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Academic degree, university position: senior lecturer
Studies:
1994-2002: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest – piano and harpsichord major – diplomas with distinction (teachers: Anikó Horváth – harpsichord, Márta Gulyás – chamber music, András Kemenes, Attila Némethy – piano)
2007-2012: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest – Doctoral School, DLA (Doctor Liberalium Artium) degree
Master classes:
Mme Huguette Dreyfus, Anikó Horváth, Jaques Ogg, Johann Sonnleitner, Menno van Delft, Leon Berben, Lajos Rovátkay, Miklós Spányi – harpsichord
Frankl Péter, Gulyás Márta – piano
Széll Rita – historic dances
Competition wins:
1992: 3rd prize and special awards by the Jeunesses Musicales and the Hungarian Kodály Society at the National Piano Competition for Secondary Schools in Békéstarhos
1993: Festival of Young Talents, Bonn
1997: 1st prize at the National Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition
1999: 4th prize at the 51st Prague Spring International Harpsichord Competition
2000: 2nd prize at the 1st International Harpsichord Competition in Budapest (no 1st prize was awarded)
2001: Special award for the performance of Sándor Szokolay’s “Ó-évezred alkonya, Új-évezred hajnala”
2004: Musica Antiqua Brugge International Fortepiano Competition – special prize
Major concerts:
Harpsichord, piano and fortepiano concerts, chamber music and song recitals through Hungary (e.g. the Marble Hall of the Hungarian Radio, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Zemplén Festival, the Early Music Days in Sopron and the Haydn Festival in Fertőd) as well as in Germany, Austria, Spain and Mexico.
Up to 2004: musical assistant to Rita Széll’s Baroque dance course at the Early Music Days in Sopron
2004: recipient of the Annie Fischer Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
He has participated in various theatre performances and live music evenings with singers and chamber music groups.
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