Miklós Perényi began the cello at the age of five, continuing his studies with Ede Banda and Enrico Mainardi at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He had always been a great admirer of Casals and was able to study with him for a year in the 1960s. Perényi’s own activities as a teacher, based at the Liszt Academy, have not interrupted his highly successful performing career. Since 1974 he has appeared at numerous festivals including those in Edinburgh, Lucerne, Prague, Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin, as well as specific cello festivals such as those at Kronberg, Winterthur and the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK. He also appears regularly at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

Many of Perényi’s recordings have been made on the Hungarian la...