Klára Hajdu Quartet - Come With Me (2013)

Klara was born on 3rd of June, 1982. She started her musical studies in a music preschool, after that came a music primary school and a music school. She sang in a choir and she learned to play the piano. Her parents, being fond of music, made her meet jazz music at a very young age. When she was 15 years old, she started to study jazz singing in Szeged at the HAMMIDO music school. Her teacher was Adrienn Szabó. At this time she started to sing on stage. After High-School in 2001 she won the first prize in the solo voice category of the SONY MUSIC & BRAVO Talent Competition.
Until 2005 she studied at the jazz department of the Dr. Lauschmann Gyula Collage of Jazz Music in Székesfehérvár. Her teachers were Kriszta Pocsai, Barnabás Pély and Noémi Kiss. Then she sang with many great musicians and bands. In 2003 she was among the best 16 singers of the Hungarian TV2 Megasztár 1. competition, the Hungarian version of Pop Idol. Since 2004 she has been the singer of the famous Hungarian jazz band, Elemer Balazs Group. She sings with the great jazz singer, Gabor Winand. They have given many successfull concerts at numerous festivals in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, Transylvania, Italy, Norway, Scotland and England. Their first collective album, titled Refracting Sounds won the Fonogram Award and thus became the “Hungarian Jazz Album Of The Year” in 2005.
In 2007 they released their album, entitled “Early Music”, in which baroque music is mixed with jazz. In the winter of 2009 they released their latest album, entitled “Memories”, wich was nominee the Fonogram Award “Hungarian Jazz Album Of The Year” in 2010. Klara contributed with background vocals to many singers’ albums and concerts (Tisza Bea, Mujahid Zoltán, Rácz Gergo, Dobrády Ákos, Zentai Márk, Iván, Völgyi Zsuzsi, Bon-Bon…). Klara contributed with background vocals to many singers’ albums. Her own quartet was founded with pianist József Balázs, bassist Márton Soós and drummer Balázs Cseh in the spring of 2008. She graduated from the vocal jazz faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest in June 2009. Her teachers were Tamás Berki, Ágnes Lakatos and Irma Holczer.