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About the Event

Please join us on this 68th Anniversary Remembrance Concert for the October 23rd, 1956, Hungarian Uprising. In the spirit of unity and courage we are joined on this occasion by world renown pianist, Balázs Fülei and a moving combination of music by Hungarian composers Liszt, Bartók, and Kodály.


PROGRAM


Franz Liszt: 2 legendes

  • St Francis d’Assisi is preaching to the birds

  • St Francis of Paola is walking on the Waves


Béla Bartók

  • Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20


Franz Liszt:

  • Les jeux d'eaux á la Villa d'Este     

           

Zoltán Kodály:

  • Dances of Marosszék


Fülei has won the Junior Prima Prize, the Artisjus Prize, the Solti Foundation Prize, and the Liszt Prize. In 2020, Steinway & Sons awarded him the title "Steinway Artist" and he is currently Head of the Department of Chamber Music at Liszt Academy.

Featured Guests:

Balázs Fülei, pianist.

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He has more than thirty piano concertos in his repertoire, with all the concertos by
Beethoven, Brahms and Bartók among them. He released five solo albums, in 2013 the works
of Bartók and Grieg, in 2015 Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy and András Gábor Virágh
compositions connected to the Moon theme. In 2019 he recorded penultimate sonatas by
Beethoven and Schubert, and released a Liszt Album with late compositions. He released
albums with the Auer Trio, with clarinetist Zsolt Szatmári, and recorded Schubert&Winterreise song cycle with Zoltán Megyesi, tenor.
He has entered the international music scene at an early age: in 2005 he was the winner of the
Arcangelo Speranza International Piano Competition in Taranto and has won further prizes in Milan, Cagliari and Moscow. He was selected twice by the International Holland Music Sessions to be the soloist of the New Masters On Tour. Significant venues of his international
career: the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, the Palace of Arts, Budapest, the Konzerthaus
Vienna, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Kioi Hall Tokio, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Moscow, the NCPA Mumbai and the Carnegie Hall in New York where he had his debut solo
recital in 2008. He has played together with the leading symphony orchestras in Hungary and
abroad. Balázs Fülei has performed in almost every country in Europe, Israel, the United
States of America, Australia, Japan, China and Vietnam. Keen and passionate chamber music
player, performed at many international festivals like Festival de Bellerive, Miami Piano
Festival, Budapest Spring Festival. He has regularly been giving concerts with his permanent
formation, the Auer Trio, released their first album in 2019. Balázs Fülei has been a frequent
partner of the world famous Kodály Quartet.
 
He has been teaching at the Liszt Academy since 2012, associate professor and has been the
Head of the Department of Chamber Music since 2015. He has held piano and chamber
music masterclasses all over the world and he is the founder of the international Echo
Summer Academy held in the Károlyi Castle in Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary every year in July. 
 
In 2010 he received the Junior Prima prize, in 2011 the Artisjus prize, in 2012 the prize of the
Solti Foundation, in 2015 Diamond Career Grant from Charlotte White& Salon de Virtuosi,
New York, and then in 2017 he was awarded the Liszt Prize. In 2020, Steinway & Sons
awarded him the title ”Steinway Artist”.

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Date / Time:

October 23, Wednesday / 6pm

October 23rd Remembrance Concert with Balázs Fülei

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