Sunday, 18 September 2022, 11:00
CONCERT OF COMPETITION WINNERS – IN HONOUR OF ZOLTÁN KODÁLY
Old Academy of Music Academy – Chamber Hall (1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty utca 35.)
Concert of the winners of the 1st Carpathian Basin International Piano Competition, presented by Emőke Tari Solymosi, music historian and recipient of the László Lajtha and Bence Szabolcsi Prizes.

Programme:
Zoltán Kodály: Nine Piano Pieces, op. 3 No. 3 – Lento Ludomir Różycki: Polish Dances, op. 37 No.1 – Allegro moderato Performed by: Deng Jia Kun
Robert Schumann: Novelette in F major, op. 21 No. 1 Béla Bartók: Romanian Christmas Carols BB 67 – 1st Series Performed by: Ágoston András Bede
Zoltán Kodály: Seven Piano Pieces, op. 11 No. 2 – Transylvanian Lament Ferenc Liszt: Three Concert Etudes – No 2, La leggierezza Performed by: Krisztina Nagy
Claude Debussy: Images, 1st Series – Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water) Performed by: Vince Vilmos Vajda
Nikolai Medtner: Sonata reminiscenza, op. 38. no. 1 Performed by: Hedvig Orsovai
Levko Revutsky: 1st (B-minor) Piano Sonata Performed by: Aleksandr Luchkov
One of the important missions of the Carpathian Classical Music Festival is to discover and support young talents. Last year's 1st Carpathian Basin International Piano Competition attracted a large number of exceptionally talented young people, as demonstrated by the fact that the international jury, led by the pianist Gábor Eckhardt, recipient of the Liszt Prize, awarded a total of 37 prizes in the three age groups. At the concert at the Old Music Academy, the audience will be able to hear the most outstanding and successful participants from the competition. The event also pays tribute to the memory of Zoltán Kodály, composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher, who was born 140 years ago. The programme will include compositions by Kodály, Bartók, Schumann, Liszt and Debussy as well as pieces by composers rarely heard in Hungary, such as the Polish Różycki, the Russian Medtner or the Ukrainan Revutsky.
Performers
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Ágoston András BEDE was born in 2007 in Budapest. He started his piano studies at the age of seven in the George Solti Music School. A year later he was admitted to the Béla Bartók High School of Music. He regularly attends masterclasses and receives prizes at various competitions. He received first prize in both 2019 and 2022 at the Danubia Talents international piano competition. He came second at the 2019 György Ferenczy piano competition and received an award for excellence at the Béla Bartók international piano competition in 2018.
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Alekszandr LUCSKOV was born in 2004 in Munkács (Mukacsevo, Subcarpathia, Ukraine). He is studying at the Ungvár (Uzshorod) High School of Music. He has already taken part in several competitions, having won second prize at the Scherzo piano competition in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2019 he received a special prize at the Kiev Vladimir Horowitz competition.
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Deng Jia Kun was born in Budapest in 2008. He started playing the piano when he was four. He has achieved outstanding results at several regional, national and international piano competitions. He won second place at the Seventh György Ferenczy Piano Competition in Budapest, and he received the main prize at the Fifth Irma Szanyi Regional Piano Competiton in Székesfehérvár, and the first prize in Kaposvár at the 3rd and 4th Lívia Rév Regional Piano Competitions. He has chosen music as a career but he is also interested in the sciences and languages, so he regularly takes part in academic competitions as well.
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Krisztina NAGY born in 2006 in Marosvásárhely (Transylvania, Romania), Krisztina began her piano studies at the age of six at the Marosvásárhely Lycée of Arts. She reached the semifinals in the Young Virtuosos Talent Show, a classical music competition on Hungarian television, in its second season. She met pianist and piano teacher Gábor Eckhardt at a mastercourse, and he has supported and directed her work ever since. Aged 13 she was admitted to the class of outstanding talent at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music. She has received scholarships and prizes at international competitions from Romania, Austria, Belgium and Italy. She has already played in the Palace of Arts in Budapest and in February 2022 she debuted in Carnegie Hall.
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Hedvig ORSOVAI was born in 2003 in Zombor, Serbia. She played piano four-hands with her brother at the age of four, and when she was five she was admitted to the local music school. Hedvig composed her first piano piece aged nine, and the following year her hometown issued a CD recording of her work. She has composed 80 pieces so far. She has won several first prizes, among others at the Slavenski International Piano Competition in Szabadka (Subotica) and the National Piano Competition in Belgrade. In 2017 she was admitted to the class of outstanding talent at the Liszt Academy. She received a special prize at the 2018 Rezső Sugár Composition Competition of the Béla Bartók Music High School. In 2019 she got the first prize at the Danubia Talents international piano competition. She has graduated in piano and composition at the Béla Bartók High School of Music this year.
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Vince Vilmos was born in 2002 in Budapest. He started playing the piano at the age of eight at the George Solti Music School. His first teacher was Vera Kertész-Éliás. In 2018 he was admitted to the Béla Bartók high school of music in the piano class of Sára Faddi and Balázs Kecskés. He has performed at the Budapest Music Centre, at the George Solti Hall of the Academy of Music, and at the Mark C. Smith Hall of the Von Braun Center (Huntsville, Alabama). He is planning to become a conductor, a concert pianist and a teacher in the future.
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