Contemporary - Aurin Girls' Choir

Aurin Girls' Choir

The AURIN Girls’ Choir was formed in 1998 at the famous Kodály School of Kecskemét, Hungary, with girls (aged over 15) who were previously members of the MIRACULUM Children’s Choir. The founder and leader of the choir is László Durányik. Over the years, they have won more than 20 first prizes at international choir competitions and produced 9 CDs. The girls have already performed and given concerts in several countries: England, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, China, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Romania - Transylvania, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Wales. Concert venues have included: London, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, Trondheim, Copenhagen, Brussels, Maasmechelen, Turin, Arezzo, Lecco, Târgu Mureş, Timisoara, Cantonigros, Llangollen, Edinburgh and Paris.

They became Olympic champions at the 2006 World Choir Games in China, ahead of 42 other choirs in their category. In 2009 the AURIN Girls’ Choir received the Bács-Kiskun County Prima Award, and in 2016 the Association of Hungarian Choirs and Orchestras (KÓTA) Award.

The choir performs music from the Renaissance to the present day. The aim is to expand the choir’s repertoire in all genres, emphasizing the works of Hungarian composers: Kodály, Bartók, Bárdos, Kocsár, Orbán, Gyöngyösi and Péter Tóth. An important goal of the choir is to represent the name of Zoltán Kodály’s hometown, Kecskemét, all over the world.

László Durányik

László Durányik was born in Budapest in 1968. He graduated as a teacher of mathematics and singing-music, obtained a degree in choir conducting, music management and musicology from the Liszt Ferenc University of Music, in Budapest.

As a teacher at the Kodály School in Kecskemét, where he has been teaching since 1995, he has given more than a hundred demonstration singing lessons and choir rehearsals to foreign guests, students and teachers from all over the world, He has also participated in several choir competitions as a jury member.

During many foreign concert tours, international and domestic seminars and conferences (in England, Australia, South Korea, Scotland, Estonia, China, Iceland, Serbia, Lithuania and the United States), he has given lectures, demonstration classes and choral rehearsals based on the Kodály method, the technique of choral singing, and his own special ‘secrets’.

In recognition of his work, he has received several awards for his work as a music teacher: Kodály Award (2005), Csokonai Award (2007), Mol Talent Care Award (2012), Bács-Kiskun County Art Award (2012), Bács-Kiskun County Prima Award (2019).

He is the founder and leader of the MIRACULUM Children’s Choir (1996), the AURIN Girls’ Choir (1998), the AURIN Women’s Choir (2006) and the AURIN Mixed Choir founded in 2015. Over the years, he has participated in choir competitions, festivals and concert tours in 30 countries around the world, and has returned home with numerous competition successes (first prizes), festival prizes and grand prizes. He has also received several special conducting awards at choir competitions.