Singing Work

Important Events

Art/Music/Singing
Artistic, creative activity

2025

On June 12, 2025, she received a commendation from the Director of the Pécsi Tankerületi Központ (School District Center of Pécs) for the concept she developed, her academic/scientific achievements, and the National Pedagogical Research Award she received in October 2024.

 

2024

27 October 2024 - A television report was made about her development/talent care concept, in connection with the Pedagogical Research Award, which was awarded on 14 October 2024. Pécs, Pannon Television.

14 October 2024 - She won the National Teacher Research Award, which the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been awarding to 12 teachers every year for the 27th year. She was the first teacher from the Pécs School District Center to receive the honor. She won the award with her own development/talent care concept and the presentation of its results.

 

2023

Kristály-híd. (Crystal-bridge.) CD-premier. Singer, lyricist, composer. New, extended edition. 2023.

 

2019

10 May 2019 – Special award of Meszlényi Róbert Alapítvány. Szeged, Hungary.

2018/2017

21 November 2018 – Special award of Singing. Szeged, Hungary.

 

31 July 2018 - Százszorszép (Moon-flower), album. CD-premier. 15 years records’ selection.

12 December 2017 - Kristály-híd (Crystal-bridge), album. CD-premier. Singer, lyricist, composer. Piano: Krisztina Persa-Greiling.

2016-2013

19 May 2016 – Charity Concert. Pécs. With the contribution of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga and her students. Organizer, director.

20 April 2015 - A népdaltól a műdalig, Lecture Concert, Pécs. Brahms: Wiegenlied and Bartók- and Kodály songs and folksong adaptations. Piano: Mária Simonfai. 

 

24 December 2013 – Szeretettel  (With Love). DVD.

 

20 April 2013 - Charity Concert. Pécs. Soloist, director, organizer, lyricist.

 

27 March 2013 - Gala, Kodály Központ, Pécs. Fragments from Webber: The Fantom of the Opera and Legrand: Yentl. (The Hungarian text of Yentl was written by the singer.)

2012-2009

28 July 2012 - Országos Kékfestő Fesztivál (National „Kékfestő” Festival), Nagynyárád. Operetta arias and musical songs. (She was the writer of the songs Hungarian lyrics.)

 

25 May 2011 - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Lecture Concert, Budapest. Piano: Zsuzsanna Petőcz.

 

18 May 2011 - Liszt Concert. Fogadalmi Templom, Mohács. Organ: Zoltán Dergez.

 

26 November 2010 – Betekintés az amerikai zenébe (View of the American Music). Soloist, teather director, lyricist. Piano: Mrs. Győző Kovács. Mohács. 

6 May 2009 – The Sound of Music’s. Cross Section. Pécs. She sang Maria’s part. (Theater director, lyricist.)

2008-2006

5 May 2008 - Portrait about the teaching and artistic work of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Broadcasted on the local TV channel of Mohács (Csele TV). Piano: Mrs. Győző Kovács.

 

7 April 2008 – Graduation Concert. Pécs, Művészetek és Irodalom Házában. Piano: Gyula Pfeiffer, coach of the Hungarian State Opera House.

 

2007 – She sang the part of Örzse (Ilka) and Mária Terézia in Zoltán Kodály’s Háry János in a concert-like performance organized by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Company accross Hungary.

 

29 January 2007 – Recital in Mohács. Piano: Gabriella Fodor.

 

19 May 2006 - Örök Nő (Eternal Woman), monodrama. A kind of ’Gesamtkunstwerk’ (Total Work of Art), in which songcycles, e.g. R. Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben and opera arias, e.g. Wagner: Isolde’s Liebestod, piano pieces, film, drama and poems became one play. Recital. Soloist, project initiator, Co-Director.

2005/2004

26 November 2005 – Recital in Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum, Budapest. Beethoven: Sechs Lieder von Gellert and Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder. Piano: Gabriella Fodor.

2004 – She gave a concert with the Choir of Borgarnes in Wekerletelep Római Katolikus Templom, in Budapest. Organ: Gergely Kaposi, conductor: Zsuzsanna Budai. (Soloist.)

 

10 May 2004 – SAGAS. Recital. Program: Icelandic folk songs and Lieder in Icelandic. Hungarian premier. Művészetek Háza, Pécs. Piano: Gabriella Fodor.

2003

2003 - She sang Donna Elvira’s part in W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni. Iceland, Reykjavik, Egilsstaðir.

 

8 August 2003 – Galaconcert in Nice.She sang Wagner: Entweihte Götter, Ortrud’s aria from Lohengrin and Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe. Piano: Alessandro Zuppardo és Pei-Chao Liao.

