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Károly Binder started his classical music studies at the age of five and got a diploma in piano and composition at the Jazz Faculty of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is presently Head of Faculty there. He is a well-known performing and recording artist both in Hungary and internationally. He has given concerts and held workshops in London (Royal Festival Hall), Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Cologne, Vienna, Athens, Ankara, Cairo, Duisburg, Essen, Freeburg, etc. He won both the International Jazz Piano Competition in Kalisz in 1981 and the Hungarian Radio Grand Prix in 1986 with a work entitled Kontinentspiel. He also received the eMeRTon Prize as the Pianist of the Year in 1989 and made his first recording for two pianos in the same year in Hungary. His CD Dance Music was Record of the Year in 1991. He has appeared on radio and television and has written the scores for a number of motion pictures and productions for the theatre. He has also composed more than a hundred pieces for piano, orchestra and chamber ensemble. Binder was awarded with the Erkel Prize in 2003. He's been awarded with Artisjus Prize in 2017. In 2024, he was awarded the Prize of Merited Artist of Hungary and the Bartók Radio's György Vukan Jazz Prize.