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On 14 October 2024 - She won a Hungarian National Prize, which was given to her by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In April 2024 - her first book of poems is being prepared.
Her singing pupils and students won five prizes on singing competitions in December 2023 and January 2024. (Summarization: 42 prizes, more than 100 performances, results.)
In December 2023 - the extended edition of her first CD, Crystal Bridge was finished. (She wrote the Hungarian translations/lyrics.)
December 2023 – Her singing and piano pupils and students performed several concerts and galas in
Pécs, Komló and Szászvár, Hungary.
In October 2023 - she completed her teaching qualification (98%).
24 May 2023. - Dr. Ildikó Varga, „mely bölcsőjében levő saját nemzeti irányunk fejlesztésére és virulására csak termékenyítő hatással lehet.” A pesti Wagner-egylet alapításának 150. évfordulójára Pest 1872-Budapest, 2022, PARLANDO, 2023/III. Secondary publication.
http://www.parlando.hu/2023/2023-3/Varga-Ildiko-Wagner.pdf
8 March 2023. – Her students/pupils received 5 prizes on Pécsi Mátyás Király Utcai Általános Iskola - Megyei Népdaléneklési Verseny. (On 12th December 2022 they got 2 prizes on „Tiszán innen Dunán túl” national competition in Pécs.)
21 January 2023 - Her poems were published for a third time in a Hungarian national anthology. (Szárnypróbálgatók 2023 – magyar anyanyelvű alkotók országos antológiája, XX. ORSZÁGOS, JUBILEUMI SZÁRNYPRÓBÁLGATÓK ANTOLÓGIA.)
In December 2022 - Her fairy tale book was completed. (The illustrations were made by her as well.)
20 December 2022 – Christmas Concert in Pécs, Hungary.
4 October 2022 - 27th academical publication was published under the title, A pesti Wagner-egylet alapításának 150. évfordulójára, Pest, 1872-Budapest, 2022. (Study volume: Hírmondó Jubileumi kiadás – RWT 150, pp. 3-16.Richard Wagner Society, Budapest, 4 October 2022, Budapest.)
20 December 2021 – Christmas Concert in Pécs, Hungary.
21 October 2021 – Academic presentation: Pécs, az Agócsyak és a Kodály-koncepció. Pécs, Tudásközpont, Hungary.
September 2021 – June 2022 - Her pedagogical concept will be introduce in Pécs, Hungary.
25 April 2021 – Her translation was published in an occasion of an online concert. Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxNaLQbVaDA
2021_0425_fuga-schumannwagner-szovegek.pdf
23 February 2021 – Her pupil won a Bronz-medal in a Regional Singing Competition in Pécs, Hungary.
November 2020 – Her study Harmóniák, ellentétek és az „Isteni faktor” a zene és az érzelmek
relációjának tükrében were published in the volume of studies The Praise of Harmony (A harmónia dicsérete). The volume containes conference studies of the Department of Art and Art History, Institute
of Art, of University of Szeged, 13-14 November 2019, Szeged Hungary.
Published by the Department of Art and Art History, Institute of Art, of University of Szeged and SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2020.
http://www.jgypk.u-szeged.hu/hirek/szte-jgypk-2020-november/megjelent-marosi-kata?objectParentFolderId=31796
In September and October 2020 – She gave three lecture concerts in Pécs, Hungary. Theme:
based on her book Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
2020_1006_zenei_eloadas-plakat.pdf
1 September 2020 – Schooldirector of the Abaligeti Elementary and Music School.
27 May 2020 - She won the tender of Secretary of Culture of Ministry of Human Capacities and Hungarian National Philharmonics called Köszönjük Magyarország. She is going to give three lecture concerts. Theme: based on her book Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
7 April 2020 – She created her brand: VirArt.
25 March 2020 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Harmóniák, ellentétek és az „Isteni faktor” a zene és az érzelmek relációjának tükrében. PARLANDO, 2020/II.
https://www.parlando.hu/2020/2020-2/Varga_Ildiko.pdf
27 February 2020 – Academical presentation about the Hungarian musician and teacher László Agócsy, who played an important role in introducing of Kodály-conception in Hungary. Agócsy-napok, Pécs.
