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Erika BUDAI was born in TIENEN, Belgium, to Hungarian parents originally from Budapest. She received her first musical training at the Academy of Music in Tienen, where her classes included music theory, harmonics, violin and piano.
She began her music studies at the Lemmens Institute in LEUVEN. Once a renowned school for organists in MECHELEN, the Institute moved to Leuven where today it forms part of the Music Conservatory of the Catholic University of Leuven. Here she studied piano under Levente KENDE.
She joined SABAM, the Belgian society of authors, as composer and author in 1986.
Since 1990 she has studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in BRUSSELS, where she received First Prizes in Harmonics, Music Theory and Music History Pedagogy, as well as Electronic Music and Film Music Composition.
Erika BUDAI won First Prize in the " Music Competition for Young Composers " in BRUSSELS in 1992 and 1993. She pursued further studies in counterpoint and fugue under Ludo CLAESEN, receiving additional training in composition from Piet SWERTS.
With a scholarship from the Alfred Töpfer Stiftung ( HAMBURG, Germany ), Erika BUDAI attended master classes in composition in DARMSTADT, Germany, in 1996. These classes where conducted by Karl-Heinz STOCKHAUSEN and Wolfgang RIHM, among others.
As a composer, Erika BUDAI has received commissions for a number of compositions, including works for the Belgian Radio and Television Choir under the direction of Vic NEES. She currently has some 70 compositions to her name, mostly choral and chamber music pieces.
As a co-operator of the Antwerp Concert-Association " Crescendo ", Erika BUDAI works as a choir-conductor in Berlin ( GERMANY ) and Pontmain ( FRANCE ).
Erika BUDAI works as a teacher of Solfège, Harmony and Music History at the Music Academies of Aalst, Mechelen and Saint-Peters-Woluwe.
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