One of the world's leading interpreters of the cimbalom ( known as cymbalom, or hammered dulcimer), a symbolic instrument of the Hungarian and Romanian repertoire, a modern and "chromatic" variant of the so-called psaltery, an instrument in which the strings are struck by two stakes.

He was born into a Lautari family, professional musicians mostly of Roma ethnicity, son of the legendary Ion Miu, nicknamed "The Cymbalom Godfather", considered one of the main innovators of the modern technique of the Cymbalom, recognized for having broadened the horizons of the instrument from traditional music to classical music and jazz. George has spent every single day of his life performing with the most famous musicians in Romania as in Japan, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Hungary or studying the instrument.

His repertoire is immense and ranges from popular music from all over the Romanian, Hungarian music, jazz and classical music, sometimes these repertoires intersect each other in such a natural way that they fade the boundaries between one genre and another.

At the Orly Hungarian Museum in Berkeley he will present a varied repertoire between Hungarian (to which priority will be given), Romanian, Serbian, Jewish music with incursions of Jazz Manouche (gypsy jazz) and the classical repertoire for solo piano (Chopin, Listz, Bach). His exorbitant virtuosity will be appreciated in solo performances as in the pieces in which he will be accompanied by some of the leading musicians in the Eastern European music scene in the Bay Area, like Marco Ghezzo, Andrew Cohen, Jimmy Grant and Matthew Tweten.

TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!

$25/ticket. At the door $30/ticket Kids under 10 are free!

Call Elvira Orly: (510) 384-5606 or email Eva Szabo at eva@orlymuseum.org

Event organized by Éva Szabó