Denes Zsigmondy studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, receiving tuition from Geza de Kresz, Leo Weiner and Imre Waldbauer. His musical education as a violinist was further influenced by working with Carl Flesch and Zino Francescatti. Personal contact with Bela Bartok inspired his great interest in Bartok's muiscal vision and exploration of Eastern European folk muisc.
Denes Zsigmondy has given performances throughout the world, as a soloist with orchestras, such as the Bamberger, Berlin and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Boston, Budapest, Hong Kong, Munich and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Radio Orchestras of RIAS Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Sydney and others, and also as a recitalist. He has made a large number of records and radio performances of violin concertos by Bialas, Genzmer, Eder, Büchtger and other composers. His life as a musician was greatly enhanced by personal contact with Kodaly, Sessions, Daliapiccola, Ligeti, and Kurraz.
In 1972 he was appointed Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Guest Professor at Boston University. He has given master-classes at the New England Conservatory, Boston, the Liszt Academy Budapest, in San Francisco, Hong Kong, etc.. He has been the Director of the Kolzhausen Music Festival at Starnberger See in Bavaria since 1978. He conducts violin classes at the Summer Academy in Salzburg (since 1986) as well as classes in Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, and the USA.
