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A very warm welcome to my website!
Here you can read about and experience my relationship with music, how I sound when I am singing or playing the piano and what I can do for you to accomplish your musical dreams.

My name is Veronika Havik.
Before I got married my family name was Kocsis, a well-known Hungarian name.

As far as I know, I always wanted to become a singer: stand on a stage, hold a mic, wear beautiful dresses and express all that is within me. My grandma told me that I was singing in her bathroom at the age of 3 and she said I sounded like an angel.

My music career actually started in a Hungarian kindergarten when the director of the local elementary school, which had a music department starting from the age of 6, came to listen to us singing. When I finished my song and wanted to go back to my place, he asked me to stay and sing one more song 😀 and I was invited to attend his school between 1984-1992. At this school, named after the famous Bela Bartok, I started to sing in the choir, won the competition for close harmony three times and the city folk song singing competition one time. There I also started learning to play the piano when I was 7 together with music theory and solfege (a music education method used to teach aural skills, pitching sight-reading of Western music).

It was a straight line for me to continue at the prestigious music faculty of Tömörkény István Secondary School in Szeged between 1992-1996 where each week I had 4 hours of music lessons, 1,5 hours of choir practice, and a 1 hour piano and music theory (solfege) lesson.

From there, between 1996 – 2000 I studied at the University of Szeged in Hungary at the Teacher Training College ‘Juhász Gyula’ and interestingly I chose to become an Italian Language Teacher and Cultural Organizer. During these years I didn’t give up my music dream as I also attended a music school where I had private singing lessons in the style of jazz, gospel, swing, and pop. There I also learned jazz music theory and started an acapella vocal quartet. We sang together for 4 years and won the competition between the city’s universities which resulted in a 10 – day tour to France which I organised.

Music became a hobby between 2000 – 2010: I took private lessons, sang in different bands and choirs, had a lot of gigs and concerts at different venues. I even participated in a talent show in 2002 (see the video on Listen to me – Movin’ on up).

When I came to the Netherlands in 2010, I attended the Koorenhuis music school in The Hague for a year. There I took various lessons and courses including:

• jazz singing: Natasa Kurek
• piano: Arben Ramadani
• jazz improvisation: Fay Claassen
• close harmony group: Annemarie Willems
• combo playing course: Robert Veen

I was encouraged by my teachers at the Koorenhuis to apply to a Conservatory as it was always my dream. Even though I was afraid that they wouldn’t take me, I took a deep breath and went for an audition. My dream was realized and I studied JAZZ VOCALS and PIANO at Codarts Conservatory of Rotterdam from 2011 – 2015.

• My singing teachers were Simone Roerade, Harjo Pasveer, Fay Claassen and Bart de Win
• My piano teachers were: Johan Clement (jazz), Berthil Busstra (pop)
• In addition to vocal performance I completed a Band Coaching and Music Pedagogy minor in 2014 at Codarts as well.

Since 2012 I offer private lessons in Dutch and English for children and adults and since 2014 I teach individual music lessons at the British School in the Netherlands for students and (also staff members) for piano and singing.

Check out the Fantastic result of my piano students here

Voice of the Waard 2025 competition

NEW SONGS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWs8Zj_uz4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaxPhF3x3hE&t=23s

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