Lőte Enikő
piano
Place of Birth
Zirc
Date of Birth
1944
Pianist and piano teacher Enikő Lőte graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in 1969 in the class of Mihály Bächer. She was awarded second prize in the Grand Prix Competition for graduates. In the 1970s, she took part in two extended study trips abroad: she studied for a year at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Lev Vlasenko, and then received a scholarship to Rome, where she attended the Corso di Perfezionamento, an artist training school run by the Maestro, at the Santa Cecilia Academy at the invitation of pianist and conductor Carlo Zecchi.
In her first solo recital she played works by Schubert. As a soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, she has appeared in numerous solo and chamber recitals in Budapest and the countryside, as well as in concerts for Hungarian Radio. She has performed with great success in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has given concerts in Moscow, Tallinn, St. Petersburg, the Kodály Institute in Boston and the Hungarian Institute in Paris. Her chamber music partners have included Dénes Kovács, Eszter Perényi, Károly Botvay, Veronika Kincses, Ingrid Kertesi, Ilona Eszter Pintér, among others.
She began his 50-year teaching career in 1970 at the Bartók Conservatoire. She has been an adjunct professor since 1987 and associate professor at the Academy of Music since 2004. She also obtained her DLA degree there with her dissertation on the performance style of W. A. Mozart's piano sonatas. She is still actively involved in the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music.
Her repertoire includes compositions by the Viennese classical masters, works by Schubert, lyrical pieces by German Romantic composers, and works by contemporary Hungarian composers. Her solo CD features music by Liszt, Bartók and Róbert Károly.
Since 2014 she has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA). She was awarded the Vilmos Apor Memorial Medal for her work as a teacher. In 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2022 and 2023 the MMA Lifetime Achievement Award.
In her first solo recital she played works by Schubert. As a soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, she has appeared in numerous solo and chamber recitals in Budapest and the countryside, as well as in concerts for Hungarian Radio. She has performed with great success in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has given concerts in Moscow, Tallinn, St. Petersburg, the Kodály Institute in Boston and the Hungarian Institute in Paris. Her chamber music partners have included Dénes Kovács, Eszter Perényi, Károly Botvay, Veronika Kincses, Ingrid Kertesi, Ilona Eszter Pintér, among others.
She began his 50-year teaching career in 1970 at the Bartók Conservatoire. She has been an adjunct professor since 1987 and associate professor at the Academy of Music since 2004. She also obtained her DLA degree there with her dissertation on the performance style of W. A. Mozart's piano sonatas. She is still actively involved in the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music.
Her repertoire includes compositions by the Viennese classical masters, works by Schubert, lyrical pieces by German Romantic composers, and works by contemporary Hungarian composers. Her solo CD features music by Liszt, Bartók and Róbert Károly.
Since 2014 she has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA). She was awarded the Vilmos Apor Memorial Medal for her work as a teacher. In 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2022 and 2023 the MMA Lifetime Achievement Award.