Rita Papp

Rita Papp obtained her degree as a pianist at the Academy of Music, Budapest as a student of Anikó Szegedi in 1990 then received a diploma as a harpsichordist in 1996 as a student of János Sebestyén. She pursued postgraduate studies in early music in Dresden with John Toll, then went on to study the fortepiano in the Leipzich College of Music where she was also awarded with a summa cum laude degree in harpsichord in 2000 as a student of Christine Schornsheim. She has taken part in master courses led by Imre Rohmann, Huguette Dreyfus, Jacques Ogg and Andreas Staier. In 1995, at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, Belgium, she was awarded with a special prize, and at an International Bach Competition held in Paris she won first prize and the audience award. Currently she teaches piano and harpsichord at the Secondary School of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary. She has featured on a large number of CD recordings; she appears on stage in Hungary and aboard both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She has performed with the Orfeo Ensemble, the MDR Orchestra of Leipzich, the Dresden Philharmonics led by Jeffrey Tate and she has played in the Berlin Radio. She was a founding member of Benedek Csalog's Capella Esterházy and has performed in concerts and on CDs with the Bratislava-based early music ensemble, Solamente Naturali. She teaches piano and harpsichord at national summer courses and accompanies on the harpsichord at several international baroque master courses; she has worked with Barthold Kuijken and Anneke Boeke at the Sopron Early Music Festival.