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.

Móri Beáta


cimbalom

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1983
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Beáta Móri was born in 1983 in Budapest. She began her musical studies at the Rácz Aladár Music School, majoring in piano under Anna Sipeky, then in 1995 she was introduced to the cimbalom as a student of Ilona Ráczné Jókó. From 1997 to 2001, she studied at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music (cimbalom department) in the class of Ilona Gerencsérné Szeverényi. In 2001, she was accepted into the Teacher Training Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, where she graduated in 2005 (cimbalom teacher, chamber musician college diploma), an MA in cimbalom performance from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 2014 (cimbalom artist university diploma), and in 2015 she graduated from the cimbalom teaching faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (cimbalom teacher university diploma). She participated in the master class of György Kurtág in 2001.

Her interests are focused on 20th century and contemporary music performance. Over the past 15 years she has performed or presented solo and chamber works by numerous Hungarian contemporary composers. She is a frequent guest at European music festivals. She has played together with the Israel Contemporary Players, Linea Ensemble of Strasbourg, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Savaria Symphonic Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Orchester der Kunstuniversitat Graz, Zürich University of Arts.
She has worked with conductors Zoltán Kocsis, Péter Eötvös, András Keller, Zsolt Nagy, László Tihanyi, Gergely Vajda, Csaba Somos, Ilona Meskó, Péter Dobszay, Gergely Dubóczky, Gergely Madaras, Robert Farkas, Robert Houlihan, Jean-Philippe Wurtz; and performers such as Monika Leskovar, Julia Henning, Michael Riessler, Jean-Louis Matinier, Namaan Wagner.

Since 2004, she has been teaching cimbalom at the Molnár Antal Primary School of Music in Budapest, since 2014 at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music, and since autumn 2018 at the Rácz Aladár Primary School of Music. In 2015, she was a member of the jury at the 10th National Rácz Aladár Cimbalom Competition.

In 2009, Hungaroton released her first solo album, Message, featuring solo and chamber works written for her by the younger generation. Her main interest is in promoting Hungarian contemporary music, and as a result, countless works have been composed at her request, which she strives to present at her concerts. She is regularly invited to perform at concerts in Hungary and abroad.