CONCERT GIVEN BY THE GRAND PRIX WINNERS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CARPATHIAN-BASIN PIANO COMPETITION


23 NOVEMBER 2025 (SUNDAY), 6:00 p.m CONCERT GIVEN BY THE GRAND PRIX WINNERS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CARPATHIAN-BASIN PIANO COMPETITION RÁKOSHEGY BARTÓK HOUSE OF MUSIC (50 Hunyadi St, Budapest, 1174) Program: Franz Liszt: Venice and Naples (Supplement to Années de pèlerinage, Book II), S. 162 1. Gondoliera 2. Canzone 3. Tarantella George Enescu: Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 10 – 3. Pavane, 4. Bourrée Performed by: Inya Cutova Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 – I. movement (1913 version) Franz Liszt: Dante Sonata, S. 161 Performed by: Dávid Pálmai-Balla Teachers: Ioan Caruțiu, Gábor Eckhardt, and Imre Hargitai Participation in the concert is free of charge, but registration is required. You can register at the following link: ORGANIZER: Carpathian Basin Classical Music Festival Artistic Director: Apolka Bonnyai
Performers
Dávid PÁLMAI - BALLA pianist
Was born in Budapest in 2007. He began his musical studies at the Lisznyai Szabó Gábor Music School in Veresegyház, later continuing at the Tóth Aladár Music School in Budapest under the guidance of Zsuzsa Veres Halászné and Gábor Eckhardt. He is currently a student at the Special School for Young Talents of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, studying with Gábor Eckhardt and Imre Hargitai. Dávid is a prizewinner of several national and international piano competitions, including the Danubia Talents International Competition, the Carpathian Basin Piano Competition, and the Liszt Youth Competition. In 2025, he won both the First Prize and the Grand Prize at the 2nd Carpathian Basin Piano Competition. Despite his young age, his playing is marked by refined musical sensitivity and a mature artistic presence.
Inya CUTOVA pianist
Inya Cutova 16 years old, is a 10th-grade student at the National College “Regina Maria” in Constanța, Romania. In 2024, Inya was selected as the youngest admitted competitor among the 50 participants in the George Enescu International Competition. Among other recognitions, she won the 1st Prize at the “Carl Filtsch” International Piano Competition in Sibiu in 2025 – Category C (up to 32 years old), and the 1st Prize in Category B in 2023. She received the special prize “Best Ranked Romanian Pianist” at the Dinu Lipatti Competition, Bucharest 2025. She was also the 1st Prize Winner of the International Siegfried-Weishaupt Piano Competition, Landesmusikakademie Ochsenhausen, Germany, in 2025. She was a finalist at the Târgu-Mureș “Marosvásárhely” Piano Competition in 2023 and 2024, and won several other prizes at multiple international piano competitions, such as the Irina Satchi Competition, Râmnicu Vâlcea 2023, and the F. Chopin Competition, Bacău 2023. For three consecutive years (2022–2024), she won the 1st Prize at the National Olympiad of Instrumental Interpretation (Olimpiada Națională de Interpretare Instrumentală). She received a Special Prize for the Promotion of a Young Musician with Extraordinary Potential from the “Bruno Frey” Cultural Foundation within ISAM 2023, Musik Landesakademie Ochsenhausen, Germany. She made her orchestral debut with the Philharmonic of Pitești at the age of 12. She has also performed multiple times with the Philharmonics of Târgu Mureș, Chișinău, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Pitești, Constanța, and Sibiu.

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