Acclaimed by the critics in 1996 for her remarkable interpretation of the complete preludes by Chopin and Chostakovitch brought together on CD, Adrienne KRAUSZ continues to impress the music world with each subsequent appearance and is well on her way to a successful musical career.

Following an audition, Sir George SOLTI, immediately engaged Miss Krausz for a European tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich to interpret Bartok's Concerto N03

In the last interview he gave to the English magazine «Classic FM», he specifically mentioned Adrienne KRAUSZ as a young pianist for which he was «... extremely enthusiastic, and expressed his wish to help Adrienne Krausz...» Consequently, Sir George Solti introduced Miss Krausz to the Chimay Competition in Brussels where she won 1st prize by unanimous decision of the jury. She was the only pianist to be invited to perform in the tree Tributes given to George Solti presented in Rome and London last October and in February 98 in London.

She will been invited at the Barbican Center in London to play the Rachmaninov 2d piano concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra last April.

In 1989, following her First-Prize performance at the Cincinnati International Piano Competition, Adrienne Krausz was soon booked for several American engagements, including her New York debut at the Lincoln Center.

A finalist at the Piano Masters of Monte-Carlo in both 1992 and 1993, she has been the

First-Prize recipient at numerous competitions : the Juventus and the Sydney International Piano

Competitions (1988), the European Competition in Frankfurt (1987), the Senigallia Competition

(1985), and the Hungarian National Competition in Tarhos (1984)...

Adrienne KRAUSZ performs throughout Europe and the United States, notably, at the Schauspielhaus theater in Berlin, New York's Carnegie Hall, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, and with such renowned artists as Youri BASHMET at the Mermoz Music Festival on the Sea and frequently with Shiomo

MINTZ.

She is frequently invited to music festivals throughout France and abroad, such as those of Lille, Montpellier, Dijon, Menton, the Flanenes Musicales of Reims, the Printemps of Monte-Carlo, the Festival of Mexico... Loyal to her native country, she is often invited to Hungary to give recitals and for concert recordings with the Hungarian Radio and Television networks.

A graduate in 1990 of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, and of the European Conservatories, Adrienne Krausz studied with Yvonne LEFEBURE, Theodore PARASCIVESCO and, in Paris, with Dominique MERLET and Livia REV.

Born in Hungary in 1967, Adrienne Krausz began to play the piano at the age of nine.