Lúdas Matyi

“A notable emerging talent,” The Strad wrote of the Swedish violinist, who has triumphed at prestigious competitions such as the Premio Paganini and the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Ava Bahari is currently the resident artist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

After first emerging as a representative of Hungarian bedroom pop in the early 2010s, guitarist/singer/songwriter Noémi Barkóczi moved beyond the world of lo-fi to became a popular performer on stages and at festivals across the country with her increasingly distinctive guitar playing, heartfelt lyrics, and well-developed arrangements.

One thing we know for certain about the 21st century is that it will be when the survivors of the Holocaust take their last breath. Every single one of them. Slowly but surely, they are leaving us to our own devices. “Do we want to forget what happened, as if it were a bad dream, or do we want to accept the events as human civilization’s greatest trauma?” the author Péter Esterházy once asked.