Szeghy Iris
Composer
Iris Szeghy was born to a Hungarian family in Prešov (eastern Slovakia). She studied composition and piano at the Conservatory in Košice (1971-76), later composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava (1976-81), she finished it with the highest recognition. At the Music Academy Bratislava she did her doctoral degree from composition (1986-89). In 1984-86 she was a scholar of the Music Fund in Bratislava, in 1992-93 a resident composer at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
For shorter-term scholarships she traveled to Budapest (1989) and Warsaw (1991), in 1994 she was a „visiting composer“ at the University of California at San Diego, in 1995 at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam and a „composer in residence“ at the State Opera in Hamburg . In 1999 she spent a year at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede in Germany, in 2001 and 2002 a couple of months in the Künstlerhaus Boswil and in Stein am Rhein in Switzerland.
In the last years she had composition residencies in the artistic colonies in Willisau (CH), in Mojácar (E), in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Iris Szeghy lives as a freelance composer in Zürich, Switzerland.
Szeghy writes orchestral, chamber and vocal music, her pieces were/are performed and broadcast in many countries of Europe, in America, Asia and Australia. Till now she has had portrait-concerts of her works in Stuttgart, San Diego, Hamburg, Bremen, Dublin, Lucerne, Berne, Zurich, Basel, received composition commissions e.g. from the Hilliard Ensemble, Bratislava Music Festival, Melos-Ethos Festival Bratislava, more times from the Pro Helvetia Cultural Foundation in Switzerland and from many other music festivals, institutions, ensembles and performers all around the world.
In 2007 she obtained the Musical Award of the Kanton Zurich for her compositional work, in 2010 the Zollikon Art Prize in Switzerland. She will be honoured by the prize of the City of Zurich "Work-Year 2014" in the autumn 2014.
In 2001 there was published her first portrait-CD, by the Hastedt Verlag Bremen in cooperation with the Radio Bremen in Germany, in 2008 was published her second portrait-CD by the Musiques Suisses/Grammont in Switzerland.
For shorter-term scholarships she traveled to Budapest (1989) and Warsaw (1991), in 1994 she was a „visiting composer“ at the University of California at San Diego, in 1995 at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam and a „composer in residence“ at the State Opera in Hamburg . In 1999 she spent a year at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede in Germany, in 2001 and 2002 a couple of months in the Künstlerhaus Boswil and in Stein am Rhein in Switzerland.
In the last years she had composition residencies in the artistic colonies in Willisau (CH), in Mojácar (E), in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Iris Szeghy lives as a freelance composer in Zürich, Switzerland.
Szeghy writes orchestral, chamber and vocal music, her pieces were/are performed and broadcast in many countries of Europe, in America, Asia and Australia. Till now she has had portrait-concerts of her works in Stuttgart, San Diego, Hamburg, Bremen, Dublin, Lucerne, Berne, Zurich, Basel, received composition commissions e.g. from the Hilliard Ensemble, Bratislava Music Festival, Melos-Ethos Festival Bratislava, more times from the Pro Helvetia Cultural Foundation in Switzerland and from many other music festivals, institutions, ensembles and performers all around the world.
In 2007 she obtained the Musical Award of the Kanton Zurich for her compositional work, in 2010 the Zollikon Art Prize in Switzerland. She will be honoured by the prize of the City of Zurich "Work-Year 2014" in the autumn 2014.
In 2001 there was published her first portrait-CD, by the Hastedt Verlag Bremen in cooperation with the Radio Bremen in Germany, in 2008 was published her second portrait-CD by the Musiques Suisses/Grammont in Switzerland.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Mani Matter Lieder | Vocal music | 2011 |
| 2. Streichquartett "Goldberg" / String Quartet No. 2 "Goldberg" | Chamber Music | 2021 |
| 3. Streichquartett "Hommage à Mednyánszky" / String Quartet No. 3"Hommage à Mednyánszky" | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| A Day in Manhattan | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Ad Parnassum | String orchestra | 2005 |
| Afforismi | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Afforismi II | Chamber Music | 1992 |
| Afforismi III | Chamber Music | 1992 |
| Afforismi IV | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Anrufung des Grossen Bären | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2003 |
| Aria | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Ave Maria "I" | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1992 |
| Bolero-Blues | Instrumental solo | 2000 |
| War es so? / Was It Like That? | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1985 |
| Canticum | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| Canto Triste | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Canzona | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Choral | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Christmas Carol | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Ciaccona | Instrumental solo | 1993 |
| Concertino | Orchestral work | 1979 |
| Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra | Concerto | 1989 |
| De profundis | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1990 |
| Ein Spiel / Game | Children's choir | 1985 |
| Elegien und Arabesken / Elegies and Arabesques | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| En Petit Sentiment de Pojogne | Chamber Music | 1998 |
| Folclorico | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Folclorico | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Frühlingssonate | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Gratia gratiam parit | Mixed choir | 2014 |
| When I Die | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Hesse-Splitter / Hesse-Fragments | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2006 |
| Hesse-Splitter I / Hesse-fragments I | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2009 |
| Homewards | Symphony orchestra | 1997 |
| Hommage à Mednyánszky | String orchestra | 2022 |
| Hommage à Rodin | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| String Quartet NO. 1 "Musica Dolorosa" | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Im Park meines Vaters / In the Park of My Father | Orchestral work | 2013 |
| In Between | Live and tape music | 1993 |
| It-Movements | Chamber Music | 2001 |
| Frühlingskranz / Spring Wreath | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1989 |
| Spring Sonata / Frühlingssonate | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Meadow Song | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2011 |
| Meadow Song | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2013 |
| Menschheit / Mankind | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2011 |
| Midsummer Night´s Mystery | Chamber Music | 1992 |
| Midsummer Night´s Mystery II | Chamber Music | 1993 |
| Minifanfare | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Mirabilia musicae | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2012 |
| Musica Dolorosa | String orchestra | 1985 |
| Musica Folclorica (Hommage à Bartók) | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| Neniae | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Neniae | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| Offertorium | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 2020 |
| Oratio et Gratias Actio Pro Sanitate Matris Meae | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1994 |
| Perpetuum Mobile | Instrumental solo | 1993 |
| Poetische Studien / Poetic Studies | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| Preludio e Danza | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Prosté a Tazké / Simple and Difficult | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1978 |
| Psalm | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 1993 |
| Psalm 130 | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Psalm 130 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1999 |
| Psalm eines Hungernden / Psalm of a Starving Man | Mixed choir | 1988 |
| Requiem | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2018 |
| Secret Love | Mixed choir | 1999 |
| Slowakischer Tanz | Instrumental solo | 2006 |
| Stabat mater | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 2014 |
| Story | Live and tape music | 1995 |
| Streichtrio "Goldberg" / String Trio "Goldberg" | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Suite de Poche | Instrumental solo | 1986 |
| Tableaux d´un parc | Ensemble | 1999 |
| Tebe / To You | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1983 |
| The Prayer | Mixed choir | 1998 |
| Three Shakespearean Songs | Choir a cappella | 1990 |
| Variationen über ein deutsches Volkslied / Variations on a German Folk Song | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Vielleicht, dass uns etwas aufginge | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 2003 |
| Vivat Heidelberg! | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1996 |
| Vivat Leto! / Vivat Summer! | Instrumental solo | 1985 |
| Bekenntnisse / Confessions | Choir a cappella | 1984 |
| Wir gehen in den Zoo! / Let us go to Zoo! | Instrumental solo | 1984 |