Piano Recital by Balázs Szokolay A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Liszt Prize-winner Balázs Szokolay has been a active in the Hungarian classical music scenefor 40 years. In the early years of his career he lifted a whole swathe of trophies at foreign competitions (Ústí nad Labem, Glasgow, Zwickau, Leeds, Brussels, Montreal) either as pianist or as a member of chamber music ensembles. Today, he is more commonly found sitting on the jury of prestigious international competitions or acting as the chief player giving masterclasses, as well as – to the benefit of us all – in person, on the concert stage. He is a multitalented figure, an authority on the period of Romanticism in music, and, as professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, someone who has passed on his accumulated knowledge to new generations of musicians for the past decade and a half. This recital is given over to two epoch-making (in all senses of the term) works: Robert Schumann’s Fantasy in C major, which was dedicated to Liszt, and Ferenc Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, which was dedicated to Schumann.