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Presented by Kleurmusik
Renowned Hungarian pianist, Peter Toth, returns to Carmel to perform works by Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Bartok.
Tickets: $25 General admission; $10 children K-12. Tickets are available at Bookmark Music (307 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove), by calling (831) 624-4905, and at the door.
Peter Toth's performances have earned him an international reputation as an artist of great sensitivity, elegance, and imagination. He is a regular guest artist at various international music festivals, such as the American Liszt Society Festival and Festival Musizque en Vallee du Tarn in France. He was invited to serve on the jury panel of the Franz Liszt International Piano and Voice Competition in Los Angeles (2014), and also adjudicated at the Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition in Baltimore in October, 2015.
Mr. Toth has won top prizes at numerous piano competitions, such as the American Paderewski Piano Competition (2013), the Franz Liszt International Piano and Voice Competition in Los Angeles (2010), the Franz Liszt International Piano Competitions in Budapest (2001) and Weimar (2000). His first released CD recording won the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Liszt Society (2006). He also won a special award for the best performance of a major romantic work at the Southern Highland International Piano Competition in Australia (2011).
He currently lives in the United States, where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Texas at Austin. In 201, he joined the piano faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey.