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
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