Noémi Győri

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Noémi Győri (born 1983) is a Hungarian classical flautist.

Education
Győri graduated with honours from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2007 (teacher Henrik Prőhle). She then did postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Barbara Gisler-Haase) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (András Adorján). She also took masterclasses with Aurèle Nicolet, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Marina Piccinini, William Bennett and others, including a semester at the Sibelius Academy with Petri Alanko.

PhD and research
She is the first flutist to hold a PhD in Flute Performance Practice from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her thesis, “Reimagining the Flute and Guitar Duo through Musical Translations of Keyboard Works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven,” summarizes her research and the Classical Flute and Guitar project.

Performance career
Győri made her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2011 after winning the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition. She won the European Cultural Prize for Young Artists that year and the Salon de Virtuosi Career Prize in 2012. She was named Annie Fischer Scholar for three years and has been supported by Hungarofest Klassz and Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now. She also received the Performers’ Prize from the Artisjus Music Foundation in 2006 and 2009. She co-founded the IKZE Contemporary Music Festival in Budapest (2004–2009). She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at major festivals in 28 countries and has collaborated with many ensembles and orchestras. Since 2008 she has been the principal flute of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich and has been a guest principal with the New European Ensemble, the Georgian Sinfonietta, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic. She is a Miyazawa Flutes artist and plays a 14K gold LaFin headjoint and a 14K gold Miyazawa Boston flute.

Educator
In 2012 Győri was appointed Associate Tutor in Flute at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), where she also serves as International Ambassador and runs her flute studio in the Junior department. She is Flute Tutor at the University of Manchester and has given masterclasses at institutions such as the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Bard College, Conservatoire Dijon, Leeds College of Music, the Manchester University, the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Busan Arts College and Budapest’s Béla Bartók and Weiner conservatories. She was an Erasmus Professor at the Grieg Academy in Bergen in 2013 and served as External Examiner in Flute at Chetham’s School of Music in 2018.

Recordings and publications
Her discography includes Antonio Nava Flute and Guitar Duos (Hungaroton, 2011); Glowing Sonorities (Hungaroton, 2016); Transforming Traditions (Genuin, 2019). A recording of Haydn and Mozart flute quartets with Katalin Kokas, Peter Barsony and Dora Kokas was planned for release by Hungaroton in early 2021. She is co-author of the Classical Flute and Guitar collection (Doblinger Music Publishing, Austria), which includes transcriptions of works by Mozart and Haydn. Her transcription of Beethoven’s Les Adieux was released in 2018. In 2018 she launched Noemi Collection, a series of art objects created with designers for flutists and music lovers. She remains a Miyazawa Flutes artist.