Harpsichordist Borbála Dobozy was born in Budapest in 1955. She grew up in a family steeped in a love of culture and the arts – her father, Dr Elemér Dobozy, was an internist and cardiologist, while her mother, Dr Zsuzsanna Erdélyi, was an ethnographer. She began piano lessons at the age of five and graduated in 1973 from the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music, where she specialised in piano.