Klára Csordás and Jory Vinikour A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The diverse experience of mezzo-soprano Klára Csordás, who resides in Paris, is perhaps only surpassed by her artistic openness and curiosity. She launched her career as an opera singer in Vienna before continuing it in Stockholm. Since then she has taken to the stage in New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt and Tbilisi, among other destinations. Not only does her opera and lieder repertoire have space for works and roles created several hundred years apart and representing the most varied of styles, but at the same time she can take on parts in a whole range of languages. Knowing this, it is perhaps unsurprising—though still admirable—to find her concert programme featuring vocal works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Donizetti, as well as Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and George Gershwin. Over the course of the years she has worked alongside numerous contemporary composers (e.g. Péter Eötvös and Sofia Gubaidulina), and had a close working relationship with Salvatore Sciarrino and Mauricio Kagel. For this Liszt Academy concert she is accompanied by American harpsichordist and pianist Jory Vinikour, who is equally at home playing Baroque and modern music, and whose solo discs have been twice nominated for Grammys. He has appeared together with famous artists such as Magdalena Kožená and Rolando Villazón, while he recorded the album Music for a While for Deutsche Grammophon in partnership with Anne Sofie von Otter.