43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Interview with Salamon Soma. Soma is a musician, he plays shepherd’s flutes and accordion in several folk music formations. He studied piano. He is part of a second generation of táncház children – meaning that he grew up in a family that participated in – and he was surrounded by music and dance of – the dance house movement. Presently he is working on a doctorate at the Liszt Academy of Music, where he also teaches foreign students about Hungarian folk music – in English. "...Which in itself is not a simple task, given that there isn’t a unified terminology. Hungarian ethnomusicological studies, for the most part, have not been written for foreigners”. He mentions his family, Éri Péter, Ménes Ágnes, Németh Ildikó and Szabó Szilárd as mentors or people that have influenced his life path. Interview by Grozdits Károly.