Andrea Pákolitz is a forth year student at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy in Budapest. Her teacher is Miklós Perényi. She started to play the cello when she was 8 at the Liszt Ferenc Music School of Baja, she was the student of Belleiné H. Györgyi. In 1996 she won the 3rd prize at the National Friss Antal Cello Competition and in the same year she was chosen to play at the Christmas concert of the Hungarian Embassy in London. She got accepted into the Kodály Zoltán Conservatory without entrance examination, where her teacher was Márta Agócs. She was 14 when she participated at the National Gaspar Cassado Cello Contest, where she won the 5th prize. In 2000 , at the National Starker János Cello Contest she won 1st prize, in 2002, at the National Popper Dávid Cello Competition she got the 3rd prize. She took part in the masterclass of János Pothoranszky and Róbert Nagy many times.