Marc Pierre Toth
Born in London, Canada to a Hungarian father and an Italian mother, Marc Pierre Toth abandoned his Chemical Engineering full-scholarship in the early 90's to undertake more serious musical studies. He has graduated from the Soloist-Class as his seventh Diploma with M° Einar Steen-Nokleberg at the world-reknowned 'Hochschule für Musik und Theater' in Hannover, where he is presently serving as an Adjunct Professor of piano. He is also currently finishing a degree in the fortepiano and historical performance with M° Gerritt Zitterbart.

A recipient of the prestigious International German Government Scholarship from the DAAD and multiple Grants from the Arts Council of Ontario and the Canada Council for the Arts, he graduated magna cum laude from the Master's Program at the University of Toronto as a student of Marietta Orlov, and also holds Associate and Licentiate Diplomas in Performance Piano from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, the latter which he earned under Dr.Boris Lysenko. He has participated in Masterclasses in Banff, Kneisel Hall, the Mozarteum, Hamamatsu, etc.with musicians such as Fleischer, Perry, Goode, Kämmerling, Devoyon, Nakamura, Vardi, Rohmann, Nicolet, Norris, Browning, Krpan, Bilson, Zhou, Salzmann, etc… and the Wilhelm Kempff Foundation Masterclass in Positano with John O'Conor.

As 3rd Laureate at the 52nd Busoni International Piano Competition in 2000, Mr.Toth was engaged for concerts in Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, Amici della Musica di Verona, Amici della Musica di Vicenza, Academia Musicale di Pescara, Festival di Maria Callas in Sirmione sul Garda, Virtuoses de Musica in Brazil, Fondacion Santillana in Bogota etc…Prizes in other competitions such as the 33rd V.Bellini International Competition, the Compositores d'Espana in Madrid, the International Prokofiev Piano Competition 2003, the Rome Chopin Competition, il Concorso Francesco Durante, Grand Prize of the Future Virtuosos Competition in Japan, the Valsesia-Musica International Competition, the Vietri Sul Mar International Competition, the Glenn Gould International in Italy, and Chopin Society Competition in Germany etc…

He has appeared as soloist with diverse orchestras in Canada, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma e Lazio, Orchestra del Teatro Bellini, The Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, ORCAM in Spain, Orchester des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven in Germany, the Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra of Zagreb, the Kölner Solisten Ensemble, the Orchester der Staatsoper Hannover, and has recently been invited as soloist in Germany, Italy and Russia. He has performed in recitals throughout Canada and in the United States, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Austria. In the -08 Season, Mr.Toth will perform Liszt with Orchestra London, and Beethoven with the Staatsoperorchester Hannover,

After the successes of the 'Goldberg-das Ballett' project, 'Flüchtige Visionen' to the music of S.Prokofiev, and "BEGEGNUNG: Claudel-Rodin-Chopin"to the Concerti of Chopin and Ravel in Bremerhaven, as well as the Bach 'Preludes&Fugues' Project in Linz 2006 , all with the Ballet Co. of Viennese Choreographer Jörg Mannes, Mr. Toth is featured in the '4Beethoven 4' project with the Hannover Staatsoper Orchestra in 2007-08 and will be the soloist in the 'A propos Bach' Ballett premiering in May 2008. Mr.Toth was a Jury member of the 3rd International Jazz Piano Competition in Ostra, Italy, and in 2002 he made his debut as guest professor and lecturer at the University of Bogota in Colombia during a concert tour of South America. He has given master-classes at Universities in Toronto, London, and Sicily and will be giving upcoming master-classes in Italy, Canada the Middle East and Taiwan.