Noémi Győri Katalin Csillagh - Katalin Csillagh pianist, Steinway artist

Noémi Győri Katalin Csillagh - Katalin Csillagh pianist, Steinway artist

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
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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.
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.
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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)
”
Contact
Towa Friedmann
[email protected]
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Groffstr.15
80638 München
Photos
Péter Bársony
Design
Panna Petró
Angelica Espinosa