Nádor György
piano
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1943
He began his piano studies at the age of ten. His mother was a famous opera singer, member of the Budapest Opera House. He entered the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music where he studied with Kornél Zempléni and continued study at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Tibor Wehner. In 1965 he won the First Prize of the Liszt Academy Student Piano Competition. Subsequently he was invited to participate as soloist at the Music Weeks in Weimar. He was prize winner of the Hungarian Radio Piano Competition in 1966. After graduating with distinction from the Academy he had several extensive concert tours in the Soviet Union, where he was scholarship recipient at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for two years.
Following studies in Moscow he began teaching at the Ferenc Liszt Academy as Professor of Piano. His real vocation is teaching and pedagogical work. Part of his work is to teach young, talented children who attend a pre-Academy school lead by distinguished professors of the Academy. Some of these young talents continue their studies in his class. Among his pupils are also foreign students (from USA, Canada, England, Japan, Spain, Luxemburg, etc.) receiving a full five-year training or postgraduate training. His students have been performing throughout the world and winning national and international competitions (Barcelona, Athens, Montreal, Fort Worth, Senigallia) and scholarships. Two of his pupils has been the winners of the Budapest Liszt International Piano Competition and the Cincinnati International Competition. In addition to his work as teacher he also a performer with concerts home and abroad. In 1975 he was soloist with the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra (lead by Professor Frigyes Sándor) during their extensive tour in the United States and played in Hunter College. During the orchestras 1978 tour he played the harpsichord and performed in Carnegie Hall.
He often gives lectures on various topics: pedagogical as well as on piano playing techniques and on problems of musical styles, and conducts master courses in various contries. In 1985, 87 and 88 he was invited to Magoya Seminars to lecture and give master courses in a number of cities throughout Japan. These were so successful that he had signed a five-year contract to continue his annual courses. His master course and open lessons in Spain (Valencia) in 1990 were also excellent. He received twice the Excellent Teacher Award from the Hungarian State for his outstanding pedagogical work.
Mr. Nádor is a frequent jury member for national and international competitions, like the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City in the USA, at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel, the Monza and Senigallia International Competitions in Italy, the Virtuosi per Pianoforte in Czechoslovakia and the Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He was an envoy of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music at the International Music Symposium in Stockholm in 1990, where he was asked to give a lecture on Bartóks pedagogical work.
Following studies in Moscow he began teaching at the Ferenc Liszt Academy as Professor of Piano. His real vocation is teaching and pedagogical work. Part of his work is to teach young, talented children who attend a pre-Academy school lead by distinguished professors of the Academy. Some of these young talents continue their studies in his class. Among his pupils are also foreign students (from USA, Canada, England, Japan, Spain, Luxemburg, etc.) receiving a full five-year training or postgraduate training. His students have been performing throughout the world and winning national and international competitions (Barcelona, Athens, Montreal, Fort Worth, Senigallia) and scholarships. Two of his pupils has been the winners of the Budapest Liszt International Piano Competition and the Cincinnati International Competition. In addition to his work as teacher he also a performer with concerts home and abroad. In 1975 he was soloist with the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra (lead by Professor Frigyes Sándor) during their extensive tour in the United States and played in Hunter College. During the orchestras 1978 tour he played the harpsichord and performed in Carnegie Hall.
He often gives lectures on various topics: pedagogical as well as on piano playing techniques and on problems of musical styles, and conducts master courses in various contries. In 1985, 87 and 88 he was invited to Magoya Seminars to lecture and give master courses in a number of cities throughout Japan. These were so successful that he had signed a five-year contract to continue his annual courses. His master course and open lessons in Spain (Valencia) in 1990 were also excellent. He received twice the Excellent Teacher Award from the Hungarian State for his outstanding pedagogical work.
Mr. Nádor is a frequent jury member for national and international competitions, like the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City in the USA, at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel, the Monza and Senigallia International Competitions in Italy, the Virtuosi per Pianoforte in Czechoslovakia and the Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He was an envoy of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music at the International Music Symposium in Stockholm in 1990, where he was asked to give a lecture on Bartóks pedagogical work.