Sarolta Platthy graduated from the Liszt Academy in Budapest and worked for twenty years in a music primary school. As a master teacher, she also taught methodology to students at the Liszt Academy. She became guest professor at Holy Names College, Oakland, California in 1977.
For the last fifteen years she has been a teacher on many Kodály Summer courses all over the world, including Canada, USA, Britain, Ireland, Poland, Korea, Austria and the Philippines. She has been Assistant Professor at the Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary since 1991.
Between 1998 and 2006 she also taught at the Music Primary School for the members of the world renowned Hungarian Radio Children's Choir. She is a co-author of the Hungarian National Curriculum for Music Primary Classes.
Ildiko Herboly Kocsar graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest in 1962 as a choral conductor and secondary school music teacher, and while teaching in Music primary schools, became a master-teacher for Liszt Academy practice, and then a teaching supervisor for all music primary and secondary schools in Budapest.
From 1968 –01 she was Professor and Head of the Theory Department at the Teachers Training institute of Liszt Academy, teaching solfege, theory, conducting, solfege-methodology and chorus.
In 1970 she taught at her first International Kodály Seminar in Kecskemet and in 1976 she became Professor at the Zoltan Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music, Kecskemet.
Ildiko is a Former President of Hungarian ISME Society, board member of International Kodály Society and has lectured widely in Australia, England, Ireland, Japan, USA etc. Ildiko has written extensively in music journals and is the author of „Teaching of Polyphony, Harmony and Form in Elementary School.”
Róisín Blunnie graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in music history. She also studied music education and choral conducting at the Kodály Institute in Hungary, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and the International Kodály Society. She was amongst the first graduates of the Institute’s new M.A. in Kodály Pedagogy in June 2008. In January 2008 she gave her first series of lectures on Kodály at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Róisín directs the Dublin Youth Choir and is assistant conductor of the chamber choir New Dublin Voices. She has also worked with the Dublin-based Mornington Singers. She is currently pursuing a PhD in music history, and is a holder of scholarships from Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the secretary of the Kodály Society of Ireland.
