Dávid Farkasházi

Choral and orchestral conductor, music educator, born in 1991 in Budapest. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral and Choir Conducting with highest honours in 2015, and received two Master’s degrees in 2019, in Choir Conducting with highest honours and Teacher of Music Education with outstanding qualification. In 2017 and 2019 he studied a semester each at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Erasmus scholarship. From September 2020, he is a doctoral student at Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

He participated in several conductor masterclasses led by well-known conductors and composers such as Peter Eötvös, Stefan Parkman, György Vashegyi, Eric Whitacre and Zoltán Kocsis-Holper. He won first prize at the Hungarian National Competition of Young Choir Conductors in 2016. He was awarded the special prize at the Jāzeps Vītols 6th International Choral Conductors Competition in Riga, Latvia in 2019.

He is one of the organists of Saint Anne Church, Budapest and has been the conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Church since 2010. He has been a music teacher and the conductor of the Children’s Choir at Károly Kós Elementary School, Budapest since September 2018. Since 2021 he has been the conductor of La mia Fonte Chamber Choir, Budapest, since 2022 he has been the Conductor of Saint Stephen’s Basilica, the main cathedral of Budapest.

In 2017 he took part in the Kodály HUB Sing. Learn. Share. international project involving The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy to create the Kodály HUB public online knowledge centre. He also joined the „Every day singing Programme” which is the teacher traning programme in which he introduces the Kodály HUB and demonstrates its usefulness. He first joined the Kodály Institute between 2019-2021 as a lecturer of Conducting and an Assistant Teacher of Methodology. Since 2024 he is again a lecturer at the Institute.