Competition 2021

Contestants

Nikolett Mráz

„soprano”

Nikolett Mráz

Competition repertoire 

Preliminary

  • Mozart: Mitridate re di Ponto- Grazie ai numi... Nel grave tormento (Aspasia) 

Semi-final  

  • Weber: Der Freischütz - Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen (Ännchen)
  • Wolf: Mörike-Lieder No.12. Verborgenheit

Final 

  • Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Quel guardo il cavaliere...So anch'io la virtù magica (Norina)
  • Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor- Nun eilt herbei, Witz, heit're Laune! (Frau Fluth)

Biography 

Soprano Nikoletta Mráz has been interested in music since her childhood. At the age of six, she began her musical studies at the Zoltán Kodály Music School in Gyál. She played the flute for 11 years and played the piano alongside, and took classical singing lessons. She graduated from the Vörösmarty School of Music and Music Language Primary School and Gymnasium, where she was a member of the Vörösmarty Girls' Faculty, led by Sándor Kabdebó and later Bálint Gyombolai.

After graduation she studied classical singing with Ildikó Miskovits at the Leó Weiner Music High School. For a year she was a member of the New Franz Liszt Chamber Choir led by László Nores Nemes.

In 2017, she won the  Scholarship for Young Talents of the Nation, thanks to which she was able to acquire tools to help her singing career: electric piano, sheet music, performing clothes.

Since 2018 she has been studying in Bachelor's programme at Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, her classical voice teacher is Ingrid Kertesi. 

She worked with Péter Erdei, Liszt- Prizewinner conductor and the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra as well as with the Budapest Strings.

In 2019 she won 3rd prize at 4th Danubia Talents International Music Competition.

In 2020 she had the opportunity to sing in  new contemporary art program of the Hungarian State Opera. The Contemporary Opera Show Case contained several premieres of  Hungarian composers. Nikoletta played the female title role in Frigyes Andrássy's opera Ady and Leda composed for the centenary of  famous Hungarian poet Endre Ady's death.

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