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Happy Mother's Day! Join us Sunday for our Music Showcase featuring Zsofia & Attila from 3-5pm at Old Zen! Zsofia Csikos-Tardy is a Portland-based jazz singer, music educator. She earned her BMus & MMus Degrees at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.
She started singing on stage at age four. Since this time, being a versatile singer she has not only been the lead singer of different jazz, pop & rock groups, big bands, but classical and gospel choirs, chamber orchestras, too. She performs in multiple languages: English, Italian, Hungarian, German, Portuguese, Spanish. She has been in the music business for 30+ years, actively performing and participating in recordings of different jazz, pop, rock, gospel and classical CDs as lead singer, background vocalist, songwriter, lyricist and vocal coach, touring all over Europe for 20 years.
Currently, Zsofia is the Professor of Jazz Voice at Lewis & Clark College, and she also maintains a thriving home studio in SW Portland. She was a substitute Professor at Western Oregon University (WOU) in 2015, and a guest Professor of voice on behalf of WOU in Nanning, China in 2017 & 2018.
Since moving to Portland, she has been regularly performing with the top jazz musicians of the town: Randy Porter, Mike Horsfall, John Moak, Ron Steen, Steve Christofferson, Perry Thorsell, Darin Clendenin, Laura Cunard, Tim Gilson, Christopher Woitach, Kevin Dietz, Dennis Caiazza, Phil Baker, Dave Averre, David Watson, Kerry McCoy, Mike Snyder, John Nastos, Gordon Lee, Dave Captain, Ed Bennet, Brent Follis, Tom Grant and many others.
Her lifetime musical partner is her husband, guitarist Attila Csikos.
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Attila Csikos is a Portland-based musician. For decades, hehas been actively participating in the music business as a multi-genre guitarist, music educator, composer, arranger, music producer, recording artist. He earned his BMus at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, and his MMus at the Western Oregon University.
He has been performing in various jazz, blues, funk, rock and gospel bands, touring all over Europe for 20 years, and playing the guitar in large musical theater productions, like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia. In Portland, he is the guitarist of the musical company Stumptown Stages.
Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Guitar at Clackamas Community College (CCC), and continues teaching online at Baptist Theological Academy in Budapest, Hungary. Before CCC, he was the Professor of Guitar at Multnomah University. He also has been teaching privately in his home studio for 25+ years. Many of his former students became professional guitarists, publishing artists.
Since moving to Portland, he has been regularly performing with the top jazz musicians of the town: Mike Horsfall, John Stowell, Ron Steen, Steve Christofferson, Perry Thorsell, Laura Cunard, Christopher Woitach, Kevin Dietz, Dennis Caiazza, Tim Gilson, Phil Baker, Dave Averre, David Watson, Kerry McCoy, Mike Snyder, John Nastos, Gordon Lee, Dave Captain, Ed Bennet, Brent Follis, Tom Grant, Lauren Nickel, Ben Fajen, and accompanied many jazz singers.
His lifetime musical partner is his wife, jazz vocalist Zsofia Csikos-Tardy.
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Old Zen Wine Bar, 1115 Edgewater St NW,Salem,OR,United States
