Zsofia Tardy's Hunglish Project is at the Jazz Station in Eugene
Original compositions inspired by Bela Bartok, Balkanian folk tradition, and Horace Silver's hard bop compositions with vocal arrangements.
- Zsofia Tardy vocals
- Attila Csikos guitar
- Craig Snazelle bass
- Kurt Deutscher drums
Attila Csikos is a Portland-based musician. For decades, he has actively participated in the music business as a multi-genre guitarist, educator, composer, arranger, producer, and recording artist. He earned his MMus at Western Oregon University and BMus at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. He performs in various jazz, blues, funk, rock, and gospel bands in Europe and The United States. In addition, he plays the guitar in large musical theater productions like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia, The Full Monty, and many more. He is the guitarist for several European and American musical companies. In 2023, he gave a successful solo guitar concert featuring local musicians as part of the PDX Jazz Festival. He is an Adjunct Professor of Guitar at Clackamas Community College (CCC) and continues teaching music online at the Baptist Theological Academy in Budapest, Hungary. He also has been teaching privately in his home studio for more than 25 years. Many of his former students became professional guitarists and publishing artists. Since moving to Portland (2015), 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.
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. Being a versatile singer, she has been the lead singer of different jazz, pop & rock groups, big bands, classical and gospel choirs, chamber orchestras. 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 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, 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. She regularly performs with her quartet “Hunglish Project” and in duo with her guitarist/husband, Attila Csikos in various venues in Oregon, like The Jazz Station in Eugene, Christo's in Salem, The 1905, Wilf, Arrivederci, Jo’ Bar etc. Audiences and fellow musicians alike call her a “force of nature”, especially praising her scatting, resembling it to the greatest singers.
