Péter Nagy
The Hungarian piano virtuoso began his studies in Budapest at the age of eight and is now regularly on the road as a chamber musician. Performances at spectacular venues such as the Louvre in Paris and the Sydney Opera House testify to the fact that Péter Nagy is a very special kind of pianist.
About the artist
Hungarian virtuoso pianist
A first prize in the 1979 Hungarian Radio Competition launched virtuoso pianist Péter Nagy into a remarkable international career. He had begun studying at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the age of just eight years old.
Péter Nagy has performed in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia and has given solo recitals in New York, Sydney, New Zealand and throughout Japan. As a soloist and chamber musician, Péter Nagy has performed at major music festivals including those in Aix-en-Provence, Bastad, Blonay, Davos, Divonne, Edinburgh, Eisenach, Fayetteville, Frenswegen, Helsinki, Llandoff, Kilkenny, Kuhmo, Kronberg, Moritzburg, Nelson, Ojai, Oberstdorf, Stresa, West Cork, the Marlboro Music Festival and the international piano festivals in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China.
Péter Nagy gives regular chamber music performances with partners such as Zoltán Kocsis, László Polgár, Miklós Perényi, Leonidas Kavakos, the St Lawrence String Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, Charles Neidich, Nobuko Imai, Tanja Becker-Bender, Ruggiero Ricci, Frans Helmerson and Claudio Bohórquez.
Péter Nagy is a professor of piano at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart and director of the department for keyboard instruments at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He has released CDs under Hungaroton, Delos, Naxos, SWR/Naxos, BIS, Berlin Classics, Hyperion, Decca and ECM. In 2001, he received the prestigious Liszt Award from the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.
