Pianist and composer Peter Sarik was born in 1972 in Cegléd, Hungary.
He graduated from the Jazz Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1997, after which he pursued further classical music studies.
In 2007 he founded his own band, the Peter Sarik Trio, which soon became one of Hungary’s leading jazz ensembles.
Peter regularly performs with the Trio, as well as with various special line-ups, both in Hungary and abroad. The Trio is one of the most active touring Hungarian jazz bands: they have performed in more than 20 countries, in cities such as London, Beijing, Moscow, New York, Paris, Almaty and many more, and are regularly invited back to many of these venues.
Besides his own compositions, he is an outstanding interpreter of jazz adaptations of Bartók Béla.
He has also achieved outstanding international success as a composer. His compositions have regularly placed among the top three at the most prestigious competitions in the United States and Great Britain, and his songs have won ten awards worldwide.
He has won the Fonogram Award (the Hungarian Grammy) three times and has been nominated seven more times.
In 2016 he was named Musician of the Year.
In 2023 he received the Petőfi Music Award for Instrumental Performer of the Year.
He is an honorary citizen of Cegléd.