszt Award" - the most prestigious music award from the Hungarian government |