Education
He graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a pianist, both performing artist and teacher in 1980.
He graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a pianist, both performing artist and teacher in 1980.
Since 1999 he has been a professor of the Academy. During the Liszt Centennial Year in 1986 he was awarded the Franz Liszt Commemorative Plate of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and the International Liszt Society for his outstanding interpretations of works by the great composer Franz Liszt. He has recorded 27 albums under the labels Hungaroton, Marco Polo and Studio Liszt Productions.
Hungarian television companies made 12 films taken from his public concerts and transmitted them on various occasions.
The total length of these films exceeds 18 hours. In 1999 Hegedűs has been included into the roster of Steinway Artists by the Steinway Center in New New York
In Hungary in the year 2000 he was awarded the State Franz Liszt Prize. In the course of Mr. Hegedűs" 30 years of pianistic career he performed more than 2600 times on public appearances.
Beside his live concert activities in his home-land, Hungary he regularly gives concerts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakian Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Canada and in the United States of America.
They have three children.