Klára Würtz

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Klára Würtz (* 1965 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian classical pianist . She has lived in Amsterdam since 1996 and teaches piano at the Utrecht Conservatorium .

Life

Klára Würtz is the daughter of the painter Ádám Würtz and his wife Klára. She began playing the piano at the age of five and was considered a child prodigy. As a child, she performed as an accompanist with the Hungarian Radio and Television Children's Chorus . In 1979, at the age of 14, she joined the gifted class of the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, where she was taught by Zoltán Kocsis , Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág .

She achieved a breakthrough in 1985 with the First Prize at the Concorso pianistico internazionale Ettore Pozzoli in Seregno, Italy. In 1988 she was one of the winners of the Dublin International Piano Competition with a work by Schubert . A jury member, representative of Columbia Artists Management , offered her a contract for a classical music project in the United States. In 1989 she finished her studies with cum laude and in 1990 founded the Amsterdam Piano Trio with Joan Berkhemer and Nadia David , and later also played in a duo with the cellist Timora Roller .

In 1991 she went to the USA and gave more than 100 concerts in 38 states. At the invitation of Pieter van Winkel, founder of Brilliant Classics and her future husband, she took over the recording of the Mozart sonatas, recorded in the Maria Minor , a complete Mozart edition, and was often employed by the record company as a "house pianist". The products were in the low-priced segment and were sold by the Dutch drugstore chain Kruidvat , which helped it to become more well known. In 2001 she toured with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in the Netherlands and gave Schumann piano concerts in Germany. Under the direction of Bernard Haitink , she played Mozart with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City and at the Boston Symphony Hall in Boston , Massachusetts.

After the birth of a daughter in 2004, she took a long break because of tendinitis in her hands. In the Mozart year 2006 she was invited to the Salzburg Festival .

Discography

Her recordings primarily include works from the Classical and Romantic periods: Mozart , Beethoven , Brahms , Schubert , Schumann , Tchaikovsky and Béla Bartók .

Albums

  • 1999: Bartók: Piano Works. CD, Globe. Contains 15 Hungarian Peasant Dances, Sz 71 BB 79 and the 153 pieces of the microcosm, Sz 107 BB 105.
  • 2002: Schumann: Piano Works, Vol. 1. 3 CD, Brilliant
  • 2005: Klára Würtz piano. Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff. 4 hybrid CD, brilliant
  • 2007: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Schumann: Piano Concerto. CD, Brilliant Classics. Contains Rachmaninov op.18 and Schumann op.54 .
  • 2010: Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 467 “Jeunehomme” & K. 271 , with Prima La Musica (chamber orchestra), Dirk Vermeulen (conductor). CD, Brilliant Classics
  • 2011: Schubert: Impromptus. CD, piano classics
  • 2012: The Bartók Album , CD, Piano Classics
  • 2012: Beethoven: Complete violin sonates , with Kristóf Baráti (violin), 4 CD, Brilliant Classics - 97th place on the Dutch album Top 100
  • 2013: Beethoven: Cello Sonatas & Variations complete, with Timora Rosler (cello). 2 CD, Brilliant Classics
  • 2014: Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat D960. Piano Sonata in AD 664. CD, Piano Classics
  • 2014: Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op. 12, Forest Scenes Op. 82, arabesque op. 18, Scenes from Childhood Op. 15th CD, Brilliant Classics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Docentenlijst . Retrieved February 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dutchcharts.nl
personal data
SURNAME Würtz, Klára
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Dutch classical pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest