Education
Valeria Szervánszky studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Pál Kadosa and György Kurtág.
Valeria Szervánszky studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Pál Kadosa and György Kurtág.
In 1973 she joined the highly prestigious class of Professor Hans Leygraf at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, and on graduating returned to the Liszt Academy to teach the Exceptionally Gifted Children"s Class with Professor Klára Máthé and also work as an assistant to Professor
Kadosa.
She also played for the cello class of Miklos Perényi. In 1979 she took up a position as professor of piano at Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo and taught in Japan until moving to London in 1986. Teaching and masterclasses In London she teaches at the Purcell School.
She is also in demand for music courses and has taught at the International Bartók Festival in Hungary, the British Kodály Academy, the twentieth-century music course at the Centre Acanthes, Avignon, the Orlando Festival in Holland and the International Musician"s Seminar at Prussia Cove.
At the 1994 International Bartók Festival they gave the Hungarian première of Kurtág’s Lebenslauf for two pianos and two basset horns and have since performed the work in Budapest and London (with members of the London Sinfonietta).