Sándor Falvai was born in Ózd, Hungary, in 1949. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy
of Music in Budapest, with Professor Mihály Bächer, and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
in Moscow, under the guidance of Victor Merzsanov and Margareta Fjodorova. After returning to Hungary, his international career began. Falvai has presented recitals in almost all of the great concert halls of Europe (including in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Prague, Helsinki, Thessaloniki and Munich); in New York’s Carnegie Hall; in Tokyo, Morocco, Tunisia, and Canada; and has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras under conductors including Kobajashi Kenichiro, Mariss Jansons, Tamás Vásáry, Milan Horvath, Günter Herbig, János Ferencsik, and Kazuo Yamada. A keen chamber musician, he has performed with many fine ensembles and associate artists, including János Starker, the Bartók String Quartet, and Dénes Kovács. With more than 30 records and CDs to his name, his recorded output includes traditional
solo repertoire such as the Concertos, Sonatas, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Nocturnes and Valses
of Chopin; the Sonatas of Haydn; Concertos of Brahms; Sonatas of Schumann; and the Impromptus of Schubert etc.; along with chamber music by Brahms with the Bartók String Quartet; a two-piano version of Scriabin’s Symphony № 3 (Le Divin Poème); and chamber works by Arvo Pärt and Kurt Atterberg.
