Piano Master Class with Suzana Bartal

Suzana Bartal visits Levine for a special master class featuring advanced Levine piano students.

The French-Hungarian pianist moved to France in 2005, where she studied in Paris and Lyon at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. She then studied at Yale University, where she obtained her doctorate in performance. She has established herself as one of the foremost pianists of her generation. The Bonner Anzeiger has hailed her playing as “brilliant, full of shades and virtuosic.”

Winner of the prestigious New York Concert Artists Concerto Competition in 2013, Suzana has performed in prestigious venues such as the Paris Philharminie, Auditorium Radio France, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Merkin Hall New York, and Milton Court London. Her recording of Liszt’s complete “Années de pèlerinage” for Naïve has received critical acclaim and a prize from the Liszt Society Budapest. Suzana’s latest recording of Eric Tanguy’s music on Warner/Erato won the Diapason d’Or of the Year 2022.

She currently serves on the faculty of Ecole Normale de Musique Paris. She is also active as a chamber musician, performing with great cellists such as Henri Demarquette, István Várdai, and Alexandra Soumm. In 2022, she was invited to serve on the jury of the prestigious Liszt Utrecht competition. In addition, she has been the artistic director of the Festival Piano à Riom since 2020.

Presented in partnership with the French-American Piano Society.