Dezső Ránki

Dezso Ránki ( born September 8, 1951 in Budapest) is a Hungarian pianist. Together with Zoltán Kocsis, András Schiff and he is considered one of the best Hungarian pianists of his generation.

He completed his musical studies in 1973 in Budapest at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and from Ferenc Rados. After winning first prize at the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau, he began an international career in Europe, the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Japan. He has performed, among others, with the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Orchestre National de France under conductors such as Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta. Twice the Kossuth Prize he was awarded, which is the highest cultural award in Hungary. He is married to the pianist Edit Klukon, with whom he has regular duo performances since 1985.

Georg Eismann, Hans Storck, Anne Rose Schmidt (1964 ) | Charles Laux, Lore Fischer ( 1965) | Daniel Shitomirski, Dieter Zechlin (1966 ) | Olivier Alain ( 1967) | Sviatoslav Richter (1968 ) | Peter Schreier, Herbert Schulze ( 1969) | Dmitri Bashkirov, Martin Schoppe (1970 ) | Günther body, Tatiana Nikolaeva (1971 ) | Ekkehard Otto, Maria Maxakowa (1972 ) | Emil Gilels, Elisabeth Breul (1973 ) | Amadeus Webersinke, Nelly Akopjan (1974 ) | Sara Dolukhanova, Hélène Boschi (1975 ) | Sigrid Kehl, Elisso Virsaladze (1976 ) | Rudolf Kehrer, Herbert Kaliga (1977 ) | Gertraud Geissler, Hans Joachim Köhler (1978 ) | Hanne -Lore Kuhse, Frantisek Rauch ( 1979) | Theo Adam, Miklós Forrai ( 1980) | Kurt Masur, Halina Czerny- Stefańska (1981 ) | Mitsuko Shirai, Peter Rosel (1982 ) | Rudolf Fischer, Eva Fleischer ( 1983) | Gustáv Papp, Dezso Ránki (1984 ) | Pawel Lisizian, Jacob Latins (1985 ) | Jörg Demus, Gerd Nauhaus (1986 ) | Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau (1987 ) | Albert Hofmann (1988 ) | Pavel Egorov, Bernard Ringeissen (1989 ) | Hartmut Holl, Günther Müller (1990 ) | Joan Chissell (1991 ) | Abegg Trio, Gisela Schäfer ( 1992) | Jozef De Beenhouwer (1993 ) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1994 ) | Hans Heinz Schneeberger, Dieter Gerhardt Worm (1995 ) | Nancy B. Reich, Bernhard R. Appel ( 1996) | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1997 ) | Linda Correll Roesner, Olaf Bär (1998 ) | Altenberg Trio, Ernst Burger (1999 ) | Olga Loseva, Steven Isserlis (2000 ) | John Eliot Gardiner (2001 ) | Alfred Brendel (2002 ) | Joachim Draheim, Juliane Banse (2003 ) | Daniel Barenboim (2005 ) | Margit L. McCorkle, Anton Kuerti (2007 ) | Reinhard Kapp, Michael Struck ( 2009) | András Schiff ( 2011) | Jon W. Finson, Ulf Wallin (2013 )

• Classic pianist
• Person (Budapest)
• Hungarian pianist
• Kossuth Prize winner
• Born in 1951
• Man