Peter Toperczer

„Toperczer is a prominent and internationally renowned representative of Slovak piano art. Though wielding a never-failing technical background, he intentionally avoids works with obvious virtuoso glitter. He is a modern-type artist, who holds the performed author in great esteem. His style is devoid of artiness, mannerism, and is rather simple and straightforward, unifying all elements of the piano performance in an ideal high-level synthesis. He keeps a distance and has a unique sense for the build-up of a logical construction of a music piece. His gradations sound natural, radiating tension, inner energy, intellect and carefully chosen dosing of emotions - nevertheless, without conflict-yielding emotional peaks. The exterior impression he conveys is very calm. What captivates his audience is the logic of natural expression and intensive inner experience. Toperczer brings pleasure from beautiful and cultured music performance."
(Vladimír Čížik: Slovník slovenského koncertného umenia , vol I., Hudobné centrum, Bratislava 2002, p. 146-149)

Peter Toperczer has participated in a number of festivals in Slovakia and abroad. His regular collaborators include a range of Slovak and foreign ensembles (BRT Brusel, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Kammerorchester, English Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Radio Suisse-Romande, Residentie-Orchest den Haag, Orchestre Monte Carlo, Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra, National Art Centre Orchestra Ottawa etc.) led by foremost conductors from Slovakia (Ľudovít Rajter, Ladislav Slovák; Karel Ančerl, Jiří Bělohlávek, Zdeněk Košler, Václav Neumann, Libor Pešek, Václav Smetáček) and abroad (Gaetano Delogu, Dean Dixon, Christoph von Dohnányi, Arvid Jansons, Herbert Kegel, Kyril Kondrašin, Ferdinand Leitner, Jesus Lopez-Cobos and others.). He has performed in over 30 countries, both in Europe and overseas (Cuba, USA, Canada, Japan), as well as during important international music festivals (Santander, Helsinki, Montreux-Vevey, Ottawa, Berlin, Budapest, Sofia, Bratislava, Prague). Moreover, he has made numerous recordings for Slovak companies (OPUS, Supraphon, Panton), as well as for foreign labels (Vox New York, Radifussion Lodon, Victor Japan, Nippon Columbia, Wifon Poland). He has also earned reputation as an excellent partner for soloists (especially instrumentalists) and chamber ensembles. Since 1983, he has established cooperation for 4-hand music and 2-piano music with Marián Lapšanský. Peter Toperczer is frequently invited to sit as a member of chair of juries during prominent Slovak, Czech and foreign international contests. He is also renowned as lecturer of international master classes working alongside great personalities of world’s stages.