Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian pianist. Born September 8, 1951 in Budapest,[1] 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. Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.[1][2] From the time Ránki won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, he has had an international career performing in Europe, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the USA and Japan.[1] He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Orchestre National (Paris) under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Vég, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.[1][2][3] He was awarded twice the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in Hungary.[1] From 1985, Ránki frequently performs duet recitals with his wife Edit Klukon.[1][2][3] Awards 1972 Grand Prix du Disque 1973 Liszt Prize 1978 Kossuth Prize 1982 Art Prize of City of Budapest 1984 Merited Artist 1988 Bartók-Pásztory Award 1990 Excellent Artist 2005 Prima Primissima Award 2006 Bartók Memorial Award (Herend) 2007 For Hungarian Art 2008 Kossuth Prize References 1. ...show more

Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian pianist. Born September 8, 1951 in Budapest,[1] 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. Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados.[1][2] From the time Ránki won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, he has had an international career performing in Europe, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the USA and Japan.[1] He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Orchestre National (Paris) under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Vég, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.[1][2][3] He was awarded twice the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in Hungary.[1] From 1985, Ránki frequently performs duet recitals with his wife Edit Klukon.[1][2][3] Awards 1972 Grand Prix du Disque 1973 Liszt Prize 1978 Kossuth Prize 1982 Art Prize of City of Budapest 1984 Merited Artist 1988 Bartók-Pásztory Award 1990 Excellent Artist 2005 Prima Primissima Award 2006 Bartók Memorial Award (Herend) 2007 For Hungarian Art 2008 Kossuth Prize References 1.

^ a b c d e f "Ránki Dezső". info.bmc.hu. Retrieved 2010-01-25. 2.

^ a b c "Ránki Dezső" (in Hungarian). Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar (Liszt Ferenc Chmaber Orchestra). Retrieved 2010-01-25. 3. ...show less