Balázs Demény is the most recent winner of the Concours International de Piano d’Île-de-France, one of the most prestigious French piano competitions. The young talent, who got the better of Russian and Chinese contestants, had previously won international piano competitions named after Hans von Bülow (2015) and Carl Filtsch (2013).

He regularly appears in concert both in Hungary and abroad. In July 2016 he played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B flat minor under the baton of Jesús López Cobos, and then Liszt’s Danse Macabre at Sziget Festival, where the conductor was Máté Hámori.
Following a tour of ten concerts, in 2011 he released a solo record on the occasion of the Liszt Memorial Year. He has already performed in Brussels, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, Munich and Cluj-Napoca.

Program:

Bartók: Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71, BB 79
Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 39 in D major, Hob. XVI:24
György Kurtág: Games – excerpts
Ligeti: L’escalier du diable (The Devil’s Staircase)
Bartók: Szabadban (Out of Doors), Sz. 81, BB 89

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