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Károly Mocsári was born in Budapest in 1962 and has lived the last seventeen years in Paris. He is regarded by the international press as a first rate interpreter of the piano music of Bartók and Liszt. He graduated from György Nádor�s class at the Franz Liszt Academy, before completing masterclasses with Jorge Bolet (Curtis Institute, Philadelphia) and Yvonne Lefébure (Paris.) His international career began in 1984 and he won prizes at a number of international music competitions (London, Barcelona, Athens, Montreal). In 1986, he was a prize winner at the Budapest International Liszt Competition. He also won a scholarship from the Cziffra Foundation. Since then, he has performed as a soloist with many orchestras: Manchester Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He has given recitals in over thirty countries at many premiere venues. He has performed at the Bonn Beethoven Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Zagrab Lisinski concert hall, the Yokohama Kanagawa hall, the Mexico Opera, the Louvre Auditorium and other Paris theatres. He is a regular guest at European and other festivals. He has worked with such names as Yuri Bashmet, Jean Efflam Bavouzet, Sir Andrew Davis, David Grimal, Barbara Hendricks, Zoltán Kocsis, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Miklós Perényi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spiakov, Tamás Vásáry, the Keller-, Takács- and Tokyo Quartets. He recently toured the United States as a soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2019 he received the Ferenc Liszt Prize.

Year	Title	Publisher	Code	Remark
	Bartók Béla: The Miraculous Mandarin - Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion	SWR Classic	CD93.194
1999	Bartók Béla: Works For Piano Solo Vol 5 - Mikrokosmos	Philips	4623812
2001	50 éves a Hungaroton - Zongoraművészek (1951-2001) (Fifty Years of Hungaroton - Pianists)	Hungaroton	HCD 32088-90	3 CDs