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The Romanian pianist and music pedagogue, Judit [Judith] Gabos [Gábos], studied at the George Dima Music Academy, graduated as a piano artist-teacher in 1980. Her most important teachers were: György Sava, Harald Enghiurliu, Ferdinand Weiss.
Until 1991 Judit Gabos lived in Romania, playing solo recitals and chamber music in the most prestigious concert halls of the country (Bucharest Athenaeum and other locations), performing as a soloist with several orchestras (Cluj, Targu-Mures, Brasov, Arad, Oradea, Constantza), playing at festivals (Cluj, Arad, Ramnicu-Valcea), premiering contemporary works (Zoltan Aladar, Kozma Matyas), appearing on radio and television; in 1985, being awarded 1st prize at the National George Dima Piano Competition in Cluj. From 1980 to 1991 she was piano teacher at the Arts School of Targu-Mures, and also as pianist in the orchestra in Targu-Mures, at the Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 1991, Judit Gabos has been living in Hungary, continuing her performing career. She is piano professor (since 1991) and head of the music department (since 2004) of Eszterházy Károly University of Eger. In 2003: she received her DMA in Piano Performance from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and in 2012 obtained a habilitation also in Piano Performance from the Liszt Academy. Between 2000-2006, as the artist of the Hungarian Radio, she played numerous live solo and chamber music recitals. She frequently performed and still performs at the Liszt Museum in Budapest (almost every year, since 2000) and played at the Spring Festival of Budapest (2003, 2006), Pecs (2005) and Eger (since 2006, annually).
From 2003 to 2008, Judit Gabos taught and performed at the Summer Chamber Music Academy at Farnières (Belgium). In Europe played numerous concerts in Belgium, Finland, Serbia, Spain, Turkey. They recorded two CD's with Belgian violist Jacques Dupriez (Russian Dreams: Glinka, Prokofiev, Skriabin, Straninsky; Romantic Dreams: Liszt-Berlioz, Paganini).
As for her interest in contemporary music, Judit Gabos premiered the following works: Sonata Grande (viola & piano) by Gyorgy Orban, with Jacques Dupriez; Triptique by Frederic van Rossum for viola & piano (also with J. Dupriez), Laszlo Katai: Piano Concerto No. 1, with Eger Symphony Orchestra and Mate Szabo Sipos; Sukma, for piano and orchestra, by Budhi Ngurah, with ISI Symphony and Sandor Kabdebo.
In the USA: Judit Gabos was visiting faculty at the University of Minnesota (Duluth) in 1993 and Valdosta State University (Georgia) in 2002, gave concerts in Duluth, Minneapolis, Wisconsin (1993). She toured the south-east of the USA in 2001, 2002, 2006. In 2011: she was visiting Fulbright Professor at the School of Music of the University of South Carolina. While her Fulbright period, she played recitals in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco), Cleveland (Ohio), Valdosta. Atlanta (Georgia), Columbia (South Carolina) and performed as a soloist with orchestras from North and South Carolina; in March 2013 she played on recital in New York. In 2015, in honor of Béla Bartók 70 anniversary, she toured the USA and Canada, giving solo performances “Two Portraits” (New York, Sarasota, Ottawa, Toronto). In 2016, she was re-invited to Canada (recitals in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) and again in 2019 (recitals).
In September 2013, Judit Gabos played with the orchestra of ISI Seni Indonesia, in Yogyakarta (Indonesia). She toured extensively in India in November 2016 (Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Moussouri). As for South-America, in May 2014 she toured Brazil and played solo recitals (Belo Horizonte) and solo and four-hands recitals with Claudia Deltregia in Santa Maria and Florianópolis. In October 2017, she was re-invited to Brazil, to play at the 4th Piano Festival in Natal. In 2018, she was the guest of New Zealand University of Music in Wellington, where she gave master-classes and played recitals solo and 4-hands.
Since living in Hungary, Judit Gabos continued performing in Romania, playing recitals in Cluj, Targu-Mures and mainly with the State Philharmonic of Targu-Mures (2006, 2010, 2013, 2015). |
