Pannon Philharmonic

Gábor Csalog was admitted to the Special Talents Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest at the age of 11. His teachers were Erna Czövek, Dezső Ránki, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág and András Schiff.

After completing his studies he was assistant to György Sebők at Indiana University in the United States. He often plays contemporary music, and has a constant working relationship with many Hungarian composers, including László Sáry and Gyula Csapó.

Since 1980 he has studied and worked with György Kurtág, of whose works he is an authentic performer, and of which he has given several premiers. Besides Hungary, he has given recitals in almost every country in Europe and in the United States. He has played with Miklós Perényi, András Keller, Boris Pergamenchikov, Heinz Holliger.

As an editor for Könemann Music Budapest he has made the new Urtext edition of Chopin’s complete piano works. He teaches chamber music and piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

In 2003 he was awarded the Liszt Prize.

He has participated in many recordings, most recently on solo piano discs released by BMC Records: Schubert (BMC CD 84), Ligeti / Liszt (BMC CD 095), Scriabin (BMC CD 099). He is the performer of the edition of György Kurtág’s Games (BMC CD 123, BMC CD 139), released for the composer’s 80th birthday.