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Judith Brindle read music at Bristol University and received the Professional Development Certificate in Early Childhood Education (Kodály) in 2002 and another in Primary Education (Kodály) in 2004 from University of Surrey. Formerly Judith was a music advisory teacher for Bradford and a part-time lecturer in primary music education at Trinity & All Saints University College, Leeds. Judith currently teaches music three days a week in Bradford primary schools, is an advisory teacher for the Voices’ Foundation, and also works in a freelance capacity designing and leading music workshops throughout the UK for practitioners from early years, primary and special education including one specifically for teachers of pupils at the severe end of the autistic spectrum.
Celia Cviic read History at Oxford, where she began vocal studies with Norman Lilly, performing in concert opera and giving concert recitals, which she continued while working as a Studio Manager in the BBC World Service. She gained an ARCM in 1977, teaching musicianship and singing to children and adults in private and LEA classes. From 1982-1995 she was Head of Music at the Ursuline Preparatory School, Wimbledon. She gained the BKA Advanced Diploma in 1989 and the CKME in 1997. Since 1995 she has run "I Wish I Could Sing" courses for Malden Adult Centre and established two choral workshops.
Helga Dietrich is a graduate of the Liszt Academy and became a certified Music Teacher of Solfege, Singing and Violoncello in 1972. She has been a Lecturer in Pedagogy on the ELTE faculty of Elementary and Kindergarten Teachers’ Training since 1986. She has travelled extensively abroad and taught on variety of summer courses and workshops in Calgary; for the Kodály Centre of America in Boston; KIB courses in London; BKA courses in Cheltenham, Godstone, Leicester, Scotland, Australia and the USA – most recently on the annual Summer School courses in Oakland California. In 2004 she was a lecturer in the OAKE Conference in San Francisco,California.
Esther Hargittai was born in Hungary and emigrated to Israel at the age of 16. She has been immersed in music since the tender age of six, going through primary and secondary schools specializing in music and in 1995 graduating in Choir Conducting and Music Education at the prestigious Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Since graduating she has taught music and conducted choirs through all age groups: children through to adults. Esther set up one of the best known and most successful children’s choirs in Israel, the Efroni Choir, which she managed and conducted from1996 to 2005. The Efroni Choir had numerous performances in a variety of settings, from state ceremonies to children’s TV programmes and special concerts, as well as representing Israel abroad in the USA and France. Esther was also a major partner in conceiving and writing a Kodály Method teaching manual for music teachers in Israel, which was published by the Jerusalem Music Centre.
Judy Hildesley obtained a BA Hons in music from Denison University before continuing her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music where she received her M.Mus. She completed her studies as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and began singing professionally in the UK and in Singapore in the seventies. She has been teaching singing privately and in schools for almost thirty years and enjoys working with beginners and developing voices.
Lenke Igó is widely considered to be one of the foremost exponents of Kodály education of her generation and is in great demand as a lecturer and conductor of summer courses in the USA, Canada, Australia, Greece and the UK. She graduated from the Liszt Academy in Choral Conducting and Music Education and has since held major teaching posts in Europe, America and the Far East. Since 1980 Lenke has been a faculty member and Head of Theory at the Bartók Conservatoire in Budapest and conducted the Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir which toured and broadcast throughout Europe and Japan between 1985 and 1994. Since September 1998 Lenke has taught conducting at the Music Teacher Training Department of Eötvös University in Budapest.
Jeannette Massocchi studied both piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She is in demand as a singer and accompanist, works regularly for both radio and TV and is widely regarded as one of the finest vocal coaches in the country. She was Senior Lecturer at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and in recent years has been a guest tutor on the BKA One-Year Diploma Courses.
Klára Nemes is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. She has been a primary school music teacher and has given hundreds of demonstration lessons with her students for musicians and educators from all over the world. She is a Master teacher for students of the Liszt Academy and conducts several choirs. She helped to establish Kodály music education in all the schools of West Hartford, Connecticut in the early 70s. From 1975 to the present she has been Associate Professor of ear-training, music theory, conducting and methodology at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét. She has also been a guest teacher at the Chattanooga Education in Musical Arts Association, the Greek Kodály Institute and in Italy. She has given courses and workshops all over the world.
Sarolta Platthy graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest and worked for twenty years in a music primary school, teaching children of all levels. As a master teacher, she also worked in methodology with students at the Liszt Academy. She spent the academic year 1977 – 1978 in Oakland, California as a guest professor at Holy Names College. For the last fifteen years she has been a teacher on many Kodály Summer courses in many parts of the world, including Canada, USA, Great Britain, Korea and Austria. She has been Assistant Professor at the Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary since 1991.
Cyrilla Rowsell gained a Bachelor of Education degree and worked as a class teacher in First and Primary Schools for eleven years. She has attended many Kodály courses in Britain and Hungary, and in 1991 obtained the BKA’s Advanced Musicianship Diploma with Distinction. Since then Cyrilla has taught the Elementary and Intermediate Level Year courses for the BKA and solfege, methodology and conducting on BKA Summer Schools. She teaches in a Bromley primary school and on the String Training Programme at the Guildhall School of Music. Cyrilla has run courses around the country for various organisations, schools and LEAs, including the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, the Dalcroze Society, in Belfast and on the Isle of Man. She is also an experienced trainer of junior age choirs. Cyrilla is currently co-writing a music scheme for primary schools with David Vinden and is hoping to establish the first ‘British Kodály School’.
Paula Somorjai studied at the Liszt Academy and in Berlin. She graduated as a music teacher, choral conductor, singer and vocal teacher. Paula has taught in secondary and specialist music schools in Budapest, at the Györ Conservatoire and the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét. She has given many performances of contemporary Hungarian compositions as well as recitals and courses in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Korea and Slovakia.
Márta Szabó graduated from the College of Music in Debrecen with a degree in Solfege and Music Theory. In 1980 she received an honours degree in Music Education, Conducting and Music Theory from the Liszt Academy of Music and from 1985 she has been a lecturer on training and in-service training courses for the Kodály Institute. She began her association with the Music Conservatory of 10 Debrecen University in 1994 and since 2000 has been the head of the Department. She has been a frequent guest lecturer, teaching solfege, methodology and conducting in Poland, the UK, the USA and in Spain.
David Vinden is one of the foremost exponents of Kodály Music Education in Britain. He teaches Kodály Musicianship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as well as orchestral and choral conducting at Trinity College of Music. He also works with Géza and Csaba Szilvay on their Colourstrings programme and is a regular teacher for Colourstrings. He has taught throughout the world, most notably on International Summer courses at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét and Westminster Choir College in Princeton. He is currently engaged on the Portland State University summer Kodály programme conducting the choir and teaching musicianship. In 1992 he and his wife founded the Kodály Centre of London providing evening classes in Kodály Musicianship as well as publishing some 30 sets of material including an edition of Musica Transalpina vol I, 100 Cantici of Caldara, and the complete canons of Cherubini.
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