Kristóf Baráti and Klára Würtz A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Pianist Klára Würtz, who resides in the Netherlands, and violinist Kristóf Baráti, who recently received the Kossuth Prize, play the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano (ten in all) over three concerts on two consecutive days. They recently recorded the sonatas, and critics were unanimous in their enthusiasm for the results of this mammoth undertaking. Kristóf Baráti regularly appears on stage at the Liszt Academy, while Klára Würtz is perhaps less well known in Hungary. She began playing piano at the age of five and she quickly became familiar with the world of tours and festivals as an instrumental soloist of the Hungarian Radio and Television Children’s Choir. She considers herself lucky to have attended the Liszt Academy in the 1980s at the time Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, Ferenc Rados and Pál Kadosa taught there; she also took part in master classes by András Schiff at Prussia Cove. Defining moments in her career were her win at the 1985 Ettore Pozzoli competition, Milan, the prize from the Dublin International Piano Competition (1988), and a contract she signed with Columbia Artists Management in 1991. She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Music in Utrecht; she lives in Amsterdam and has worked with Kristóf Baráti for years. Not only have they recorded all Beethoven’s sonatas, but those of Brahms, too.