"News & Events - Kodály Institute, Kecskemét, Hungary"

Summer Course for Solo Singers - 19-29 July, 2010 - application deadline: 30 April, 2010
26th International Kodály Seminar dates: 18 July - 5 August 2011 - details available after November 2010
Information for the 2010-2011 Academic Year - application deadlines: 15 February & 1 March 2010

- For non-degree courses click here.
- MA in Kodály Music Pedagogy: details are available here.
Call for Research
The Institute welcomes young researchers' applications who are interested in the researching of the international adaptation of the Kodály Concept, and who would be willing to spend a shorter or longer time working on the materials found in the Music Pedagogical Archives of the Kodály Institute.
More information is available at office@kodaly.hu. Please write 'Kodály Research' in the subject field.

Special Week at the Institute- 15-19 February, 2010

Instead of regular teaching, students of the Institute listened to different lectures and workshops during the special week. From left to right: Elisabeth Moll - former teacher of Pennsylvania University - gave a lecture on Zoltán Kodály's former student Katalin Forrai's influential pedagogical work; Károly Binder - pianist, composer, and teacher of jazz piano and jazz composition, and head of faculty at the Liszt Academy - lectured on jazz improvization and gave a concert; Mónika Benedek - teacher of the Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences - gave a lecture on solfege regarding classical and jazz music; Sergio de la Ossa - MA student at the Institute - taught Galician dances to the students and faculty.

'Mini Study Tour' in cooperation with the British Kodály Academy

The first Mini Study Tour in cooperation with the BKA was initiated by the late Prof Éva Vendrei, deputy director-general of the Insitute, seven years ago.
It has been the 7th occasion that the study tour for the members of the British Kodály Academy was held on 15-17 February. The programme was made up of daily musicianship classes, a lecture on Kodály's philosophy, methodology classes, and observation classes.

Guests from Keimyung University (Daegu, Korea) visiting the Institute

The leaders of Keimyung University (Daegu, Korea) spent a day at the Institute on 21 February observing a demonstration class and discussing possible routes of future co-operation with the Liszt Academy and the Institute.

OBITUARY
Dr. Klára Kokas, retired professor of the Kodály Institute of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, passed away. The news conveyed on her sudden death left her followers, colleagues and hundreds of students in Hungary and abroad deeply shocked. Among her admirers were both adults and children, who were presented with several extraordinary musical experiences through Dr. Kokas's pedagogy based on inclusion, understanding, tolerance and special attention. We shall never forget the delightful discoveries we made with her in the empire of children and classical masterpieces. Klára Kokas was one of the most inspiring Hungarian music pedagogues, a marvellous person with a highly original and creative power of mind, who accomplished a remarkable scientific life-work related to the transfer effect of Kodály-based music education.

The memories of her wonderful, enquiring, attentive and radiating glance and her beautiful smile nourished by her innermost peace, plentiful love and fathomless optimism will never fade away. We shall remember her the way we saw her just a couple of weeks ago at the Music Academy, the youthful and determined aunt Klári whose desire to create something new over and over again never seemed to cease. We shall also remember her helping us to sink into the world of infinite happiness reached through music, freedom and her highly spiritual presence.

She revealed us the secret: music which touches the soul the deepest and reveals to us the transcendental world can never be accessed through the road of dry scientific and technical terms but through genuine spirituality and inspiration only.

We shall treasure her memory forever.

(Dr. László Norbert Nemes, Director - Kodály Institute)

Address: Kodály Institute, H-6001 Kecskemét, P.O.Box 188., Kéttemplom köz 1.
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