X. Summerfest

2025 July 18-28

 

July 18th Friday - X. Summerfest Anniversary Opening Concert
18:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
• Mihály Vörösmarty: Thoughts in the Library
Zoltán Bezerédi

• Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D major (“Grosso mogul”, RV 208
Daniil Bulayev, Gáspár Kelemen, Leonhard Baumgartner, Maya Kasprzak, Mariam Abouzahra, Coco Tomita, Alice Lee – violin
Barnabás Kelemen, Razvan Popovici, Katalin Kokas – viola
Ditta Rohmann, Flóra Csőke, Balázs Dolfin – cello
Igor Davidovics– lute
Rebeka Wang– harpsichord

• Nino Rota: Divertimento Concertante for Double Bass and Orchestra – IV. Allegro Marcato
Strahinja Mitrović – double bass
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller

• Mozart: Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491
Pei Lin Oisin Pu – piano
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller
 
intermission

• Dohnányi: Violin Concerto no. 1 in D minor, op. 27
Boris Brovtsyn – violin
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller
 
 
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33
László Fenyő – cello
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: Keller András
 

July 19th Saturday - Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf, Breakpoints, Time Portal
11:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf with Eszter Csákányi
• Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Katalin Kokas, AlexeyStychkin– violin, Maxim Rysanov – viola, Dóra Kokas – cello, Strahinja Mitrović – double bass, Noémi Győri – flute, Fruzsina Káli-Fonyódi – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Gábor Devecsai – trumpet, János Benyus, Péter Benyus, Máté Hamar – horn, Róbert Stürzenbaum – trombone, Jácint-Yuuka Hayashi-Kelemen, Szabolcs Joó – percussion
Conductor: Barnabás 
Kelemen
Narrator: Eszter Csákányi

15:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
Breakpoints
• Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet, K019
Alice Lee, Mariam Abouzahra – violin
Előd Soós – viola
Balázs Dolfin – cello

• Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor, op. 13
Gáspár Kelemen, Maya Kasprzak – violin, Enpei Zhu – viola, Laura Ruo-An Lin – cello

 

• Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44
Mariam Abouzahra, Alice Lee – violin,
Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg – viola,
Ditta Rohmann – cello, János Palojtay – piano

18:00, Grand Hall
Time Portal
• Telemann: Concerto in D major for Three Trumpets and Timpani, TWV 54:D4
Sergei Nakariakov, Filippo Lombardi, BenceFleischer – trumpet
Szabolcs Joó – timpani
Abigél Králik – violin
Fanni
Edőcs – harpsichord
Igor
Davidovics– lute

• Brahms: String Sextet no. 2 in G major, op. 36
Barnabás Kelemen, Mariam Abouzahra– violin
Maxim Rysanov, Katalin Kokas – viola
László Fenyő, Dóra Kokas – cello

 

-intermission-

• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Salamon Eredics, Anekke Boeke – recorder
Katalin Kokas– solo violin
Maya Kasprzak – concertmaster
Razvan Popovici – viola
Ditta Rohmann – cello
Strahinja Mitrović – double bass
Fanni Edőcs – harpsichord
Igor Davidovics – lute

 

• Mustonen: Nonet No. 2
Júlia Pusker, Alissa Margulis, Abigél Králik, Orsolya Korcsolán – violin
Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Razvan Popovici – viola
Enrico Bronzi, Balázs Dolfin – cello
Strahinja Mitrović – double bass

 

July 20th Sunday - A day with Shostakovich
11:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor, op. 8
Leonhard Baumgartner – violin
Mon-Puo
Lee – cello
Gábor Csalog – piano

• Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67
Alexey Stychkin – violin
Boglárka
Forgó– cello
János
Palojtay – piano

15:00, Grand Hall
• Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, op. 127
Polina Pasztircsák– soprano
Abigél Králik – violin
Ditta Rohmann – cello
Gábor Csalog – piano

• Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 40
Dóra Kokas – cello
Maria Meerovitch – piano

• Shostakovich: Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
Alissa Margulis – violin
Coco
Tomita – violin
András Lakatos – piano

• Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8, in C minor, op. 110
Boris Brovtsyn, Katalin Kokas – violin
Barnabás Kelemen – viola
László Fenyő – cello

 

