Judit Rajk, contralto, obtained her diploma in singing and her doctorate at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she is now an assistant professor in the Church Music Department. Since 2013 she has been a professor at the International Kodály Institute of Musicin Kecskemét as well.

Ms. Rajk is a concert singer and a singer of lieder and other varieties of song. She is best known for her performances in Liszt’s, Bartok’s and Kodaly’s songs, but she also assumed the contralto roles of the great baroque oratorios and operas with success in Hungary and abroad. Ms. Rajk has sung in the premieres of numerous contemporary works, some of which were especially written for her deep and dark coloured voice and dedicated to her. In 2005 and in 2011 she received the Artisjus Prize for performing new Hungarian contemporary music. Ms. Rajk has performed as a soloist with several orchestras in Hungary and abroad including the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin, the Simfonietta92 at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertante di Chicago and the Turkish Presidental Orchestra, the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra. Her latest CD with Liszt’s latest vocal rarities and Dvorak’s Biblical Songs was realized in 2014.