The pianist Sándor Falvay was born in 1949 at Ozd, in Northern Hungary,
and studied at Miskolc Conservatory before becoming a pupil of Mihály
Bächer at the Liszt Academy in Budapest in 1967. After graduation in 1972
he went to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, returning the following year
to Budapest, where he joined the teaching staff of the Academy. Sándor
Falvay has performed in Eastern and Western Europe both as a recitalist and,
notably, as soloist with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra during a concert tour
of West Germany.