Klára Würtz was born in Budapest, Hungary, and started playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of fourteen she was admitted at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, Budapest, where she studied at the faculty for the exceptionally gifted children.  She studied with Zoltán Kocsis, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág and later she received scholarships from András Schiff for his masterclasses in Prussia Cove, England. She won the Ettore Pozzoli piano competition in Milan (1985), and 988 she was one of the prize winners at the International Piano Competition in Dublin (1988) In 1989 she passed with distinction as a performing artist and music pedagogue at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

 

Since 1991 she signed has performed over a hundred concerts in the United States and Canada. Her most successful recitals were in the Kennedy Center, Washington and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In spring 2003 Klára made her debut in the Symphony Hall of Boston and Carnegie Hall, New York with the Boston Symphony with conductor Bernard Haitink. She has performed wih numerous orchestras and her many recordings include the  complete piano sonatas of Mozart, a selection of Schubert Sonatas and the Piano Works of Robert Schumann. Her Mendelssohn recording with her Amsterdam Pianotrio was the critics choice of the year 2000 (Harris Goldsmith for International Record Review Magazine). She is also very active as chamber music player: she is a member of the Amsterdam Piano Trio, and has performed with Israeli cellist Timora Rosler, and violinists such as Janine Jansen and Dmitri Makhtin.  Klára Würtz is professor of piano at the Conservatory of Arts in Utrecht and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

 

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