7th of April, 2012.    I    Mizar's 10th jubilee concert and celebration at Budapest Jazz Club

June, 2011.    I    Mizar in Bulgaria at Sofia Live Club

We had a wonderful time in Sofia, at the Sofia Live Club, building of the National Palace of Culture in 22th of June, 2011.

You can hear now tree of the Mizar tunes from our second CD on the famous Jango online and interactive radio station... Check it out...

Mr. Bobby McFerrin was on a gig here in Budapest, and we could manage to give him one piece of our Natural Design CD, witch is important for us, because his music inspired us a lot. We hope he will enjoy it!

(Even our bandmate, Peter was trying to make some acapella things at home... Better luck next time, Peter! :)  )

Award-winning Canadian / US jazz radio station and network Café Jazz will showcase "A Tale of Two Hearts" by Mizar on May 23, 2010. We owe a lot of thanks to Ted Hasiuk for making it happen!

"Fresh and clean, the jazz pop trio from Hungary called Mizar debuts their first international release, called Natural Design..."

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Don't miss Francesco Sciarreta's JazzTrain production at the Italyian Radio Citta' Aperta with Mizar tracks! Thursday 23pm (6th of May)

Special Thanks for the 91.9 WFSS Jazz and New Radio Station in Fayetteville (USA) for keeping us in the air in they radio productions. And a big hug for Dionne!

We are thrilled by the attention that we have been getting from smoothjazz.com, the world’s leading online radio station and destination in smooth jazz. They picked three songs from Natural Design for airplay and published an interview with us on their site along with a warm album review by SJC founder Sandy Shore. It is really fascinating and inspiring to see Mizar next to the biggest names of contemporary jazz.

Mizar have been selected by the jury of the 2nd Edition of the 100% Music Songwriting Contest as a winner of the Blues/Jazz category for the entry: No Time to Lose.

Our band, and the new album called Natural Design is mentioned again in the September issue of JAZZIZ magazine. You can flip through the online edition here, we are on page 30, apparently again in grait company.

Our album Natural Design is mentioned in the August issue of JAZZIZ magazine. You can flip through the online edition here, we are on page 36, apparently in excellent company. You can also listen to the song Just For Fun by clicking on the album cover. Enjoy!

German online jazz station eurosmoothjazz.com added several tracks from Natural Design to their regular rotation.

Mizar played pieces from it's new album calles Natural Design to a full house at the Zugló Smooth Jazz Club in Budapest.

Mizar’s second album, Natural Design is released on Beagle Beat Records. Featuring nine English-language songs and an instrumental, the album is also available internationally both in physical CD and digital format. Again we had the pleasure to have some outstanding guest artists on the record like Gábor Kollmann on saxophone (Budapest Jazz Orchestra), Edina Szirtes on violin (Free Style Chamber Orchestra), Balázs Szendőfi on bass (Lower House), Máté Pálhegyi on flute (Free Style Chamber Orchestra) and others.

Mizar played at the award ceremony of 90.9 Jazzy’s 2nd song contest at the prestigious Palace of Arts in Budapest. We also had the honor to deliver the winner’s prize.

The Guinness Record of the World’s Longest Concert was achieved by Hungarian musicians at Balatonfüred with a show that lasted for 216 hours in 2008. The concert also featured Mizar.

With the soundtrack composed and played by Mizar, the second feature film (again a comedy) by István Nyíri–Kovács titled Rövid, de kemény… életem [My short but hard… life] premiered in theatres in Hungary. The movie won several prizes at various film festivals.

Hungarian State Radio invited us to play a concert at their legendary Marble Hall where a stellar roster of local and international jazz artists played in the past decades. The concert was recorded and aired by the station.

Our first album, Leszek én… [And I’ll Be…] has been released. Some tracks are in Hungarian while some others are in English. The album features great guest musicians like Zoltán Bacsa on trumpet (Kecskemét Jazz Orchestra), Balázs Kovács on oboe (Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany), Nikola Parov – kaval (Riverdance, USA), Dániel Mester – sax (Modern Art Orchestra) and others.

Mizar won the song contest of Budapest’s leading contemporary jazz station 90.9 Jazzy with the song Újra a parton [On the Shore Again].

Another Mizar song was selected into a soundtrack, this time for the short film Előjáték [Foreplay] by István Nyíri–Kovács. The film won the 3rd prize at the 38th Budapest Indie Film Festival.

Hungarian Catholic Radio invited us to record to songs at their studios in Budapest. The songs have been in regular rotation at the station since then.

On the request of scriptwriter and film director István Nyíri–Kovács, Mizar wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the comedy movie Szűzijáték [Virgin Game]. The film was played in 16 theatres, holds the record of the most viewed independent movie and won the Grand Prix of the 13th National Youth and Student Film Festival in Hungary.

We received the second prize at the 1st National Jazz Competition in Balatonfüred, Hungary. Fanni Sárközy also received the special award for best composer.

Mizar won the first prize at the 7th Pop-Rock-Jazz Festival in Paks, Hungary and again received some special awards – the ones for best songwriter and keyboard player (Fanni Sárközy), best vocalist (Rita Kabelács) and best guitarist (Péter Schneider).

We picked up the second prize and the listeners’ choice award at a jazz competition held in downtown Budapest.

We won the second prize at the 6th Pop-Rock-Jazz Festival in Paks, Hungary. We also picked up the special awards for best keyboard player (Fanni Sárközy), best drummer (Gábor Pusztai) and best bass player (Péter Bakaja).

Mizar played the center stage with some well-known Hungarian musicians at the Annual Gathering of College and University Students in Gyöngyös, Hungary.

Mizar and Színhang Műhely Egyesület (a contemporary art association) staged a spectacular multi-art festival at Budapest Millenáris Park. The event encompassed a contemporary art exhibition, a reading, a book presentation and a Mizar concert with a total of 11 musicians on stage. One prominent guest artist was pianist and composer Tibor Márkus, assistant professor at the jazz faculty of the Liszt Ferenc College of Music.

Mizar was invited by Hungarian State Radio to record some own songs at Studio 8 (a legendary recording location for Hungarian musicians) which would then get regular airplay.

Mizar won the second prize at the LGT National Talent Search Festival. The finals were held at the Hajógyári Sziget [Shipyard Island] of Budapest where we played LGT covers and some own compositions. The jury consisted of well-known Hungarian artists.