19:00, Grand Hall
• Shostakovich: Jazz Suite no. 1
Conductor: Maxim Rysanov
Barnabás Kelemen – violin
Kristóf Havasi, Ábris Kocsi, Mátyás Katrin – saxophone
Sergei Nakariakov, Filippo Lombardi – trumpet
Róbert Stürzenbaum – trombone
Szabolcs Joó – percussion
János Tóth Jr. – banjo / Hawaiian guitar
János Palojtay – piano
Strahinja Mitrović – double bass

• Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11
Boris Brovtsyn, Maya Kasprzak, Gáspár Kelemen, Alexey Styschkin – violin
Razvan
Popovici, Bojana Serovic – viola
László
Fenyő, Flóra Csőke – cello

• Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Anima Musicae
Conductor: Maxim Rysanov
Maria Meerovich – piano
Sergei Nakariakov – trumpet
Alissa Margulis – concertmaster

• Literary Reading: excerpts from Shostakovich’s letters and the biography Testimony
Pál Mácsai

• Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, op. 147
Maxim Rysanov – viola
Pei Lin Oisin
Pu – piano
July 21st Monday - The Romantic double six
19:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Brahms: String Sextet no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 18
Tatiana Samouil – violin
Abigél
Králik – violin
Mathis Rochat – viola
Előd Soós – viola
Ditta
Rohmann – cello
Mon-Puo Lee – cello
 

-intermission-

• Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Daniil Bulayev – violin
ALice
Lee – violin
Maxim
Rysanov – viola
Gáspár Kelemen– viola
Dóra Kokas – cello
Mon-Puo Lee – cello

July 22nd Tuesday - Kaddish-To remember and remind “80”
16:00 – BMC
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 49
Coco Tomita – violin
Mon-Puo
Lee – cello
Mihály
Boros – piano

17:00 – BMC
Kaddish: The Prayer of the Rememberers – A joint production with the Kertész Institute, Script by Zsolna Ugron
Katalin Kokas – violin, viola
Barnabás Kelemen – violin, viola
Miklós Lukács – cimbalom
Salamon Eredics – accordion
Dávid Eredics – clarinet
Actors:
Hanna Kelemen
Sebestyén László Szabó

 

19:00 – BMC
Contemporary Works Inspired by the Holocaust

Iván Madarász: Talisman
Éva Osztrosits – violin
Mathis Rochat – viola
Noémi Győri – flute

Pavel Haas: Quartet
Tatiana Samouil – violin
Orsolya
Korcsolán – violin
Mathis Rochat – viola
Christian-Pierre La Marca– cello

Péter Tornyai: Grab in den Lüften
Orsolya Korcsolán, Tatiana Samouil, Alexey Stychkin, Alice Lee – violin
Jácunt-Yuuka Hayashi-Kelemen – percussion

Máté Balogh: Eisikovits Recitations
Noémi Győri – fuvola 
Szabolcs
Joó – percussion
Gáspár
Kelemen, Maya Kasprzak, Daniil Bulayev, Coco Tomita – violin
Mathis Rochat, Előd Soós – viola
Mon-Puo Lee, Flóra Csőke – cello
July 23rd Wednesday - Best of 20th Century – Vol. 1
19:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Bartók: Violin Sonata no. 1, BB 84
Gáspár Kelemen – violin
Pei Lin Oisin Pu – piano

• Lutosławski: Partita for Violin and Piano
Júlia Pusker – violin
Diana Ketler – piano

intermission
• Stravinsky: Divertimento for Violin and Piano (Le baiser de la fée)
Maya Kasprzak – violin
Maria Meerovich – piano

• Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119
Alexey Styschkin – violin
Péter Nagy – piano

• Debussy: Cello Sonata, L. 135
László Fenyő – cello
José Gallardo – piano
July 24th Thursday - Best of 20th Century – Vol. 2
19:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73
Katalin Kokas – violin
Dóra Kokas – cello

• Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, K. 581
Andreas Ottensamer – clarinet
Daniil Bulayev – violin
Leonhard Baumgartner – violin
Gáspár Kelemen – viola
László Fenyő – cello

intermission
• Messiaen: Theme and Variations
Júlia Pusker – violin
András Lakatos – piano

• Smetana: String Quartet no. 1, in E minor (“From my Life”)
Abigél Králik – violin
Latica Honda-Rosenberg – violin
Mathis Rochat – viola
Christian-Pierre La Marca – cello
July 25th - Schubertiada
11:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Schubert: Sonatina for Violin and Piano
Amira Abouzahra – violin
János Palojtay – piano

