Adrienne Krausz

Career

Soon afterwards she was engaged by Georg Solti for a European tour with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. She has performed internationally since. Subsequently she took part in both posthumous hommages to Solti in Italy (October"97) and England (February"98).

She has recorded for Hungaroton.

Selected performance venues - Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, Cité de la Musique, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Munich"s Herkulessaal, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Brussels" Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris" Théâtre de la Ville. Sir George Solti immediately engaged Mission Krausz for a European tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zürich, following an audition.

She was the only pianist to be invited to perform in the Tributes to Sir George Solti presented in Italy and in London. Since then, Adrienne Krausz continues to impress the music world with each subsequent performance.

She has also studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Lívia Rév.

Since 1991 she lives in Paris. Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra invited her to open the Ascona Festival (2004) and the Bemus Festival in Belgrade (2005). She was also invited to play with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Berliner Symphoniker.

She made her debut in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2001.

With Shlomo Mintz she made frequent recital tours all around the world. Other acknowledgements include the Key of the city of Cincinnati, (Ohio, United States of America), the “Diamonds of culture” of the city of Miskolc (Hungary), and Grand Prix of the Hungarian Radio.

Adrienne has been an invited guest at music festivals like Montpellier, Menton, Monte-Carlo, Schwetzingen, the Mermoz music Festival, Yokohama, Prague, Cracow, Budapest, Stresa, Palma and Sion. Her Shostakovich recording was chosen as “Indispensable”, in the French music-guide at Fayard edition

In 1996 she was acclaimed by the critics for her interpretation of the complete Preludes of Chopin and Shostakovich brought together on a Civil Defense. In 2003, the Hungarian Gramophone Magazine awarded her the prize for the best recording of the year.

Adrienne often returns to Hungary to give concerts and has made several recordings for the Hungarian Radio and Television Networks.

Achievements

• The winner of the 1989 Cincinnati World Competition while a student at the Ferenc Liszt Academy, she took part at the 1992 and 1993 Montecarlo Masters, reaching the finals. In the last interview he gave to the English Magazine “Classic FM” Solti specifically mentioned her as a young pianist about whom he was “extremely enthusiastic, and I very much hope to help her in her career.” Following this, Sir George introduced Mission Krausz to the Chimay Foundation Competition in Brussels where she won the first prize by unanimous decision of the jury. A finalist at the Piano Masters of Monte Carlo in both 1992 and 1993, she has won numerous first prizes in competitions such as the “World Competition” in Cincinnati (Piano United States of America 1989), the International Piano Competition in Senigallia (Italy 1985) the Hungarian National Piano Competition in Tarhos in 1984 and further prizes in Frankfurt (1987) and in Sydney (1988).