Tamás Vesmás
Tamás Vesmás (* 1944 in Romania ) is a Hungarian pianist .
Life
Vesmás began piano and composition training in Timișoara at the age of ten with Ella Philipp , a student of Alfred Cortot , and began performing with Romania's leading orchestras at the age of fourteen. He continued his studies at the Music Academy in Bucharest with Florica Musicescu , the teacher of Dinu Lipatti , Ovidiu Drimba and Radu Lupu , at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yvonne Lefébure and Monique de la Bruchollerie and in London with Maria Curcio . In 1968 he won the gold medal at the International Claude Debussy Competition in Paris . Since 1983 he has been teaching piano and chamber music at the School of Music at the University of Auckland in New Zealand . His students include a. Zenka Dianowa , Horst-Hans Bäcker , Rachel Young , Fei Ren , Li Chenyin and Stephen Small . He is also musical director of the Auckland Sinfonietta, which he founded .
Vesmás has performed as a pianist, conductor and chamber musician in more than twenty countries around the world. He worked as a pianist with conductors such as Simon Rattle , Jean-Claude Casadesus , János Fürst , Harry Blech , Kurt Redel , Carlo Zecchi , Mark Elder and Erich Bergel , and as a chamber musician with musicians such as Nathan Milstein , György Pauk , Boris Bermann and Peter Frankl , Heinz Holliger , Boris Belkin , Mark Lubotsky and Cho-Liang Lin . His repertoire focuses on composers from the 19th and 20th centuries such as Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Claude Debussy , Béla Bartók , Sergei Prokofjew and Alfred Schnittke .
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| SURNAME | Vesmás, Tamás |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romania |