Enikő Ginzery is a virtuoso cimbalom player known for her imaginative and
innovative style. She presents the cimbalom as a flull-fledged concert
instrument. Enikö was born in Bratislava, Slovakia and her musical talent
was noticed at an early age. She first started to play the violin;
however, very soon she changed to the cimbalom, which became her favorite
instrument. From 1989 to 1995 Enikö studied cimbalom at the Conservatory
of Bratislava, and then she continued her studies at the Ferenc Liszt
Academy in Budapest, Hungary. Next she enrolled at the “Hochschule für
Musik Saar“ in Saarbrücken, Germany for a postgraduate study of contemporary music interpretation.
She graduated with honors in 2005. During her studies Enikö had many excellent teachers,
among them Beata Cecková, Ludmila Dadáková, Ilona Szeverényi Gerencsér,
Stefan Litwin, and Yukiko Sugawara.
In 1995 she obtained an award as best participant of the International Youth
Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She became the winner/laureate of the International
Cimbalom Competition of 1997 in Valašské Mezirící, Czech Republic.
For three consecutive years (1997-1999) she participated in interpretation
courses given by György Kurtág. In 1998 Enikö attended an interpretation course
of early music in Szombathely, Hungary with Emilio Moreno and Anneke Boeke. She
also took part in interpretation master classes of contemporary music with
Moritz Eggert, Herbert Henck, Christof Keller, Theo Brandmüller, Isao Nakamura,
Uli Wiget and Nicolas Hodges (International Summer Course for New Music in
Darmstadt, Germany).
Since 1995 Enikö has regularly given solo performances and has been also
accompanied by orchestras throughout Europe and the United States. She has
performed with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra of Bratislava, the Bratislava
Chamber Opera Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, SR Radio Orchestra in Saarbrücken, SWR
Radio Orchestra in Freiburg, SWR Radio Orchestra in Stuttgart, Sinfonietta
Dresden, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal,
Solamente Naturali and the Melos Ethos Ensemble.
She gave solo concerts at several important international festivals of
contemporary music: In Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava,
Slovakia Krakow, Poland Forbach, France; Saarbrücken, Kassel, Stuttgart,
Dresden, Darmstadt, and Berlin in Germany; Luck, Ukraine; Budapest, Hungary; New
York, NY and Princeton, NJ in the USA.
The wide scope of her repertoire comprises compositions from the middle ages to
the present time. It includes pieces by medieval, renaissance, baroque,
classical, romantic and contemporary composers. Among these are original pieces
for the Saltero -- the usual designation for the cimbalom in the 16th to the
18th century -- and also her transcriptions of other pieces from this period.
Her main interest is, however, the interpretation of works of contemporary
composers, either for solo cimbalom, or for instrumental groups. Enikö’s
virtuosity and the exciting sound and expression possibilities of her instrument
inspired several contemporary composers to create original pieces for cimbalom
alone or in combination with other instruments or electronic sound.
Over the past several seasons she has premiered works by well known composers
as Ilja Zeljenka, Juraj Beneš, Juraj Pospíšil, Vladimír Bokes, Michal Košut,
Anton Steinecker, Peter Machajdík, Dániel Biro, Pál Károlyi, Patricia
Alessandrini, Ted Coffey, Chiel Meijering, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Theo Brandmüller,
Jean Ives Bosseur, Christian Wolff, Luigi Manfrin, István Láng, Art-Oliver
Simon, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Alois Bröder, Zsigmond Szathmáry, Miklós Maros
Enikö performs chamber music with a wide circle of colleagues. She is a founding member
of a Trio Dulci Vento with the unique instrumental combination of psalter, recorder
and renaissaince trombon.
In 2001 Enikö recorded her first solo CD album: “Contemporary music for
cimbalom”.
Since the winde term of 2007 she is working on a PhD at the Academy of Music - VŠMU in Bratislava