Ránki Dezső
piano
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1951
8 September 1951, Budapest
He began his music studies as a pupil of Kinga Domokos and Klara Máthé, then continued at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he graduated in 1973, as a pupil of Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.
At the age of 18, still a student, he won first prize in the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and since then has given concerts worldwide. He has regularly performed in many European countries, several times in North and South America, and every two or three years in Japan.
He has played with the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestre National de Paris, Tokyo NHK, and under such well known conductors as György Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Mazel and Zubin Mehta.
Chamber music plays an important role in his life. He has given concerts together with Edit Klukon for more than twenty years, both in Hungary and abroad. They have performed the greater part of the repertoire for four hands and for two pianos, and have recorded a version for two pianos of Satie's Socrate and the four-handed version of Liszt's Via crucis.
Prizes and awards:
1972 Grand Prix du Disque
1973 Liszt Prize
1978 Kossuth Prize
1982 Art Prize of City of Budapest
1984 Artist of Merit
1988 Bartók-Pásztory Award
1990 Artist of Excellence
2005 Prima Primissima Prize
2007 for the Hungarian Art Prize
2008 Kossuth Prize
He began his music studies as a pupil of Kinga Domokos and Klara Máthé, then continued at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he graduated in 1973, as a pupil of Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.
At the age of 18, still a student, he won first prize in the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and since then has given concerts worldwide. He has regularly performed in many European countries, several times in North and South America, and every two or three years in Japan.
He has played with the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestre National de Paris, Tokyo NHK, and under such well known conductors as György Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Mazel and Zubin Mehta.
Chamber music plays an important role in his life. He has given concerts together with Edit Klukon for more than twenty years, both in Hungary and abroad. They have performed the greater part of the repertoire for four hands and for two pianos, and have recorded a version for two pianos of Satie's Socrate and the four-handed version of Liszt's Via crucis.
Prizes and awards:
1972 Grand Prix du Disque
1973 Liszt Prize
1978 Kossuth Prize
1982 Art Prize of City of Budapest
1984 Artist of Merit
1988 Bartók-Pásztory Award
1990 Artist of Excellence
2005 Prima Primissima Prize
2007 for the Hungarian Art Prize
2008 Kossuth Prize