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Interview with singer Bognár Szilvia. Recent recipient of Hungary’s Prima Award, Szilvia grew up singing. She talks about singing with and learning in the Vas Folk Song Studio with Tanai Erzsébet during her secondary school years. She sang for three years with Anima Sound System, then in Budapest with Makám Ensemble. She talks about a 2007 recording "Szájról szájra" and about working with singers Herczku Ágnes and Szalóki Ágnes. She sang with Vándor Vokál for seven years; and has worked, amongst others, with Sebő Ferenc, Krulik Zoltán, Kiss Ferenc, the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and Rost Andrea. Her style is versatile and elegant. She enjoys her students and teaching singing in the Department of Folk Music at the Liszt Academy of Music. She comments that she doesn’t necessarily want to still be singing on stage at the age of seventy-five (she’s no where near that yet!) "…I only want to be onstage as long as I can keep my voice in shape, and as along as I can speak to an audience this way." By Varga Veronika first published on: ’Ritmus és hang’ blog – 2025. Feb. 5.