Borbála Dobozy began her advanced harpsichord studies under Zuzana Růžičková at the Conservatory of Music in Bratislava, continuing later with her at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. She subsequently specialised in historically informed performance practice, studying at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Liselotte Brändle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Johann Sonnleitner, where she also obtained her second diploma with distinction. She continued her studies for a further year at the Zurich University of the Arts as a student of Johann Sonnleitner.
In 1983, she won a prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, Belgium.
She has taught masterclasses across Europe and beyond, including Hungary, Norway, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Slovenia, Serbia, and the United States. Between 2005 and 2013, she was a regular faculty member of the Brillamment baroque early music courses in Thoiry, France. She has performed throughout Europe and the United States, and has made numerous radio, television, and recording productions.
At the centre of Dobozy’s artistic activity stands the oeuvre of J. S. Bach, whose harpsichord works she has performed in their entirety, including orchestral and chamber works involving the instrument. Her 2010 recording of the Goldberg Variations, released in the Czech Republic, received significant international acclaim, as did her more recent recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I and II), released by BMC Records.
Her repertoire spans the entire harpsichord literature, including 20th-century and contemporary works. Several Hungarian composers—including György Arányi-Aschner, Árpád Balázs, Frigyes Hidas, Máté Hollós, and László Dubrovay—have written works for her, resulting in numerous world premieres.
She earned her DLA doctorate in 2013, with a dissertation titled Georg Anton Benda and His Harpsichord Sonatas, published in both Hungarian and Czech (Magyar Kultúra Kiadó, 2014 and 2016).
Since 2025, she has been Professor Emerita at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and is a full member of the Music Department of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Her recording of Gottlieb Muffat’s Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (1992) received the German Record Critics’ Award in Hamburg. In 2024, her recording of Bach’s 18 Little Preludes and Two- and Three-Part Inventions (BMC, 2023) was awarded the CHOC distinction by the French magazine Classica.
She received the Ferenc Liszt Prize in 2011, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (Knight’s Cross) in 2021, and the Bartók–Pásztory Prize in 2026.
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