15 April 2003 – Recital in The Opera House of Reykjavik. Program: Bartók-, and Kodály songs and folk songs adaptations. Icelandic premier. Piano: Antónia Hevesi.

2002

2002 - Linum Festival, Nagykovácsi. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, Aria of Santuzza: Voi lo sapete… Piano: Zsuzsanna Hajnóczy.

2002 - She received the scholarship of Operabarátok Köre Alapítvány in Budapest.

 

2002 – She sang Dorabella’s part in W. A. Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte. Iceland, Reykjavik, Egilsstaðir.

21 March 2002 – ’The Three Sopranos’. Concert in The Opera House of Reykjavik with Kristín Ragnhildur Sigurđardóttir and Hulda Gudrun Geirsdóttir. Opera arias and duets. Piano: Iwona Ösp Jagla.

 

9 February 2002 - She gave a concert in Grensáskirkja in Reykjavik with Kristín R. Sigurðardóttir. Cherubini duets and baroque arias.Piano: Clive Pollard.

2002 - Christmas Concert in Borgarnes with the contribution of an united choir (150 members). Ó, helga nótt… (Adolphe Adam: O, Holy Night, with the icelandic text of Sigurđur Björnsson). Conductor: Zsuzsanna Budai.

2001

2001 – She’s got the part of the Second Lady in Mozart’s Zauberflöte in the Theatre of Debrecen. Music director: Gergely Kaposi.

 

21 July 2001 – Gala Concert in Majk, with the contribution of the Hunagrian State Opera House’s orchestra. Bizet: Carmen, Seguidilla.  Conductor: Ferenc Nagy.

 

5, 13, 19 May 2001 – Recitals in Tálknafjörđur, Stykkisholmur and Borgarnes. Piano: Ingibjörg Þórsteinsdóttir and Zsuzsanna Budai.

 

10 April 2001 – Concert in Reykjavik ( Háteigskirkja). Douglas A. Brotchie (organ) and Sesselja Óskarsdóttir (gamba). Program: Couperin’s, Ph. E. Bach’s and Jón Leifs’ compositions.

16 March 2001 – She sang int he broadcast of Icelandic TV. Milli himins og jarđar (Between Heaven and Earth.) Rudolf Sieczyński: Wien, Wien, nur du allein… with Kristín Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir and Hulda Gudrun Geirsdóttir.

2000

2000 – Soloist of the Honvéd Művészegyüttes in Budapest.

2000 – She sang to Ólafur Ragnar Grímssonnak, the then-President of Icelandic Republic. Stykkisholmur, Iceland. Bizet:Carmen, Seguidilla.) Piano: Ingibjörg Þórsteinsdóttir.

10 April 2000, 10 May 2000 – Recitals. R. Schumann: Liederkreis (Op. 39.), Mozart, Thomas, Rossini, Donizetti, arias, etc... Pécs-Budapest. Pécs, Művészetek Háza, Budapest, Bálint Zsidó Közösségi Ház. Piano: Ferenc Nagy, the conductor of the Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest.

 

23 March 2000 – She made her opera singer debut in the role of Fenena in the Hungarian Opera House of Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) with great success. Director: András Kürthy, conductor: Béla Hary.

1999-95

1999 – She’s got the role of Dorabella in Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest.

1999 – The prima donna of the InterOperett Gala in Budapest. Lehár and R. Stolz operetta arias.

4 September 1999 - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, alt soloist. With Maria Teresa Uribe and The Danubia Orchestra, conducted by Domonkos Héja. Fesztivál a Határon, Kőszeg.

 

26 April 1999 - Brahms-concert with Balázs Szokolay and Uribe Maria Teresa. Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest.

 

15 January 1999 – Recital in Pécs, Dominikánus Ház. Piano: Péter Oberfrank.

 

12 July 1998 – Gala Concert, Majk. Bizet: Carmen, Habanera. WIth the orchestra of The Hungarian State Opera House, conducted by Ferenc Nagy.

 

22 April 1996 -  Musical Concert (Funny Girl). In Művészetek Háza, Pécs. Soloist, theater director. Music director: Kornél Győri.

 

21 September 1995 – Charity Concert organized by the OPUS foundation. Pécsi Napok, Csontváry Múzeum, Pécs, Singers: Gabriella Jani, Júlia Fűzfa, István Kovács, Péter Marosvári, Péter Rubind. Piano: Pál Gerő, Dániel Szabó.

 

27 April 1995 - In Memoriam Leonard Bernstein, avagy a jazz hódítása a klasszikus zenében. She sang Gershwin songs and the part of Anita in the West Side Story. In the organization of OPUS Foundation. Művészetek Háza, Pécs. Piano: Gabriella Fodor. Singers: Lilla Visnyánszky, István Kovács, Péter Marosvári. Director: István Józsa.