VÁRAY, Rita (HUN)

Rita Váray started her piano studies at the age of 5 with Marianna Spiegel in Győr at the Liszt Music School. From 2000 she continued at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, her piano teachers were Gábor Eckhardt, Judit Kékesi and Gábor Csalog. She studied at the Liszt Academy of Music from 2004 with András Kemenes and Rita Wagner. She spent the years 2006/2007 at the class of Imre Rohmann in Salzburg. With Erasmus grant she studied further at Karlsruhe with Michael Uhde and Markus Stange. She graduated from the Liszt University of Music with distinction in 2010.

Rita Váray received prizes from a number of notable competitions: special prize at the Nyiregyháza National Piano Competition (1995), 5th prize at the Košice (Kassa) International Piano Competition (1995), 3rd prize and the Margit Varró Foundation special price at the Nyiregyháza National Piano Competition (1998), 2nd prize at the Liszt Piano Competition of Győr (2000), Kadosa prize at the Békés-Tarhos National Piano Competition and special prize at the Béla Bartók International Competition (2010).

She participated in masterclasses with László Gyimesi, Ferenc Rados, Imre Rohmann, John Perry, Paul Badura-Skoda and Malcolm Bilson.

She appeared as a soloist with the Győr Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ádám Medveczky and gave solo concerts in Győr, Budapest, Pécs and Vienna and received an invitation to Finland. With the Rondo Quartet she gave the first performance of János Vajda’s piano quintet and also the first performance of the piano quintet by Károly Aggházy, a piece which was recently revived after 100 years.
 

You can communicate with Ms. Váray in German.