Boldizsár Csíky Jnr. was born in 1968 in Reghin (Szászrégen). He studied in the Lyceum of Arts, Tirgu Mures (Marosvásárhely), and then in the Gh. Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár). As a college student studying piano, he won the nationwide prize five times, then in 1994 won the ‘Cella Delavrancea’ prize. He has taken part in masterclasses with Lev Naumov and Jenő Jandó. Between 1993 and 1997 he was a student of Walter Krafft’s masterclasses in Munich. In 1998 he attended a summer masterclass in Fontainebleau where his teachers to G. Cassadesus, Ph. Bianconi, and Ph. Entremont. In 2000, after performing in nearly 40 concerts each season there, the Munich Music Seminar appointed him permanent soloist. He has performed with all the symphony orchestras in Romania, and has made radio, television, and CD recordings. He is a member of several national and international juries, and has given many masterclasses at home and abroad. He has performed in over 800 concerts, in all the musical centres in Romania and also in Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA. Conductors with whom he has performed include: Erich Bergel, Ion Baciu, Emanoil Elenescu, Emil Simon, Petre Sbârcea, Lajos Bács, Ervin Aczél, Remus Georgescu, Cristian Mandeal, Horia Andreescu, Ilarion Ionescu-Galați, Sabin Păutza, Gheorghe Costin, Edward Tschivzel, Zoltán Kocsis and others. His chamber music partners include: István Ruha, Diana Ligeti, Gurban Carmen, Gaetano d’Espinosa, László Fenyő, Rolf Herbrechtmayer, Andreas Henkel, Valentin Arcu, Dan Grigore, Jenő Jandó, the Transsylvania String Quartet, the Gaudeamus String Quartet, the Moscow Trio, and others. In 2000 he gained a doctoral degree with his thesis on Scriabin’s piano music. He is currently a professor of the University of Music in Cluj-Napoca. Several of his pupils take part and win prizes in national and international competitions, and many of them have now become renowned in the concert hall or as teachers.