Borbála Dobozy began her higher studies in harpsichord with Zuzana Růžičková at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava and continued her studies with her at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the following years, she specialised in historical performance practice, first at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under the guidance of Liselotte Brändle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Johann Sonnleitner. There she obtained her second diploma, again with distinction. She subsequently spent an additional year studying at the Zurich Academy of Music as a pupil of Johann Sonnleitner.
In 1983, she won a prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, Belgium.
She has given masterclasses in Hungary, Norway, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Slovenia, and Serbia. Between 2005 and 2013, she was a faculty member of the annual Brillamment Baroque early music course in Thoiry, France.
She has performed throughout most European countries and in the United States, and has made numerous radio, television, and commercial recordings.
The artistic focus of Borbála Dobozy’s work is the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach. She has performed virtually all of Bach’s compositions for harpsichord, including his complete orchestral and chamber works involving the instrument. Her recording of the Goldberg Variations, released in the Czech Republic in 2010, received considerable international acclaim, as did her more recent recording of both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier, issued by BMC Records.
Her repertoire encompasses almost the entire harpsichord literature, including twentieth-century and contemporary music. Several Hungarian composers—including György Arányi-Aschner, Árpád Balázs, Frigyes Hidas, Máté Hollós, and László Dubrovay—have written works for her, and she has given numerous world premieres.
In 2013, she earned the degree of Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA). Her dissertation, Georg Anton Benda and His Harpsichord Sonatas, was subsequently published in book form in both Hungarian and Czech (Magyar Kultúra Publishing House, 2014 and 2016).
Since 2025, she has held the title of Professor Emerita at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. She is a full member of the Music Section of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Her recording of works by Gottlieb Muffat (Componimenti musicali per il cembalo) received the German Record Critics’ Award in Hamburg in 1992.
In 2024, her recording of J. S. Bach’s Eighteen Little Preludes and the Two- and Three-Part Inventions (BMC, 2023) was awarded the prestigious CHOC distinction by the French magazine Classica.
Among her distinctions are the Ferenc Liszt Prize (2011), the Belváros–Lipótváros Merit Cross (2012), the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2021), and the Bartók–Pásztory Award (2026).
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