Santa Diver

Santa Diver

Santa Diver has been performing since the October of 2006, since then they've been giving many concerts in  places and festivals like the Mediawave, Ultrahang, Budapest Moll Jazz, Sziget Festival, the Budapest's Bridge Celebration, the Ost-klub in Vienna; the Hungarian Culture Centre in Paris and Brussels, the Gödör, Trafó, Millenáris, A38, Budapest Music Center and the French Institute in Budapest, etc. Among others, often inviting soloists like, Zoltán Lantos, Laurent Blondieu, Lőrinc Barabás, János Vázsonyi, Péter Bede and Márton Fenyvesi,  and once they even had the opportunity to be on stage with Erik Truffaz after one of his shows in Budapest.

Luca Kézdy (violin) was born in Győr, northwest Hungary. She studied aesthetics and philosophy at the ELTE University’s liberal arts department. She placed in the finals in the first national Jazz Violin Competition held by the Hungarian Radio in 2006, where she won the Audience Prize. She is in more genres like jazz, free improvisation, pop and fusion. She played with several bands and musicians like Free Style Chamber Orchestra, Nigun, Zoltán Lantos, István Grencsó, Csaba Deseő, Frigyes Pleszkán, Ágnes, Tereskova, Valerie June (US), 1724 trio (PL-A-H), Laurent Blondiau, Alexander Balanescu. Since 2010 she’s been a member of Varga János Project, beside of these bands she gives solo concerts and plays in different theatre productions.

Dávid Szesztay (el. bass) is a multiinstrumentalist-composer from Budapest. In the past he worked in several theatre and film productions and he plays and compose in many different bands like Dav (guitar, vocal),Specko Jedno (el. guitar), Budbudas (keyboards) and of course in Santa Diver (bass).  He is one of the founder member of Santa Diver and through the years he become sort of producer of the band, creating the musical direction with Luca Kézdy.

Zsolt Sárvári Kovács (drums) Zsolt’s musical style is heavily influenced by folk music (not only Hungarian), modern classical music (Bartók, Debussy, Stravinsky, Satie), and the New York Avant-garde scene (Joey Baron, Jim Black, Tom Rainey, John Zorn, Tim Berne).

From 2004 to 2008 he lived in Rome, where he surrounded his self with open-minded young musicians In Italy I worked with a wide variety of bands: Borderlines Quartet (Martin Jacobsen-Cesare Saldicco-Roberto Raciti-Zs.Kovacs), Francesco Lo Cascio New Trio (F.LoCascio-Pino Sallusti-Zs.Kovacs) , Negyet Quartet (F.Zacchia - D.Grotelli - S.Cantararno - Zs.Kovacs), Giuseppe La spina Quartet , Francesco Diodati Trio.Since 2008 he’s been living in Budapest again. He continued the work with his previous bands: Dániel Váczi Trio, Quatrio,Quintrio; Grencsó Bio Kollektiva; Linda Kovács Quartet; Plastic Septet; Kada Ad Libitum; Eichinger Quartet; Ektar Sextet; Ernő Rubik Quintet and Santa Diver.

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