Pianist Profiles
JENÖ JANDÓ (Hungary)

One of the most brilliant Hungarian pianist in his generation, Jenö Jandó is known all over the world mostly due to his enormously large discography including integral editions of Beethoven and Mozart sonatas and concertos as well as piano and chamber music of Bach, Bartók, Haydn, Liszt, Schubert and many other composers.
Jenö Jandó was born in 1952 in the southern Hungarian town of Pécs. He began learning the piano at the age of seven followed by his studies at the Pécs Conservatory. In 1968 he was admitted to the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy Budapest where he studied under professors Katalin Nemes, Pál Kadosa and András Mihály, In 1973 he won the first prize at the Hungarian Radio Competition, followed by prizes achieved at international competitions like Dino Ciani Competition Milan, Gyögy Cziffra Competition Versailles, Sydney International Competition. His international career begun in the early 1970s – he played widely throughout Europe as well as in America and Japan. He has performed regularly under the baton of world famous conductors like János Ferencsik, Adám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Lamberto Gardelli, András Lìgeti, Giuseppe Patane, Zoltán Peskó, Yuri Simonov, Walter Süsskind, Tamás Vásáry and Antoni Wit.

As soon as he graduated in 1974, he was appointed assistant at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy where he still teaching presently. He was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize as well as the highest Hungarian award, the Kossuth Prize.

He begun the long list of his recordings with Hungaroton followed by Laserlight and Naxos. Jenö Jandó continues to be not only one of the most (probably the most) recorded pianists in the world but one of the most respected with consistently high praise from international critics. He is also one of the best selling pianists in the world with sales of more than 350,000 compact discs per year.