Attila Sztán (trombone)
Artistic director: Daniel Bard
In the 2026–27 season, the Concertino series will return, with the BFO’s chamber orchestra offering both well-known masterpieces and unfairly overlooked works from the Baroque to the twentieth century. The ensemble, which will perform without a conductor, will be led by Daniel Bard, one of the orchestra’s concertmasters. The energetic works by Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff blend modern sounds and neoclassical elements with jazz and the dance rhythms of various national traditions. Schulhoff’s composition will be followed by one of the earliest trombone concertos in music literature, featuring Attila Sztán, the BFO’s Junior Prima Award winning musician, as soloist. After the concerto, which blends graceful elegance with structural rigidity, the ensemble will perform Handel’s ever-faster concerto grosso, composed for full string ensemble without soloists. The program will conclude with Tchaikovsky’s popular chamber piece invoking Mozart and Haydn.