Oláh Krisztián European Quartet feat. Alex Hitchcock (UK/HU/IT)

The Quartet was born out of a series of fateful coincidences. In December 2022, Alex Hitchcock was a guest in Krisztián Oláh's own band, and although a major flight delay and Christmas traffic significantly shortened rehearsals, the two musicians found harmony from the very first moment. Krisztián met Michelangelo Scandroglio at a Spanish jazz festival, and since then he has remained in contact with the Italian double bassist, who has performed several times with leading European bands in Budapest, including at the BMC. The threads quickly came together, or rather, it turned out that "everyone knows everyone," so Krisztián, Alex, and Michelangelo formed a quartet together. Krisztián asked one of Hungary's most outstanding drummers, Dániel Ferenc Szabó, who is versed in a wide variety of genres, to join them.

All members of the Quartet are also composers and band leaders, so their repertoire consists almost exclusively of their own compositions. Their pieces reflect not only individual styles, tastes, and influences, but also a kind of pan-European zeitgeist that four young artists of the same generation can create today, here and now.