Gergő Zoltán VARGA

13 April 1991

Hungary

Currently he is attending the Doctoral School of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, in 2015 he graduated summa cum laude from the university as a pianist-teacher having been awarded a pianist master’s degree (similarly with honours) in 2014. He attended the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music, Miskolc between 2003 and 2009. He won first prize and a special prize at the 2016 National Cziffra György Piano Competition, second prize at the International Béla Bartók Piano Competition Vienna in 2011, and a special prize at the same contest in 2014. He has performed at the Tallinn Opera in Paris, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Cairo Opera House, in Vienna and Japan, and won a Fischer Annie music-performer scholarship.

REPERTOIRE: 

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Suite, BB 70 – 1. Allegretto, 2. Scherzo

Dohnányi: Rhapsody in C major, op. 11/3

Liszt: Transcendental Études – 11. Harmonies du soir

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, BB 83

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31/2 – 1. Largo – Allegro

János Mátyás Stark: Toccata

FINAL

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12

Rachmaninov: Six moments musicaux, op. 16 – 3. Andante cantabile, 4. Presto, 5. Adagio sostenuto, 6. Maestoso

GRAND FINAL

Liszt: Piano Concerto in E-flat major