Mihály Menelaos Zeke

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Biography Mihály Menelaos Zeke Mihály Zeke (IPA zɛ'kɛ) is a conductor and pianist based in Stuttgart and Mainz. He is artistic director of the european chamber choir Cythera as well as of the University of Stuttgart Academic Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, while also working as a freelance conductor for radio choirs in Germany, Hungary and Greece. He recently assumed a professorship for choral conducting at the University of Mainz. Born in London to a Greek-Hungarian family of musicians, Zeke studied organ, piano and conducting in Athens and Stuttgart. He has been a laureate of the Kyveli-Horn Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as member of the Dirigentenforum, the German Ministry of Culture’s elite platform for young conductors. He attended numerous masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Anne Le Bozec, Stefan Parkman, Peter Dijkstra, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Howard Williams and others. As a lied duo partner he won prizes at the Paula-Salomon-Lindberg competition Berlin in 2011 and at the Hugo-Wolf competition Slovenj Gradec in 2012. From 2012 to 2015 Zeke was chorus master at the Dijon opera house before moving on to a freelance career based in Paris. He conducted the region of Burgundy’s state funded Arsys chamber choir until 2019, subsequently taking a number of its members and forming the independent European chamber choir Cythera. As a guest conductor he has worked among others at the English National Opera, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Accentus chamber choir, the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne and the Hungarian and Hellenic Radio Choirs. He is regularly invited as a jury member on international competitions such as the Florilège Vocal de Tours. A passionate pedagogue, Zeke has been teaching as a guest lecturer or professor since 2014 at the conservatoires or universities of Dijon, Paris, Tübingen Stuttgart and Mainz as well as in various workshops and masterclasses.  He has released two albums to date: Naissance de Vénus with Arsys Bourgogne in 2018, featuring French a-cappella works from Debussy to Messiaen, was widely acclaimed by critics, while his first recording with Cythera, Homelands Vol. 1, featuring works by Bartók, Kodály, Dvořák/Janáček, Schönberg and Brahms was nominated for the German Record Critics Award in 2021.

Biography Mihály Menelaos Zeke

Mihály Zeke (IPA zɛ'kɛ) is a conductor and pianist based in Stuttgart and Mainz. He is artistic director of the european chamber choir Cythera as well as of the University of Stuttgart Academic Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, while also working as a freelance conductor for radio choirs in Germany, Hungary and Greece. He recently assumed a professorship for choral conducting at the University of Mainz.
Born in London to a Greek-Hungarian family of musicians, Zeke studied organ, piano and conducting in Athens and Stuttgart. He has been a laureate of the Kyveli-Horn Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as member of the Dirigentenforum, the German Ministry of Culture’s elite platform for young conductors. He attended numerous masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Anne Le Bozec, Stefan Parkman, Peter Dijkstra, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Howard Williams and others. As
a lied duo partner he won prizes at the Paula-Salomon-Lindberg competition Berlin in 2011 and at the Hugo-Wolf competition Slovenj Gradec in 2012.

From 2012 to 2015 Zeke was chorus master at the Dijon opera house before moving on to a freelance career based in Paris. He conducted the region of Burgundy’s state funded Arsys chamber choir until 2019, subsequently taking a number of its members and forming the independent European chamber choir Cythera. As a guest conductor he has worked among others at the English National Opera, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Accentus chamber choir, the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne and the Hungarian and Hellenic Radio Choirs. He is regularly invited as a jury member on international competitions such as the Florilège Vocal de Tours.

A passionate pedagogue, Zeke has been teaching as a guest lecturer or professor since 2014 at the conservatoires or universities of Dijon, Paris, Tübingen Stuttgart and Mainz as well as in various workshops and masterclasses.

He has released two albums to date: Naissance de Vénus with Arsys Bourgogne in 2018, featuring French a-cappella works from Debussy to Messiaen, was widely acclaimed by critics, while his first recording with Cythera, Homelands Vol. 1, featuring works by Bartók, Kodály, Dvořák/Janáček, Schönberg and Brahms was nominated for the German Record Critics Award in 2021.