Performances by Career Office gifted students this autumn

On 17 September, Tamás Pálfalvi and János Palojtay give a joint chamber recital in the Old Academy of Music. Tamás Pálfalvi (born: 1991) started playing the trumpet at the age of seven before joining the Weiner Leó Secondary School of Music in Budapest. He began his higher educational studies as a student of Bard College, New York, following which he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where he graduated as a student of Gábor Boldoczki in spring 2015. His chamber partner, János Palojtay, won a place on the Liszt Academy’s preparatory class at the age of 13, and he was awarded a diploma in spring 2011. He honed his piano playing at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Stuttgart University of Music; he also took part in master classes given by Dmitry Bashkirov, Murray Perahia, Ferenc Rados and András Schiff. They will perform selected works for piano-trumpet from the age of Baroque to the 20th century.

Ivett Gyöngyösi (Photo: Liszt Academy/Gábor Fejér)

The first concert in the 2015/16 season of the Génie oblige! series (25 September) is a Chopin recital by young pianist Ivett Gyöngyösi, often termed the “new Annie Fischer” (all tickets have sold out). Ivett started playing piano at the age of seven, just four years later she won admittance to the Special School for Exceptional Young Talents, then in 2011 to the piano faculty under Kálmán Dráfi.

We have the opportunity of hearing Marcell Szabó twice in the first semester: first on 1 October, when on World Music Day he gives a concert together with cellist Eszter Karasszon in the Chamber Hall, Old Academy of Music, then he makes an appearance in the Génie oblige! series (8 December) with a selection of the finest of Romantic piano pieces. Marcell was born in 1987, he won admittance to the Liszt Academy preparatory class in 1999 (studying under Gábor Eckhardt), and he was presented with his pianist diploma from the Liszt Academy of Music as a student of György Nádor and András Kemenes in 2012. During academic year 2010/11 he was a guest student of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Currently he is in his third year at the doctoral school of the Liszt Academy.
 

Erzsébet Selejlo (Photo: Liszt Academy/Zoltán Tuba)

Career Office cellist Dóra Kokas is in concert on 29 October together with her sister, Katalin Kokas, and pianist Jacob Katsnelson. Dóra Kokas was born in 1992 and she started to play the cello under her mother’s guidance at the age of four. She studied under László Mező in the Special School for Exceptional Young Talents of the Liszt Academy from 2006. In 2007 she attended the preparatory class of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, before she won admission to the class of Miklós Perényi at the Liszt Academy, where she is currently taking a masters course.
 

Anastasia Razvalyaeva (Photo: Liszt Academy/László Mudra)

 

Anastasia Razvalyaeva gives a matinee concert in the Old Academy of Music on 21 November, then she returns on 3 December along with another Career Office talent, Erzsébet Selejlo, and the Duo ArsE. Anastasia was born in Russia in 1986­ and she has lived in Hungary since 1993. She started playing the harp aged seven, her first teacher was her mother, Natalia Gorbunova, then she studied with Melinda Felletár in Szeged from the age of eight. In 2011 she was awarded a diploma from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, where she completed her studies as a student of Andrea Vigh. Erzsébet Seleljo started studying saxophone at the Weiner Leó Secondary School of Music. Her diploma was awarded as a student of the London Royal College of Music and Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität; her professors were Kyle Horch and Lars Mlekusch. She received a teaching qualification from the University of Debrecen and then won admission to the doctoral school of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.