Irén Marik

Irén Marik (1905 - 1986) was a classical pianist born in Hungary.

Although she studied with composer Béla Bartók and studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy, she fled Hungary after World War II and moved to the United States, where she taught at Sweet Briar College and eventually moved to the small town of Independence, California, outside of Death Valley, where she lived with author Evelyn Eaton.

She taught piano there and occasionally recorded in studios, but for the most part gave performances in her desert home for her neighbors and friends. Irén Marik died in 1986.

External links

A Classical Pianist Who Never Showed Off

Bartók in the Desert The Art of Irén Marik

IREN MARIK (1905-1986) Hungarian-born American pianist With Videos.

1905 births

Hungarian classical pianists

Hungarian women pianists

Hungarian emigrants to the United States

Sweet Briar College faculty

1986 deaths

20th-century classical pianists

Pupils of Béla Bartók

20th-century American musicians

Jewish classical pianists

People from Inyo County, California

Women classical pianists

20th-century women composers

20th-century Hungarian male musicians

20th-century women pianists