The Kodály Conferences

 

The Kodály concept is a philosophy of education and a concept of teaching.

Zoltán Kodály was a well-known Hungarian composer and musician that dedicated his life to musical education and the development of what he considered to be an element of national importance. Kodály firmly believed that music helps develop not only the skills of a person, but also the personality, intellect, and emotional diapason.

 

Based on this philosophy, he worked to develop and perfect what would be globally known as the Kodály concept, a comprehensive program to train basic musical skills, centering the entire educational process on concrete experience.

 

The Kodály method integrates in itself various ideas, techniques, and approaches to musical education, always guided by the principle that musical education should be a cultural experience, as much as a social one.

 

Known and appreciated all over the world, the Kodály method symbolizes to this day one of the most interesting and refined methodologies of musical education and is widely considered one of the most important educational tools to further a new artistic understanding and perfect performing skills.

 

Kodály Conference with Nóra Keresztes DLA

Festival Academy has the privilege to be the first platform that brought the Kodály method in Albania, setting a new standard in the efforts to promote musical education in the country and to bring some of the most important European and global educational practices and philosophies.

Professor Nóra Keresztes DLA will bring directly the Kodály method for young Albanian talents. One of the most qualified and well-versed scholars of the Kodály concept, professor Keresztes will bring for the youngsters a unique educational experience.

Professor Keresztes currently teaches at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music in Kecskemét. As a music pedagogue and conductor, she has worked extensively on the international scene, including workshops, master classes and seminars in Azerbaijan, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Lithuania and Vietnam.

Since 2016, she has been teaching at the Music Theory Department of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Prior to that, from 2002 until 2018, she worked in the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts at the University of Pécs. Between 2010-2018, Nóra taught in the Faculty of Teachers’ Training at the University of Pécs, where she was responsible for the music education related subjects in the training of pre-school and lower primary school teachers.

Following decades of singing in numerous choirs (The Madrigal Choir of Szekszárd, „Puellae” Female Chamber Choir of the University of Pécs, Palestrina Choir of the Pécs Cathedral), she is currently the artistic director and conductor of the chamber choir Cappella Quinqueecclesiensis in Pécs and the Pannon Philharmonic Festival Choir. At the same time, she is a member of the Hungarian Kodály Society and of the Association of Choirs and Orchestras (KÓTA).

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