Artists biographies
István Dominkó

István Dominkó, pianist, was born in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary in 1971. He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 1996 where he studied with Edit Hambalkó, Kornél Zempléni and Márta Gulyás. Since then he is a piano professor at the Music Department of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the leader of the piano faculty at the Egressy Béni Conservatory of Music. After a profound research he got his doctorate in piano (Doctor of Liberal Arts) in 2008, the title of his dissertation: Memoirs for my children - Robert Schumann’s Jugendalbum.

He is the artistic leader of the HÍD (Bridge) Chamber Ensemble and one of the founder artists of the Crescendo con Spirito Summer Institute of the Arts in Sárospatak where he has given masterclasses since 2004. Besides his pedagogical and scholarly work he is active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the native country and Europe, performs regularly in the Budapest Spring Festival and the Zempléni Festival, numerous of his concerts was broadcast by the Hungarian Radio.