The I. International Eva Marton Singing Competition has ended at Saturday by the wining of the main 15 thousand euro prize by Szilvia Vörös.
The first prize on the I. International Eva Marton Singing Competition went to Alexandru Aghenie from Romania, the second prize to Tetyana Zsuravel from Ukraine and the third prize to Marcelina Beucher from Poland. The Public Award was given to Tetyana Zsuravel in the Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music right after the final of the competition on Saturday. The end of the Competition was at the Hungarian State Opera organized concert at Sunday evening by giving the special awards.
We can meet with awarded on Budapest
Szilvia Vörös has won not just the main prize of the competition but also she was awarded several specials as well such as: she can sing on the Budapest Spring Festival, this year series of the Palace of Arts in Budapest and the next year series of the MR Music Bands 2015/2016. Also she will be assigned to one of the operas at the National Theatre of Pécs. The Savaria Symphonic Orchestra also counts on her at the operatic evening concerts of the Iseum.
Alexandru Aghenie, who won the first prize, was asked for a role to the Hungarian State Opera productions of Shakespeare-series in 2015/2016. Beside that he was asked on the opera production of the Open Theatre Kft. on the Margaret Island, and also in the MÁV Symphonic Orchestra 2015/2016 series.
Second prize winner from Ukraine, Tetyana Zsuravelt, who also won the public award as well, is aspected to a song evening at the Solti Hall at the Academy of Music. Beside that she also won a special award 2 thousand euro (approx. 600 thousand HUF) from Sabino Lenoci, the director and the critic of L’opera paper. The polish soprano ended up on the third place, Marcelina Beucher were asked up for three productions in 2015/2016, the Philhamonica Hungary, the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra of Debrecen and the Pannon Philmarmonic Orchestra also waiting her back to Hungary.
Those two other finalist singer was also awarded with a special prize: the Danish soprano Signe Ravn Heiberg asked the Palace of Arts for a production in the series of 2015/2016, and further more she can step on stage at the Gift Concerts evening of the Szeged Open Air Festival. The Russian soprano Vlada Borovko will participate to the opera writer competition named The Key to the Future to present the finalist compositions.
The competitions are important on the field of art
On Saturday all 11 finalist was assigned to present two arias with the help of the MÁV Symphonic Orchestra, directed by Ádám Medveczky. After the final the jury had decided and the awards were given, with the exception of the special prizes, those were given on the next day evening on the end concert at the Hungarian State Opera.
Eva Marton opera singer, awarded with the Kossuth-prize, the Professor Emerita of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, said thanks after the final on Saturday to the organizers of the competition, to the young singers, to the jury, and also to the audience. She also highlighted the work of the previous and the present director of the Academy of Music in the competition: “Andás Batta has stand at the birth, and Andrea Vigh has nursed the new born”.
The legendary dramatic soprano also thinks that this competitions are playing key role in a young artist life: “The competitions are needed, since the concurrency is one of the most important power to move forward on the field of art, especially in a life of an artist on stage”.
Szilvia Vörös is a student of Eva Marton
Andrea Vigh rector spoken in her greetings about that the 139 years old institute was worthy host of the singing competition, where all the candidates have won regardless the place their achieved. András Batta formal director has highlighted that after the total renovation of the building the historical moment now has come to organize the first big international music competition at the Academy.
Before the awards were handed over the final lasts almost for 5 hours, where the singers presented in two part one-one aria in front of the jury and the audience. Beside the songs, every finalist presented a small introduction film. On the evening there were two famous opera-singer guests, Juan Pons from Spain, and Samuel Youn from South-Korea.
Szilvia Vörös, the winner of the main award, has sung part of La clemenza di Tito (Parto, ma tu ben mio) in the first section, and in the second she has presented an aria from Donizetti’s La favorita (Fia dunque vero... O, mio Fernando). She was born in 1988, and she finished her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2013 in the opera department in Eva Marton’s class. She has been on stage several times during of her studies as an alt singer in the main concert halls of Budapest. She has participated course of Eva Marton, Andrea Meláth, Leonardo de Lisi, Alberto Gazale and Nicholas Clapton.
The 12 thousand euro first prize winner Alexandru Agheine presented parts of Gounod’s Faust and Verdi’s Il trovatore. The baritone has born in 1985, and from 2004 he studied on the Academy of Music Brasov, after that he made his degree on the Academy of Music in Bucharest in 2010. He has won several prizes on different music competitions for example Bucharest and Manfredonia (Italy)
World famous members in the jury
The winner of the second place, which was also 9 thousand euro, and one of the special awards worth 500 thousand HUF and one gift from Zsolnay from Ukraine, Tetyana Zsuravel has presented one-one part of Delibes’s Lakmé and Verdi’s Rigoletto in the final. She was born in 1984, the soprano first finished on piano department, after that she continued her studies on the Tchaikovsky Academy of Music where she finished at 2013. From 2012 she is a solo singer in the Male chore in Kiev, as she mentioned in her small film among 40 male she is the only female.
The 6 thousand euro third prize, won by Marcelina Beucher presented parts from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. She has born in 1986; the Polish soprano has studied on Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, in her mother’s, Maria Czechowska-Królicka’s class. After that she continued her studies in Riga from 2012, and from 2013 she is a student of the Academy of Music in Wroclaw.
The members of the jury were Eva Marton as the president, Vittorio Terranova tenor, the director of the Art competition of Tagliavini, Sabino Lenoci the director of the famous L’opera magazine, the artistic director of the opera festival of in Sarzana, Miguel Lerín, one of the most influential managers of the European opera life, Pal C. Moe producer, the casting manager of the State Opera House of Bayern, Peter Mario Katona, the casting director of the Royal Opera House of London, Szilveszter Ókovács the general director of the Hungarian State Opera and Balázs Kocsár conductor.