Bettika Bakos is a young singer, composer, student of the LFZE Jazz Department, she also deals with improvisation, free music, theater music, mantra singing, teaches and holds workshops. Her ensemble, the Bettika Quintet, uses elements of jazz, free improvisation, world music and contemporary poetry. Most of the current program consists of her own compositions, included pieces, which are rooted in jazz, interspersed with jazz-poetry or spoken word elements, the rhythm and lyrics of which are based on the works of Hungarian contemporary poets, such as Dezső Tandori, Ede Tarbay, István Bella, István Csukás and Sándor Weöres. The program also includes reworkings world music pieces, mainly Hungarian and gypsy folk music melodies, which bring exciting colors to the concert program with their complex rhythms or lyrical mood. And Bettika's own pieces without lyrics give room for free improvisation and playing with musical frames.