Adrienne Krausz

Who is Adrienne Krausz?

Adrienne Krausz is a Hungarian pianist, b. 1967

The winner of the 1989 Cincinnati World Competition while a student at the Ferenc Liszt Academy, she took part at the 1992 and 1993 Montecarlo Masters, reaching the finals. Soon afterwards she was engaged by Georg Solti for a European tour with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich; she has performed internationally since. Subsequently she took part in both posthumous hommages to Solti in Italy and England. She has recorded for Hungaroton.

Selected performance venues - Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, Cité de la Musique, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Munich's Herkulessaal, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris' Théâtre de la Ville.

Sir George Solti immediately engaged Miss Krausz for a European tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zürich, following an audition. In the last interview he gave to the English Magazine “Classic FM” Solti specifically mentioned her as a young pianist about whom he was “extremely enthusiastic, and I very much hope to help her in her career.”