This special full evening concert by Mónika Ruth Vida presents an homage to Niccolò Paganini in commemoration of the 180^th anniversary of the music composer’s death.

Programme:

Witold Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations for Solo Piano and Orchestra

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35

Marc-André Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43

With:

pianist Mónika Ruth Vida

Budafoki Dohnányi Ernő Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Gábor Hollerung  

Since her childhood, pianist Mónika Ruth Vida has been dedicated to the love of music. Her dream and ambition are to convey the joy and healing power of music to everybody. Despite her young age, she has already given concerts in most European countries and she has also toured Africa, the USA and several Asian countries. After her success on the Hungarian and international music scenes, she was as young as merely 14 years old when she won her first international competition in Serbia, which was soon followed by her debut in China at the Shanghai World Expo. Since then several Hungarian and international piano, organ and chamber music competition awards have been bestowed upon her. She received her latest first prize at the 5^th Coimbra World Piano Meeting in February 2020, and she has also received an award by the Italian Parliament in acknowledgment of her outstanding musical performances. She graduated with honours from Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2016, and in the autumn of 2019 she started the MA programme in piano in the same institution, her tutors and supervisors are János Balázs and Katalin Falvai. Her first great-scale concert series entitled “Neither memories, nor magic” premiered in Pesti Vagadó in September 2019.

Organised by StanD in AVE Music Management Agency