Mariann Marczi

Mariann Marczi began studying piano at the age of four, and in 1991 entered the class of Marianne Ábrahám and Gábor Csalog at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. She earned her Performance Artist Diploma and Master of Music in 2000 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest under the tutelage of Sándor Falvai, Péter Nagy, and András Kemenes. She continued her postgraduate studies in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”, and took part in various master classes (with György Kurtág, Zoltán Kocsis, Florent Boffard, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Elisso Wirssaladze). In 2005, she completed her studies in the Doctor of Music (DLA) department with Márta Gulyás at the Liszt Academy of Music. She earned her Doctor of Music degree in 2008, with a thesis on György Ligeti's Piano Etudes.

Mariann is a prize-winner in several national and international competitions. She has played in the most important concert halls of Hungary and in almost all European countries, and takes part regularly in a number of festivals, including the International Bartók Festival, the Szeged Chamber Music Festival, the Zemplén Festival, the Prague-Vienna-Budapest Festival, the Centre Acanthes Festival, the Pianissimo Festival, the “Spring in Russia” Festival, the Crescendo Festival and the Ziethen Music Festival.

She has collaborated with well-known conductors, such as Mátyás Antal, Tamás Pál, Zoltán Peskó, László Tihanyi, Massimo Testa, Ferenc Gábor, Konstantia Gourzi, and, for chamber music, with Márta Ábrahám, Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, Dóra Kokas, Dea Szücs, Nándor Götz, Noémi Győri, Sophia Reuter, Ditta Rohmann, Miklós Perényi, Péter Somodari, Balázs Réti, and Judit Rajk. She has worked with the contemporary music ensembles Echo Berlin and Wiener Collage.

Her repertoire includes solo and chamber works from early baroque to contemporary music. She regularly collaborates with outstanding composers, including György Kurtág, Zoltán Jeney, Gyula Csapó, Gyula Fekete, Máté Hollós, Nikolai Badinski, Ruth McGuiré, and Valerio Sannicandro.

Mariann was awarded the Schönberg Prize of the Austrian Arnold Schönberg Stiftung in 2000, the DAAD Scholarship of the German State in 2001, and the Annie Fischer Performance Artist Prize and Scholarship of the Hungarian Ministry of National Cultural Inheritance in 2002. She has published several articles about music in Hungarian journals and with Jaffa Publisher.

She gives piano and chamber music masterclasses yearly at the International Crescendo Summer Institute in Sárospatak, Hungary, and is a jury member of the WPTA International Piano Competition in Novi Sad, Serbia. She has been invited as a speaker at the World Piano Conference (Novi Sad, Serbia) and at the London International Piano Symposium (RCM and Steinway Hall, London). Mariann teaches piano at the Liszt Academy.