Judit Varga has taken first place at numerous international piano and music composition competitions. She also regularly performs around the world as a solo pianist and chamber musician, while her works as a composer have been performed at such prestigious festivals and concert venues as Wien Modern, the Hungarian State Opera House, Cité de la musique in Paris, New York's Julliard School, the Budapest Austum Festival, the Mini Festival, Vienna's Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Muffathalle München and Warsaw Autumn. She regularly works both as a pianist and composer with the world's leading ensembles and orchestras. In recognition for her exceptional artistic accomplishments, she won the creative artists award from the Austrian Ministry of Education and Culture in 2011 and 2014, and also received the award of the city of Vienna in 2012. She has won the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture's Zoltán Kodály Scholarship for creative musical artists on three occasions (2002, 2003 and 2006), along with winning the Tokyo Foundation's scholarship in 2001 and 2004. Also deserving mention among her other numerous awards and successful competition results is the grand prize she won at the New Hungarian Musical Forum's music composition competition in 2009. She also took second prize there in 2011. Her wide piano repertoire includes both the most important pieces of the classical piano repertoire and recent contemporary compositions. As a composer, she is particularly interested in creating music for short films and theatrical productions, as well as in compositions written for multimedia events. Varga is credited with designing the musical image of the Prima Primissima Award, as well as the music credits for more than 30 theatrical productions and films.In both 2013 and 2014, she was nominated for the Austrian Film Academy's award for “best film music”, which she won in 2014 for her music for the the film Deine Schönheit ist nichts Wert. She lives and works, both as a pianist and composer, in Vienna. She has been a professor at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien since 2013, and has also taught music composition, film and multimedia art at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music since that year.
In recognition of her outstanding work as a composer and arranger, she received the Ferenc Erkel Award in 2018.
In recognition of her outstanding work as a composer and arranger, she received the Ferenc Erkel Award in 2018.
