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My name is István Lajkó, I was born on 14th January 1982 in Budapest.
In 2007 I graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest with Distinction, under Sándor Falvai and Balázs Szokolay. I am currently attending the DMA course at the same institution and I study with Rita Wagner. In 2010 I spent 3 months with Erasmus Scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, where I studied with Matti Raekallio.
I won several prizes at international competitions, including First prizes at the Andor Földes and the Carl Filtsch International Piano Competition, and Third prizes at the International Piano Competition in memory of Liszt Ferenc and the International Liszt-Bartók Piano Competition (WFIMC member). In addition, I won First prize at the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition.
I am also winner of the Yamaha Scholarship Award and upon my merits I received twice the Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic. This year I received the prestigious Annie Fischer Scholarship for the 3rd time and recently I was honored with the Junior Prima Prize.
I also took part in several master classes of prominent professors, for example: István Gulyás, Klára Körmendi, Jeno Jandó, István Lantos, György Nádor, Marián Lapšanský, Norma Fischer, Ferenc Rados, Márta Gulyás, Leonid Margarius, Anne Queffélec, Dmitri Bashkirov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Edith Fischer, Willem Brons, Matti Raekallio, Murray Perahia, Paul Badura-Skoda.
I performed in recitals in Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the United States and I also appeared as soloist with several leading Hungarian Orchestras. In 2007 I gave solo recitals during the Hummel Festival in Bratislava and the Liszt Festival in Sopron, in 2008 during the Musicathlon Festival in Beijing, and in 2009 during the Budapest Spring Festival. In 2008 I was selected for the concert series New Masters on Tour 2009/10, in this year I made my debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in the Rudolfinum in Prague, in Dr Anton Philipszaal in The Hague, and in the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow.
This year I performed Dohnányi’s Variations on a nursery song with the EUphonia Central European Youth Orchestra conducted by Zoltán Kocsis.
Apart from my concert activities I already teach at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest.