8, 14, 15, 22 December – Three little concerts in the Széchenyi Square in Pécs. Advent 2019, Pécs.
3 December 2019 - She graduated as leader of public education on Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest.
3 December 2019 – Her student Cintia Ács got to the semifinal of X-faktor Hungary.
7 November 2019 – Her study entitled Harmóniák, ellentétek és az „Isteni faktor”a zene és az érzelmek relációjának tükrében received I. prize on a competition. University of Szeged, Szeged.
September 2019 – Her study: Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, The Icelandic Music, Jón Leifs and the Three Hymns (Az izlandi zenéről, Jón Leifsről és a Három Himnuszról) was published in the volume New Results in Musicpedagogy (A zenepedagógia új eredményei). SZTE JGYPK Institute of Art, Department of Music Education, Szeged. SZTE JATEPress, Szeged, 2019, pp. 143-153.
24 September 2019 - She received her Ph.D. degree’s certificate of naturalization by the committee of Liszt Academy, Budapest.
8 August 2019 – The member of the Hungarian Writer and Belletrist Society of Hungary (Magyar Szak- és Szépirodalmi Szerzők és Kiadók Reprográfiai Egyesülete).
13 July 2019 - She has qualified as a school music teacher (M.Ed.) on University of Szeged. (Twelfth profession/qualification.)
10 March 2019 – Résumé-Critique. Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842- 1924. GRAMOFON, Classical and Jazz Magazine. Spring, 2019, 10 March 2019.
1 December 2018 – Ildikó Rita Anna Varga and her students concert. Pécs, Hungary.
26 November 2018 – Book launch in the Conference Room in Csorba Győző Library of Pécs. Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
21 November 2018 – OTDK. She received two prizes on a National Artististic and Scientific Competition. First prize in Musicology, Special Prize in Singing. Szeged. Hungary.
6 November 2018 – Book launch in the Pécsi Művészeti Gimnázium és Szakgimnázium of Pécs. Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
From November 2018 – Her book, Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924 is in the bookstores.
21 September 2018 - Book launch in the University of Szeged. Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
15 September 2018 – Book launch, Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924. Budapest, BMC.
6 September 2018 – A news about Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924.
PARLANDO 2018/6.
http://www.parlando.hu/2018/2018-6/Varga_Ildiko-Richard_Wagner.htm
6 September 2018 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga, Wagner és Erkel, avagy két komponista, a magyarok, és a haza. Pest, 1853-1863.
PARLANDO, 2018/6.
http://www.parlando.hu/2018/2018-6/Varga-Wagner-Erkel.pdf
6 September 2018 – Article: NEKROLÓG Horváth Gyuláné Agócsy Erika búcsúztatójára. A beszédet írta és elmondta: dr. Varga Ildikó (Varga Ildikó Rita Anna*) /Pécs, 2018. 06. 14.,14 óra/ PARLANDO 2018/6.
http://www.parlando.hu/2018/2018-6/Varga-nekrolog.htm
August 2018 – Her book Richard Wagner, Magyarország és a magyarok, 1842-1924 was published.
31 July 2018 – Százszorszép. CD.
23 July 2018 - Dr. Ildikó Varga, Lélektől lélekig ívelő üzenetek – Bánky József. The third article of her online music historical cycle. 1945-1990, Pécs8, column: Mosaics.
https://pecs8.hu/lelektol-lelekig-ivelo-uzenetek-banky-jozsef/
28 February 2018 - Ex Libris Et Musicis. Ladislaus de Agócsy. The first article of her music historical cycle released on 28 February 2018. (Portal: Pécs8, column: Mosaics.)
https://pecs8.hu/ex-libris-et-musicis/
27 January 2018 – Gyermán István Commemoration Day. Senior research fellow and curator of the exibition, the leader of the commemoration and presentation. Kodály Center, Pécs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VOewlKRC4A
19 January 2018 – Her poems were published in a national antology in Hungary: Szárnypróbálgatók 2018.
12 December 2017 – Crystal-bridge. CD-premier. Singer, lyricist, composer. Piano: Krisztina Persa-Greiling.
3, 10, 17 December 2017 – Three little concerts in the Széchenyi Square in Pécs. Advent 2017.
