Balázs Szokolay (; born 2 July 1961) is a
Hungarian pianist.
Szokolay was born in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
. His father is Hungarian composer
. His international concert career started in 1983, when he replaced
Nikita Magaloff
Nikita Magaloff (russian: Никита Магалов; 26 December 1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist.
He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland. H ...
at a concert in Belgrade. Four years later he was appointed a professorship at the
Franz Liszt Academy of Music
The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music ( hu, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the ...
. Throughout his career he has been awarded 14 competition prizes (Zwickau's Robert Schumann,
Leeds
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', Brussels'
Queen Elisabeth, Munich's ARD, Terni's Alessandro Casagrande, Monza's Rina Sala Gallo, etc.).
In 2001 the Hungarian Government awarded him the Liszt Prize.
External links
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Chopin Foundation of the United States
Living people
1961 births
Hungarian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
Musicians from Budapest
Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni
Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century Hungarian male musicians
20th-century Hungarian musicians
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century Hungarian male musicians
21st-century Hungarian musicians
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