Bene Róza
harpsichord
Róza Bene graduated from the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music in 2017 with a master's degree from the Academy of Music, where she studied with Borbála Dobozy, Miklós Spányi and Ágnes Ratkó. Following her studies in her home country, she won a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her teachers were Robin Bigwood, Steven Devine, James Johnston, Carol Cerasi, Sharona Joshua and Laurence Cummings. She then continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and at the Liszt Academy of Music Budapest.
In recent years, she has performed on numerous occasions with renowned performers such as Jeffrey Skidmore and the Birmingham Ex Cathedra, Rachel Brown and Adrian Butterfield. In 2018, she participated in the Francois Couperin Anniversary Conferences in Manchester and Birmingham, and contributed harpsichord concerts to performances by Shirley Thomson and Graham Sadler.
Her solo performances have won the Junior Prize (2021), the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize (2016 London), the Corton Hyde Early Music Prize (2016 Birmingham), the Leamington Early Music Prize (2018 Birmingham) and the Town Hall Symphony Hall Prize (2018 Birmingham).
Among her most memorable concert experiences are the 27th Bach Festival in Budapest, solo recitals at Birmingham Town Hall, Handel House, London, the Unitarian Chapel, Warwick and the Broadwood Horniman Museum, London, where she played original instruments. In 2024, she presented a three-part series of concerts of the main stylistic movements of Baroque flute harpsichord sonatas in a programme of German, French and Johann Sebastian Bach flute harpsichord sonatas at the BMC Library with flutist Tímea Fábián.
She covers music from three centuries, performing on historical instruments from the late Renaissance, Baroque and Classical keyboard repertoire. She is a regular member of the Budapest Bach Consort, led by Augustin Szokos, and the Veduta Musica ensemble and she is currently a teacher at the Hermann László Music Secondary School in Székesfehérvár.
In recent years, she has performed on numerous occasions with renowned performers such as Jeffrey Skidmore and the Birmingham Ex Cathedra, Rachel Brown and Adrian Butterfield. In 2018, she participated in the Francois Couperin Anniversary Conferences in Manchester and Birmingham, and contributed harpsichord concerts to performances by Shirley Thomson and Graham Sadler.
Her solo performances have won the Junior Prize (2021), the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize (2016 London), the Corton Hyde Early Music Prize (2016 Birmingham), the Leamington Early Music Prize (2018 Birmingham) and the Town Hall Symphony Hall Prize (2018 Birmingham).
Among her most memorable concert experiences are the 27th Bach Festival in Budapest, solo recitals at Birmingham Town Hall, Handel House, London, the Unitarian Chapel, Warwick and the Broadwood Horniman Museum, London, where she played original instruments. In 2024, she presented a three-part series of concerts of the main stylistic movements of Baroque flute harpsichord sonatas in a programme of German, French and Johann Sebastian Bach flute harpsichord sonatas at the BMC Library with flutist Tímea Fábián.
She covers music from three centuries, performing on historical instruments from the late Renaissance, Baroque and Classical keyboard repertoire. She is a regular member of the Budapest Bach Consort, led by Augustin Szokos, and the Veduta Musica ensemble and she is currently a teacher at the Hermann László Music Secondary School in Székesfehérvár.