8 June 2017 – Richard Wagner and Hungary, 1842-1924. Academic presentation on the International Richard Wagner Conference in Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Center, Budapest (7-10 June 2017), where – among others – the great-grandchild of Richard Wagner is expected to be present. The languages of the conference: German, English. Patron: János Áder, President of the Hungarian Republic. The presentation was cancelled for technical reasons.
20 May - Aranyszablya Fesztivál.
http://www.geszterediaranyszablya.hu/
24 January 2017 – „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete”. A Szigriszt-Poldini-Agócsy-Horváth muzsikuscsaládról, és a Kodály-koncepció gyakorlati megvalósításának első, úttörő, pécsi lépéseiről.
Study. PARLANDO, 2017/I.
http://www.parlando.hu/2017/2017-1/Varga-Ildiko.pdf
20 January 2017 – A kind of informal academical conversation in Hungarian on the grounds of opening the exibition: ‘És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete’ in Csorba Győző Library, Pécs. 20 January 2017. Senior research fellow, curator.
http://www.parlando.hu/2017/2017-1/Varga-Ildiko.pdf
20 January 2017 - Senior research fellow and curator of the exibition: „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete” in Pécs. The exibition is based on Dr. Varga’s study: „És a muzsika a mi családi szakmánk dísze, becsülete”. A Szigriszt-Poldini-Agócsy-Horváth muzsikuscsaládról, és a Kodály-koncepció gyakorlati megvalósításának első, úttörő, pécsi lépéseiről, published on 24 January 2017. The exibition can be seen until January 2018, in Csorba Győző Library, Pécs.
20 January 2017 – Her poems were published in the Hungarian antology: Szárnypróbálgatók 2017.
2016-2017 – Chrystal-bridge. Her CD. Composer, lyricist, singer.
Piano: Krisztina Persa-Greiling.
12, 15, 16, 19 December 2016 – She sang with her students in the Széchenyi Square in Pécs. Advent 2016.
3 December 2016 - Legyen út. Video-premiere. From the upcoming CD: Chrystal-bridge. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga made the arrangment, the lyric and sang all the four parts. Piano: Krisztina Persa-Greiling. Hungarian premiere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N09dSYp0uE
https://myspace.com/vira77/videos
26 October 2016 – Her lyrics qualified for the final 10 from more then 1500 in the national competition: Írj indulót 1956 emlékére.
3-7 October 2016 – She gave her first music aesthetics lecture during the Thematic Week of the Faculty of Music of the University of Pécs called A zene és az érzelmek esztétikai relációja. Harmóniák, ellentétek, és az „Isteni faktor” (The aesthetic relation of music and emotions. Harmonies, contradictions and the “God-factor”).
1 October 2016 – Her students took part on a Singing, Musical Competition in Pécs. Éva Tajti won a Grand Prize, Péter Simon Kis won a Silver, Blanka Anita Ruppert won also a Silver Qualification.
26 September 2016 – Her fairy tale qualified for the finals of Alapítványi és Magánóvodák Egyesülete – ALMA Fairy Tale Competition. Budapest, Hungary.
September 2016 – Her poems qualified for the finals of Szárnypróbálgatók 2017 Competition. Csongrád-Budapest, Hungary.
19 May 2016 – Concert for charity in the concert hall of „C. R. Nagy Lajos Gimnáziuma” in Pécs with Dr. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s and her students’ contribution.
