Ildikó Kerék
Ildikó Kerék, composer and musical director, drives a strong concept, with influences ranging from Rotary Connection to Debussy. Her earliest musical memories include being sung to sleep by her father with soft Hungarian lullabies, then as a teenager raiding his vinyl collection of gypsy folk, psychedelic soul and Bartok . She went on to study classical piano and jazz composition but graduated in experimental sound alongside contemporaries Alice Russell and Bonobo. Her collaboration credits as both composer and arranger include Paloma Faith and Mercury Award nominated jazz group, Led Bib. She also worked as a vocal arranger and choir director with Mojo award winning folk singer, Lisa Knapp.
Ildikó´s choir, The Cosmicorus was a 20 strong folk choir that featured on the BBC’s Last Choir Standing and in Will Hodgkinson’s book and accompanying CD on contemporary British folk. However she eventually returned to her roots of singing and performing her own arrangements.
Ildikó’s voice has the honest wisdom and heartfelt quality of singers such as Karen Carpenter, delivering a rich warmth when using her lower range. She has a passion for intelligent, soulful music, with a hint of the mathematical and the outer dimensions that bewilder the greatest minds; time travel, black holes, multi-verses and borrowed forces.
“Cosmicorus are masters of the possibilities of the human voice”
Simon Hardeman, The Independent“Floaty, Gossamer Choral Pop, something like the opening scene of 2001”
Mike Flynn, Time Out“I struggle to think of anything I’ve heard like it, it was deeply original and the composition brought magic back to life for me. Reminded me of the few unforgettable children’s authors who find the tender part of the child’s imagination and play with it”
Georgina Hewes, BBC World Service and Women’s Hour, BBC Radio 4.
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