Eirini Patsea
was born in Athens. She studied voice under Christina Giannakopoulou and choral conducting with Michalis Patseas at the Greek Kodály Conservatory and Institute and was granted Diploma with distinction in both fields.
She is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the postgraduate programme in Singing Pedagogy of the Hungarian Kodály Institute. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Arts as a specialist in Kodály Music Pedagogy from the Hungarian Liszt Academy in Budapest.
She continued her studies in voice with Dr János Klézli and has attended several seminars with distinguished artists such as Dr Katalin Halmai, Cheryl Studer, Kostas Paskalis, Aris Christofellis etc. She has also been awarded a Wagner Scholarship by the Greek Wagner Society in 2014.
In 2014, she acted as choral conductor in the preparation of Zoltán Kodály’s large-scale work Psalmus Hungaricus, which was presented at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall by the Athens State Orchestra under the baton of Byron Fidetzis.
While in Hungary, she participated in the vocal ensemble Ars Nova, conducted by Dr Katalin Kiss, and the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir, conducted by Dr László Norbert Nemes. Simultaneously, she worked as an assistant conductor of the Csíkszerda Community Choir of Budapest (directed by Dr Árpád Tóth) from 2016 to 2018, under the auspices of which she founded and directed the Csíkszerda Female Chamber Choir, which she led during the 2017-2018 academic year. In 2019, she founded the Fancy Female Chamber Choir Athens, which she has been leading since.
Since September 2019, she has been teaching Music Pedagogy according to the Kodály Method, Musicianship Training and Choral Conducting at the Greek Kodály Conservatory and Institute as well as at the Athenaeum Conservatoire, of which she also acts as General Director since September 2021.
She has been an invited lecturer at the Beijing Kodály Society and has given lectures and taught seminars in Greece, Hungary, Poland etc. She has also participated as a lecturer in several International Kodály Symposiums, such as in Scotland, Malaysia and Canada.
She has been an invited lecturer in the Lifelong Learning programme of the Aegean University since the autumn of 2019, teaching Choral Methodology according to the Kodály Method, and has collaborated with the Greek National Opera Educational & Social Activities (2022-2023 season) as a pedagogue.
She was Hungarian language coach in the Greek National Opera production of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle, which was presented in the spring of 2023 under the musical direction of Vassilis Christopoulos.
Since October 2019, she has been in permanent collaboration with the CHÓRES female choir (artistic director: Marina Satti) as a conductor, having led the ensemble multiple times in the halls of the Greek National Opera, the Megaron Athens Concert Hall Garden and several other venues all over Greece as well as in Hungary. She has also conducted them in many audio and video recordings.
