József Örmény (born 1960) is a Ukrainian pianist of Hungarian origin. He is mostly known for performing 20th-century music including Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alfred Schnittke and Ukrainian composers Yevhen Stankovych, Valentin Silvestrov, and others. He was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, and he was also in close creative relationship with the Polish composer , who wrote five of his piano concerti for Örmény.
Early life József Örmény was educated at the Lviv Conservatory, where he studied with Maria Krushelnytska and afterwards at Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Yevgeny Malinin.Yozef Örmény's bio at Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra site (in Ukrainian), retrieved 27.03.2011.
Career Today, he is a professor in Lviv Conservatory and an active piano performer.Yakym Horak's article about József Örmény at Postup magazine (in Ukrainian), retrieved 27.03.2011.
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