Pannon Philharmonic

In 1996 Andrea Vigh became a professor at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. She recorded ten solo CDs, all released on the Capriccio and Hungaroton label to great critical acclaim. Following the release of her "Harp Concertos" CD, she received an invitation to the "Die Beste" programme of German state television "ZDF" in 1994. Ms Vigh gave several successful solo concerts in the sold-out Great Hall of the Academy of Music in Budapest, and frequently appears in the concert halls of Hungary and Europe both as a solo artist and a chamber musician. Since 1993 she has regularly played with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, including concerts in Berlin and Lisboa as well as at the Salzburg Festival, Paris and New York's Carnegie Hall. Several TV-recordings have been made of her playing, among them a televised portrait, harp recitals. During the Budapest Spring Festival 2003 she gave an orchestral concert, conducted by Zoltán Kocsis. In 2005, in the Winter Festive Evenings, she performed with Éva Marton and Ilona Tokody in the Palace of Arts. In 2006 she played Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp with Béla Drahos and the Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Tamás Vásáry. Ms Vigh is the founder and artistic leader of the Gödöllő International Harp Festival, launched in 1999. She is a jury member of the Wales, Arles, Belgrade, Szeged and Gödöllő harp festivals. In 2008 she gave a concert with violinist Vilmos Szabadi in Hofburg in Vienna, and in the spring of 2010 she participated in a very successful tour in Japan with cellist Csaba Onczay.