September 2015 - Copies of Richard Wagner, Hungary, and the Nineteenth Century, Aspects of the Reception of Wagner's Operas and Music-Dramas Ph.D.- thesis can be found in Hungarian libraries and collections. Copies are available in the Music Colletion and Theatre and Historical Section of the National Széchenyi Library, in the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre in Budapest, also in the Music Section of Csorba Győző Library Pécs and in The Library of the The University of Pécs The Faculty of Music and Visual Art.
3 July 2015 - She received her Dr.phil-Ph.D.degree from music history in Graz. Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz.
24 June 2015 – Wagner and the Hungarians. Study. Published in GRAMOFON, Classical and jazz online-magazine.
http://www.gramofon.hu/hirek/klassz/617-varga-ildiko-rita-anna-wagner-es-a-magyarok
25 April 2015 - Informative lecture on the event of the Hungarian Wagner Society. Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Reception of Richard Wagner’s Hungarian Art and the Short Chronicle of his ‘Hungarian Letters’. Wagner’s Hungarian Letters-Selection catalogue was also introduced as part of the presentation, which summarizes the correspondence of Wagner’s Hungarian reception-history. Budapest Music Center (BMC), 5 p.m., Budapest.
24 April 2015 - Lecture Concert From the Folk Song to the Art Song. 24 April, 10 a.m., House of Civil Communities, Pécs. The performance was part of the winning tender: Travels Around Music, NKA (3004/887).
Participated in the preparation of the award-winning project Travels around music of NKA (3004/887). Direction, consultancy.
22 April 2015 – Her student won the first prize in Opera Category and the third in Song Category on the National Singing Competition in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga received a special award for her work as a teacher.
24 March 2015 – Defended her Ph.D. Thesis and obtained her Ph.D./Dr. title. (Music Historian Dr. phil./Ph.D.). Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Reiterkaserne, 8. 45.
4 March 2015 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga was the first in the World to collect the letters of Richard Wagner regarding the Hungarian Wagner-reception. The result was published for the first time in Hungary in the article of the author: Wagner and the Hungarians, subtitle: ‘Die Ungarn, die keinen Begriff von meiner Musik hatten?’, or The Hungarian reception of Richard Wagner’s Art and the Short Chronicle of his ‘Hungarian Letters’. Study. Published in GRAMOFON, Classical and jazz magazine, 2015, I/XX, pp. 4-10. (The first time of publication of this catalogue: 23 October 2014, Graz – In the Ph.D. Thesis of the author.)
5 February 2015 - Modification of the Walkür-article on Wikipedia on 5 February 2015, 14:16. A Wikipedia (historical modification): The Valkyrie. ‘First night on 26 June 1870, Munich, requested by Louis II. Wagner was not really impressed with the idea of ‘defacing’ his dramatic cicle with this premiere, as the first two parts had been introduced in Munich, well before the performances in Bayreuth. The premiere in Hungary took place in the German Theatre, Gyapjú Street, 24 May 1883, performed by the Travelling Wagner-company of Angelo Neumann.’
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_walk%C3%BCr
11 Nov. 2014 - Academic presentation based on Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's dissertation, Richard Wagner, Hungary and the Nineteenth Century. Aspects of the Reception of Wagner's Operas and Music-Dramas. Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst, Graz. In English.
8 Nov. 2014 - Operetta- and Opera arias. Kővágószőlős, Hungary.
6 Sept. 2014 - Festivity in Kozármisleny. Opera-, operetta-, musical-concert. With the contribution of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's students.
20 Aug. 2014 - Concert in Mucsi.
26 June 2014 - The online publication of the music-historical essay - The Fabulous Musical Instruments of Iceland - on the website of Gramofon Magazine. One of the extracts can be found in the article - Jón Leifs, Alt eins... - is sung by Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Organ: Zsuzsanna Petőcz.
http://www.gramofon.hu/hirek/klassz/488-meses-izlandi-hangszerek
21 June 2014 - Modificaton of the Tanhäuser-article in Wikipedia. 21 June 2014, 14:11. (historical modification): Tannhäuser. ‘Premiere on 6 March 1862, German Theatre (Nottheater), Pest, Hungary, in German’, and on 11 March 1871 ‘in Hungarian, translated by Kornél Ábrányi Sr. in the National Theatre, Pest, Hungary’.
