Clarinet

Andrea Nagy was born in 1978 in Budapest. She started learning the clarinet with András Horn at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, later studying under Béla Kovács at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She continued her studies at the College of Music in Freiburg, Germany, studying under Dieter Klöcker and Jörg Widmann and graduating with a degree in music in 2003. After that she joined the soloist programme under Ernesto Molinari at the Bern University of the Arts. For her performance at her final examination in 2006 she was awarded the Eduard Tschumi Music Prize of Bern for the best soloist in her year. She then stayed at the Bern University of the Arts for a further two years in order to study bass clarinet.

Andrea Nagy has won several prizes, including in 1993 1st prize at the Hungarian National Music Competition. In 2002 she was awarded a scholarship to join the prestigious International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, in 2004 she won the Kranichstein Music Prize of the City of Darmstadt, and in 2006 she came 2nd, in 2009 1st at the Nicati Performers’ Competition for Contemporary Music, organised by the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (Musicians’ Association).

She has taken part in master classes given by David Smeyers and Eduard Brunner, has participated several times in the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt and has worked with Stefan Litwin and Yukiko Sugawara.

With various chamber music ensembles Andrea Nagy has performed at, amongst others, the following festivals: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, June in Buffalo Festival, Gaida Festival Lithuania, Davos Festival and the Lucerne Festival. She has been recorded on CD and also appeared on radio and TV, performing on the music programme "Nachtmusik" for the German TV channel WDR 3 and she was the subject of a feature for the "Musik Debüt" series on the channel SWR.

Andrea Nagy performs with ensembles such as the Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Linea, oh ton-ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Laboratorium and Smash Ensemble/Spain, and she has worked with renowned conductors and composers such as Heinz Holliger, Pierre Boulez, Matthias Spahlinger, Erhard Karkoschka, Nicolaus A. Huber, Helmut Lachenmann and Johannes Kalitzke, to name but a few.

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