Eleonóra Schmidt

Eleonóra Schmidt

Keyboard and Harp Department

Accompaniment of Instrumentalists as Main Subject

 
Born: 1944
 
Academic degree, university position:
assistant professor, person in charge for MA training of Piano Accompanist-Répétiteur Studies
 
Subjests: Piano Accompaniment (Main Subject), Répétiteur Training, Chamber Music, Sight-Reading, Repertoire Studies
 
Studies:
1962-1967: Franz Liszt Academy of Music – professors: István Antal, András Mihály
 
Teaching activities:
Since 1969: Franz Liszt Academy of Music – piano accompanist
Since 1973: Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music – piano accompanist
 
She has developed (and launched in 2002) the curriculum of Piano Accompanist-Répétiteur Studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
 
She was the head of the national special training for piano accompanists for 6 years.
 
As piano accompanist, she has given courses in Hungary and abroad. She is a regular participant in competitions and international music camps.
 
Major concerts, reocrdings:
She has performed as a solo pianist and in chamber concerts (organized by the National Philharmonia and the Hungarian Radio) in Hungary and abroad.
Since 1971, she has made numerous concert-, radio- and LP recordings as orchestral solo pianist of the Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and since 1979 as pianist (of contemporary music) of the Budapest Chamber Ensemble.
Commissioned by the Hungarian Radio, she has recorded many Hungarian compositions, which were later released on LP records.
 
Major publications:
1998: International Piano Symposium, Gödöllő (Hungary) – lecture: "Thoughts on sight-reading." Published: Parlando 1998/6.
1998: The Art of Accompanying. Flute Sound (the periodical of the Hungarian Society of Flutists)
 
Awards and decorations:
1980: For Outstanding Achievements
1984: International Viola Competition, Budapest – Special Prize for Piano Accompaniment
1996: Artisjus Prize