Alina Horváth

Hungarian pianist Alina Horváth is the recipient of the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano. She is also the winner of the ‘Music without borders’ International Contemporary Music Competition including the Audience Award, the Governors’ Recital Prize and the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music. She has been a concerto soloist with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Symphony and Wind Orchestras, and a recitalist in many concert halls and music festivals across the UK and Hungary. Among other prestigious venues her voice and piano duo has performed at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Aberdeen Music Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

As part of the research project ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21th Century’ she played virginal and pianoforte on the recordings of The Centre of Robert Burns Studies, producing a multi-volume edition of Robert Burns’s work published by Oxford University Press. Her love of music is not only dedicated to performances, but she is also an enthusiastic teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Conservatoire and accompanist at the National Youth Choir of Scotland. On her vacation Alina enjoys teaching the piano at the international Allegro Summer Camp held annually at the spectacular lake Balaton in Hungary.