Ádám Zsolt SZOKOLAY

18 April 1996

Hungary

Instructed by his mother, he began playing the piano aged just four, and at eight he was admitted to the School for Exceptional Young Talents of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where his teachers were Gyöngyi Keveházi, Gábor Eckhardt, Dénes Várjon and Attila Némethy. Starting in 2015, he attended the New York Bard College (teacher: Peter Serkin), and from 2018 he has been a student of the University of Music Franz Liszt, Weimar in the class of Grigory Gruzman. He is a winner and medallist of many international competitions, and his work has been recognized with the Fischer Annie music performance scholarship. He has given concerts in most cities in Hungary and on several top podiums in Europe, and in 2017 he founded his own ensemble comprising fellow students of Bard College. Courses he has attended include those by Zoltán Kocsis, Lívia Rév, Gergely Bogányi, Martin Helmchen, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Mikhail Voskresensky, Mūza Rubackytė and Richard Goode.

REPERTOIRE:

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Sonatina, BB 69

Bartók: Allegro barbaro, BB 63

Dohnányi: Ruralia hungarica, op. 32a – 2. Presto, ma non tanto

Liszt: Two Concert Études – 1. Waldesrauschen

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Dance Suite, BB 86b

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 33 in C minor, Hob. XVI:20 – 1. Moderato

János Mátyás Stark: Toccata

FINAL

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Troisième année – 5. Sunt lacrymae rerum, en mode hongrois, 2. Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este, Thrénodie I.

Debussy: Préludes, Book 2 – 1. Brouillards

Debussy: Préludes, Book 1 – 3. Le vent dans la plaine, 7. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest

Debussy: Préludes, Book 2 – 10. Canope, 12. Feux d'artifice

GRAND FINAL

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91