• Schubert: String Quartet in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”), D. 810
Barnabás Kelemen – violin
Katalin Kokas – violin
Maxim Rysanov – viola
Dóra Kokas– cello

15:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D. 940  (D. Tabakova’s arranged for string nonet)
Boris Brovtsyn, Coco Tomita, Gáspár Kelemen, Maya Kasprzak – violin
Maxim Rysanov, Bojana Serovic – viola
Dóra Kokas, Christian-Pierre La Marca – cello
Zsolt Fejérvári – double bass

• Schubert: Piano Trio no. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898
Yume Tomita – violin
Péter Nagy – piano

19:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
• Schubert: Erlkönig, D. 328, Leiermann D. 911/24.
Johannes Held – baritone
Gábor Csalog – piano

• Schubert: Quartettsatz, D. 703
Amira Abouzahra, Yume Tomita,  – violin
Éva Osztrosits – viola
Domonkos Hartmann– cello

 

• Schubert: Piano Duet
Boris Nagy, András Lakatos– piano

• Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“The Trout”), D. 667
Barnabás Kelemen – violin
Katalin Kokas – viola
László Fenyő – cello
Zsolt Fejérvári – double bass
José Gallardo – piano
July 26th - The Grand Finale Weekend/Saturday: Vengerov +
11:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel – children’s opera in Hungarian, with the winning artworks of a children’s drawing competition as background (For adults too!)
Narrator: Piroska Molnár
Conductor: Andreas Ottensamer

16:00, Liszt Academy – Solti Hall
• Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
• Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody

19:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
• Mahler: Songs
Johannes Held – baritone
Gábor Csalog – piano

intermission

• Mendelssohn: Octet
Maxim Vengerov, Katalin Kokas, Júlia Pusker, Abigél Králik – violin
Barnabás Kelemen, Maxim Rysanov – viola
László Fenyő, Dóra Kokas – cello
July 27th - The Grand Finale Weekend/Sunday:
Vengerov +
18:00, Liszt Academy – Grand Hall
• J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
• Bartók: String Quartet No. 1
intermission
• J. S. Bach–Rachmaninoff: Partita in E major
• Máté Balogh: Timpani Speech
• Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto in D major , op. 35
July 28th - Public masterclasses
10:00–13:00, Budapest Music Center
  • György Kurtág’s masterclass with the Kelemen Quartet

 

14:30–17:30, Budapest Music Center
  • Maxim Vengerov’s masterclass with 4 selected FAB students

Young Artists

Violin 

Amira Abouzahra

Mariam Abouzahra

Leonhard Baumgartner

Daniil Bulayev

Maya Kasprzak

Gáspár Kelemen

Coco és Yume Tomita

Cello

Flóra Csőke

Gergely Devich

Balázs Dolfin

Domonkos Hartmann

Piano

Mihály Boros

András Lakatos

Pei Lin Oisin Pu

Winds Instruments

Bence Fleischer

Filippo Lombardi

Artists 2025

Violin

Boris Brovtsyn

Jonian-Ilias Kadesha

Barnabás Kelemen

András Keller

Katalin Kokas

Abigél Králik

Orsolya Korcsolán

Latica Honda-Rosenberg

Alissa Margulis

Júlia Pusker

Tatiana Samouil

Dora Schwarzberg

Maxim Vengerov

Viola

Razvan Popovici

Mathis Rochat

Nora Romanoff Schwarzberg

Maxim Rysanov

Wilfried Strehle

Cello

Enrico Bronzi

László Fenyő

Vashti Mimosa Hunter

Dóra Kokas

Christian-Pierre La Marca

Mon-Puo Lee

Ditta Rohmann

Double bass

Zsolt Fejérvári

Piano

Gábor Csalog

José Gallardo

Diana Ketler

Maria Meerovitch

Péter Nagy

Baroque 

Thomas Dunford

Wind instruments

Tamás Benkócs

Gábor Boldoczki

Noémi Győri

Sergei Nakariakov

Percussion

Szabolcs Joó

Singer

Johannes Held

Polina Pasztircsák

Cimbalom

Miklós Lukács

Conductors of the Student Orchestra

Barnabás Kelemen

Andreas Ottensamer

Maxim Rysanov

Ensembles

Anima Musicae

Concerto Budapest

Jupiter Ensemble

Lajos Sárközy, Jr. and his orchestra

Söndörgő

Composers

Máté Balogh

Máté Bella

Tímea Dragony

Iván Madarász

Patrik Oláh

Péter Tornyai