Flautanduo

Tímea Fábián and Eszter Illés flute masters are the two performers constituting FLAUTANDUO, the flute duo founded in 2004. They both graduated at the Bartók Béla Faculty of Music at Miskolc University, under the tuition of Professor Dr. Gyula Csetényi. They continued their studies with Professor Lóránt Kovács at Liszt Academy of Music and got their degree in 2003 and 2004. Since the foundation of the duo they have given a number of concerts in well-known concert halls and churches throughout Hungary.
The principal aim of the duo since its forming has been acquaintaining the audience with the compositions written onto this musical instrument compilation. Their repertoire character pieces affect all of the eras of the music literature, a special attention is paid to the lecture of modern or contemporary pieces of music on their concerts.
In 1996 and 1998 Tímea  Fábián won an award of excellence  and contemporary prize at the Festival of International Flute Duos and Minor Bands in Balassagyarmat. She won first prize at the National Flute Competition of Szent István Secondary School of Music and in 2002 she was among the best 12 artists at the International Flute Competition in Krakow. She was an active participant of the following courses: In 1998 she took part in a course led by Michael Faust, in 2001 in a Jossy Amheim course and in 2003 she went to Munich to participate in the course of András Adorján. In 2001 she became member of the orchestra of the Miskolc National Theatre.(Apart form her performances and  studies  she also started a teaching career.) From 2006 to 2007 she taught in Bartók Béla Secondary School for Musicians in Budapest and from 2002 she has been working as a chamber and flute master in  the Conservatoire of Pécel Town.
In 2006 she was an invited performer of the „Ars Antiqva Europea” Festival held in Slovakia. She is the founder of FlautanDuo and an organizer and coordinator of The Flute Festival in Pécel in 2010 and 2012.

The love and devotion that Eszter Illés has for music can be traced back in her family. Her mother’s uncle, Sándor Végh is a world famous violin master, whose genius work has proved highly inspiring for Eszter throughout her career. Between 1999 and 2004 she attended a number of master courses led by Lóránt Kovács, Kató Motoaki, Yossi Arnheim and Auréle Nicolet. She won a silver award at the County Flute competition in 1998. In 2002 she won second prize (There was no first prize) at the National Competition of Teacher Training Colleges. She worked as a master of flute in Bartók Béla Secondary School for Musicians in Budapest from 2007. At the same time she was teaching at the Bartók Béla Institute of Music at the Miskolc University till 2010. At present she is a PHD student at the University of Pécs.
Some of our most significant concerts in the past few years: