Ronaldo Rolim piano recital A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

One of the jury members of the Concours Géza Anda, which is held in Zurich every three years, characterized the play of the featured Brazilian artist thus: “Virtuosity, warm piano tone, huge imaginative power and the search for new colours and nuances.” Ronaldo Rolim won the special prize and finished third in the 2015 contest, the achievement being all the greater given that participants must demonstrate an extraordinarily broad repertoire. The career of this musician, born in 1986, is packed with startling numbers: he has taken more than 30 prizes at international competitions; despite his youth, audiences on four continents have heard him play; and he has appeared at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the London Wigmore Hall and in South Korea, among other places. He is one of a select band of artists to be a pianist DLA student at the Yale School of Music; there he is studying under the famous Russian artist-professor Boris Bermann and is writing his dissertation on the music of Szymanowski. For his Budapest appearance, he is twinning pairs of Polish and Hungarian composers, forming a network of connections not only in the sense of a ‘musical bloodline’ (Chopin–Szymanowski, Liszt–Bartók) but also between the artists themselves.