Anna Rákóczy
Biography Anna Rákóczy
Anna Rákóczy
flutist graduated at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music under Zoltán Gyöngyössy. She was awarded the Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA), where she received a Master’s degree in flute with distinction and special prize in 2004, as a student of Marina Piccinini. International festival appearances: National Orchestral Institute (2002); International Festival Institute at Round-Top, Texas (2003); Lucerni Fesztivál (Pierre Boulez vezényletével (2004); Arcus Temporum, Pannonhalma (2012, 2013); International Bartók Seminar, Szombathely (2015). Her masters include also István Matuz and Barthold Kuijken.
She is a founding member of the Qaartsiluni Ensemble (2012, artistic director Lajos Rozmán), which has appeared on stages in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Crna Gora, Armenia, Austria and Switzerland. She is co-leader of the Metrum Ensemble, the successor to the Qaartsiluni Ensemble. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Tonhalle Zurich, BMC, Hungarian Radio, Liszt Academy, TRAFÓ, FUGA, among others.
Anna Rákóczy’s collaborations with renowned contemporary composers such as Barnabás Dukay, Ádám Kondor, Marián Lejava, József Sári and László Sáry have resulted in Hungarian and foreign premieres, recordings and radio recordings of numerous solo and chamber works. As chairman of the board of trustees of the In-Spiral Art Foundation, she co-organises the minifestival “Encounters on the Path” at the Monastery of St Mauricius in Bakonybél.
