Programme:
Franz Schubert – Franz Liszt: Der Müller und der Bach
Franz Liszt: Soirées de Vienne, Valse-Caprice d’après Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E major, Op. 109
Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor

Valentin Magyar
Junior Prima Prize–winning pianist
Scholarship holder of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA)

“Schubert, Liszt and Beethoven have always been very close to my heart, and Hungarian culture played a significant role in the lives of all three. I have put together a programme in which the work of each of them is represented. Liszt deeply respected Schubert’s art and created numerous transcriptions and paraphrases of his works, from which I selected two masterpieces for this concert. One of Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, the Sonata in E major, and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor are, for me, the summits of the musical canon—among the most complex and most brilliant works ever composed.”

In 2020, he won the Yamaha Instrumental Competition and the New York HCC Competition. In 2021, he received third prize at the 10th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar (no first prize was awarded). In the same year, he was honoured with the Junior Prima Prize. In 2022, he was awarded the Annie Fischer Scholarship and the Zoltán Kocsis Prize. In 2023, he received the Concorde Prize for the most talented student of the Liszt Academy of Music, the Cziffra Festival Prize, and won a gold medal in the instrumental soloist category at the Vienna International Music Competition. Most recently, he was awarded a scholarship by the Clavarte Foundation in Berlin.

Photo credit: Botond Sepsi

Organiser: Hungarian Academy of Arts – Section of Music

Registration is available on the Hungarian site of the event, at the bottom of the page.