Iris Szeghy

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Iris Szeghy (born 1956) is a Slovak composer living in Switzerland.

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Biography

Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava, [1] she ended it with a doctoral degree at the same school. Szeghy went through numerous composer residencies - at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, at the University of California at San Diego, at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam, at the State Opera in Hamburg, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she was a scholar of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London and Budapest etc.

Iris Szeghy has won many international composition awards, her work has been performed and broadcast in Europe, America and Australia. [2]

Works

Szeghy composes for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice. Selected works include:

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References

  1. Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (2001). The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 24.
  2. "Szeghy, Iris" . Retrieved 16 November 2010.