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She finished her elementary and secondary school education in her hometown, and won the first prize at the national secondary school violoncello competition in 1990. In the same year she was accepted at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest without entrance exams, due to her results. Her teacher was Csaba Onczay. During her years at the Academy she participated at several international festivals as a scholarship holder. She followed the course of Miklós Perényi at the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely, of Mirel Iankovici at the international seminar in Kolozsvár, of Csaba Onczay in Sion, of Mischa Maisky in Siena, of Julius Berger in the Mozarteum in Salzburg, of Arto Noras in Kronberg. Ms. Németh won 2nd prize at the Popper violoncello competition organized at the Music Academy in 1995. She participated with success at several international violoncello competitions in France, earning 4th prize and special prize in Austria, and in Germany, where she won the Peter Cornelius Award.
As a grant holder she followed a two-year post-graduate course at Johannes Guttenberg University in Mainz, where she worked as a teaching assistant of Professor Julius Berger in her last semester. After receiving her degree, she has been continuing her studies for the invitation of János Starker at the Faculty of Music at the Indiana University Bloomington in the United States since 1997.
Besides Hungary, she gave concerts in several European countries and in the United States. With support from violoncellist János Starker and pianist György Sebők, in 1998 she founded a chamber ensemble that is frequently invited for tours.