On the occasion of the 135th anniversary of the birth of the great Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Zoltán Kodály, the Embassy of Hungary in Bangkok organized an open-air piano concert and workshops to introduce Kodály’s works, followed by multiple presentations of the world-famous Kodály-method (inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage) for various age groups. Hungarian pianist Marcell Pető performed an open-air public piano concert on the bandstand of Bangkok’s central Lumphini Park on 27th April, 2017. Works of Kodály performed at the concert attracted numerous Bangkokian music-lovers to the pavilion.
We organized group sessions in two schools in order to introduce the famous Kodály-method or Kodály-concept. On 28th April Marcell Pető taught Hungarian folk songs and the Kodály-method to the students of Immanuel Lutheran Children’s Orchestra and Choir during a three-hour workshop. Pupils of the school prepared and performed works of Kodály by violin with piano accompaniment to the teachers and students of the school. In Storytime International Preschool we held two music and dance sessions to two different age groups of children on 8th May, where we taught rhythmic exercises, Hungarian folk songs, and introduced the basics of Hungarian folk dance.
