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Ildikó Iván began her
musical career as a flutist, and received her diploma at the Debrecen
division of Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where she studied with
Istvan Matuz. She then studied singing with Adrienne Szterszky and
Endre Dékány and four years later she graduated from the same
institute with a degree in singing. Her first operatic contract was
with the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen.Her international career already
began in 1984, after receiving first prize and special award at the
Karlovy Vary Singing Competition, and later, obtaining third place at
the Sophia Singing Competition. Soon after, she was invited to the
Sophia Music Festival, where she sang the role of Gilda along with
Giuseppe Taddei, and she proved to be once again a great success. In
the same year, she won the grand prix of the Cziffra Foundation, after
which she was invited to a number of French concerts. She became a
regular guest singer at the Hungarian State Opera, singing such
notable roles as Lucia di Lammermoor, Olympia, Fiordiligi, Melinda and
Micaela.
In 1988 she won the first price at the Geszty Sylvia Coloratura
Competition in Stuttgart. Afterwards, she gained a reputation
Europe-wide as the soprano of the Bonn Opera. She worked with such
notable conductors as Sylvio Varviso, Dennis Russel Davies, Waclaw
Neumann, Stefan Soltész, Udo Zimmermann and Gianfranco Massini, and
also with vocal partners as Edita Gruberova, Juan Pons, Anna
Tomowa-Sintow, Graham Clark and Gössta Winberg. She appeared once
again in Hungary in 1994 at the performance of Rigoletto ath the
Margaret Island Open Air Theatre.
Currently, she is a popular soprano of the Hungarian music scene, a
regular guest of various opera companies, an oratorio soloist and
noted performer of contemporary music repertoire. She played the
leading role in several operatic films: Cosi fan tutte (Miklós
Szinetár), The Greatest Ball (Judit Galgóczy), Countess Marica (Ágnes
Csenterics).
Ildikó was the soloist of the Three nocturnes on the Hungaroton
recording dedicated to the chamber music of Lajtha. She has also
published two solo CDs titled Letter Arias: letter arias and duets
from the operatic literature, and Anna Arias - Arias of Anna from the
operatic literature.
Source: Hungarian Cultural Center, NY |
