Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Szigetvári Andrea


Composer

Place of Birth
Kalocsa
Date of Birth
Web

 
Andrea Szigetvári studied sound recording and electro acoustic music at Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. After finishing her studies she worked as a music editor, sound engineer, and musical producer for Hungaroton Recording Company and Hungarian Radio. She has worked at the Institute of Musicology as a member of the first computer music research project in Hungary. In 1989 she was a Fulbright researcher in the USA. First she worked at Brooklyn College with Charles Dodge, later at Stanford University with John Chowning.

After returning from the USA in 1990 she funded the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation to help to develop contemporary music life in Hungary. From the beginning of '90-ies she has been the main organizer of the composition and computer music course of the International Bartók Festival, the Short Circuits contemporary music days and from 1998 the Making New Waves contemporary music festival.

Between 1993 and 1995 she developed the musical informatics course curriculum at Pécs University and the electronic music curriculum for the Liszt F. Academy of Music in Budapest. 1995 she started to teach musical informatics in the Pécs University and in 1996 she started to teach electronic music at the Liszt F. Academy of Music in Budapest.

In 2001 she received two "Prix" of the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition in multimedia and soundart categories.

Her creative and research work concentrate mainly on the role of the timbre in new music.
 
Title Type Year
The Cocquille and the Priest Multimedia 1999
ALIQUOTS AND ALIQUANTS Other 2009
ALIQUOTS AND ALIQUANTS II. Other 2009
BRIDGES/Budapest Other 2005
Baschet Bicinium Electroacoustic music 2008
Introduction to General Linguistics Film music 2009
CT Other 2010
Crossmodulations Other 2006
D(e)rive Electroacoustic music 2010
BROKEN STRING MEDITATIONS Electroacoustic music 2014
Soundscapes Other 2006
Messengage Sonatina Electroacoustic music 2012
Jön az öcsém / My brother comes Multimedia 1999
Ko Kon Nashi Other 2006
Kocsis Zoltán: The music of Nothing Other 1996
Two Small Fractals for Bálint Nagy Electroacoustic music 2019
Library Music Live and tape music 1996
LEPKE Other 2006
Swinging Door I. Stage work 2007
Swinging Door II. Stage work 2012
Lethappen Miniatures Electroacoustic music 2015
BirdHouse Multimedia 2007
Mandala Electroacoustic music 2000
Beef Kohlrabi Cantata Electroacoustic music 0
My Everyday Silences Electroacoustic music 2012
NOISE-WRANGLING #1 Electroacoustic music 2015
NOISE-WRANGLING #2 Electroacoustic music 2015
Newton´s Dream Multimedia 2017
Pécs D(é)RIVE - GPS-Trans 11 Other 2010
QUINTESSENCE / Air Other 2005
Rhapsodic distortion on the body of the sweet homeland – let’s hurt! Electroacoustic music 2014
Send Me a Sound Other 2010
ShadowPlace Multimedia 2014
Love Rhapsody Incidental music 2010
THE GOLDEN RECORD: Sounds of Earth Other 2009
TORNACULUM Other 2008
TRANSITUS ANGELI Film music 2014
TRANSITUS ANGELI Multimedia 2014
TRANSITUS UMBRARUM Incidental music 2016
Transitus Siderum Film music 2015
Transitus Siderum - Long Drone Electroacoustic music 2015
Voice Twist Electroacoustic music 0
What´s Wrong? Tape music 1989
Fake-DJ Electroacoustic music 2002
Glasspieces Electroacoustic music 2003