Klára Würtz

Klára Würtz is one of the more essential pianists to possess emerged in the latter decades from the 20th hundred years. Hungarian-born, Amsterdam-based, she’s, because the early ’90s, produced numerous trips of america and Canada while also showing up throughout Holland and somewhere else in European countries. If her repertory generally excludes Baroque aswell as modern music, it really is wide still, consuming all of the sonatas of Mozart and huge chunks from the outputs of Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Bartók, Debussy, and many more. Würtz has produced several recordings for a number of labels, including Amazing Classics, Regis Information, and World. Würtz was created in Budapest, Hungary, in 1965. She was a kid prodigy: she 1st sat down in the piano at age group five and quickly became an extraordinarily achieved player. She became a member of the Hungarian Radio and Tv Children’s Chorus in the first ’70s, much less a vocalist but to provide as the group’s pianist. She shortly enrolled on the Franz Liszt Music Academy in her indigenous town where she examined under Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. She’d later attend get good at classes kept by András Schiff in Britain. 1985 became a breakthrough calendar year for Würtz when she captured initial award in the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition, a esteemed event kept every 2 yrs in Seregno, Italy. In 1988 Würtz was a award champion in another essential competition, the Dublin International Piano Competition. By this time around her profession was firmly set up in European countries, though not however in THE UNITED STATES. In 1991 she started making regular travels of america and Canada and shortly gained over critics and open public alike, most especially at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Middle in Washington, with the Ravinia Celebration. Among her initial recordings was the 1994 World CD of the assortment of Bartók functions that included the Piano Sonata as well as the 15 Hungarian Peasant Music. Through the entire 1990s and in the brand new hundred years aswell, Würtz remained extremely mixed up in concert hall and documenting studio. Most likely her most crucial work continues to be her Mozart: she’s performed the sonatas in various concerts and documented them in a comprehensive established for Outstanding Classics, released in 2005. Various other recordings by her add a 2005 five-disc established on a single label formulated with a challenging combination of functions by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Rachmaninov. In 2011, she documented Schubert’s Impromptus for Piano Classics.