Kónya
has performed in all the Hungarian Early Music Festivals: Early
Music Week Sopron, Budapest Baroque Festival, East-European Early
Music Festival, Dutch-Hungarian Baroque Music Festival, Early Music
Forum Budapest, British Early Music Festival (Budapest), Artistic
Days of Zemplén, Savaria Carnival and Gödöllő Baroque Days. He is
a frequent guest at the Spring, Summer and Autumn Festivals of the
Provinces. He gave recitals in most of the major Hungarian cities
and in the prominent castles (Gödöllő Royal Palace, Fertőd Esterhazy
Castle, and Buda Royal Castle).
His numerous concert performances included Händel's Orlando with
the Budapest Chamber Opera (cond. Philipp Pickett), Purcell's Dido
and Aeneas (cond. Catharine Mackintosh) at the Budapest Spring Festival,
Purcell's Fairy Queen and King Arthur, and Charpentier's Acteon
with the Orfeo Orchestra (cond.György Vashegyi) at the Academy of
Music in Budapest. He also has appeared as a solist with the Tomkins
Vocal Consort at the Budapest Spring Festival and with Csaba Király
(organ) in the Mathias Church with an organ-baroquelute concert
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He performed all of Monteverdi operas with the Budapest Chamber
Opera and Capella Savaria in the Monteverdi Opera Festival,
and also played with Concerto Armanico (cond. Péter Szűts) at
the French Baroque Music Festival (Budapest), with the Hungarian
Radio Orchestra (cond. Tamás Vásáry) in The Messiah by Händel,
with Budapest Chamber Opera by Monteverdi: Poppea and Vivaldi:Il
Tigrane baroque operas at St. James' Piccadilly in London.
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Besides his recital
engagements in Hungary, Mr. Kónya has appeared at many prestigous festivals
abroad with leading ensembles, including Capella Leopoldina Graz and Armonico
Tributo Austria at the Styriarte Festival (Austria), Concerto Piccolo
Vienna at the International Organ Festival in Zwettl, Utrecht's Barock
(Amsterdam, Utrecht); Ensemble Gloriant (Bremen, Leiden, Rotterdam), Orchestra
Sweelinck (Amsterdam), Koninklijk Conservatorium Orchestra (The Hague),
Croatian Radio Chor and Croaitian Baroque Ensemble (Zagreb), Ensemble
Responsoriom at the Danube Festival (Austria) and at Istria Festivals
(Croatia), Collegium Musicum Fluminense (Rijeka), Ensemble Antiqua Ruhr
(Italy), and le"Petit Consort" (Paris).
In 2000 Mr. Kónya
has launched several solo series in Budapest introducing the solo and
chamber repertoire of the lute. Since Summer 2002 he has had a monthly
concert series in the Buda Royal Castle, performing the unknown pearls
of the Hungarian, Italian, English, French, German, Austrian, and Eastern-European
renaissance and baroque music. He has collaborated with distinguished
singers and instrumentalists, including Timothy Bentch (tenor), Mária
Zádori and Ildikó Hajnal/Holland/(soprano), László Paulik (baroque violin),
Miklós Spányi (organ, harpsichord), Bernard Loonen/Holland, Ludy Vrijdag/Holland
(tenor), Lúcia Krommer (viol/ viola da gamba) and Gábor Prehoffer (recorder).
In 2002 he participated in two international tourist exhibitions introducing
Hungarian renaissance music in Norway and Switzerland. He made his recital
debuts in the United States with Timothy Bentch (tenor) in 2003 with
great success. In 2004 with his hungarian renaissance chamber program
he visited several cities in abroad (Berlin, Stuttgart, Prague, Tallin,
Sophia). In 2004 he took part in the Estonian Early Music Festival (Tallin)
with two solo recitals, in 2006 with a chamber program at Tarnow Festival
(Poland) and at the International Organ Festival in Pula (Croatia).
He made numerous radio and television records, participated several
CDs, and also released two solo albums, "Lute Music from Three
Centuries" (2000) and "S.L.Weiss: Lute Suites" (2002)
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