Noémi Győri Katalin Csillagh
Noémi Győri Noémi Győri (1983) has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician on major international festivals in 28 countries. Since 2008 she is principal flutist of the Orchester Jakobplatz München and has been playing as a guest in outstanding orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Vienna State Opera). As recognition towards her artistic achievements Noémi was awarded the European Cultural Prize for Young Artists (2011), the Career Prize of the New York based Salon de Virtuosi Foundation (2012) and twice the Performers Prize of the Artisjus Music Foundation Hungary for her outstanding performances of Hungarian contemporary compositions (2006 and 2009). As a young artist with exceptional talent, she has also been three consecutive times chosen Annie Fischer Scholar of the Filharmonia Budapest. Noémi gave her Carnegie Hall debut in 2011 as a First Prize Winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition. In 2012 Noémi was appointed Associate Tutor in Flute at the Royal Northern College of Music, being one of the youngest faculty members. She also serves as International Ambassador of the RNCM and leads her own flute studio at the Junior department since 2011. She has been leading masterclasses in Taiwan, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Georgia, Norway, Hungary, Ireland and England. She has made recordings for the ORF, Deutschlandfunk, BRF, BBC, WQXR New York, Georgian Radio, Hungarian Radio, Hungaroton, Arte and Mezzo TV. Her debut CD was released by Hungaroton label in 2011, featuring world premier recordings of Antonio Nava s flute and guitar music from the 19th century Milano. Noémi Győri is currently the only emerging artist of the Miyazawa Flutes in Europe. She plays a 14K gold LaFin headjoint sponsored by the Solti Foundation and a 14K gold Miyazawa Boston flute provided exclusively for her by the Dutch Philip Loubser Foundation. Noémi has graduated with top honours from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Prof. Henrik Prőhle in 2007, studying with Henrik Prőhle. She has completed post-gradual studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Barbara Gisler-Haase and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München studying with András Adorján. www.noemigyori.com
Katalin Csillagh Born in Budapest in 1981, pianist Katalin Csillagh was ten when she gave a performance of her own compositions in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music. As an extraordinary talent she was admitted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music at the age of twelve. Later she studied piano under György Nádor at the Liszt Academy of Music and graduated with top honours in 2005. In 2001 Katalin was awarded a two-year scholarship to the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she was taught by Leon Fleischer and John Perry. In the same year she also received a scholarship from the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Foundation. She completed her post-graduate studies under Imre Rohmann at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2008. She attended the master classes of several great musicians, such as Alberto Portugheis, Boris Berezowski, Jenő Jandó, Oleg Maisenberg, László Baranyay and Ferenc Rados, and took part in the improvisation and composition course of Messiaen s pupil Emmy Henz-Diémand. Her talent has been acknowledged at international competitions, winning first prize at the piano competition of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA, London,1999) and at the chamber music competition of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe (2007, London). She was awarded the Kadosa Prize at the National Piano Competition in 1998. She has had concerts in Vienna, London, Toronto, Buenos Aires, New York, Salzburg, Munich, Bayreuth and Nice as well as at several European festivals. In 2010 she played Piazzolla for 2 pianos with Martha Argerich in London at the Argentina 200 Festival. In 2007 she had the honour to represent Hungary at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London under the aegis of the Kodály Jubilee Year. Her recordings have been broadcasted by the Hungarian Radio and Television. Her solo CD Sonatas (SW 2000) and her chamber music CD Shades of Bach with János Vázsonyi (BMC, 2001) have scored great success in several countries. Her new CD including Chopin s 24 Preludes and Improvisations was released in 2008. Katalin has been teaching at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, since September 2013 and was invited to teach at the Crescendo International Summer Academy in 2014. www.katalincsillagh.net
Programmes Treasures of Eastern and Central Europe Béla Bartók - Paul Arma: Suite Paysanne Hongroise Erwin Schulhoff: Flute Sonata Béla Bartók : Elegie no.2. op.8/b Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D major, op.94 Time Travel Johann Sebastian Bach: Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032 Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821 Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango Mysterious Women Carl Reinecke: Flute Sonata, op.167, Undine Melanie Bonis: Flute Sonata Fanny Mendelssohn: Notturno in g minor Clara Schumann: Variations on a theme by R. Schumann François Borne: Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen Brillante Theobald Boehm: Grand Polonaise, op.16 Jules Massenet: Méditation de Thaïs Frédéric Chopin : Fantaisie Impromptu, op.66 Frédéric Chopin: Waltz op.34, no.3 in F major Franz Liszt: Dance of the Gnomes Franz Doppler: Hungarian pastoral fantasy, op.26 Franz Schubert - Theobald Böhm: Serenade, D. 889 Antonio Bazzini: La ronde des lutins, op.25
Noémi Győri flutist and Katalin Csillagh pianist started their collaboration in 2007 and have since performed together regularly. Their first engagement was on the IKZE Festival (Contemporary Music Festival of Young Composers) in Budapest, performing brand new creations of Hungary s finest young composers. Noémi and Katalin s broad repertoire ranges from these experimental, new compositions to the baroque. Next to giving recitals they have also performed Erwin Schulhoff s Double Concerto as soloists together. Their interpretation received enthusiastic reviews in major newspapers, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung. They have been giving concerts across Europe and in the USA, on such festivals as the Hungarian Spring Festival, Midis-Minimes Festival Brussels, Zemplén Festival, AKZE Festival, Salon de Virtuosi chamber music series in New York just to name a few. Noémi and Katalin made a live recording for New York s Radio WQXR in 2012. Their first duo album, featuring romantic sonatas, will be released by Hungaroton in 2016. Their playing was especially refined and concentrated; their attentive musicality towards each other resulted in true chamber music playing. (Revizor, 2010)
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