Renáta Göncz (born 16 May 1991) is a Hungarian

lyric soprano A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and ot ...

, opera singer, founding member of the Moltopera Company, and regular partner of

Kayamar Viktor Magyaróvári (born 12 May 1985, Mezőhegyes), known by his stage name Kayamar, is a Hungarian singer, jazz and classical composer. He has abilities in the areas of hearing (Hertz-pitch that is even more precise than absolute pitch), ...

Biography

Early years

Renáta Göncz was born in 1991 in the Hungarian countryside, in

Ajka Ajka () is a city in Hungary with about 35,000 inhabitants. It is situated in the hills of Bakony. History Around 1000 BCE, the area was inhabited by Celts. By the second century CE, the territory was conquered by the Roman Empire, Romans. The Hu ...

. She has learnt piano from the age of 7. Multiple conservatoires would have liked her to admit but she decided to continue her musical studies with singing. Her last amateur success has proven her right: she won the 1st prize of the Jenő Ádám Vocal Competition and two special prizes in addition. She wasn't even 18 years old when she sang first in the famous X. room of the

Franz Liszt Academy of Music The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several ...

in front of

Éva Marton Éva Marton (born 18 June 1943) is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's ''Turandot'' and ''Tosca'', and Wagnerian roles. Vocal training and early years Marton was born in Budapest, where she ...

and the teaching staff. She graduated in 2013.

Moltopera

She has been member of the Moltopera Company since the very beginning, debuting with the role of ''Zerlina'' from

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; full title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legen ...

on 15 February 2012. She sang various roles including ''Pamina'' (Mozart -

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...

), ''Lola'' ( Mascagni -

Cavalleria Rusticana ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (; ) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 Cavalleria rusticana (short story), short story of the same name and subsequent ...

) and ''Lauretta'' (

Puccini Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, s ...

Gianni Schicchi () is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Puccin ...

) in various concert halls like the Palace of Arts, the

Sziget Festival Sziget Festival (, ) is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,0 ...

, or the National Theater of Pécs.

As a concert soloist

She has been the soloist of numerous concerts in Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden or Germany. In 2012 she sang the soprano solo of Mendelssohn's 55, psalm with the Budapest Academic Choir Society.

Kayamar and the popular genre

Despite being an

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

singer she has sung many times in

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and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

concerts, as well. She is a regular guest in the concerts of

since 2011, who composes a big number of songs directly to her voice. She also took part on

's first CD with the two bonus tracks. In the

2012 she stepped on stage two times with operatic repertoire and three times with

improvisations Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means un-foreseen. Improvis ...

and pop in the shows of

. She is also regular special guest of the

Windsingers WindSingers is a Hungarian a cappella group singing mostly jazz, its own pop arrangements and the compositions of Kayamar who is also the bass singer of the group. Founding In 2011 Dóra Vers ( mezzo), Veronika Földi (alto) and Márton ...

a cappella Music performed a cappella ( , , ; ), less commonly spelled acapella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Rena ...

group.

Awards

* Magda Lantos piano competition - gold * Jenő Ádám National Vocal Competition - I. prize and 2 special prizes

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goncz, Renata Living people 1991 births 21st-century Hungarian women opera singers People from Ajka