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Ákos Hernádi was born in Budapest in 1959. He began playing the piano at the age of six and later entered the special preparatory class for outstanding talents at the Music Academy where his teacher was György Nádor. He won prizes at numerous junior competitions, being awarded the special prize at the Usti nad Laben international competition when he was thirteen. At the age of fifteen, he became a student in the university section of the Academy, where he entered Tibor Wehner’s class. Later he entered the performer’s faculty. He successfully entered various international competitions: Barcelona, Viotti/Vercelli, UFAM/Paris. After graduating, he primarily concentrated on chamber music, forming the Hernadi Trio which performed in a number of European countries. Since 1986 he has lived in Germany, and is currently a professor at the Trossingen Staatliche Musikhochschule. He has made many recordings, and his solo CD of Kodály compositions was called “record of the month” by the Swiss journal “Musik und Theater”. His recordings of Busoni’s Bach transcriptions received a rave review from Piano News: “this, which Hernádi offers as a visiting card, is sufficient to raise him to a level shared with the finest performers of these transcriptions.”