Piroska Batori was born in Szeged/Hungary. She received her first violin lessons at the age of eight and only one year later was accepted into the class for outstanding students at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. She studied in Vienna and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama London and completed “with distinction” the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2004. She is section leader in the moderntimes_1800 chamber orchestra and the Bach Consort Vienna, and is also a member of the Vienna Academy and the Wiener Kammersolisten.