Biographie
* 28. 03. 1941 Ungvár, † 0000, de Zürich, Schweizer Staatsbürgerin.
Zsuzsanna Sirokay is a Hungarian pianist. She has lived in Switzerland since 1968 and became a Swiss citizen in 1983.
From the age of ten to 17, she attended the conservatory in Debrecen. Then she moved to Budapest and began to study piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She completed her studies with Péter Solymos in 1963 with Honours.
Alongside studying with György Kurtág, she attended masterclasses with Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus and Géza Anda.
She made her orchestral debut with Schumann’s Piano Concerto in 1965 with the Hungarian State Orchestra under the direction of János Ferencsik.
Over the course of her career she worked with conductors such as István Kertész, Charles Dutoit, Sándor Végh, Armin Jordan, Zoltán Pesko, Gerd Albrecht, Tamás Sulyok and Marie-Jeanne Dufour, and orchestras such as the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, the Collegium Musicum Zurich founded by Paul Sacher and the Southwest German Philharmonic.
She has regularly performed chamber music with artists such as Peter-Lukas Graf, Nicolas Chumachenco, H. R. Stalder, Brenton Langbein and Hansheinz Schneeberger, as well as with ensembles such as the Zurich Chamber Musicians, the Tátrai Quartet, the Bartók Quartet, the New Zurich Quartet and the Carmina Quartet.
Concert tours have taken her to Hungary and Switzerland as well as numerous European countries (England, Germany, Ireland, Holland, Sweden, Austria, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia, Poland, the former Soviet Union and Spain). She has also made radio recordings for Swiss Radio (Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lugano, Zurich) as well as for broadcasters in Berlin, Budapest, Glasgow, Cologne, London, Stuttgart and Vienna.
She was a lecturer at the Hochschule Freiburg in Breisgau, gave various masterclasses (Ticino Musica / Ascona, Musica Riva / Riva del Garda, Academia Musicae Pro Mundo Uno / Assisi) and was a state music expert at the Conservatory and the Musikhochschule Zürich and at the Winterthur Conservatory as well as a jury member at the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow (1989 & 1995).
Due to increasing health problems with her hands and operations, she decided to retire from performing at the beginning of the 2000s.
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