Zucker-Gyárfás Duo

American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Zucker (piano, synth, voice) and Hungarian drummer Attila Gyárfás are a small band with a huge psychedelic sound. Living in separate continents, Zucker and Gyárfás have developed the unique synergy of their wide-ranging and ambitious duo project playing in diverse venues around the world — from candle-lit jazz clubs in Budapest, Istanbul, Edinburgh, and New York, to DIY warehouse spaces in St. Louis and Timişoara. The duo’s performances are immersive musical journeys, careening seamlessly between passages of complex contrapuntal chamber music, alternative rock anthems, mixed-meter jazz, intimate lullabies, and noisy improvised soundscapes.

Over the last five years, the duo has performed in 14 countries across Europe and North America. The band’s 2026 season includes performances at the Bezau Beatz Festival in Austria and the Cologne Jazzweek, following a 14-concert spring tour in Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia, featuring GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist Bam Rodríguez. The duo’s past concerts include a performance presented by Skaņu Mežs in Riga, two performances at the Roland Jazz Fest in Romania, and two performances at the Opus Jazz Club in Budapest.

The duo’s debut record Cities and Deserts was released in 2022 on Hunnia Records. Avant Music News described it as “an effort that is offbeat, avant-garde, and technical, while still pulling at the emotions...Two thumbs up and highly recommended.” Cities and Deserts was voted among the top Hungarian jazz records of 2022 in the Jazz.Hu readers poll.

Their second album was recorded live in the studio in New York in 2025, following an eleven-date tour across the United States. The record will be released March 2027 on Boomslang Records.

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