Márta Gulyás

Born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1953, she began her piano lessons at the age of five in Hungary. Gulyás studied in Budapest at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with István Lantos and Erzsebet Tuse. After graduating, she received a scholarship to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with the renowned pianist and professor Dmitri Bashkirov. During her career, she has received the Hungarian Culture Award in 1985, the Ferenc Liszt Award in 1998, and, in 2024, the Medal of Honor from the Albéniz Foundation for her contribution to the Santander International Piano Competition, the Reina Sofía School of Music, and the Santander Music and Academy Encounter. Likewise, she has performed in numerous cities and festivals around the world.
In recent years, Márta Gulyás has focused her interest on chamber music. She has made appearances with Vilmos Szabadi, Denes Kovács, Miklós Perényi, Csaba Onczay, Daniel Shafran, Gérard Caussé, Gustav Rivinius, Guy Deplus, Michaela Martin, Péter Csaba, García Asensio, Frans Helmerson, Christoph Henkel, among many others; and has made recordings with the labels Hungaroton (Hungary) and Biblioservice (Netherlands).
She often gives master classes in Finland (Riihimäki, Lohja), Sweden (Gothenburg), Italy (Bergamo, Imola), Spain (Santander, Ávila, Salamanca), Greece (Athens), Germany (Weimar, Pommersfelden) and Hungary (Keszthely). Márta Gulyás is currently a tenured professor in the Chamber Music Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Budapest, as well as head of the Piano Groups Department of the International Chamber Music Institute of Madrid. Since the 2024-2025 academic year, she has also been the Artistic Director of the Santander Music and Academy Encounter, together with Luis Fernando Pérez.