Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian pianist.

Born September 8, 1951 in Budapest,[1] he began taking piano lessons at the Budapest Academy of Music at the age of eight. When he was thirteen, he enrolled at the Budapest Conservatory and became a pupil of Klára Máthé. Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.[1][2] From the time Ránki won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, he has had an international career performing in Europe, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the USA and Japan.[1] He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Orchestre National (Paris) under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Vég, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.[1][2][3] He was awarded twice the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in Hungary.[1]
From 1985, Ránki frequently performs duet recitals with his wife Edit Klukon.[1][2][3]

Awards

1972 Grand Prix du Disque
1973 Liszt Prize
1978 Kossuth Prize
1982 Art Prize of City of Budapest
1984 Merited Artist
1988 Bartók-Pásztory Award
1990 Excellent Artist
2005 Prima Primissima Award
2006 Bartók Memorial Award (Herend)
2007 For Hungarian Art
2008 Kossuth Prize

References

1. ^ a b c d e f "Ránki Dezső". info.bmc.hu. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
2. ^ a b c "Ránki Dezső" (in Hungarian). Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar (Liszt Ferenc Chmaber Orchestra). Retrieved 2010-01-25.
3. ^ a b "Dezső Ránki and Edit Klukon in London – The Christmas Concert hosted by the Hungarian Embassy and the Hungarian Cultural Centre". Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in London. Retrieved 2010-01-25. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.