Programme change: Instead of Ivett Gyöngyösi, piano soloist: László Váradi

László Váradi, the pianist who will be performing in the Solti Hall instead of Ivett Gyöngyösi on 25 September, was born in Jászberény in 1995. He started taking music lessons at the age of 5 at the Aládár Rácz Music School of Jászapáti, and at the age of 11, he was admitted to the Class for Outstandingly Talented Musicians of the Liszt Academy, and in 2014 to the piano department of the university, where he was trained by István Gulyás, Kálmán Dráfi and later, by Gábor Farkas. He is the winner and awardee of several national and international piano competitions, has performed in a number of prestigious Hungarian and international concert halls both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He last played Liszt’s Piano Concerto in A major with the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pinchas Steinberg at the jubilee concert held in honour of the 140th anniversary of the Liszt Academy. In 2014, László Váradi received the Junior Prima Prize.