Biography
The identical twins Peter and Zoltán Katona were born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968.
From the age of ten they studied, both individually and as a guitar duo, at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music in Budapest, the Academy of Music in Kassel, and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Tanz (Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts), in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. They also studied under Michael Lewin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Celebrated artists in their own right today, the twins in turn give masterclasses to younger musicians.
They made their Carnegie Hall debut in 1998. The Katona Twins have toured widely, playing in Ireland; they have played at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and at the Cheltenham International Music Festival in 2004, with the London Sinfonietta. Michael Berkeley composed a double concerto for performance by the twins there. Their concert schedule for 2007 included venues in Japan, France, Germany, and the United States.
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