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Budapest Symphony Orchestra and the first violin in the Szilvay family quartet, which was a well-known ensemble at the time in Hungary. He also taught and conducted the Children and Youth Orchestra of the Hungarian State Radio and Television. In 1971, Géza Szilvay started to teach the violin at the East Helsinki Music Institute, Finland and he served as Principal of the institute in 1984–2010. He also taught at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 1978–2010. In 2012, he embarked on an ongoing project “International Minifiddlers” where his Colourstrings classes are broadcast in real time through a video conferencing system across the world.
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Géza
Szilvay gained international recognition not only as a violin pedagogue and creator of the Colourstrings method but also as an educator and conductor of children's and youth orchestras. For 10 years, he headed the annual Prima Nota festival in Kuhmo, bringing together young string players from
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Szilvay was born in
Budapest, Hungary in 1943, studied the violin at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and Pedagogics at the Budapest Music Academy where he graduated in 1966. He also studied law and political science at the ELTE University in Budapest and took his doctor's degree in 1970. In the 1960s,
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Szilvay's method of teaching soon had a strong impact on musical education in
Finland. A large portion of his students have become professional musicians. He has inspired young parents and little kids with his TV programme “Mini Fiddlers in the Music Land” in 55 episodes broadcast in the 1970s and
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In 1972, Géza
Szilvay founded The Helsinki Junior Strings orchestra (now known as The Helsinki Strings). Géza together with his brother Csaba Szilvay trained and conducted this string ensemble until 2010 and recorded 28 albums under Fuga, Finlandia, Apex and Warner labels. During these years, The
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teaching method that has been documented in 42 publications. Over the years, he developed the method step by step constantly revising and adding new elements to the material. The
Colourstrings method interlinks the development of musical hearing, musical intellect, instrumental technique and the
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emotional world of a child and applies the principle of reinforcement of perception through joint functioning of the senses. Right from the start, he added group lessons and string orchestra training to individual tutoring.
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