Duo Zema-Lencsès
The Guitar Duo Zema-Lencsés begans his concert activity in 2006.
Salvatore Zema was born in Reggio Calabria in 1958, studied at the Conservatoire of Music of Reggio Calabria and later with Alirio Diaz, who definitely influenced in his career. He has attended also Master Classes with Alirio Díaz in Reggio Calabria. After being awarded in some of the principal national and international competitions, begins career acting in halls and theatres in Italy, Germany, Sweden, etc…
He arranged works by F. Sor and published a Method for the Study of Guitar Technique, based on new ways to fingering the scales vertically, edited in Edizioni Carrara, Bergamo, Italy. He is the artistic director of the Festival "Incontri Chitarristici Mediterranean", and guitar teacher at the Conservatoire of Music "Francesco Cilea” and in the University of Reggio Calabria.
Lencsès Eszter was born in Esztergom, Hungary. She began her musical studies at the age of five with Vàrkonyi Tunde and Adrovicz Istvàn and subsequently at the Academy of Music "Ferenc Liszt" Debrecen in 1991 with Tokos Zoltàn. In 1989, the Institute of the Hungarian Culture gave her a scholarship to attend interpretation courses and technical in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She attended Master Classes in Greece, Hungary, with teachers Costas Cotsiolis, Alvaro Pierri and David Russell and Josè Luis Rodrigo. She has always had an intense activity at the international level, offering concerts in Hungary, Greece, Spain and Italy, as solo as in different chamber groups. She has also recorded for the Hungarian National Radio and Television. She has been guitar teacher at the School of Music and Jàszberèny National University of Sciences "Kossuth Lajos" Debrecen, Hungary. Lives in Italy since 1991.
The performances of Salvatore and Eszter combine interpretative tradition with elements of classical Hungarian music and Mediterranean sound.
They have been invited in numerous guitar festivals and events as the Festival Internazionale della Chitarra di Fiuggi, "La chitarra da Cuba all'Europa" Zagarolo (Rome) Festival Internazionale Reggio Calabria; Festival Internazionale de Aranda De Duero, Burgos (Spain), Festival “Andres Segovia” Madrid (Spain), “Incontri chitarristici del Mediterraneo”, a “Nuits Musicales de Cieux” (France), XVIII Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Vélez-Malaga (Spain), Festival Internacional Guitarra y Academia de Caracas e Choroni (Venezuela), “International Guitar Festival” di Gubbio, I.G.F Brno (Rep. Ceca), International guitar festival Linares (Spagna), GF Lancaster (U.S.), IGF Morelia e Ixtlauaca (Mexico)
