Peter Frankl

Peter Frankl ( born October 2, 1935 in Budapest ) is a British pianist.

Frankl studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest in Lajos Hernádi, Zoltán Kodály and Weiner Leó.

In 1962 he made ​​his debut in London and in New York with the Cleveland Orchestra. In the follow he has performed with numerous orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Israel and has undertaken concert tours to Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has performed with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir John Barbirolli, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Antal Doráti, Iván Fischer, Bernard Haitink, Rudolf Kempe, István Kertész, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Kurt Sanderling, Sir Georg Solti and George Szell.

More than twenty times he worked with at the Proms in London, next he is a regular guest at the music festivals of Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Verbier and Kuhmo and in the U.S. from Aspen, Chautauqua, Hollywood Bowl, Marlboro, Norfolk, Ravinia, and Santa on. As a chamber musician he worked, inter alia, Kyung -Wha Chung, Ralph Kirshbaum, András Schiff and Tamás Vásáry, the Bartók, Borodin, the Fine Arts, the Guarneri, the Lindsay, the Panocha, the Takács, the Tokyo and Vermeer String Quartet together. He also teaches master classes around the world.

Frankl played among others the complete piano works of Robert Schumann and Debussy one, also solo works by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin, chamber music by Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Antonín Dvořák, Ernst von Dohnányi, Bohuslav Martinů and Bartók.