Bratislava Music Agency
Záhumenská 3/A
841 06 Bratislava 4
Slovakia
Bratislava Cantat II. 2024
October 10 - 13, 2024, Bratislava, 9 - 12 October 2025
October 10 - 13, 2024, Bratislava, 9 - 12 October 2025
Ensembles
Hassler Vocal Ensemble
Hungary
The HASSLER ENSEMBLE was founded by the choirmaster Zoltan Sandor with the participation of students and young intellectuals in Miskolc in 1984. Since then it has played an important role in the music life of the town, and has regularly performed in events of the Philharmonic Society, music programmes of the Hungarian Radio, concert tours, competitions and festivals abroad. It initiated the International Chamber Choir Festival held annually in Miskolc. Its repertoir ranges from works by Renaissance masters to pieces by contemporary composers.
Zoltán Sándor
Conductor / Leader
SÁNDOR ZOLTÁN graduated as piano teacher in Miskolc and as choir master at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest and perfected his knowledge by attending the master course by Eric Ericson. In 2004 he was awarded a DLA degree and in 2012 obtained his habilitation. Currently he is a professor of the Bartók Béla Music Institute of the University of Miskolc. In addition to the Bartók Choir of Miskolc, he conducts the Female Choir and the Mixed Choir of the University of Miskolc, the Hegyalja Teachers' Choir in Szerencs, the Chamber Choir of the House of Culture in Sárospatak and the Hassler Ensemble in Miskolc. With his choirs he has been awarded prizes in significant international competitions in Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Slovakia. He is regularly involved in the work of the juries of international choir competitions.
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