Hungarian pianist, Alina Horváth studied piano with Jonathan Plowright, Petras Geniusas (piano) and Jan Waterfield (harpsichord) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) where she gained a First Class BMus degree with Honours and graduated from the MMus course in 2017.

She is the winner of the ‘Music without borders’ International Contemporary Music Competition and Audience Award (2009), 2nd Prize at the Hungarian National High School Competition of Chamber Music in Hungary. She got Highly Commended at the Ian D Watt Prize (2011), Tony and Tania Webster Prize (2012), Peter Lindsay Miller Prize for Piano Duo (2012), Concerto Competition (2014) and won the Governors' Recital Prize for Chamber Music (2015) with the Zengő Piano Trio which also has been awarded the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music. In 2013, she participated and played orchestral piano in the Britten 100 Celebration Project with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Alina performed as a soloist with the RCS Wind Orchestra in the Scottish Concert Band Festival in 2014. In the same year she got a great opportunity to perform Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos as a soloist in front of the RCS Symphony Orchestra and was awarded with the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano.

As a member of the RCS Baroque Ensemble she played continuo in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in March, 2015. She has performed in various concert halls and music festivals such as Budapest Spring Festival (2007), RCS Piano and Plug Festivals (2012-17), Glasgow Piano Festival at the Royal Concert Hall, Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Westbourne Music at The Merchants House in Glasgow (2015), the Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh (2016) and the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh (2017). She is a pianist on the Live Music Now Scotland young artist scheme, working with singers: Jessica Eccleston - Mezzo-soprano (Aleatoric Junction), Sarah Pistorius - Mezzo-soprano (Alla Voce Duo) and Barbara Cole Walton - Soprano, giving concerts and workshops across the UK. Her love of music is not only dedicated to performances, but she is also an enthusiastic teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Junior Conservatoire) and the accompanist at the National Youth Choir of Scotland, East Dunbartonshire Boys Area Choir.

Qualifications:

 

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2011-2017) - Bachelor of Music (Bachelors) with the Honours of the First Class Degree, MMus Performance

NYCoS Kodály Summer School (2014)

Béla Bartók Conservatoire, Budapest (2011) - Piano Performance / Music Theory / Choir Conducting

 

PVG Scheme Member