Background
RANKI, Dezso was born on September 8, 1951 in Budapest. Son of Jdzsef Ranki and Edith Jecsmen.
RANKI, Dezso was born on September 8, 1951 in Budapest. Son of Jdzsef Ranki and Edith Jecsmen.
Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with his mentors Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.
Born in Budapest, he began taking piano lessons at the Budapest Academy of Music at the age of eight. When he was thirteen, he enrolled at the Budapest Conservatory and became a pupil of Klára Máthé. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Orchestre National de France under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.
He was awarded twice the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in Hungary.
Together they have a son, Fülöp Ránki, who is also a skilled pianist.
Married Editorial Klukon in 1979.