A
major landmark in her career came in 1983 when she won a prize
at the International Harpsichord Competition in Brugge, Belgium,
to which she was invited back as a jury member in 2001. With
her leadership the harpsichord faculty in Szeged department
of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy came into existence. She
has held harpsichord courses on several occasions in Hungary,
in Belorussia and in Norway. She is a teacher at the annual
early music course „Brillamment Baroque” in Thoiry
(France) together with the gamba virtuoso José Vázquez,
who possesses an internationally famous collection of instruments;
they also tour Europe with a travelling exhibition.
She plays regularly
at the world’s leading festivals, and has performed at
the Budapest Spring Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Bergen
Festival and the Concentus Moraviae. Although Borbála
Dobozy’s central focus in her activities as a musician
is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, her repertoire embraces
the entire harpsichord literature, including works contemporary
composers. Several Hungarian composers – György
Arányi-Aschner, Árpád Balázs, Frigyes
Hidas – have written pieces especially for her. She has
given concerts in most countries of Europe as well as the United
States and has made radio/TV recordings and CDs. Her record
of works by Gottlieb Theophil Muffat (Componimenti musicali)
won the renowned the German Record Critics’s award in
Hamburg in 1992.
She is a founding member
of the Hungarian Bach Society and president of its Foundation.
She
is invited by "Festes de thalie" since 2004 |