Anna Molnár & László Borbély
Biographie Anna Molnár & László Borbély
Anna Molnár
Vocal artist, mezzo-soprano Anna Molnár is „a versatile artist with a stirring voice, who likes pushing boundaries and participating in experimental performances”. (Dániel Mona)
Contemporary-, baroque-music, lied and opera are equally important in her career.
At the Liszt Academy’s Oratorio and Lied department Anna was the student of Andrea Meláth. She graduated in 2017. In 2016, with the help of the European Erasmus Program, she spent one semester at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where she worked with Rita Dams and Gerda van Zelm.
She is a singer of the Bavarian Radio Choir, lead by Peter Dijkstra and Sir Simon Rattle.
As a soloist Anna performed several times at the Grand Hall and Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy, at Palace of Arts (Müpa Budapest), at the Budapest Music Center, at FUGA Budapest and at the House of Music Hungary.
New music has an important place in Anna Molnár’s life. She performs and records music of living composers regularly, among them a lot of world premieres written exclusively for her. Significant and challenging 20th century pieces like Ligeti Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, Webern 4 Lieder op. 12, Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire, Boulez Le Marteau sans maître, Berio Folk Songs, O King and Sequenza III, Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians and Tehillim, or Messiaen Harawi are also on her repertoire. She is a regular guest artist at festivals like CAFe Budapest Contemporary Art Festival, Transparent Sound New Music Festival, VårFEST of Voxlab in Oslo, the Ligeti Festival Transylvania, Budapest Spring Festival, Liszt Fest, The Night of Music of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Valley of Arts Festival, the Armel Opera Festival and the Haydneum Festival of Sacred Music.
As a soloist she performed with the following conductors, directors, musicians among others: Makoto Akatsu, János Bali, Rolf Beck, Guillaume Bourgogne, Tamás Bubnó, Michael Chance, Gábor Csalog, Gergely Dubóczky, Dénes Gulyás, András Keller, Gergely Kesselyák, Martin Rajna, Guido Roveda, Jon Svinghammar, Jutka Szokol, László Tihanyi, Gregory Vajda, György Vashegyi.
As a chamber singer she performed with Herbert Blomstedt, Péter Eötvös, Ádám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, János Kovács, Ádám Medveczky, Zubin Mehta, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmuth Rilling, etc.
Anna was awarded the Annie Fischer Scholarship three times (2016, 2017, 2018) as well as the scholarship of Bank of China in 2017. Between 2020 and 2024 Anna was teaching classical voice at the jazz department of the Liszt Academy Budapest, and from 2022 she is a doctorate student.
