A member of the teaching staff of the Liszt Academy in Budapest since 1976, the Hungarian harpist Nóra Mercz was educated at the same Liszt Academy with a further period of study in Russia. She enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist both in Hungary and abroad and in 1992 established the Hungarian Harp Centre, where she devotes much energy to the collection, performance and publication of works for harp written by Hungarian composers.