Read more

The pianist-repetiteur from Slovakia was born in 1991 in Révkomárom, where he started playing the piano at the age of seven. He completed his secondary school studies in Győr, at the János Richter Vocational High School of Music, majoring in classical piano, then graduated as a pianist and art teacher in 2018 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs, where he worked for eight years from 2015 as an opera-repetiteur with Wiedemann Bernadett, and under the direction of Balázs Kocsár as a role practice teacher on majoring of singing and master of opera. He also helped Chinese students learn the genre of opera for four years.

He taught many operas and opera excerpts in Pécs, which he also played on the piano as part of the opera exam: Ch. W. Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice, W. A. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni, W.A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, G. Bizet: Carmen, P. I. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, C. Saint-Saens: Samson and Delilah, Zoltán Kodály: Háry János

In January 2022, he played the opera Mirandolina by B. Martinu at the semester opera exam of the Liszt Ferenc University of Music directed by András Almási-Tóth and conducted by Sándor Szabolcs. In the winter of this year, he got his first opportunity at the Hungarian State Opera House, where he taught and played the Leoš Janáček's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, and also assisted as a language coach in the mentioned production. In the spring of 2022, he worked in the opera G. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess as a repetiteur at the Hungarian State Opera House.

In 2017, he was in China as a pianist on a two-week tour organized by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs. He gave concerts in several countries, including Italy, China, Croatia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary.

He collaborated with the artists of the Hungarian State Opera at opera galas numerous times. Among others, at the Lake Tisza and Lake Venice Festivals, the Gerbeaud House, and the Győr Synagogue.

Competitions:
2015: Special level award - Pécs University Faculty of Arts
2014: Special level award - Pécs University Faculty of Arts
2009: Zene határok nélkül (Music without frontiers) - 1st place
2008: The New Europe Talents Competition (art competition by the Central European Foundation) - winner

Masterclasses:
Szokolay Balázs international piano masterclass
Némethy Attila piano masterclass
Gábor József piano masterclass
Kemenes András piano masterclass
Wagner Rita piano masterclass

Attila Horváth