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Piano Duo – Paraphrase on the Blue Danube Waltz by Chasins

The husband and wife team, Attila Pertis and Monika Egri play the Paraphrase on the Blue Danube Waltz by Chasins on the 105 years old Pleyel Double Grand Piano … Live at the Godollo Royal Palace in Hungary. About the Duo Egri & Pertis: A number of lucky coincidences helped to form The Egri & Pertis Duo, starting with the fact that its members – Monika Egri and Attila Pertis – were both born in the city of Budapest. Later – again by chance – they found themselves in the same class in the Bartok Conservatory of Music. Here they both discovered in each other a kindred spirit in both personal and musical ways. After their studies in Budapest were over, it was no longer by chance that they refined their skills with the same teacher at the Vienna Music Academy, Professor Heinz Medjimorec, pianist of the Vienna Haydn Trio. In 1994/95, they attained their second diploma and the title of Magister artium at the Piano Faculty’s Concert Section. In addition to their solo studies and first competition successes (Marsala, Paris, Dublin, etc.), their duo career soon began to flourish. This was first displayed at the “Hungarian Days” organized by the London Barbican Centre in 1989. Their first joint competition victory gave further impetus to their career at the International Two-Piano Competition held in Finale Ligure, Italy, in 1990. The jury gave them a special award for the best performance of a contemporary piece. Since then they have given regular concerts in Hungary and abroad …