Esther Hargittai

Biography

Esther Graduated in 1995 in Choral Conducting and Music Education at the “Liszt Academy of Music”, Budapest. From 1996 – 2005 Esther worked for a well-known children's choir in Israel, the ‘Efroni Choir’, where she founded,  conducted and managed the “Young Efroni Choir”. Esther has performed  in a variety of settings (national events, TV programmes, charities), including representing Israel in the USA (Washington, Kennedy Centre, Salt Lake City) and France. She was co-author of a Kodály Method manual for music teachers in Israel, published by the Jerusalem Music Centre. She has been a professional staff member at the British Kodály Academy since 2006, directing and conducting musicianship courses and workshops around the UK and abroad, and is part of the CPD development team. She started teaching musicianship according to the Kodály philosophy in 2016 at the Junior Guildhall String Training Programme.