Sir András Schiff presents Young Pianists
Zoltán FEJÉRVÁRI, piano (Hungary)

Programme:
J. HAYDN: Sonata in A-flat major Hob. XVI/46
J. BRAHMS: 6 Klavierstücke op. 118
C. DEBUSSY: Images, 1ere série
B. BARTÓK: Out of Doors Sz 81.
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János PALOJTAY, piano (Hungary)

Programme:
J. S.BACH: Englische Suite III g-Moll BWV 808
B. BARTÓK: Tanz-Suite Sz.77

G. KURTÁG: aus„Játékok”(“Spiele”): Doina
Les Adieux (in Janáčeks Manier)

L. JANÁCEK:
Aus „Auf verwachsenem Pfade”:
Die Friedeker MutterGottes
Ein verwehtes Blatt

R. SCHUMANN: Sonate g-Moll op.22

Tickets are available at: Musical Youth of Novi Sad (Katolicka porta street 2, tel. 021/452-344).

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János PALOJTAY, pianist, has been regularly present at concert stages since he was seventeen and he started to play the piano at the age of five. As an active soloist and dedicated chamber musician he was recently chosen by a famous pianist, Sir András Schiff, to be one of three artists in his Building Bridges programme during the 2017-2018 season. Palojtay includes among his recent interpretation successes those related to important venues such as Salle Cortot in Paris, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Carnegie’s Weill Hall in New York, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, and Teatro Verdi in Trieste.  He has played all around Spain and with most Hungarian symphony orchestras being fortunate to work with the conductors such as Christopher Hogwood, Oliver von Dohnányi, Gregory Vajda, Gergely Madaras, Andras Keller and Zsolt Hamar. He was born in Budapest in 1987 where he graduated in 2011 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in the class of András Kemenes. Palojtay also studied with Péter Nagy and later on for two years in Salzburg. In 2014 he completed the prestigious Konzertexamen course at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart under the mentorship of Professor Kirill Gerstein. Palojtay’s noble piano sound has been “polished” at master classes he attended with prominent pianists such as Dmitrij Bashkirov, Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, and Sir András Schiff, with whom he has been extending his music horizons. As versatile artist he also studies composing and he crowned the success in that field by winning the Improvisation Contest of the Béla Bartók Conservatory. He also plays in the keyboard section of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Palojtay is also a successful chamber musician thanks also to his former professors Gábor Csalog, Márta Gulyás, and Rita Wagner. He is a member of the Ludium Ensemble, which mainly promotes contemporary music pieces and he also participated in establishing of the Classicus Ensemble with which he performs at important music events in Hungary and USA. János Palojtay was awarded the Third Prize at 27^th Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain (2012) and the Second Prize at the 1^st   International Chopin Competition in Budapest. He also received the Gundel Art Prize (2011), and the Bíró Sári Memorial Award.

 Zoltán FEJÉRVÁRI piano, Hungary – the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship and winner of the second prize at the James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester (2010), which has announced a rich performing career with its title, used to study in Milan for two years before that. He studied in the classes of Dmitri Bashkirov and Martinez Mehner and continued his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest where he worked with Andras Kemenes, Dénes Várjon and Rita Wagner. Currently, Fejérvári performs regularly at recitals at concert stages of many European countries and the USA, including Carnegie’s Weill Hall in New York, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Library of Congress in Washington DC, Gasteig in Munich, Palau de Música in Valencia, Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires and Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. he i salso a frequent soloist of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Orchestra, as well as of the Verbier Festival and Concerto Budapest orchestras. Until now, he has co-operated with renowned conductors such as Iván Fischer, Zoltán Kocsis, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. As a passionate chamber musician Zoltán Fejérvári (who has been playing the piano since the age of eight) often performs with the Keller and Kodály Quartets and musicians such as Gary Hoffman, Joseph Lin, Cristoph Richter, András Keller, Radovan Vlatković, Ivan Monighetti, Frans Helmerson, and Steven Isserlis. He has been a participant in the Chamber Music Connects the World programme of the Kronberg Academy (whose students also perform at this year’s Nomus) and of several similar projects, and at  the invitation of the pianist Mitsuko Uchida, he was the guest of the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont, New England) during the summers of 2014 through 2016. After the CD Malediction titled as the same named piece by Liszt, which he recorded with the Budapest Chamber Symphony and for which he received the Grand prix du Disque award in 2013, Hungaroton released his CD with four Mozart’s violin sonatas  recorded with the violinist Ernő Kállai the following year. For four years now Zoltán Fejérvári has been teaching at the Chamber Music Department of the distinguished academy of music in Budapest that he himself graduated from, and the most direct invitation for the participation at Nomus 2018 is his latest victory at the Concours Musical International de Montréal for piano in 2017 along which we could also mention the second prize he won in Spain at the  International Piano Competition Ricard Viñes in Lleida (the birth place of Enric Granados) and the first place at the  International Competition for Piano and Orchestra Citta di Cantu.