Nicolas Horvath

Pianist Nicolas Horvath specializes in contemporary music and especially in the large works and cycles of Philip Glass and Erik Satie. Horvath has frequently commissioned new music and is responsible for the creation of some 200 works. Horvath was born on August 11, 1977, in Monaco. At age ten, he was chosen for a program founded by Monaco's Princess Grace for musically gifted children. Soon, Horvath had won the Academie de Musique Prince Rainier III Prize, with unanimous support from the jury. While competing in that event, he was noticed by conductor Lawrence Foster, who ar...