Bartók World Competition

Competitors passed through to the Preliminary

Orsovai Endre

Orsovai Endre

No. 17

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 11 January, 2000

Endre Orsovai has achieved placements in numerous competitions: Young Virtuosos National Competition (Belgrade), Josip Slavenski International Piano Competition (Novi Sad), Festival of Music and Ballet Schools (Smederevo), International Piano Competition (Belgrade), International Chopin Piano Competition (Budapest) and Carl Filtsch Piano Competition. In 2019, he enrolled at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, studying under Gábor Eckhardt and Attila Némethy, he obtained his MA diploma in 2024. He has performed at the Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall, the Kolarac (Belgrade), Young Pianists Festival (Siedlce, Poland), Royal Palace (Gödöllő), Wigmore Hall (London), Academy of Hungary (Rome), Liszt Institute (Zagreb and Ljubljana) and Academy of Music Zagreb. He has frequently performed in Budapest at the Liszt Academy, House of Music Hungary, and Müpa (Palace of Arts) Glass Hall. He is currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy. He has attended masterclasses held by distinguished musicians, including Lidija Bizjak, Jokut Mihailović, András Kemenes, Gergely Bogányi, Rita Wagner, Benedetto Lupo, Jeffrey Cohen, Andrei Diev, Boaz Sharon, and András Schiff.

Competition Repertoire

Preliminary

D. Scarlatti: G-dúr szonáta // Keyboard Sonata in G major, K. 427

Bartók: Tizenöt magyar parasztdal // Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, BB 79

Liszt: Transzcendens etűdök // Études d’exécution transcendante » 2. Molto vivace

Semi-final

Bartók: Három csíkmegyei népdal // Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík, BB 45b

Bartók: Két román tánc // Two Romanian Dances, BB 56, op. 8a » 1. Allegro vivace

Beethoven: 31. (Asz-dúr) zongoraszonáta // Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, op. 110

Mátyás Papp: Kirakós // Puzzle

Solo final

Bartók: Szabadban // Out of Doors, BB 89

Schumann: Nachtstücke, op. 23

Prokofiev: 6. (A-dúr) zongoraszonáta // Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, op. 82 » 4. Vivace 

Grand final

Liszt: Esz-dúr zongoraverseny // Piano Concerto in E-flat major