Dénes Várjon

Pianist from Hungary
1968, February 23rd in Budapest -

Dénes Várjon is a Hungarian pianist, born in Budapest on 23 February 1968. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest from 1984 to 1991 with Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados, and took master classes with András Schiff. He won the Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition, the Hungarian Radio National Piano Competition and, in 1991, the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, which launched his international career.

Equally at home as a soloist and as a chamber musician, he has appeared at major festivals and with leading orchestras, and often performs piano duo repertoire with his wife, the pianist Izabella Simon. He teaches at the Liszt Academy and has been a Principal Professor in the Kronberg Academy study programmes since 2018. Since 2019 he has led the Complete Works Live series in Budapest, devoted to Schumann's chamber music with piano.

His recordings appear on ECM, Naxos, Capriccio and Hungaroton. His honours include the Liszt Prize and the Sándor Veress Prize (1997), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (2016) and the Kossuth Prize (2020), Hungary's highest cultural distinction. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Dénes Várjon
Alternative Spellings Denes Varjon
On Wikipedia Dénes_Várjon
Relationships is the pupil of György Kurtág
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Title Subname Catalogue Key Year Type

Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio

2026-10-30

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)