Péter Nagy, born in 1960, is one of the youngest representatives of a new internationally recognized generation of Hungarian pianists. His extraordinary musical talent was evident from childhood. At the age of eight, he was admitted to the Special School for Young Talents of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Ferenc Rados and Klára Máthé. In 1971, he won second prize at the Ústí nad Labem International Competition.

In 1975, he entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a regular student and during that time attended master classes with Amadeus Webersinke and Malcolm Bilson. In 1979, he was awarded first prize in the Hungarian Radio Competition. In 1981, he completed his studies with distinction in the class of Kornél Zempléni. In 2001, he received the prestigious Franz Liszt Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Hungary.

His international career began in 1977 with successful performances in Finland, Yugoslavia, and Salzburg (1979). He debuted in France in 1979 at the Menton Festival and was celebrated as a young soloist at the Bordeaux Festival in 1980.

In 1984, he began postgraduate studies in the United States with Professor György Sebök.
His concerts around the world have taken him to, among other places, Australia (at the Sydney Opera House), the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, and various cities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Yokohama, and Sapporo.

He has performed as a soloist with groups such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Hungarian State Orchestra, and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, he has participated in prominent festivals in Athens, Båstad, Blonay, Davos, Edinburgh, Turku, Moritzburg, Stockholm, and Helsinki, as well as the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Marlboro Music Festival. Péter Nagy regularly collaborates with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and, in recent years, has given duo recitals with violist Kim Kashkashian in Europe and the United States.

He has recorded numerous solo and chamber music works for the Hungaroton, Delos, Naxos, BIS, and ECM labels.

Nagy is Director of the Keyboard Department at the Doctoral School of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he has been teaching since 1987 and where he directed the piano department from 2007 to 2011. He is also Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.