RESEARCH

RESEARCH FIELDS:

Practice Research in Music, Artistic Research, Organology, Inclusive Music, Augmented Instrument, Performance Science

PUBLICATIONS

Koltai, K. (2024) ‘The tradition of illusion: Guitar arrangement as a post-canonical patchwork.’ Soundboard Scholar. (forthcoming March 2024)
Koltai, K. (2023) ‘The transformed space of the Ligeti Guitar’ In: Perks, R., McGrath J., ed. 21st Century Guitar – Evolutions and Augmentations. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Koltai, K. (2020) ‘Breaking the Matrix: Guitar transcriptions of Bartók and Ligeti using a new capo system.’ Soundboard Scholar 6, online: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol6/iss1/6/
Koltai, K. (2021) ‘Character or idiom – Guitaristic archetypes in 20th-century nocturnal forms: transcribing Bartók’s ‘Night music’ for guitar, a case study.’ Online. p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e Journal.
Koltai, K. (2018) ‘A kaleidoscope of motives or conscious unity? A formal analysis of motivic development in John Dowland’s chromatic lute fantasie, Farewell.’ LSA Quarterly, Vol 52 Nos 2 & E (Summer & Fall, 2017), pp. 19-26.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

Koltai, K. Radical guitar textures on the Ligeti Guitar. Online Conference of the Cohort for Guitar Research, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 10.2023.
Gorton, D., Koltai K. Collaboration and Innovation: A ‘proof of concept’ for the ‘Ligeti Guitar’, 59th Royal Musical Association Conference, Nottingham, 09.2023.
Gorton, D., Koltai K. Collaboration and Innovation: A ‘proof of concept’ for the ‘Ligeti Guitar’, Composer Forum, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest 02.2023
Armstrong, T., Gorton, D., Koltai, K. Ligeti Guitar Panel. Transparent Sound Festival/Lecture Series, Budapest Music Center 02.2023
Koltai, K. Radical guitar textures on the Ligeti Guitar. IGRC Conference, University of Surrey,10.2022.
Armstrong, T., Gorton, D., Koltai, K. Ligeti Guitar Panel. IGRC Conference, University of Surrey,10.2022.
Koltai, K. New soundscapes on the ’Ligeti guitar’: Chopin, Kurtág and Saariaho. Guitar Foundation of America Convention, Indianapolis, USA, 07.2022.
Koltai, K. New soundscapes on the ’Ligeti guitar: Chopin, Kurtág and Saariaho. American Musical Instrument Society Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada, 06.2022.
Koltai, K. New soundscapes on the ’Ligeti guitar’: Chopin, Kurtág and Saariaho. 2022 BFE/Royal Music Association MA Research Students’ Conference, University of Plymouth, 01.2022.
Koltai, K. Ligeti Guitar: A new world of guitar soundscapes. 57th Royal Musical Association Conference, Newcastle, 09.2021.
Koltai, K. Ligeti Guitar: A new world of guitar soundscapes. Composing the Historical Conference, University of Surrey, March 2021.
Koltai, K. Ligeti Guitar: A new world of guitar soundscapes. The 21st Century Guitar Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Febr 2020.
Koltai, K. Breaking the matrix: Transcription to invention. Doctoral Seminar Series of the Royal Academy of Music, London, Febr 2019.
Koltai, K. Out of the canon: Reaching out for Ravel, Bartók and Ligeti. Dublin Guitar Symposium, 02.2019.
Koltai, K. Breaking the matrix: Transcription to invention. FASS Doctoral Conference, University of Surrey, 03.2020.
Koltai, K. Breaking the matrix: Transcription to invention. Guitar Foundation of America Convention, 06.2020.

SELECTED PUBLISHED SHEET MUSIC:
Classical flute and guitar collection, Arr.: Gyori, Koltai(Doblinger AUS, ISMN 979-0-012-20524