Conductor
Karolina Csáthy is noted for her extremely expressive conducting. She draws on extensive experience in choral direction as well as a recent interest in orchestral conducting. She studies with Jonathan Brett and recently participated in the Audite International Masterclass hosted by Conductors Academy where she was selected to conduct The Solti Chamber Orchestra.
She conducts her own choir, Accordare on a project-by-project basis.
During her time as a student and choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, she conducted numerous concerts and services, including a compline service of Russian choral music, feeling a deep connection with her Russian heritage. It was this event that ultimately led to making her first recording as a conductor.
Surrounded by some of the finest young singers in the country and having recently become obsessed with the music of Carlo Gesualdo, Accordare was born.
Accordare
to allow, to place one’s trust in somebody, to reconcile
in music - to tune, to attune, to harmonise
Accordare was initially an octet formed for the specific purpose of performing Karolina Csáthy’s musical biopic Gesualdo, which was premiered in February 2020 with Adam Long (actor) and Isabel Esain Garcia (viola da gamba), directed by Eleanor Burke. The work draws the audience into the vivid, extreme, troubled and, at times, enlightened mind of Carlo Gesualdo through telling his story, including the alleged murder of his wife. All of this passion seeps into his extraordinary musical world - perhaps the only one he wanted to live in.
During the pandemic, Karolina was inspired to write a Christmas carol, The Star Song and despite the quarantine restrictions recorded and released the work with Accordare on Christmas Eve, 2020.
In the subsequent year, Accordare was approached to record the choral works of the contemporary composer Richard Lambert. This was a hugely exciting challenge and required the group to expand to eighteen singers with Karolina Csáthy now taking on the role of conductor as opposed to directing from within the group.
“All of the performances heard on this recording are outstanding. The choral singing is exemplary...It seems that Accordare Choir...and its director, Karolina Csáthy, are absolutely a team to watch out for. On this evidence they are right up there with the best, and this is an outstanding release. ”
Accordare is very much looking forward to performing a newly commissioned work by Maria Antal for voices and symphony orchestra in 2025.