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Kovalszki Mária

piano, synthesizer
Place of Birth
Marosvásárhely
Date of Birth
1968
 
Born in Tirgu Mures in Roumania (1968), Mária Kovalszki became a pupil at the Budapest Liszt Academy of Music in the institution's "class of exceptional talents" at the age of ten. Her professors were Klára Máthé and László Baranyay. She participated in numerous master-classes (György Sebők, Tamás Vásáry, Dmitry Bashkirov, András Schiff, Péter Frankl, etc.). In 1989 she won first prize at the Budapest Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition. Her repertoire comprises the music of different ages from baroque to contemporary music. She now teaches at the Liszt Academy, and is a much sought-after chamber musician, and a regular performer in Europe, USA and Japan. She has been invited to the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, the Pablo Casals Festival in Kronberg, as well as to the summer festivals of Bergamo, Semmering and Keszthely.

She was honored with the Ferenc Liszt-prize in 2018.


 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1999 Sugár Miklós: Ear movements; Rövid történet; Fluctus; Modellek; Percupicsy; Írisz
(Sugár, Miklós: Ear movements; Short Story; Fluctus; Models; Percupicsy; Iris) 		Hungaroton HCD 31788
2005 Hangversenyek a városligeti fasori református templomban Plein-Jeux 5999882391175
2010 A magyar hegedű szelleme
(The Spirit of the Hungarian Violin) 		Magánkiadás AVISOCD1001 Not for sale - only for promotion
2015 Gergely Devich with Mária Kovalszki: Adagio & Allegro Hungaroton HCD 32756