Irén Lovász

Irén Lovász (born April 11, 1963 in Karcag ) is a Hungarian folk singer.

Irén Lovász

life and career

Lovász studied linguistics and literature. From 1987 to 1995 she worked as an ethnomusicologist at the Ethnographic Museum Budapest and also attended lectures on ethnology. She has been active in the dance house movement since the 1980s, winning folk music competitions in Hungary, Wales and Finland.

In 1995, on behalf of the Hungarian National Museum, she produced her first solo CD Világfa with music by László Hortobágyi . For her CD Rosebuds in a Stoneyard , released in 1996 , she received the quarterly prize of the German Record Critics for the third quarter of 1996 in the folk / world music genre. She worked as a soloist in groups for early music , interpreted contemporary compositions and performed with jazz musicians such as guitarist Ferenc Snétberger . In 1997 she performed at the largest German festival for folk and world music, the Tanz & FolkFest in Rudolstadt , Thuringia .

Between 1998 and 2003 she was part of the Makám group . The albums Skanzen (1999), 9 Colinda (2001) and Sindbad (2002) were created based on compositions by Zoltán Krulik . The Estonian composer Peeter Vähi wrote the music for the CD Supreme Silence (2000) on Tibetan and Sanskrit texts for her.

From 1999 Lovász was a member of the folk group Teagrass for a few years , with which the album Wide is the Danube was created in 2000 . From 2001 she performed with the lutenist István Kónya with a program of Hungarian Renaissance music and participated in a musical meditation project with the double bassist Attila Lõrinszky . In 2003 she was named singer of the year by the Hungarian radio. In 2005 the CD Cloud doors was released .

Since then she has released a new music series Healing Voices on her own label Sirenvoices: The Sacred Voice (2006), Inner Voice (2007) have already appeared in this series, as has Flower in Love (2008) and the revision of Világfa (2009).

Discography

• Világfa (Music by László Hortobágyi) Budapest, National Museum 1995., Fonó Records 1999 (Hungary)
• Rosebuds in a Stoneyard (music by László Hotobágyi), Erdenklang Musik 1996. (Germany) Quarterly Prize 3/96 of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik
• Supreme Silence (music by Peeter Vähi) CCn'C Records 1998. (Germany, USA)
• Skanzen (music: Makám, composed by Zoltán Krulik) Fonó Records 1999. (Hungary)
• Wide is the Danube (music: TEAGRASS, composed by Jiri Plocek) CC'nC 2000. (Germany, USA)
• 9 Colinda (music: Makám, composed by Zoltán Krulik) Fonó Records 2001. (Hungary)
• Sinbad (music: Makám, composed by Zoltán Krulik) Fonó Records 2002. (Hungary)
• Cloud Doors / Fellegajtó (with Miklós Lukács , Zoltán Mizsei, Balázs Szokolay Dongó, Zoltán Farkas, Csaba Gyulai). Hungaroton Classic, 2005 (Hungary)
• Sacred Voice / ÉGI HANG , Healing Voices 1. Sirenvoices 2006.
• Inner Voice / BELSŐ HANG , Healing Voices 2nd Sirenvoices 2007.
• Flower in Love / Szerelmes Virág cd. Sirenvoices 2008.
• Világfa Remix cd, Sirenvoices 2009.

Contribution to other albums and compilations

• László Hortobágyi Traditional Music of Amygdala , Erdenklang Musik 1991, Germany
• László Hortobágyi The Transglobal and Magical Sound of László Hortobágyi , Network Medien GmbH 1996, Germany
• Her Song , Shanachie Corp. 1996, USA
• Dance and Folk Festival , Rudolstadt, Hei Deck 1997, Germany
• Ferenc Snétberger: Obsession , Enja Records 1998, Germany
• Origines , Warner Music France, 1998, France
• Ethnic Voices and Songs , MINOS-EMI 1998, Greece
• Mother Earth , MINOS-EMI 1998, Greece
• Origins (De l'origine de l'Homme) Origins-EMI 1998, France
• World Voices 1 , Hearts of Space, 1998, USA
• Ethnica and World Music , New Sounds 1998, Italy
• Beautiful Morning ... , Koch Records 1999, Germany
• World Festival of Sacred Music 1-2 , CCn'C Records, 1999, Germany, USA
• Kálmán Oláh & Peter Lehel : Hungarian Rhapsody, GOOD International Co., 2002. Korea
• Kálmán Oláh Trio Contrasts + Parallels , MA Recordings, 2004, Japan
• I Sowed Pearls, Hungarian World Music , Etnofon Records, 2007.

Web links

• Irén Lovász's homepage (English and Hungarian)
• Irén Lovász at Discogs (English)