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Contemporary Vocal

Senior
Violin, Electric Violin & Viola

Available
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Spoken Languages
English, Malay & Hungarian

Lessons via : Face2Face & Online

Hungarian born violinist, Helga Sedli graduated on classical violin in Budapest, Hungary at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and graduated from the Szeged University with a degree in Music and Mathematics.

Helga started the violin at the age of 8, showing early promise winning 1st Prize in local competitions in both the violin and vocal categories. With her parents support, Helga continued her music studies at the Conservatory, travelling around Europe in many countries with the Conservatory’s symphonic orchestra. She was a member of the 20 voice Victoria Chamber Choir, winning 2nd prize in Italy at the Arezzo International Choir Competition, and at the Conservatory winning 1st prize every year in both instrument and voice category.

Her essay, ‘Paganini – The Devil’s Fiddler’, won 1st prize at the University for the Science Writing competition, becoming her graduation diploma thesis. After graduation, Helga became the Music teacher at Jedlik Anyos High School in Budapest, and private teacher of several students. In the year of 2010 she joined a classical string quartet based in Jarkata and has been exploring and developing music in South-East Asia ever since.

It was in Jakarta that Helga also developed a new style in her live performances integrating the electric violin with the acoustic violin, and began to explore different styles of music. Performing across Indonesia at assorted festivals Helga has worked with Fariz RM, Katon Bagaskara , jazz artists; Dwiki Dharmawan , Indro Hardjodikoro , Idang Rasidi ; ethnic musicians; Balawan and Ayu Laksmi. Helga has also performed in Singapore, India, Cambodia, and Europe and, in 2015, performed with the famous Australian band , ‘Air Supply’.

Helga plays on a five-stringed instrument instead of the usual 4 strings, and owns five different brands of electric violins with which she uses to explore music techniques and improvisation, especially in jazz. Helga is also self-taught on the Chinese, ‘Er-hu’ and the Cambodian, ‘Tro-khmer’.