Just like the other members of the band besides playing music I have a full time job. I work as agronomist-biologist. But luckily I can manage my work so that there’s time left for my great passion: music. I joined the band at the request of Gábor Naszádi, the guitarist of the band. Earlier I played in a Catholic youth band so it was not difficult for me to identify with the spirituality of Invocatio Musicalis which had as aim to revive and modernize the traditional music of the Reformed church by creating modern Psalm adaptations and thus bringing them closer to young people. From the very beginning I was pleased to experience the relaxed atmosphere within the band and I enjoyed the great variety of the music styles we played. We blended church music with the music of renaissance, folk music, jazz and rock. Our music is also characterised by a duality which means that we have a religious and a ”profane” repertoire at the same time. This diversity of the band is further more enriched by the fact that some of the members come from a Catholic background while the others come from Reformed families. This is also familiar for me since in my family there are representatives of both Reformed and Catholic tradition.
Attila Kollár
Besides my medical profession music has always played an important role in my life. My bonding with music started at school where I played the flute and sang in a choir. It was at grammar school when I found the instrument that really suited me: the flute. I am interested in various musical styles, ranging from J.S. Bach’s or F. Mendelssohn’s impressive music to more modern and progressive music styles of today e.g. Jethro Tull, Kansas, Saga, Marillion. During grammar school years I started playing music together with my friend Gábor Naszádi. He was playing the guitar while I was playing the flute. One of the things we had in common was our interest in instrumental progressive rock music – this is still a strong link between us. Later during my years as medical student I had the opportunity to join Solaris where I could further develop my musical talents. We gave a lot of concerts and got familiar with audio recording as well. The years spent with Napoleon Boulevard are also memorable and important in my musical career. My family’s care and support and their love for music helped me a lot to accomplish my musical aspirations. Finally I feel privileged to belong to band where we are connected not only through our religious belief but also through the music we create and play together.
Kornis Ferenc
Pythagoras considered numbers as the essence and principle of all things which by their proportionality reflect the harmony of the created world. Musical soundings and harmonies belong to the most beautiful expressions of the harmony of the creation. Music is all over present in our natural environment. To experience it, all we have to do is to sit down at the bank of a creek or forest clearing, or climb up to a mountain peak and just feel the world around us and pay attention to the the world that is outside and inside of us. I think our most important task as a band is to create a projection of our existence through music. This reflection might be simple and far from perfect but should be comprehesible for the people around us. For me it is percussions that suits me best when it comes to communicate myself through music. My affection for percussions started in my childhood. I was drumming on the desk at school, on top of jars, on stair railings, or pieces of furniture, basically on everything. When playing music with my friends, psalm adaptations or our own compositions, I do my best to add as much value as possible to the sounding through which I hope we can reflect some of the harmony that is present in the created world.
My relationship with music has had a great influence on my whole life. Music has always been for me a way to express creativity. I have been interested in new soundings and orchestrations since my childhood. I started to play the violin at the age of 6. Later I also learned to play the flute, the trumpet and the guitar. As a child I enjoyed studying solfege, especially Harmonics and music theory. Later at university I learned at Science History that a lot of scientists were trying to find a connection between Maths, Astronomy and Music as they were doing researches regarding World Harmony (e.g. the Music of Spheres). I was also interested in searching for such correlations. After I finished university I started to teach the basics of Physical Acoustics at the Secondary School of Music in Budapest. While teaching I myself came to understand a lot of correlations: e.g. why the piano needs to be tuned, or what wavefront interference is to do with consonant and dissonant intervals. Certainly music cannot be constrained to waveguide. Besides its physical characteristics it has great impact on human emotions. I started looking for musical experimentations that suited most my autonomous personality and I began to compose music myself as a way of self expression. Another important trait of my teenage years was my desperate search for God and after some roundabout ways I finally got rooted into the Reformed traditions and spirituality. At the same time it has always been in my nature to question everything. All these have shaped my role in the band where my greatest aspiration is to create unique and exciting harmonies, to reinterpret traditional church tunes and thus actually preserving them. This may sound like musical experiment. Why not? Nevertheless I feel we can create together a kind of music that is worth the effort.
