Tamas vasary biography

Biography and career Vásáry was.
Tamás Vásáry was born in Debrecen (Hungary) in 1933, He studied in his home town, making his debut with an orchestra in 1941, playing the Mozart Piano Concerto.
Tamás Vásáry is a Hungarian concert pianist and conductor.

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TAMÁS VÁSÁRY (HUN)

Tamás Vásáry made his stage debut at the age of 8, was accepted by Ernő Dohnányi as a pupil at the age of 10, and won first prize in the Liszt Competition at the Liszt Academy at the age of 14. He obtained his arts degree in 1953, and was later an assistant to Zoltán Kodály. His career as an artist started in Leningrad and Moscow, and won prizes at four significant international competitions within a short period of time (1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, 1955 Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, 1956 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, 1957 International Piano Competition of Rio de Janeiro).

In 1961, he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall in London, which launched his international career. He went on to perform in 100 concerts a year on average, at the most significant world centres of classical music (London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Luxemburg, Stockholm, Oslo, etc.). In 1962 György Széll presented him in Carnegie Hall, New York. He regularly toured with world-renowned orchestras and conductors (e.g. André Previn, Claudi

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Final 1956: Tamás Vásáry

The Hungarian pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry gave his first public performances at the age of eight. He studied with Ernst von Dohnányi and Józef Gát at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and later served as assistant to Zoltán Kodály. He won first prize in the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest in 1948 and was also a laureate of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1955), the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris (1955), the Queen Elisabeth Competition (1956), and the Rio de Janeiro Competition (1957). His international career took off after 1960, in the wake of his immensely successful debut in the Royal Festival Hall in London. He has performed with the world’s leading orchestras and most eminent conductors. He has made twenty recordings, mostly for Deutsche Grammophon. He has conducted over 100 orchestras. In England he was music director of the Northern Sinfonia (1979-1982) and principal conductor of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta (1989-1997). He was music director of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 2004. Tamás Vásáry has been awarded

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Pianist Tamás Vásáry

Postby Lance » Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:12 am

One of the one-time stars of the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue was Hungarian pianist Tamás Vásáry. He is another pianist that went the way of the conducting route. Unfortunately, he's been "kind of" forgotten except by record collectors, and even then, many don't know his work. On the other hand, he'll be 82 in 2015, so fewer people would know his art. But his legacy lives, thanks to recordings. I know his work more as a pianist than conductor, and as you might expect, he played lots of Liszt, being his compatriot. Only a few of his recordings are still being made available, but they are treasurable for his remarkable and unusually gentle approach to playing such composers as Chopin. And he approaches the four Rachmaninoff concertos as a true virtuoso ... but never creating obtrusive sounds from the piano.

Here's what Wiki has to say:

"Vásáry was born in Debrecen, Hungary [August 11, 1933], and made his stage debut at the age of 8, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, K.107 in the city of hi