APPLY NOW28th International Summer School
8th - 15th August 2010
University of Leicester Conference Centre, Oadby, Leicester LE2 2ND
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Tutors | Kodály Approach | Springboard | Core Musicianship
Kodály Methodology | Conducting Skills | Singing Lessons
Tutor biographies
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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.
Springboard Module Three (HE3) Early Years
Lucinda Geoghegan gained a Bachelor of Music degree (Edinburgh University) and subsequently studied at Moray House Teacher Training College. In 1997 she obtained an Advanced Musicianship Diploma with Distinction from the Kodály Institute of Britain. She has worked as both a Secondary Music Teacher and a Primary Music Specialist in West Lothian, Scotland. She is currently Education Consultant for the National Youth Choir of Scotland delivering In Service training on Kodály principles for teachers and parents and leading workshops for children in Nursery and Primary Schools. She is also a member of staff in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama teaching theory and musicianship. She is the author of the "Singing Games and Rhymes" series of books (Tiny Tots, Early Years and Middle Years).
Solfège, Kodály Methodology for Experienced Kodály Teachers
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.
Solfège, Conducting, Foundation Choir
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.
Singing Tutor and Accompanist
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.
Solfège, Conducting, Choir
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.
Singing Tutor and Accompanist
Eleanor Meynell studied at Chetham's School of Music before going on to the Royal Northern College of Music. As a soloist, she performs in a wide variety of genres including opera, recitals and radio work. Roles include Donna Anna and Hanna Glawari, for Pavilion Opera, Masha in the Queen of Spades with the BBC Philharmonic and the Kirov Opera at the Bridgewater Hall, Russian Mother in Britten's Death in Venice, recorded for Chandos with Sir Richard Hickox, and Herd Girl in Peer Gynt conducted by Neeme Jarvi at the Salzberg Festival and at the BBC Proms. Eleanor has attended masterclasses with Anne Evans, Malcolm Martineau, David Jones, and Roger Vignoles at the Britten-Pears School at Snape. Concert and Oratorio work includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Handel's Messiah live on BBC Radio 3, and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, and 2nd String Quartet (St. James', Piccadilly and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival). Eleanor has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Simon Rattle and Daniel Harding at the Proms and the Lucerne Festivals. Eleanor was a full-time member of the BBC Singers for four years and currently sings with the Monteverdi Choir, performing at some of the most prestigious concert halls and opera houses in the UK and abroad. Plans for 2010 include Beethoven 9th symphony at the Barbican and a UK tour of a new contemporary children's opera called My Mother Told Me Not to Stare for Theatre Hullabaloo. Eleanor currently teaches piano and singing at Watford Grammar School for Boys and takes extra-curricular classes in Kodàly there.
Singing Tutor and Accompanist
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.
Solfège, Conducting, and Springboard Module One Unit One
Dr. László Nemes is the Director of the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music and Acting Chair of the Music Pedagogy Department of the Academy. He received his degree from the Department of Music Education and Choral Conducting at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in 1992. He was a student of Péter Erdei and a recipient of the Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary. In 1999 he obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Alberta (Canada) under the supervision of Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff. He took part in several international master classes held by distinguished choral conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Michel Brewer, Eric Ericson, Simon Halsey, Robert Sund and Jon Washburn. He started his teaching career at the Kodály Institute as a student. For one year after completing his studies at the Academy, and between 1997 and 2001, he taught solfege, music theory, conducting and score reading. Since 1997 he has been the Associate Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir. He has conducted the choir at numerous concerts in Hungary, made recordings and toured in many European countries and twice in Japan. In recognition of his artistic activity with the choir, he received the Bartók-Pásztory Award in 2005. As a music teacher and conductor, he has held workshops and seminars in The Philippines, Ireland, Canada, Poland, Portugal, and Singapore.
Solfège, Conducting, and Choir
Cyrilla Rowsell gained a Bachelor of Education degree and then was a class teacher in First and Primary Schools for eleven years. During this time she became increasingly interested in the approach to music education pioneered and developed by the Hungarian composer and educator Zoltán Kodály, and subsequently attended many courses including Summer Schools in Britain and Hungary. She obtained the British Kodály Academy's Advanced Musicianship Diploma with Distinction in 1991. Since then Cyrilla has taught the Elementary and Intermediate Level year courses for the BKA and has taught solfège, methodology and conducting on BKA Summer Schools. She teaches in primary schools and on the String Training Programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Cyrilla has run courses around the country for organisations including the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, The Dalcroze Society, the Shrewsbury Opera Project and for various schools and LEAs, including a year-long project in Barnsley and helping to plan a pre-instrumental musicianship course for children on the Isle of Man. She was the first advisory teacher for the Voices Foundation. Her latest projects are writing the ‘Jolly Music' scheme with David Vinden and hoping to set up the first ‘British Kodály School'. She is also working collaboratively on a Kodály syllabus and curriculum for use in the UK. Cyrilla has run a large junior age choir who won the Bromley Music Festival in 2000 with a high distinction mark of 96. The most experienced members of the choir performed both at the Royal Festival Hall in the Music for Youth Choral Day and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of a 500-strong Bromley choir at the 2002 Schools' Prom. They performed many times at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, supporting the Band of the White Russian Army and the Croydon Philharmonic Choir.
Solfège, Kodály Methodology for those new to Kodály
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, Hungary, 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 (1588), 100 Cantici of Caldara, and the complete canons of Cherubini.
Springboard Module Three (HE3) Keystage 1 & 2
Miranda Zwalf won an Exhibition Scholarship at the Royal College of Music and every prize available to flautists. She studied with Geoffrey Gilbert in the U.S.A. and performed at festivals there including Aspen and Grand Teton. She has worked with the Balearic Symphony Orchestra, played in ‘Les Misérables', and was for several years Assistant Principal Flute in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Miranda obtained the Certificate of Kodály Music Education (CKME) with distinction and the Colourstrings Associate Kindergarten teaching certificate (CSAK). She has taught Kodály on the String Training Programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and is currently teaching at the Perse School for Girls, Cambridge. She is Lecturer in Kodály Musicianship at Birmingham Conservatoire and has taught for the British Kodály Academy, the Dalcroze Society, Colourstrings and NYCoS. She delivers In Service training in Kodály principles applied to instrumental and classroom teaching, and has published ‘A Sound Beginning in Flute Playing' - a Kodály based flute tutor. Miranda also has a degree in French from London University.
Springboard Module One Unit Two