Iris Szeghy

Iris Szeghy (born 1956) is a Slovak composer living in Switzerland. Biography Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava, she ended it with a doctoral degree at the same school. Szeghy went through numerous composer residencies - at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, at the University of California at San Diego, at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam, at the State Opera in Hamburg, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she was a scholar of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London and Budapest etc. Iris Szeghy has won many international composition awards, her work has been performed and broadcast in Europe, America and Australia. Works Szeghy composes for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice. Selected works include: *Hommage à Rodin - Touches with three Statues of the Master 1982 *Musica Dolorosa (String Quartet) 1985 *Minifanfare 1986 *Canto Triste Nocturne for Trombone (Violoncello) and Piano 1986 *Afforismi 1990 *Afforismi II 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery II 1993 *Musica Folclorica - Hommage à Bartók 1996 *A Day in Manhatta