Miklos Spanyi

About this artist

Born: May 2, 1962 - Budapest, Hungary

The Hungarian organist, harpsichordist and pianist, Miklos Mikael Spanyi, studied harpsichord and organ at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy with Ferenc Gergely and Janos Sebestyen. He continued his studies at the Royal Flemish Conservatory (Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium) in Antwerpen with Jos van Immerseel and at the Hochschule fur Music in Munich with Hedwig Bilgram. He has won the first prize at international harpsichord competitions in Nantes (1984) and Paris (1987).

Miklos Spanyi has given concerts in most European countries as a solist on five different historical keyboard instruments (organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, tangent piano), as well as playing continuo with various chamber groups and baroque orchestras. He has been artistic director of the Hungarian Baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico, founded in 1983. He has an extensive discography: he recorded for different labels both as a solist and with his orchestra.