VIOLIN LESSONS
NORTHERN VIRGINIA
BEATA SEGESVARY VIOLIN STUDIO
Professional Background
Beata Segesvary grew up in a musical family in Budapest, Hungary, with her father performing the violin in the Hungarian State Orchestra and maintaining a full-time violin teaching practice. Her grandmother, in turn, was a piano teacher, while her mother was also a teacher.
She began playing the violin at eight at the Budapest IX. Elementary School of Music and then completed a diploma in the Bela Bartok Secondary Music School of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
During the next three years, she continued with post-graduate studies in the methodology of violin instruction at the Budapest Central Teaching Institute. This was followed by advanced training in Renaissance and Baroque music as well as the musical dance technique of the era. After several years of teaching the violin at the Music School of the Central District of Budapest, she was elected as a supervising teacher of the violin section of the school.
In addition, Mrs. Segesvary then received an additional Certificate with Honors for teaching advanced violin methodology in the Intensive Extension Training of Teachers program administered under the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education. In the following years, she was a member as a mezzo soprano of the Budapest Bartok Choir, traveling in Europe to participate in choral festivals.
Besides teaching, she played the violin as Assistant Concertmaster in: King St. Stephen Symphony Orchestra, Budapest; Music Teachers Symphony Orchestra, Budapest; Nairobi Orchestra, Kenya; and the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Virginia. A number of occasions involved leading concerts and rehearsals in the absence of the Concertmaster.
Mrs. Segesvary performed as first violinist with the Washington Symphony Orchestra, JCC Orchestra, Fairfax Symphony, Falls Church Chamber Orchestra, and Celebrated String Quartet. She has played with various chamber groups and as a soloist at numerous social events in the D.C. Metropolitan area, and has also performed at the White House with a chamber group from the Washington Symphony Orchestra. She continues to perform on request.
