The Guardian profiles the younger Ligeti.

Lukas Ligeti has a tough compositional gig. Yes, the name does mean exactly what you might think: György Ligeti is his dad, arguably the greatest composer of the postwar era. Talk about having to live up to a legend. But Lukas has managed a pretty astonishing personal and musical feat in his creative life: he’s able to acknowledge his father’s influence and at the same time, sidestep it and even transcend it. He’s been on tour with his solo music, much of it improvised with his electronic “marimba lumina” (a much, much more interesting contraption than that sounds) playing the London Jazz Festival last night, with gigs in Edinburgh tonight and tomorrow.

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