Biography
Biography – Aron Rozsa
Described as a pianist of ‘vigour and conviction’ with ‘formidable technical command’ by Ron Schepper of Textura Magazine, and of having a ‘sensitivity to contrasts of dynamics and colors and stylish phrasing’ which is ‘both technically arresting and musically gratifying’ by Ken Meltzer of Fanfare Magazine (USA), Aron Rozsa has recently performed recitals throughout China, in venues including The Oriental Arts Centre, Shanghai – for the 2021 Chamber Concerts Series, the Tianjin Grand Theatre and Changsha Concert Hall, amongst others. Mr. Rozsa will continue to with concert engagements in China, including a two week tour of major southern cities in the summer of 2022.
Mr. Rozsa was also a guest artist of the 2023 Shanghai International Piano Festival and Academy.
Education
Aron Rozsa was born in 1983 in Hungary and moved to Great Britain at the age of six. Shortly after this he commenced his musical education. In 2001 Mr. Rozsa commenced his studies at the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he studied with Mark Ray and Alexander Melnikov, completing his Bachelor of Music degree in 2005.
Aron Rozsa then won a place at the Royal College of Music in London, where he completed his Master of Music Degree in Advanced Performance in 2007, studying with John Byrne.
Aron Rozsa has participated in masterclasses with such artists as Anne Queffelec, Imre Rohmann, Barry Snyder, Daniel Hoexter, Tamas Vesmas, Stephen Savage and Balazs Szokolay.
Aron Rozsa has also been fortunate to receive the guidance of Madame Seidlhofer in Vienna and Dame Noretta Conci in London.
Competitions & Awards
In 2002 Aron Rozsa won second prize in the Leo Weiner/Contemporary Hungarian Music competition held as part of the Pro Musica Balassagyarmat International Festival and a year later was invited to perform in the closing concert of the Baja Pro Musica International Festival.
In the same year he was a laureate of the 1st Bela Bartok International Piano Competition in Szeged, Hungary and in June of 2006 was a semi-finalist in the 5th Adilia Alieva International Piano Competition in Gaillard, France, where he was one of the seven competitors who gave the premier of a new work – ‘A la pizzicato’ by Rodion Shchedrin.
In December 2007, Aron was one of the three Prize Winners of the 15th Vienna International Music Competition, held at the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna. As a result of this, Mr. Rozsa recorded a CD and DVD album of piano works by Liszt, Bach-Busoni and Jean-Frederic Perrenoud at the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, for the Swiss-based IPA label – released in 2009.
Aron Rozsa was a national finalist of the BBC Fame Academy Bursary Awards 2007.
He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Reiche Memorial Scholarship 2005, one of the prestigious 2009 awards from the Sir George Solti Foundation and 1st Prize winner of the 2020 Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition, which led to a performance at the Salzburg Mozart Stiftung – Wiener Saal.
Concerts & Performances
Aron Rozsa has performed throughout Great Britain and Hungary and in 2005 performed in the Sculptors in Sound – piano music of Beethoven and Tippett festival in Manchester. In the same year, he appeared alongside the pianist Andrew Wilde, in a joint recital for Music at Sine Nomine.
Other engagements include recitals at the Wells Cathedral School in Somerset, the Warehouse in London – for the Park Lane Group Composer’s Symposium, Ealing Chopin Festival, and a recital for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.
Mr. Rozsa has given recitals at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London for the ‘Pianists of the World’ recital series, the Wiener Musik Akademie International Recital Series, and with the Chinese Baritone Yuan Guangqua at the Yiwu Cultural Center in China.
Upcoming Projects
In May of 2021, Aron Rozsa will release a solo album on the US/Spanish based Orpheus Classics record label, with the generous support of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, featuring piano works by Beethoven and the British composer Michael Finnissy, amongst others.