Jenő Jandó is one of the most prolific artists in the history of classical music recording. He is also one of its most appreciated and admired. Jenő Jandó is a professor at the Liszt Academy Budapest. The Hungarian pianist has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. He has recorded for Naxos all the piano concertos and sonatas of Mozart. Other recordings for Naxos include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the complete piano sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven, the complete piano music of Bartók, and a wide repertoire of chamber music.
Born in Pecs, a quiet town in southern Hungary, Jenő Jandó was taught piano by his mother before undertaking formal study of the instrument at the Liszt Academy, under the nurturing scrutiny of Katalin Nemes and Paul Kadosa. After graduation, Jandó had a series of successes in major international competitions, including the Cziffra and Ciani Piano Competitions, yet he himself believes his professional career really began when he took third prize at the Beethoven Piano Competition at the age of 18.
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