Edit Klukon was born in Budapest, studied at the Liszt Academy of Music, her professor was Pál Kadosa. Worked with many great singers, like Dénes Gulyás, László Polgár, Lucia Popp, Ruth Ziesak, and she played most of the large song repertory from Mozart  through Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, R. Strauss to Wolf, performing in many Europian cities beside the concerts in Hungary. She plays more and more solo piano works as well, especially Liszt and Haydn. Her most recent appearances include Haydn’s „The Seven Last Word Of our Redeemer” for piano at the Budapest Musicacademy, and a whole Liszt soloprogramme in Nantes.

Dezső Ránki, also born and studied in Budapest, began his international career when he won the Schumann International Piano Competition in Germany in 1969. Since getting that price he has been giving concerts regularly in most of the Europian countries, America and Japan. Beside the recitals he has played with many great orchestras, like the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the Concertgebouw, the NHK under conductors like Maazel, Mehta, Solti, Kondrashin.

Edit Klukon and Dezső Ránki started to play together in 1985. Learned and performed most of the piano-duo works of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Grieg, Bartók etc. Extremely interesting production were for example Liszt’s first (still unpublished) two-piano version of his own Faust-symphony, and Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9. in the famous transcription made by Liszt for two pianos. They played in many cities Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen. The artists give a lot of recitals in their homeland, Hungary, and performed in many other countries as well. A few cities for instance:  Salzburg, Torino, Milano, Munich, Paris, London, Lisbon, the Festival in Lucerne, Las Palmas, São Paulo. Their last published CD-s feature works of Satie and Liszt, and two-piano pieces of Barnabás Dukay – contemporary Hungarian composer – who’s  music is played very frequently by them, for instance in London, Washington and France. The duo’s most recent performances took place in London, Rome, Paris and Tokyo. Last year they performed several times the 3-piano concertos of Bach together with Fülöp Ránki, their son. At the moment the composer’s two-piano version of Dante Symphony by Liszt is their newest production, and a whole duo programme with works of Erik Satie, celebrating his 150^th birthday.