Ilona Prunyi

In the mid-’60s, Ilona Prunyi was a gifted piano student forced to delay the start of her appealing career due to an extended illness. She actually is now thought to be being among the most essential Hungarian pianists of her era, both in the realms of single and chamber music. Her repertory is normally broad, consuming many criteria by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Bartók, among others. But generally, even the functions she has by well-known composers will tend to be their less-often came across parts. She also performs functions by Godowsky and Korngold, and in the world of chamber music, compositions by Atterberg, d’Indy, Sinding, and Berwald. She’s presented or championed functions by modern Hungarian composers like Láng, Hollós, Petrovics, and Sári. The majority of Prunyi’s almost 40 recordings have already been released by Naxos and Hungaroton. Prunyi was created in Debrecen, Hungary, on, may 1, 1941. She started her piano research at age group six and in 1958 enrolled on the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Her key teachers there have been András Mihály and József Gát. After her 1964 graduation she continued to be on the Liszt Academy being a instructor and battled with disease for another a decade. Prunyi provided her public debut concert in 1974, and thereafter frequently made an appearance as recitalist and soloist with main Hungarian orchestras. She also collaborated with prominent performers in chamber repertory as well as occasionally made an appearance on Hungarian radio and tv. Though she’d give concerts overseas (throughout, Britain, China, and Canada), she limited her profession mainly to her homeland. In 1988 she started documenting for Naxos and its own sister label Marco Polo, generally delving into lesser-known repertory, like the four-hand piano music of Schubert and chamber functions by William Sterndale Bennett and Kuhlau. Through 2007 she made an appearance on a lot more than 25 recordings for Naxos and Marco Polo. In the 1990s Prunyi also started documenting for the Hungaroton label. Among her even more essential attempts was her 1994 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a style of Paganini and two discs of piano music by Ernö von Dohnányi, from 2000 and 2004, respectively. Prunyi offers regularly provided concerts throughout Hungary and made an appearance as collaborator in duo works together with Zoltán Kocsis and Jeno Jandó, and in chamber works together with the brand new Budapest Quartet and Tátrai Quartet. Among her later on recordings may be the 2006 Compact disc of piano music of Stephen Heller on Hungaroton.