Martin Tchiba

Born in Budapest in 1982; Martin Tchiba has lived in Germany since 1985 and works as a pianist and composer. He studied at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and the Kalaidos Musikhochschule Zürich and was a piano pupil of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover. He received scholarships from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the DAAD as well as, in 2018, the Förderpreis für Musik der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. He has played in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in the Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall and in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. He gave the premieres of works by György Kurtag and Sarah Nemtsov; in programmes of his own he combines contemporary music with classical and romantic repertoire. His recordings have appeared on Naxos and Challenge Classics; in 2021 he released an album of electroacoustic compositions.