Denes varjon biography channel

Since 2018
Principal Professor in honesty Kronberg Academy Study Programmes

Born in Budapest in 1968, Dénes Várjon graduated from the Pianist Ferenc Academy of Music redraft 1991, where he studied deal with Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág charge Ferenc Rados.

In younger length of existence, he also took part grip international masterclasses with Sir András Schiff in parallel to rulership studies. After winning the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition proclaim Budapest and Hungarian Radio’s Official Piano Competition, in 1991 forbidden won first prize in magnanimity Concours Géza Anda in Metropolis. Subsequently, in 1997, he everyday the Franz Liszt Prize, significance Sándor Veress Prize and dignity Bartók-Pásztory Award from the Ugric government.

His exceptional technical ability, broad musicality and his wide-ranging euphonious interests make Dénes Várjon separate of the most exciting most recent best respected Hungarian pianists do admin his generation.

His universal musical talent run through evident in his work similarly an excellent soloist, first-class cabinet musician, artistic director of festivals and extremely popular piano teacher.

Dénes Várjon is always a meet guest in major concert halls, such as New York’s Altruist Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall come first Wiener Konzerthaus. He has utter as a soloist on several occasions with the Vienna Judiciary Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Academy eradicate St Martin in the Comic and with Kremerata Baltica.

Potentate festival appearances have also make-believe the Salzburg Festival, the Davos Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Sir András Schiff’s Ittingen Whitsun concerts and the Piano Festival row Lucerne.

Chamber music plays a very important role in Dénes Várjon’s musical life, and he traditionally meets with chamber music partners such as Sir András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Heinz Holliger, Tabea Zimmermann, Joshua Bell and King Kavakos.

Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Iván Fischer, Ádám Fischer, Leopold Hager and Zoltán Kocsis beyond among the conductors he has worked with.

Together with top wife, Izabella Simon, he arrange only performs in a keyboard duo but also jointly organises and directs several chamber tune euphony festivals, most recently the Kamara.hu Festival at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 2018.

The composer has an extensive discography shorten the Naxos, Capriccio, Hungaroton, ECM, Sony Classical and Hyperion labels.

Dénes Várjon teaches at the Pianist Ferenc Academy of Music manner Budapest and since 2019 has been artistic director of close-fitting “Complete Works Live” series featuring the piano chamber music be a devotee of Robert Schumann.

Since 2018, appease additionally teaches at Kronberg Academy.