Katona Twins
Guitar Duo
| Current recipients of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, the Hungarian born Katona Twins, Peter
and Zoltán, have given recitals throughout the world including performances at the Carnegie Hall in New York; the Suntory Hall in
Tokyo; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London; the Forbidden City in Beijing;
Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Philharmonie in Cologne. The twins have won numerous prizes, both individually and together and in 1998 they won the Concert Artists Guild Competition held in |
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New York thereby securing management throughout the USA; tours soon followed as did their Carnegie Hall debut. In 1997 they were winners at the Young Concert Artist Trust auditions in London and that brought with it London based worldwide management; in the same year they successfully auditioned for the Park Lane contemporary music group. Earlier in their careers the twins won the S.T. Johnson Foundation prize in 1995 and The Laura Ashley prize in 1996. In 1993 they won first prize at the most prestigious guitar duo competition in Montelimar, France. In the same year Peter & Zoltán won first prize at the international guitar duo competition held in Bubenreuth, Germany and were awarded the Cultural Prize of the City of Kassel, Germany. |
| The wide repertoire of the duo spans from Scarlatti to Piazzolla’s tango music. Their programmes
also include concertos for two guitars and orchestra by Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Bach and Tedesco. Michael Berkeley, Judith Bingham,
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and several other contemporary composers have written for and dedicated works to the Katona Twins;
as the result of a YCAT commission, Michael Berkeley composed a double concerto for performance by the twins with the
London Sinfonietta at the 2004 Cheltenham International Music Festival. From the age of ten the twins have studied both individually and as a guitar duo in Budapest, Frankfurt and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. During their studies their teachers included Julian Bream and John Williams. The Katona Twins have broadcast frequently for the BBC and other international television and radio stations. Their five CDs include music by Scarlatti, Handel, Rodrigo, Albéniz, Granados, de Falla, Mozart and Piazolla. Their recording of Rodrigo’s Concierto Madrigal was editor’s choice in Gramophone Magazine. |
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