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PROFIL
First name: István
Surname:
Kassai
Profession: pianist
Address: 31 Lejtő út, 1124 Budapest, Hungary
Contacts: kassaipiano and gmail dot com
+36306206765
Place and date of
birth:
Budapest (Hungary) March 26th, 1959.
Marital status: single
Father: István
Kassai, research worker (1921- ),
Mother: Anna Farkas, assistent (1923-2007)
Languages: English,
French, German
Qualifications: university diploma
Teachers:
- 1966-1969:
Ilona Csákvári (private coaching)
- 1969-1973:
Lajos Kertész (Béla Bartók
Secondary School of Music, Budapest)
- 1973-1982:
Pál Kadosa Professor, Dezső Ránki, Assistant
(Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music,
Budapest)
- 1982:
Péter Solymos (private tutoring)
- 1983-1984:
Yvonne Lefébure (Conservatoire
Européen de Musique de Paris, France)
Appearances: at the Hungarian Radio.
Sound recordings: CDs, broadcast recordings.
Music publications, scores, other articles.
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Public posts: founding member of the presidium in the
- Ferenc Erkel Society (1989-),
- Jenő
Hubay Society (1998-),
- László Lajtha Society (2000-2008, dissolved),
Major prizes and
awards:
- 1972:
International Youth Piano Competition,
Ušti nad Labem (Czechoslovakia), first
prize
- 1978: ARTISJUSaward
- 1979:
Hungarian Radio National Piano Competition,
first prize
- 1982:
International Debussy Piano Competition,
Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris), first
grand prix
- 1985:
UNESCO Fonds International
de l’Entraide
Musicale prize
- 1986: Fondation de France
Bonnaud-Chevillion Prize (1986)
- 1990:
Hungarian Radio Quality Prize
- 2001:
Ferenc Liszt Prize
- 2010: Leo Weiner Memorial Prize
Hobbies:
- music
publishing,
- cactus collecting,
- traffic policy
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