Zsofia Tardy's Hung-lish Project

Thu, Oct 30

Zsofia Tardy presents, the Hunglish Project! Hung-lish refers to the band's roots: Zsofia and her husband Attila are from Budapest, Hungary ("Hung-), Craig and Kurt were born here, thus the "lish" (Eng-lish). The name also refers to their musical repertoire, playing not only American jazz standards, but also Hungarian jazz tunes, Balkan influenced music, originals, Monk, Silver and other bebop tunes. The band features Attila Csikos on guitar, Craig Snazelle on bass and Kurt Deutscher on drums. Zsofia started teaching voice 25 years ago, and soon became a sought-after voice teacher and vocal coach in Hungary. She often held summer clinics all over the country. She moved from Budapest to Portland in August 2015 with her husband, the jazz guitarist Attila Csikos and three almost-adult kids. She maintains a thriving home studio where she teaches both voice and piano. Soon after her arrival, she started gigging out with her voice-guitar jazz duo “2-in-1” and jazz quartet “Zsofia Tardy’s Hung-lish Project.” Soon she gained recognition in the Portland jazz music scene as ‘a deeply passionate and skilled’ jazz singer. Nowadays she regularly plays with local musicians like Mike Horsfall, John Moak, Ron Steen, Steve Christofferson, Perry Thorsell, Laura Cunard, Christopher Woitach, Kevin Dietz, Dennis Caiazza, Dave and Annie Averre, Randy Porter, David Watson, Kerry McCoy, Mike Snyder, Gordon Lee, Tom Grant, and many others.