Pannon Philharmonic

Andrea Meláth studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where she received a teacher`s diploma in 1995. Her graduation concert was in 1998.

Already while studying at the academy she participated in numerous festivals in Hungary and abroad.

She was elected the "Singer of the Year in 1997 in Madeira and won the third prize of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in 1999 in London.

She was awarded the Fisher Annie Scholarship of Hungary to Bayreuth twice in 1996 and in 1998. This opportunity helped her much to become a well known and respected singer for Hungarian concert management companies.

Since 1998 she is a permanent guest artist at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest.

Ms Meláth is a dedicated artist of the song culture. She has several song CD releases under the valued Hungaroton brand, and also some others with the Hungarian State Radio. Her first full opera recording came out recently at Vox Artis in the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.

For her high level interpretation of contemporary music she received the Artisjus Award seven times already (between 1997-2007) . She has performed and premiered several contemporary works from Gy.Ligeti, through P. Ötvös, to Gy. Orban, Nogradi, L. Vajda and from the British composer David Newbold.

In 2001 she was granted the Liszt Ferenc Music Award from the Ministry of Natural Cultural Heritage. In the same year she also received the "Best Young Artist Award" from the State Opera House in Budapest.

In 2001 she sung first time the role of Judit in Bartok´s Duke Bluebeard's Castle in Budapest in the staging of Balazs Kovalik . After this breakthrough she has performed the same role from Glasgow (Scottish BBC Orchestra under Ivan Volkov) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Symphonic Orchestra under Zoltan Pesko), from Palermo (at the Teatro di Massimo under Jan-Latham König) to London (Sadler's Well Theatre under Andras Ligeti and in the Barbican Hall under Peter Ash), from Miskolc (Opera Festival directed by Michael Schulz) through Tallin (Under Gy. Selmeczi) to Antwerp, Amsterdam and Utrecht (with the Royal Flemish Orchestra under Daniel Callegiari).

In 2007 Ms.Meláth was awarded the important musical prize the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in Hungary.

Naxos, the world´s leading classical music label has released a recording of Bartok´s Bluebeard´s Castle with her as Judith late 2007.

Beyond her artistic career Ms. Meláth educates as associate professor for singing at the University of Pécs on the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts from 2007 on.

Ms. Meláth´s sensible still dynamic voice and her expressive artistic skills earned her already well deserved success in different mezzo roles like Cerubino, Sesto,

Octavian, Stephano, Carmen, Paulina, Donna Elvira, Santuzza, Judith, La Favorita.

She is a sought - after soloist of leading orchestras with world famous conductors like Zoltan Kocsis, Ivan Fisher, Tamas Vasary, Adam Fisher, Jurij Simonov , Helmuth Rilling, Mihail Jurovsky, Andras Ligeti ,György Rath and Howard Williams a.o. performing oratoria, Requiem and other symphonic works.

Beyond her home Budapest she is familiar with the stages of Paris, London, New York, Rome, St. Petersburg, Salzburg, Valladolid, Philadelphia or even Yerevan too.