Zsuzsanna Sirokay
Zsuzsanna Sirokay is a Hungarian pianist and lives in Switzerland. She passed her education with Professor Péter Solymos at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Budapest with distinction. Besides studies with György Kurtág she attended master courses with Alfred Brendel, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus and Géza Anda.
Sirokay was a finalist at the Concours Clara Haskil in Lucerne 1967 and 1969, and won competitions held in Leeds and Vienna. She has undertaken concert tours and broadcast on radio throughout much of Europe
The second of Cornelius Cardew's Three Winter Potatoes for solo piano is dedicated to her.Recordings
- W. A. Mozart, Klavierkonzert A-Dur KV 488 and C-Dur KV 415, Hungaroton
- Béla Bartók, Klavierwerke, Jecklin
Chamber music:
- «Romantische Klarinettenmusik»: Norbert Burgmüller, Niels Wilhelm Gade, Charles Villiers Stanford, Jecklin
- «Musik aus der Blütezeit des Bassethorns»: Franz Danzi, Alois Beerhalter, Jecklin
- «The Virtuoso Flute»: F. Kuhlau, F. Ries, C. Czerny, Bernhard Molique, Jecklin
- «Virtuose Klarinettenmusik der Romantik II»: Boieldieu, Cavallini, Ponchielli, Rossini and others, Jecklin
- Johannes Brahms, Sonatas Op. 120 F-Moll and Es-Dur, Angelicum
- Friedrich Kuhlau, 2 Sonatas A-Moll Op. 85 and Es-Moll Op. 64, Claves
