Szilvia Bognár

Szilvia Bognár (born 13 February 1977) is a Hungarian folk singer. In 2004, she won the Artisjus Award, and the Magyar Rádió eMeRTon award in the "Folk Singer of the Year" category. In 2007, she received the Zoltán Kodály Memorial Award. In 2010 she won the Hungarian Art Award. In 2013, she was awarded the Central Hungarian Regional Prize in the category of Hungarian music.

Szilvia Bognár

Life

She was born in February 1977 in Szombathely. She studied at the Jurisich Miklós Kísérleti Gimnázium in Kőszeg, and graduated from ELTE's ethnography department.

She studied the flute at the Bartók Béla Music School. At the age of sixteen, she joined the Vasi Népdalstúdió. She appeared as a singer with Boglya from Vas County. She sang for three years with Anima Sound System.[1] They experimented with combining modern music and folk songs, however, despite the many positive feedbacks, she left the band, turning her attention to the knowledge of folk traditions.

In 1995, she won the title of Young Master of Folk Art, and this marked the beginning of her work, to understand the "peasant culture" as a folk tradition. She met "note trees", learned dances, and tried her hand at handicrafts. In 1998, she applied to study ethnography at ELTE, where she graduated in 2004. She wrote her thesis on folk song singing. She researched the transformation of the folk tradition and its possibilities of "living on". She lectures on folk music.[2]

Since 1995, she can be heard as an invited performer of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and as a soloist in various folk music ensembles such as the band Vándor Vokál. From 1998 to 2005, they sang polyphonic songs from the Balkan and Carpathian regions, usually without orchestral accompaniment. For four years she was a member of the group Makám, which combined various musical and folk music influences.[3]

She was an invited performer of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and the Duna Art Ensemble, Szeret, Sebő ensemble or Nikola Parov, at the head of the Etnophone Music Association. She was an invited soloist for Andrea Rost's performance: Pannon songs, with Márta Sebestyén, and with Szilvia Péter Szabó's first solo album.

She started her own group in 2006, selected from renowned performers of Hungarian folk music, jazz and world music productions.[4][5] Their fruitful collaboration is marked by four albums. Their latest album, Csintekerintő, for children and families, was successful throughout the country. In 2022, she recorded a Christmas album, Titoktok.[6][7]

Discography
  • Lily Of The Valley (as Szilvia Bognár) 2000
  • A Szeretet Próbája (A Test Of True Love) (as Szilvia Bognár) 2012
  • Titoktok. 2022

References
  1. Zoltán, Hőgye (2023-03-08). "Sztárok és csillagok, avagy dalok az égitestekről". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  2. "Loudspeaker - interactive lecture on Hungary's folk music with Szilvia..." zenehaza.hu. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  3. Zhuk, Alexandr (2020-03-06). Encyclopedia of Hungarian rock. Volume one (in Hungarian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-457-91801-6.
  4. "SZILVIA BOGNÁR SEXTET (HU)". Europe Jazz Network. 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  5. Ferenc, Miskei. "X. Őszi Kulturális Napok sok fellépővel Párkányban - részletes program". ATEMPO.sk | zenei-kulturális portál (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  6. Kultúra.hu (2022-12-18). "Ünnep: Bognár Szilvia karácsonyi dala – klippremier az új, Titoktok című lemezről". kultúra.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  7. "Hét nő, öt nagylemez, egy férfi, egy filmzenealbum – karácsonyra ajánljuk". kepmas.hu.
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