Akos Szilagyi

Hungarian born recorder player Akos Szilagyi started his musical education at the age of six. First he studied piano and recorder, later oboe. After he graduated from Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he worked as a recorder and ear-training teacher, later as a chair of the Recorder Department of Leo Weiner Elementary School of Music and Music High School in Budapest.

Akos Szilagyi specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music with the help of renowned Early Music performers/recorder players as Anneke Boeke, Peter Holstlag, Maurice van Lieshout, Monika Kaminski and baroque flute player Barthold Kuijken. Akos Szilagyi was a participant of numerous concerts, Early Music Festivals in Hungary, and he also performed in Hungarian National Radio. In Thailand, he is a member of different Early Music ensembles and orchestras.

From 2008 to 2020, Akos Szilagyi was a recorder and ear-training instructor at the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand. In the last ten years, he did researches on integrating the Kodaly method with other European and American methods of aural skills acquisition, adjusting them to the Thai education system. He designed TIME musicianship exams and Pre-College and BM ear training/aural skills entrance examinations of the College of Music. He also wrote a Pre-College Aural Skills Textbook for Mahidol University.