V. E A R L Y M U S I C C O U R S E
for S I N G E R S & L U T E -/ G U I T A R- P L A Y E R S
Budapest/Hungary, 24 July – 1 August 2O1O

Ildikó Hajnal & Bernadette Ritzen ( Holland ) - singers
István Kónya ( Hungary ) - lutenist

We organize the 5th time early music summer course for those singers who are interested in the performance practice of the renaissance vocal music, renaissance lute songs and early baroque arias.
The course is open for professional and amateur lute or guitar/players, too, who wants to accompany renaissance and baroque lute songs.

We intend to close the course with 3 concerts of course participants.

• For the attention of the ( singer ) participants:
• For beginners and advanced pupils
• Expected to be able to sing your own line alone in polyphone music
• Voice training, correpetition and chamber music
• Solo songs with a lute or guitar accompaniment

You can also attend the instrumental course with classical guitar .
Venue of the course:
Deák Diák School , Budapest , Köztársaság tér 4. ( www.deakdiak.hu )

.Date of the course : 24 July- August 1, 2O10

•  Teachers' concert on the 24 July 2010 at 7 pm
•  Course is held every day between 9 – 13.OO & 14.OO – 17.OO

Programs for the singers :
•  Madrigals and motets by the following composers : Isaac, Obrecht , Victoria , Palestrina
•  We will post the pieces before the first of July.
•  Who wants to sing only solo song, she/he should send the material to us beforehand

A pplication fee for active participants for the course and for the lectures: € 200,00 ( for not Hungarian participants) what you can pay there.

Deadline for applications : 20. June, 2010

The fee does not include the accommodation and the food.

Accommodation possibility nearby the school, see : www.wessi.hu/vendegszoba.htm

Further information, applications:

For singers: Ildikó Hajnal ; E-mail: ildikohajnal@gmail.com Web site : www.ildikohajnal.nl , tel: OO 31 2212 415

For instrumentalists : István Kónya ; E-mail: konya.istvan@lant.hu , Website: www.lant.hu , tel: + 36 30 343 33 06

Soprano and conductor Ildikó Hajnal
studied singing and history at the university of Nyíregyháza, Hongarije. She also was a member of the Kodály-choir of Debrecen. In the Netherlands she studied at thet Brabants Conservatory in Tilburg. There she studied Choir Direction with Hoite Pruiksma and Martien van Woerkum and Early Vocal Ensemble Music with Rebecca Stewart, for which she obtained her respective diplomas in 1998 and 2002. She followed many workshops and master classes with, among others, Anne Azema, Jill Feldman, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Andrea von Ramm and Emma Kirkby. She made several radio recordings as a member of several professional ensembles and participated in festivals. Examples of this are a.o. a recording for KRO radio of gregorian chants and organum form the festivities of the celibration of Maria-Lichtmis (2 febr.), based on manuscripts from the early 13th century from the famous Notre Dame School in Paris. With this programme she also participated in the Festival van Vlaanderen (Festival of Flanders) 2004 in Tongeren (Belgium) and the festival for early music in Brezice, Slovenia, also in 2004. She also took part in the international Orgelfestival Haarlem (Organ Festival Haarlem) 2004 with the SUPER LIBRUM ensemble and the Festival van Vlaanderen (Festival of Flanders) (2005) in Bruges with music from the Middle Ages. With the training ensemble Schola Cantorum Brabantiae has she also worked on various TV and radio and CD recordings, including de Messe de Nostre Dame from G. de Machaut, recorded in the Reims Cathedral. She also performed during Aqua Musica in Amsterdam, a music festival in historic ships. As a guest singer she works with Fala Musica (instrumental ensemble for music from the Middle Ages) in both the Noorderkerk in Amsterdam and in Beek Ubbergen.

  As a soloist she has performed with the training ensemble Schola Cantorum Brabantiae, during a performance of the Passion of John the Baptist by J.S. Bach and with the Alkmaars Cantate choir, starting also a solocareer. Nowadays she participates in many programs as a soloist. She also works as a choir and ensembles conductor, she gives singing lessons and workshops in old music.

  From 2006 she has been teaching at the Centrum voor Amateurkunst (Centre for Amateur Arts) in Tilburg as a vocalisation teacher and as of September 2007 she works at the Fontys Conservatorium in Tilburg as teacher Early Ensemble singing.

Bernadette Ritzen , mezzo soprano,

studied at the conservatory of Arnhem in The Netherlands with Tom Sol and Carolyn Watkinson, where she graduated for her bachelor degree in 1996. Already during her studies she has had her lessons with famous singers as Hans Wilbrink (München), Gisela May and Jard van Nes.

As a member of the Dutch Theaterkoor she sang in many performances of the National Ballet and the Nederlands Danstheater. She performed solo in the concertrepertoire of Pergolesi, Mozart, Haydn, Gluck, Alain, Respighi and Britten and in operas as from Burnazzi, Mozart and Haydn.

In Lieder she prefers to sing the German romantic repertoire besides the French mélodie. She has a great experience in teaching. For many years she was a singing teacher at the musical department of De Lindenberg, the center of arts in Nijmegen, where she was the supervisor of teaching children to sing. She coaches choirs and vocal ensembles in Holland and abroad. She is the pedagogue at the Classical Solo Singing Department of the Centre for Arts in Tiel (Holland).

 

István Kónya was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary and obtained his first diploma in History and Music in 1985, whilst broadening his training with studies in classical guitar. In 1989 he joined the lute studio of Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. There, he gained his lute diploma in 1994, being the first Hungarian lutist to graduate. In addition to renaissance and baroque lutes, he plays the archlute and the chitarrone. Obtaining his chamber music degree in 1996,he attended master classes with Nigel North and Steven Stubbs. From 1993 he has held regular courses on the lute in Hungary Lute teacher and artistic director of the "Early Music Summer Academy" in Szombathely (1996-1998), from 2005 of the Savaraia Early Music Course, from 2006 of the International Lute & Guitar Festival in Gyor./Hungary. His activities as a solist, accompanist and chamber musician have taken him all over Europe. His solos CD's are : „ Lute Music from Three Centuries” and „ S.L.Weiss: Lute Suites ” . He made his recital debuts in the United States with Timothy Bentch (tenor) in 2003 with great succes. 2004 he had solo recitals in the Tallin Early Music Festival. Since 2002 he has monthly a luteconcert in the Buda Castle. See more informations on his website, www.lant.hu .

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