DOMINKÓ, István (HUN)

István Dominkó was born in 1971. In 1996 he graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music where he studied with Edit Hambalkó, Kornél Zempléni and Márta Gulyás. From 2000 to 2004 he was a DLA student of the Liszt Academy working under the guidance of professor Dezső Ránki. After a profound research he obtained his doctoral degree summa cum laude in 2008. The title of his dissertation is Memoirs for my children – Robert Schumann’s Jugendalbum. In 2013 he received the postdoctorate scholarship of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and published a paper about the vocal works of the famous Hungarian composer, Ferenc Farkas. In 2015 he recorded a CD “Songs from seven decades by Ferenc Farkas”, with singers Andrea Meláth and Tünde Szabóki, which was published by Hungaroton.

Besides his pedagogical and scholarly work he has been active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout his native country, as well as France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Slovakia and  Romania. He has many television and radio recordings and concert series for the youth, often with his musician family members. He has been a regular performer of the Budapest Spring Festival and the Zemplén Festival. Many of his concerts were broadcast by the Hungarian Radio, the Romanian Radio and Deutsche Welle. He is the founder and music director of the STELLA Recording Studio in Budapest. He is one of the founder artists of the Crescendo Summer Institute where he has given masterclasses since 2004.

He had been a professor at the Music Department of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest for 23 years. Currently he is the deputy director and a piano teacher, and also the leader of the Conservatoire at the Kodály Zoltán Hungarian Choir School. He also teaches piano students at the Weiner Leó Music High School. In 2014 he qualified as „Master teacher”, and has been working as educational expert at the Ministry of Education since 2015. In September 2018, he was awarded a three-year scholarship at the Hungarian Academy of Arts. The core of his research project is working on methods for assisting and developing independent practising. He is publishing his writings, recordings and the results of his research at the Parlando website and the HAA website.

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You can communicate with Mr. Dominkó in English.