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user
14 June 2014 - Academic presentation in Hungarian - From Contemporaries to Contemporaries, Interdisciplinary Conference around Music, with a title of Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Reception-history of Wagner in the 19th Century in the Light of the 'Hungarian Letters'. 1853-1883. Organised by the National Association of Doctors (DOSz) Department of Musicology, Budapest Music Centre, Budapest. She had an opportunity to participate for winning a tender.
31 May 2014 - She had the honour to sing in the consecration of her Grandfather's memorial plaque in Gyugy. Amongst others in front of the recently renovated church - originally built in the Árpád-age -, which lies in a sacred place, namely in the cross/conflux of the St. George lines.
28 May 2014 - The First Time, or The First Publication of Richard Wagner's name and The Premieres of His Compositions in Hungary. 1842-1924. Published on the website of the Hungarian Richard Wagner Society.
http://www.wagnertarsasag.hu/tajekozodas/default.asp
7 May 2014 - Romeo and Juliet Redesigned. Director, choreograph, coach: Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Pécs, ANK, Theatre.
May 2014 - Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, Alias the History of Richard Wagner in Hungary in the 19th Century, in the Light of the ‘Hungarian Letters’ of Wagner. Curiosities, 1853-1883. Essay. Published in the journal: Hírmondó (Herald), Spring-Summer 2014, 1.-2./XVI, pp. 10-14.
10 March 2014 - Fabulous Icelandic Instruments. Essay. Published in the journal: Gramofon, 10 March 2014. Spring, 2014, I/XIX, pp. 4-8.
http://www.matarka.hu/cikk_list.php?fusz=120586
26 Feb. 2014 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's works had been used, and they refer back to her researches in the brochure of the terminal exhibition of Wagner and his Hungarian Friends (Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, from 17 May 2013 to 15 May 2014), which was published both in English and Hungarian on 26 February 2014, Budapest with the contribution of Liszt Ferenc Museum Foundation. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's research-results can be seen on p. 7. and 21, also in Endnotes, p. 64, 3. and 20. both in the Hungarian and the English brochure.
Szeretettel. (With Love.) DVD.
9 Sept. 2013 – There is a photo on the website of the Archives of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, which was taken on the occasion of the 50th jubilee of Ferenc Liszt’s musical activity. In the photo not only Ferenc Liszt can be seen, but also other Hungarians from whom some were the admirer and friend of Richard Wagner. According to many Hungarian authors, Count Imre Széchenyi can be seen in the picture as well. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga has found out, that the aforementioned person can not be the Count and thanks to her research, the director of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, dr. Andor Lakatos, replaced the name of Count Imre Széchenyi with Antal Siposs on the website of the Archives of Kalocsa Archbishopric on 9 September 2013. Dr. Lakatos also noted the amendment of this mistake could be done thanks to Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s research.
http://archivum.asztrik.hu/?q=oldal/6-liszt-es-haynald-a-foszekesegyhazban-az-angster-orgona-epitese
July 2013 – Zsuzsanna Domonkos, the director of the Research Library at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, asked Ildikó Rita Anna Varga to contribute to the exibition; Richard Wagner's Hungarian friends.
http://www.lisztmuseum.hu/hu/kiallitasok/idoszakos/
20 Apr. 2013 - Concert for Charity. E-78, Zsolnay Cultural District, Pécs, Hungary. Chief organiser, stage director.
27 March 2013 - Gala in Kodály Center in Pécs. Performer. Piece of Sky from Yentl with Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s own, brand new Hungarian text, and Medley from The Phantom of the Opera. Composers: Michel Legrand and A. Ll. Webber.
