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Dénes Várjon
Dénes Várjon’s sensational technique, deep musicality and bred range of interests have made him a highly regarded participant in international music-making. An acclaimed solist and chamber musician, he is also an artistic leader of festivals and a sought-after piano pedagogue.
As a solist he performs in major international concert series, including at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and London’s Wigmore Hall. He is frequently invited to work with leading symphony orchestras, such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He has worked with conductors including Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Iván Fischer, Adam Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Horst Stein, Leopold Hager and Zoltán Kocsis. He regularly appears at leading international festivals from Malboro to Salzburg t
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The Cross-Eyed Pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up piano, and pursue a career in music?
Though I didn&#;t start having piano lessons until the age of 7, I was already very interested in classical music much earlier. My great-grandmother was a piano teacher and we had a beautiful carved upright at home, which I loved. My parents, who were not musicians, loved classical music, especially operas, so they took me and my sister regularly to the opera. I enjoyed these performances enormously and listened to recordings at home as well. I especially loved Verdi and La Traviata was my absolute favourite opera (I still love it).
When at the age of 6 I started to attend school, I went to a music school, where we had singing lessons every day. I was singing in a choir as well and about twice a week we also had folk dance lessons. My parents didn&#;t want me to start having piano lessons during that year because school was already a big change in my life. But from my second school