Dobszay-Meskó Ilona

June 21, 1981

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Ilona Dobszay-Meskó graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest having studied composition and orchestral conducting. In 2003, she founded the Ventoscala Symphony Orchestra and is its principal conductor and producer. Since 2001, she has worked at the Leó Weiner Secondary School of Music in Budapest – first as a piano accompanist (2001–2009), then teaching composition (2006–2014). Since 2013, she has also taught composition at Budapest’s Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music and is now the conductor and leader of its symphony orchestra. Since 2016, she has worked as a mentor to students in teacher training. She is a Presidential Member of the Hungarian Composers’ Union and a member of the István Vántus Society. As a piano accompanist, she has partnered with the Institute of Theatre Arts faculty of the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest, the Opera Studio of Budapest’s Liszt Academy, and with world-renowned artists at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier. Her professors in composition have been János Vajda, Miklós Kocsár, Miklós Csemiczky and Emil Petrovics. In 2001, she won the best performer award at the Kincses Composing Competition (organized by the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest) and two years later went on to win first prize in composition at the same competition. In 2002, she won first prize at the István Vántus Composing Competition for young Hungarian Composers. She was also awarded a scholarship to take part in József Sári’s composition masterclasses in Austria, as well as those of Betsy Jolas in France. In 2004, she got the opportunity through the Liszt Academy of Music to travel to New York to perform her piece, Ashed Lovers, at the Juilliard School. In 2017, she represented Hungary at the ISCM World New Music Days in Vancouver with her composition for mixed choir entitled Choral. In 2019, she won a 3-year scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts for creative artists.

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ORCHESTRAL WORKS Waking (2005), symph. orch., timp., perc., harp., acc., guitar, pno. SR: comp. hp. Concerto per Flauto (2006), small str. orch., fl., harp SR: comp. hp. Danse Macabre (2010), symph. orch., timp., perc., harp, cimb., pno. Fleurs du mal (2015), symph. orch., timp., perc., harp, cimb., pno., actor SR: comp. hp. Hansel and Gretel (2015), symph. orch., timp., perc., harp Lib: Győző Lukácsházi (after Grimm) SR: comp. hp. Matutinus (2016), symph. orch., perc. Troncertino (2019), str. orch., tr. Silenzio udibile (2020), str. orch. SR: comp. hp. The Son of the White Mare (2020), ob., tr., hn., B trb., harp, perc., str., storyteller Lib: Ferenc Tarr SR: comp. hp. CHAMBER WORKS Pezzi brevi (1999), cl., cimb. Pezzo per Corno e Pianoforte (2001), hn., pno. SR: comp. hp. Fo(u)r Corpus (2004), trb. quartet SR: comp. hp. T(w)o Corpus (2005), fl., pno. Poesie (2006), cl., cimb. SR: comp. hp. COnceRtino oPpUre fantaSia per trombone (2007), trb., pno. SR: comp. hp. Adom burkolt cimü… (2007), hn., cimb. SR: comp. hp. Dans le passé (2007), ob., vl., harps., vlc. SR: comp. hp. Canti del mulino (2008), cimb. COnceRtino oPpUre fantaSia (2010), fl., vl., vlc., pno. Choral (2010), 2 tr., hn. Swan Sonata (2011), fl., harp SR: comp. hp. Danza di Notte (2011), tr., harp Hansel and Gretel (2012), storyteller, fl. (picc., alto), cl. (+B cl.), bs., perc., pno. Lib: Győző Lukácsházi (after Grimm) SR: comp. hp. Una cartolina illustrata di Ungheria (2013), vla., pno. SR: comp. hp. Tyrolean Hat – Library Music (2014), cl., vl., acc., db. SR: comp. hp. Fantasia concertante (2015), tr., trb., 2 vl., vla., vlc. Mono No Aware (2015), sax., harp Insieme (2015), 2 cimb. The Son of the White Mare (2017), vl., vlc., tr., hn., perc., pno., storyteller Lib: Ferenc Tarr SR: comp. hp. Immagini (2017), cl., tuba, harp, perc. Pezzo per ottavino e pianoforte (2019), picc., pno. SR: comp. hp. King Thrushbeard (2019), vl., perc., pno., storyteller Lib: Ferenc Tarr (after Grimm) CHORAL WORKS Jinger Ring (2008), children’s chr. Lib: English Children’s Poems Pub: UMP EMB SR: comp. hp. Choral (2010), SATB Lib: The Twilight Hymn of Pope St. Gregory the Great in Latin SR: comp. hp. Vivat, crescat, floreat! (2011), SATB Lib: Zoltán Kodály Pub: UMP EMB Ave Maria (2015), female/girls’ chr. SR: comp. hp. Pater noster (2015), female/girls’ chr. SR: comp. hp. Lullaby (2015), SATB Lib: Sándor Weöres SR: comp. hp. Alleluja (2016), SATB SR: comp. hp. Till Death Do Us Part (2016), SATB Lib: William Shakespeare, Gereben Vas, Sam Kinison, Friedrich Schiller, Victor Hugo SR: comp. hp. Car Song (2017), 2-part children’s chr. Lib: Péter Dobszay Chorus Angelorum (2017), female chr., 3 S soloists SR: comp. hp. Motto, No. 1. (2018), SATB, org. SR: comp. hp. Due Psalmi (2019), SATB, org./pno. Lib: Psalms 129 and 91 Rorate caeli (2021), male chr. VOCAL WORKS Paysages Intimes (2002), S, fl., cl., hn. Lib: Mihály Babits SR: comp. hp. Charcoal Lovers (2003), S, vlc., pno. Lib: Gizella Sulyok SR: comp. hp. Idyllium (2005), S, fl., harp, vl., vla., vlc. Lib: Sándor Weöres SR: comp. hp. Songs of Narcissus and Psyche (2006), S, vlc., pno. Lib: Sándor Weöres SR: comp. hp. Vigil (2009), bs., vl., tr., cl., vlc., db. Lib: Japanese Poems (transl. by Dezső Kosztolányi) SR: comp. hp. Quintet Serenade (2011), S, fl., harp, guitar, pno. Lib: Mihály Babits SR: comp. hp. SOLO WORKS Canti del mulino (2008), cimb. SR: comp. hp. Pezzo per clarinettista (2014), cl. Love in Paris – Library Music (2014), pno. SR: comp. hp. Summer Rain – Library Music (2014), pno. SR: comp. hp. Machine – Library Music (2014), pno. SR: comp. hp. Empty Swing – Library Music (2014), pno. SR: comp. hp. Rapsodia, canzone e danza (2015), cl. Petite suite (2015), tr. Momento musicale per chitarra (2018), guitar SR: comp. hp. Una bella storia (2019), guitar SR: comp. hp. Piano_for_te (2020), pno. SR: comp. hp.

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