Anna Falvai DLA

Anna Falvai was born into a family of musicians. Her parents and even her sister are outstanding pianists.

She began playing the piano at the age of six and soon after, gained success in regional and national competitions. She was enrolled in the School of Exceptional Young Talents’ at the Liszt Academy of Music at the age of 12, where she studied under Gábor Eckhardt and Balázs Szokolay. 

Between 2003 and 2007, she continued her studies as a regular student at the Liszt Academy of Music with Balázs Szokolay and Attila Némethy. She spent two semesters as an Erasmus student at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, studying in Imre Rohmann’s class. She attended masterclasses held by Malcolm Bilson, Zoltán Kocsis, Ferenc Rados, Peter Frankl, Márta Gulyás, Martin Hughes and other well-known pianists.

After receiving her diploma with teaching and performing qualifications she started teaching in various music schools in Budapest. During this period, she was also admitted to the Liszt Academy’s Doctoral School, where she received her DLA qualification in 2019. Her dissertation: Mihály Bächer’s Career: Pedagogical Work, Interpretational Features, Reception is about one of the most influential pianists and pedagogues of the 20th-century Hungarian piano scene.

As a concert pianist she has performed all over the world, from China to Canada, as well as across Europe, appearing in Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Sweden and Portugal. She regularly gives masterclasses both in Hungary and abroad. She joined the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music in 2018, where she teaches piano.

She has also been teaching at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, in the Keyboard and Harp Department, since 2022.

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