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At the age of 10, Tamás Ungár emigrated from Hungary to Australia, where he studied under Alexander Sverjensky at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Subsequently, he studied with Lajos Hernádi at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and with György Sebök at Indiana University.

After performing and teaching in London for some years, Tamás Ungár was appointed to the music faculty of the University of California, at San Diego. In 1978 he was invited to his present position as Professor of Music in piano at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

As the first performing musician ever to receive the coveted British Leverhulme Fellowship, Tamás served as Artist-in-Residence at York University (1984-85). He fulfilled concerto, recital and chamber music guest engagements throughout the United Kingdom.

He is the Founder-Director of PianoTexas (formerly the TCU Cliburn Piano Institute), which over the course of 25 years, has not only become the foremost organisation of its kind in the world but stimulated similar programmes elsewhere--particularly in the Far East.

In a concentrated 4-week period each year, PianoTexas offers individual tuition, master classes, concert and chamber music experience to selected young musicians.