Bán Melitta
piano
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1932
She began to learn the piano at the age of 8. From the age of 11, she has been educated at the preparatory section of Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music parallel with her school studies. She has taken her degree as a piano artist and a piano master too, in 1954. Her professors were Ernő Daniel and Tibor Wehner. As a young artist she has given concerts in several countries of Europe. On her recordings made at French (Paris) and at Swiss (Basel) Radio she has often rendered works of Hungarian composers. After founding a family she has based her orientation on accompaniment, playing chamber music, coaching and teaching. As a foreign scholar she has been in Wien several times at the masters of teaching lyrical accompaniment, Eric Werba and Robert Schollum. She is teaching this subject at the Bartók Béla Conservatoire of Music up to this time. She is an accompanist of artists of singing at master-courses. Between others she has collaborated with Gábor Carelli and Freywald-Lange. She is teaching at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music from 1972 up to these days.