Name Zsuzsa Elekes Role Organist | Awards Liszt Ferenc Prize | |
Education Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest Albums Liszt: Fantasia Und Fuge / Evocation A La Chapelle Sixtine / Les Morts / Nun Danket Alle Gott People also search for Gabor Baross, Kalman Strausz, Andrea Melath, Jozsef Gregor, Maria Temesi, Istvan Gati, Takacs Tamara | ||
Zsuzsa Elekes (born 13 May 1955 in Budapest) is a Hungarian organist and organ teacher at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest.
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Education
Zsuzsa Elekes studied at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in her hometown in Budapest, where her teachers included Lajos Kertész (piano) and Gábor Lehotka (organ). She continued her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a pupil of Ferenc Gergely (organ), Lajos Sztankay (piano) and János Sebestyén (harpsichord). Following her graduation, cum laude, in 1978, she undertook further study with Hannes Kästner in Leipzig, and participated in masterclasses with Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou, Johannes-Ernst Köhler, Michael Radulescu, Michael Schneider and Luigi Tagliavini.
Musical career
Zsuzsa Elekes has won a number of prizes. She has made many LP, radio and CD recordings and undertaken concert tours in Germany, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands and Japan. From 1980 to 1994, Zsuzsa Elekes was soloist of the Hungarian National Philharmonic. Since 1994, she has taught organ at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. She is also frequently invited to sit on the juries of international competitions.