KISS, ANDRAS
András Kiss, violin
András Kiss was born in Budapest in 1943 and started violin lessons
at the age of six. He studied at the Bartók Conservatory, and from 1960
at the Liszt Academy, where his teacher was Tibor Ney. A postgraduate scholarship
enabled him to undertake further study under M. Vayman at the Leningrad Conservatory.
A prize-winner in the Leipzig International Bach Competition in 1968, András
Kiss was appointed in the same year to the staff of the Liszt Academy, where
he continues to teach. As a performer he appears regularly in Hungary and has
toured extensively in East and West Europe, the United States and Canada.
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