Miklos Spanyi

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Miklós Spányi is a Hungarian organist and harpsichordist born in Budapest. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in his native city with Ferenc Gergely and János Sebestyén. He continued his studies at the Royal Flemish Conservatory (Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium) in Antwerp with Jos Van Immerseel and at the Hochschule für Music in Munich with Hedwig Bilgram.

Spányi has won first prizes at international harpsichord competitions in Nantes (1984) and Paris (1987). He has given concerts in most European countries as a soloist on five historical keyboard instruments (organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, tangent piano) as well as playing continuo with various chamber music groups and orchestras. He has been the artistic director of the Hungarian baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico since its foundation in 1983. He has recorded an extensive discography for different labels as a soloist and with orchestra. Between 2006 and 2009 Miklós Spányi was the artistic director of the Finnish early music group Ensemble OpusX. Currently he is also member and artistic director of Ensemble Mimage.

For some years Miklós Spányi’s work as a performer and researcher has been focused on the oeuvre of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Today he is one of the world’s most acknowledged C.P.E. Bach scholars and performers.

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