Biography Szabolcs Szilágyi, László Borbély

Szabolcs Szilágyi, László BorbélySzabolcs Szilágyi, László Borbély

Szabolcs Szilágyi
graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He then went to London to continue postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Susan Milan. Meanwhile, invited by the maestro, he attended Sir James Galway’s international seminar in Weggis, Switzerland, on several occasions. Szabolcs Szilágyi has been a member of Concerto Budapest – formerly Hungarian Symphony Orchestra – since 1995. Szilágyi played at the Frankfurt Chamber Opera, and was a regular member of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of pianist/conductor Tamás Vásáry and later of world renowned conductor Ádám Fischer. As an orchestral musician, he has worked with distinguished artists such as, among others, conductors Kobayashi Ken Ichiro, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Thierry Fischer, Yuri Simonov, Krzysztof Penderecki, János Fürst, Gerhard Markson, Nikolaj Znaider, Tan Dun, Gábor Takács- Nagy, Michael Halász, Zoltán Kocsis, Heinz Holliger, and soloists Gidon Kremer, Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Petra Lang, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Vadim Repin, Barbara Hendricks, Boris Berezovsky, Juliane Banse, Gilles Apap, Andrea Rost, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Angela Gheorghiu, László Polgár, Olga Kern, Jose Cura, Bobby McFerrin, Ildikó Komlósi, Anna Vinnitskaya, Branford Marsalis, Steven Isserlis, Khatia Buniatishvili. Szabolcs Szilágyi has toured in nearly all European countries, as well as Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, the Middle East and the USA. He has made TV, DVD and Radio recordings, as well as CD recordings for Hungaroton, BMC, Teldec/Warner and Naxos. Since 2017 Concerto Budapest has recorded exclusively for Tacet Musikproduction of Germany.

László Borbély
He was born in 1984. In 2007 he got his diploma with honours (Master of Music in Performance and Teaching) then his doctoral degree (Doctor of Liberal Arts) at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he is an assistant professor of Piano Faculty. He played concerts at international festivals such Collegium Musicum Pommersfelden (Germany), Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander (Spain), International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen (The Netherlands), TCU/Cliburn Institute in Fort Worth (USA), FestivaLiszt in Grottammare (Italy), Liszt Festival in Raiding (Austria), Liszt Festival in Bayreuth (Germany), International Bartók Festival Ankara (Turkey), International Conservatory Week Festival Saint Petersburg (Russia), Festival der Klänge in Vienna (Austria), CAFe Budapest Festival, Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest), Beethoven Festival Martonvásár (Hungary), etc. He won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. He won 2nd Prize and a special prize for the best performance of the set piece  at the EPTA International Piano Competition in Osijek (Croatia) in 2001. In 2002, he won the Yamaha Scholarship Award and also two 2nd and one 3rd prizes in different divisions of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition where he won two special prizes too: prize for the „most artistic performance” and a special prize of the American Liszt Society. He had lessons with Dmitrij Bashkirov, Christopher Elton, Noel Flores, Jan-Marisse Huizing, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, Claudio-Martinez Mehner, Piotr Paleczny, Murray Perrahia, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, András Schiff, Elisso Virsaladze, Mikhail Voskresensky, Rita Wagner, etc.

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