Slovak
Magyar
DeutschBridge Guard Night
Exhibition on with the installation of the bridge in the Bridge Guard Residence accompanied by scraps of memory
Bridge Guard Gymnastics
Exhibition with photographs of student exercises with which they “traced” the bridge
Henpecked Husbands
The second part of the exhibition was devoted to Henpecked Husbands
Henpecked Spouse!
Concert
Concert in the Štúrovo Town museum on the occasion of the Night of Musea:
Krisztina Megyeri (keyboard) and Jozef Kurina (German flute)
Chaminade, D-dur concertino
Massenet-Meditation
Concert
Concert in the Bridge Guard Residence with two compositions by Krisztina Megyeri, performed by Villő Oláh from Budapest (cello) and Jozef Kurina from Štúrovo (German flute).
Concert introduction, the composer Krisztina Megyeri and Karol Frühauf
The performing musicians Jozef Kurina und Villő Oláh
The composition “In the Pergola” for cello, German flute and voices
Krisztina Megyeri is born 1974 in Budapest (Hungary). She lives and works there. She studied piano and composition on the Béla Bartók Conservatoire in Budapest.
1999 till 2002 she visited the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Lyon (France).
2004 she received the Master Degree in instrumental and electroacustical composition from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
2006 she completed the Master Degree in musicology with distinction on the Université Paris-VIII Saint-Denis.
Grants amongst others
- 1999 till 2003 grant from the French government
- 2005 till 2006 grant from the Fondation Natexis-Banques Populaires
- 2006 till 2007 grant and residence in the Akademie Schloss Solitude
- 2007 till 2009 the Kodály grant for composer
- 2008 residence in Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop (Germany)
- 2009 residence in Aldeburgh Composer Residencies, Aldeburgh (England)
Awards amongst others
- 2003 I. price of the Cergy-Pontoise contest for young composers
- 2006 I. price of the István Vántus composer contest
Commissioned compositions amongst others - 2003 for the Théâtre du Châtelet (Le jardin étranger)
- 2004 for the Fondation Royaumont (Nousnoyons-nous)
- 2005 for the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
Professional activities
- 2008 till 2009 Composition and counterpoint teacher at the University of Miskolc (Hungary)
- since 2009 Harmony and analysis teacher, repetiteur for singer at the Janus Pannonius University in Pécs (Hungary)
- She works on her PhD in composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
Krisztina Megyeri wrote a number of solo pieces and ones for ensembles and orchestra. Her compositions have been performed in France, Belgium, USA, Switzerland and of course Hungary.
Tree of Life
Exhibition in the Bridge Guard Residence with artefacts around horse chestnuts by Stephen Turner, created during his three months term as Bridge Guard in Štúrovo.
Stephen reports lively about the creation of the pictures made with paints made by him out of chestnuts
The paints out of chestnuts are nit only brown – video shows the production
Andrea Baranovics enriches the opening
Stephen listens to the accordion
Chestnuts from Štúrovo and Esztergom painted with chestnut paint
Studies about horse chestnut tree
Tree of Life – streets of Esztergom (above) and Štúrovo (below) connected by the bridge
