Concert live recording of Béla Bartók Chamber Choir, Szolnok Hungary
Choir: Béla Bartók Chamber Choir
(Éva Molnár, chorus master)
Solo Cello: Eszter Vass
Piano: Zsuzsanna Fazekas
Conductor: Masahiro Izaki

recorded on 13th. May, 2022 at Ceremonial hall of City Hall, Szolnok

Concert Photos by Csaba Illyés


Ivo Antognini, composer with Swiss and Italian dual citizenship, writes music for choirs of all levels and has a distinctive personal style. His choral works have won many awards in national and international choral composition events and have been performed in more than 56 countries. He regularly serves as a jury member in national and international choral and composition competitions and has been presenting his music in Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, United States and Japan.

A concert dedicated completely to his choral music took place in March 2016 at the Lincoln Center, NY. His first major, extended work, ”A Prayer for Mother Earth”, for mixed choir, children’s choir, orchestra, soprano soloist and piano, was premiered at the Carnegie Hall in New York in May 2016. Recent recordings with Antognini’s music include “Canticum Novum”, a portrait CD featuring the Salt Lake Vocal Artists, “Be all Merry”, “Invisible Stars” and “Perpetual Twilight” (SIGNUM RECORDS), with UCD Choral Scholars, “Sacred Songs of Life & Love” (PENTATONE) with South Dakota Chorale and “To Bethlehem” (RESONUS) with Kantorei of Kansas City.
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Béla Bartók Chamber Choir, Szolnok
The professional female choir was founded in 1969 by the Government of Szolnok Town. Its Art Director and conductor is Eva Molnar from the year of 1989.

The Béla Bartók Chamber Choir is the one and only professional female choir in Hungary. The choir plays a role of high importance not only in the cultural life of Szolnok city, but also in that of the county and the country. The choir is supported by the Government of Szolnok city and the Ministry of Human Resources.

The choir operates in the frame of the activity of Szolnok city Symphonic Orchestra Ltd., their residence is in Bela Bartok musicschool in Szolnok.

The repertoire of the choir consists of mainly romantic, 20th century and contemporary composers and works. At the concerts secular and also sacred scores are interpreted.

The choir fulfills a requirement of performing oratorical compositions, too. The last several years concerts of significance, where they performed with an increased male choir numbers. The choir also plays an important role also in the productions of the Szigligeti Theatre.

The ensemble have a strong intention to take part in the education of the youth of Szolnok city. The concerts, performed especially for the youngsters, are based on the ages of music history or the carefully selected works of certain compositors.

Beside the concerts the choir is a popular cooperator of conductors' courses, compositors, premieres, style lectures, concerts of degrees or PHDs, conferences, exhibitions, ceremonies of anniversaries or other notable days. The female choir operates under the rules of the Law of Performance. They possess a grade of "Pre eminent" on the certificate of the Cultural Heritage Film and Art Office. The choir is permanently recorded by Radio&TV of Hungary.

Several inportant concert tours of the previous years: Italy, Sicily, Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, Poland, Japan, Russia.
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