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Artist Biography For Irén Lovász

In 2003 Irén Lovász Won The EMeRTon Prize For The “Singer Of The Year ” Awarded By Musical Experts Of Hungarian Radio. This Is Her First New Record Release Since Then.
2005 Marks The Tenth Anniversary Of Her First Solo Disc Lovász–Hortobágyi Világfa 1995 When She Burst To The Forefront Of Hungarian Folk Music And World Music. The Record Was Released By The National Museum Of Hungary As The Incidental Music To The Great Millecentennial Archaeological Exhibition. A Remixed And Shortened Version Of This Irén Lovász Rosebuds In A Stoneyard Erdenklang Musikverlag 1996 Immediately Won Over Critics And Audiences In Germany And Throughout The World. In 1996 The Record Won The German Critics’ Award In The Ethno/world Music Category. After That Great Success Világfa Was Also Released By The Hungarian Label Fonó Records In 1999. In The Mean Time A New Music Was Composed For Her Voice By The Estonian Peeter Vahi. This Displayed A New Side Of Lovász’ Singing 13th Century Tibetan And Sanskrit Words To Contemporary Music Supreme Slence CCn’C Records 1998 . Her First Joint Record With Hungarian Group Makám Skanzen Was Released In 1999 Fonó Records . This Was Followed By An Album With The Teagrass Group Of Czech-Moravian-Slovak Musicians Wide Is The Danube CC’nC Records 2000 An Idiosyncratic Approach To Eastern European Folk Music. Another Two Records With Makám Followed 9 Colinda And Szindbád Fonó Records 2001 And 2002 .
These Ten Fertile Years Have Also Produced Musical Experiments Not Covered By These Albums But Appearing On Records By Other Artists In Live Performances And In Radio Recordings. She Has Worked With Composer László Hortobágyi Ferenc Snétberger Guitar Kálmán Oláh Piano Attila Lõrinszky Double Bass István Kónya Renaissance Lute And The Austrian E-Jam Formation.
Irén Lovász Started Out In The Humanities Studying Ethnography And Cultural Anthropology. She Received Her PhD In Ethnography In 1995. Her Singing Career Is Rooted In Her Research Work And Above All In The Folk Poetry And Traditional Culture Of The Hungarian Peasantry Which Pervaded Her Childhood And Still Defines Her Values And Worldview Today.

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