Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/Oct/2019
Genre - Voice and piano
In a programme of Beethoven: Sonata Op. 78 (A Therese), Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben for soprano and piano (Adelbert von Chamisso), Beethoven – Liszt: 3 Goethe lieder transcribed for solo piano, Brahms: Intermezzo C major Op. 119 No. 3, Intermezzo in E flat minor Op. 118 No. 6 and Intermezzo in A minor Op. 116 No. 2 and Brahms: Zigeunerlieder for soprano and piano (Hugo Conrat)
In association with Goethe Institut (Max Mueller Bhavan), Pune
Boglárka Udvarhelyi was born in Debrecen, went to music school at a young age, and started playing in the local school orchestra. She later sang solo in the school choir, and won the town folk singing competitions. After entering the Music Conservatory in Debrecen, she sang regularly as an “assistant” at the Chokonai Theater Choir in Debrecen and at the Kodály Choir in Debrecen. After graduation she was admitted to the Opera Academy of the Budapest Academy of Music and became a student of Éva Andor. Her first opera role was at the Szeged National Theater, and then at the Debrecen Csokonai Theater. Throughout her career she constantly appeared in the female lead roles of Puccini, Verdi and Mozart operas. While venturing in the world of classical music acquainted with the genre of operetta as well! Up until now she appeared in 25 operas and 15 operettas. She toured all over Europe for 6 years as a leading soprano and sang mainly in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland.
Besides performing on the stage she is also a singing teacher with the experience of 18 years at various Hungarian music institutes. She was invited to be a jury at several Hungarian classical music contest and she also gave lectures to the students of Alicante Conservatorio Oscar Espla in Spain. In 2013, she received her Doctoral title at the Academy of Music, led by Éva Marton and is currently singing at home and abroad!
Hungarian concert pianist, Judit Gabos, is piano professor and head of the music department of Eszterházy Károly University of Eger.
In 2003, she received her DMA in piano performance from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and in 2012 obtained a habilitation also in piano performance from the Liszt Academy. Between 2000-2006, she was an artist of the Hungarian Radio during which time she played numerous live solo and chamber music recitals. She has also been performing regularly at the Liszt Museum in Budapest, played at the Spring Festival of Budapest, Pecs and Eger and has collaborated as a chamber musician and solo piano recitalist within the “Philharmony” concert series several times throughout Hungary (Eger, Szeged).
Recently, in Spring 2019, Ms Gabos collaborated with the dance company of Eger (GG Dance ensemble) in the dance fantasy “Hungarian Rhapsody”, playing Liszt works live during the dance performances in Eger and Budapest. In Europe, she has given solo and chamber music concerts in Belgium, Finland, Serbia, Spain. In Romania she has frequently been soloist of the State Philharmonics of Targu-Mures. She was also Guest artist and professor in Farnieres (Belgium), at the Academie de musique de chamber (2003-2007), and in 2019, at the Festival de musique set Instruments Rares (Chateau de Farnières).
Piano professor and artist in residence at universities from the USA: University of Minnesota (1993), University of Georgia (2002), University of South Carolina (2011), in 2011, as a Fulbright grantee, she played concerts with orchestras and gave recitals in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco), Cleveland (Ohio), Atlanta (Georgia), in South and North Carolina, honouring the Liszt bicentenary.
Besides Liszt, in the United States she has performed Bartók Concerto No.3 for piano and orchestra, the Sonata for two pianos and percussions, and was featured in all-Bartók recitals in New York (2013, 2015), Canada (2015: Ottawa, Toronto), Liszt-Bartók recitals in Ottawa, Toronto, Montréal (2016) and Vancouver (2019). Outside Europe and the North American continent, Ms. Gabos has played concertos and given masterclasses in Yogjakarta (Indonesia, 2013), solo and chamber music recitals in Brazil (Santa Maria, Florianópolis, Belo Horizonte, Natal in 2014, 2017), India (Delhi, Poona, Mumbai in 2016) and New Zealand (2018). She has also recorded two CDs with violist Jacques Dupriez: Russian Dreams (Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Glinka, Scriabin); Romantic Dreams (Paganini, Liszt-Berlioz, Liszt); a CD with soprano Georgina Gatto: Amor, solo Amor. As a performer of contemporary music she has also premiered works by György Orbán (Sonata Grande), Frédéric Van Rossum, Kozma Mátyás and Zoltán Aladár.
