Marta Hidy

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Marta Iren Hidy (born January 11, 1927 in Budapest ; † November 4, 2010 in Hamilton / Ontario ) was a Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin.

Hidy began playing the violin at the age of three under the guidance of her mother and made her first performance at the age of six. From 1935 to 1943 she studied violin with Ferenc Gábriel and Ede Zathureczky , chamber music with Leó Weiner and folk music with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and won the Reményi Competition in 1943 as the best violinist at the Academy. From 1946 to 1951 she was a member of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. With a string quartet she won the International Chamber Music Competition in Prague in 1950, and in 1952 she was the winner of the Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland. She has appeared as a soloist in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania.

In 1956, Hidy fled to Austria with her husband and two young children. The following year she went to Canada; She received Canadian citizenship in 1963. In Winnipeg she founded the Hidy String Quartet and in 1961 the Hidy Trio with Klara Benjamin Belkin and Chester Duncan, which lasted until 1968. She was also concertmaster of the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra and deputy concertmaster of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra .

From 1964 to 1974 she was concertmaster and from 1969 to 1974 assistant conductor of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra . From 1965 to 1991 she taught violin and chamber music at McMaster University . In 1973 she founded the Hidy-Ozolins-Tsutsumi Trio with Arthur Ozolins and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi , in 1974 with eleven strings of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra and a harpsichordist the Sir Ernest MacMillan ensemble , which was active until 1991, and in 1978 the trio with Zdenek Konicek and Valerie Tyron Canada . From 1977 to 1979 she conducted the Chamber Players of Toronto , and from 1978 to 1979 she was a member of the McMaster String Quartet .

Hidy has appeared as a soloist with the pianists Ada Bronstein and Chester Duncan in Winnipeg, Leo Barkin and Antonín Kubálek in Toronto and Valerie Tryon in Hamilton. In 1972 she made her debut with Geoffrey Parsons at London's Wigmore Hall . Further concert tours have taken her to New Zealand, Japan, China and Hong Kong, among others. She played the world premieres of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté's Suite for Violin Solo No. 4 (1970) and Hugh Hartwells Waltz Inventions .

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SURNAME Hidy, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hidy, Marta Iren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2010
Place of death Hamilton , Ontario