Kiraly Csaba, Hungary
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Csaba Király (1965) graduated at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music,
Budapest as performing artist in 1989 (organ), and in 1990 (piano).
During his student years he won first prize in all national
competitions organized for his age group. He was also the first
prize winner at the International Piano Competition in Cagliari 1996
(Italy) and in New Orleans 1997 (USA). Since his student years he
has given concerts regularly both as pianist and organist and his
exceptional talents have made him a popular young artist. Beyond his
recitals in Hungary, he has had concert engagements in nearly all
European countries, winning great success in United States, Canada,
Japan, South Korea, China, Egypt and India. His repertoire covers a
wide range from the Baroque to contemporary music. Besides
performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and Bartók, performing
the latest modern compositions plays a prominent role in his concert
programs. A characteristic aspect of his repertoire is
improvisation. He has obtained the basic knowledge of improvising
from his music school teacher Mária Apagyi, as an active student of
the Artistic Workshop in Komló. He approaches music as a composer,
which is proved by his numerous arrangements. He has made a
significant number of organ transcriptions of orchestral and choral
works, which he often plays not only in Hungary, but in countries
from Western Europe to Japan, China, South Korea and the United
States. Csaba Király is attracted towards great missions and
challenges, which gives him free energy for his creative work.
Several times he has performed Liszt’s and Bach's complete organ
works, complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert,
complete piano works of Béla Bartók. Since 2001 he has been
undertaking a huge series of 100 concerts, lasting some years, of
the complete piano music of Liszt. His piano-organ CD of Liszt:
B-A-C-H Prelude and Fugue, B-A-C-H Fantasia and Fugue, “Weinen,
Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” Variations was awarded “Classic CD of the
Year 2001” in Hungary (Gramofon-prize). In 2003 he has been awarded
a Liszt Ferenc prize for his artistic activity. In 2005 he
established the First Pécs International Piano Competition in memory
of Liszt Ferenc, in which he was one of the jury members. In 2004 he
has been elected as the Secretary-general, in 2013 as the president
of the Liszt Ferenc Society. As a piano teacher he has taught
several years at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Between
1997 and 1998 he was a guest organ teacher at the Taegu-Hyosung
University in South Korea. Since 2002 he has been the head of the
Piano Department, currently he teaches as associate piano and organ
professor in the Institute of Music of the Musical and Visual Art
Faculty at the University of Pécs and from the year of 2014 he is
the director of the Béla Bartók Memorial House in Budapest.
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