Dániel SAS

16 October 1994

Hungary

He attended primary and secondary school in Jászberény, as a student of Mrs. Lászlóné Hagyó at the Palotásy János Music School. In 2013, he won admission to the faculty of classical piano of Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. His teachers were Attila Némethy and István Gulyás. Among master classes he has participated in are those by Balázs Szokolay, Gábor Eckhardt, Tamás Vásáry, Kálmán Dráfi and György Nádor (piano), as well as Barnabás Kelemen (chamber music). He received a bachelor’s degree in 2017; currently he is studying at the Miskolc University Bartók Béla Institute of Music under Dr. Gáspárné Marica Tóth, and the master training of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, tutored by István Gulyás and Balázs Réti. He has won prizes at numerous competitions, performed both here in Hungary and abroad, and for approximately five years he has held regular outreach interactive talks for primary and secondary school kids.

REPERTOIRE:

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Two Romanian Dances, BB 56

Brahms: Ballade in D minor, op. 10/1

Liszt: Transcendental Études – 7. Eroica

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, BB 83

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, op. 2/1 – 3. Menuetto, 4. Prestissimo

Dániel Dobos: Drumul Dracului

FINAL

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie – 7. Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata

Debussy: Préludes, Book 1 – 3. Le vent dans la plaine, 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest, 10. La cathédrale engloutie

GRAND FINAL

Liszt: Piano Concerto in A major