Megyimórecz, Ildikó

Voice type: Soprano

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 21 April, 1992

She was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1992. She studied opera under Éva Marton, earning a master’s degree with honours from the Liszt Academy in 2019. In the same year, she received a contract from the Hungarian State Opera. The soprano has attended master classes by Éva Marton, Magda Nádor, Mária Temesi, Sylvia Sass, Andrea Rost, István Andrejcsik and Nicholas Clapton. She has performed at the Bartók Memorial House, the Budapest Music Centre, both venues of the Hungarian State Opera, the Müpa Budapest, the Liszt Academy, the Pesti Vigadó, the National Theatre of Pécs, and collaborated with such famous musicians and orchestras as Tamás Érdi, Miklós Szenthelyi and the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, János Kovács and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Éva Marton and Tamás Vásáry. She was a fellow of the Bayreuther Festspiele, where she attended Gwyneth Jones’s master class. She won second place at the International Contemporary Competition in 2015, she was awarded the special prize granted by the Hungarian Academy of Arts at the 3rd Éva Marton International Singing Competition in 2018, and she was a finalist at the Fanny Mendelssohn competition in Hamburg and received the Junior Prima Award in 2019.

In 2020, she performed at the New Year's Eve concert in Kaposvár City. In February she worked with the Miskolc Philharmonic, and then sang Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen at the Hungarian State Opera House's tour of Gyula, Veszprém and Pécs. In September she sang Salome in the Hungarian Opera House's Salome Cover project.

Competition Repertoire

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Final