Noémi Győri

Noémi Győri (born 1983) is a Hungarian classical flautist.

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Education

Győri graduated with honours from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (Prof. Henrik Prőhle) in 2007 and completed post-graduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Prof. Barbara Gisler-Haase) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Prof. András Adorján). She has participated in the masterclasses of Aurèle Nicolet, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Marina Piccinini, Paul Meisen, William Bennett, and Michael M. Kofler and, through the Erasmus exchange programme, has spent a semester at the Sibelius Academy working with Petri Alanko.[1]

Győri is the first flutist to be accepted into the MPhil/PhD course in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she is currently studying as a fellow of the Philip Loubser Foundation, working on her Classical Flute and Guitar project.[2][3]

Performance career

Győri gave her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2011 as a First Prize Winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition[4] and, in the same year, was awarded the European Cultural Prize for Young Artists, following in the footsteps of former laureates such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Julia Fischer, and Sol Gabetta. In 2012, she won the Career Prize of the New York-based Salon de Virtuosi Foundation.[5][6] She has also been chosen as "Annie Fischer Scholar" of the Filharmonia Budapest for three successive years,[7][8] and she has been an artiste of the Hungarofest Klassz Foundation[9] and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundations in Vienna and Munich.[10] In both 2006 and 2009, she received the Performers’ Prize of the Artisjus Music Foundation in Hungary for her outstanding performances of Hungarian contemporary compositions. She was co-founder and artistic director of the IKZE Contemporary Music Festival in Budapest between 2004 and 2009.

Győri has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician at major international festivals in 28 countries (including the Grachten Festival in Amsterdam, Midis-Minimes in Belgium, the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Café Budapest Festival, the Saariaho Festival in den Haag, the Elisso Virsaladze Festival in Georgia, etc.). As a soloist she has worked with, amongst others, the Luxembourg Academy Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, the Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, the Amadinda Percussion Group, the Orchester Jakobsplatz München, the Georgian Sinfonietta, the Krakow Academy Orchestra, the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, the Danube Symphony Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, the Danubia Orchestra Obuda, the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra[11] and the IKZE Ensemble.[12]

In addition to her many individual concerts, she has played as a guest in orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic (at the Vienna State Opera, where she took part in unique projects such as the world premiere of Aribert Reimann's opera Medea. Since 2008, she is the principal flute of the Orchester Jakobplatz München, and has been the guest principal of the Georgian Sinfonietta and the Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian National Philharmonic.

Győri is a Miyazawa Flutes artist. She plays a 14K gold LaFin headjoint, sponsored by the Solti Foundation and a 14K gold Miyazawa Boston flute, funded by the Philip Loubser Foundation.[13]

Educator

In 2012, Győri was appointed Associate Tutor in Flute at the Royal Northern College of Music, becoming one of the youngest faculty members of the prestigious institution. She also serves as International Ambassador of the RNCM and leads her own flute studio at the Junior department.[14][15] She has given masterclasses at Leeds College of Music, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Bard College New York, the Consevatoire Dijon, the Pôle d’enseignement supérieur de la musique en Bourgogne Dijon, the Busan Music and Arts Highschool South-Korea the Béla Bartok and Weiner Conservatories in Budapest and the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia. She was a flute tutor at the Bozsok Music Camp in Hungary, Beigang International Music Festival in Taiwan, the Artesono International Orchestra Course in Switzerland, as well as leading popular workshops for Miyazawa Flutes in Germany. Győri was invited as an Erasmus Professor to the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway in 2013 and is to hold masterclasses at the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London and at the University of Victoria, Canada in 2017.

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References
  1. "Festival Academy". Festival Academy Budapest.
  2. "Royal Academy of Music PhD Newsletter" (PDF). Royal Academy of Music.
  3. "Masterpieces on Flute and guitar". Pan Magazine. British Flute Society. March 2017.
  4. "Fidelio". 2011.
  5. "Salon de Virtuosi".
  6. "Győri Noémit Karrier Díjjal tüntette ki a Salon de Virtuosi". Életforma Magazine.
  7. "Filharmónia Budapest".
  8. "Filharmónia Budapest".
  9. "Hungarofest Klassz Talent".
  10. "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now".
  11. 2012–2013 Concert Season, Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra
  12. "Programme 2015–16 Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne" (PDF).
  13. "Miyazawa Flutes Artist – Noémi Györi".
  14. "Royal Northern College Manchester".
  15. "Junior College – RNCM".
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