One of the most outstanding personalities of the young generation of Hungarian pianists is Mihály Berecz, who in 2013 debuted at the age of 16 with Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest conducted by Zoltán Kocsis. The highly successful concert was followed by several invitations in which Mihály Berecz played under conductors such as Tamás Vásáry (with whom he performed Liszt’s Hungarian Fantasy at the Hungarian State Opera House), or András Keller (with whom he performed Debussy's Fantasy and Beethoven's Piano Concerto in G major). He has also worked with Kálmán Záborszky, György Vashegyi, Tamás Gál and Gergely Ménesi, as well as with Concerto Budapest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, the Zugló Philharmonic Orchestra and the State Philharmonic Orchestra Košice.
Among Mihály Berecz's several prestigious foreign guest appearances, of particular note was his German debut at the Konzerthaus in Berlin in 2013, where he played Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy, and then in 2017 his performance at the Berlin Philharmonie with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor.
In 2018, he won first prize at the 2nd Manhattan International Music Competition, and won the Harriet Cohen Prize at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the same year. In 2020 he was awarded the Junior Prima Prize, and in 2021 he won the Liszt-Bartók Prize at the Géza Anda International Competition in Zurich.
Mihály Berecz began studying music at the age of seven, first playing the violin and then two years later starting the piano under the direction of Edit Major. Erzsébet Belák was his teacher at the King Saint Stephen Secondary School of Music, and since 2016 he has been pursuing his university studies in London, where he is currently studying at Christopher Elton’s class at the Royal Academy of Music. He has participated in several international master classes, where he has worked with artists such as Arie Vardi, Tamás Vásáry, Pascal Devoyon, Imogen Cooper and Malcolm Bilson.