Program 2025

10 AUGUST 2025, SUNDAY

4:00 p.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
BRILLANT MINDS, WORN THINGS

Lecture of Ádám Bősze (in Hungarian)

7 p.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
OPENING CONCERT

Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
István Várdai - cello
Julien Quentin - piano

Giovanni Sollima: Terra Aria
István Várdai - cello
Kamilla Šitinová - cello
Ella Schmalzl - cello
Domonkos Hartmann - cello

Antonio Vivaldi: L'estro Armonico, RV 550 Concerto for 4 Violins in E minor, Op. 3, No. 4
Júlia Pusker - violin
Abigél Králik - violin
Amira Abouzahra - violin
Mariam Abouzahra - violin
Motus Quartet (Tim de Vries, Karla Križ - violin, Erin Pitts - viola, Domonkos Hartmann - cello)
Soma Dinyés - harpsichord

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Ernest Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String quartet, Op. 21
Amira Abouzahra - violin
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano
Motus Quartet (Tim de Vries, Karla Križ - violin, Erin Pitts - viola, Domonkos Hartmann - cello)

11 AUGUST 2025, MONDAY

11 a.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
SPRING MEMORIES

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 "Spring"
Júlia Pusker - violin
Onutė Gražinytė - piano

3 p.m.
Venue: Franz Liszt Music School
Lecture of Dániel Dinyés (in Hungarian)

6 p.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
RACHMANONOFF/BRAHMS

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
István Várdai - cello
Julien Quentin - piano

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Johannes Brahms: String Quintet in G major, No. 2, Op. 111
Roman Simovic - violin
Abigél Králik - violin
Milena Simovic - viola
Máté Szűcs - viola
István Várdai - cello

9 p.m.
venue: Reformed Church
PULCHRA - SOUNDS OF BEAUTY

Ola Gjeilo: Pulchra es amica mea
Béla Bartók: Legénycsúfoló
Voces Angelicae
Conductor: Soma Dinyés

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor , BWV 859
Petar Balaban - accordion

George Frideric Handel: Sonata in G minor, op.2 No. 8, HWV 393 (arranged by Apor Szűts)
István Várdai - cello
Aleksander Simić - cello
Soma Dinyés - harpsichord
Motus Kvartett (Tim de Vries, Karla Križ - violin, Erin Pitts - viola, Domonkos Hartmann - cello)

Claude Debussy: The Girl with Flaxen Hair
Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann: Bossa Nova Philharmonica
István Várdai - cello
Domonkos Harmann - cello
Kamilla Šitinová - cello
Ella Schmalzl - cello
Ábris Törő - cello
Aleksander Simić - cello

Laura Jekabsone: Kuulin aanen
Enya - Roma Ryan: May it be
Voces Angelicae
Conductor: Soma Dinyés

12 AUGUST 2025, TUESDAY

11 a.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
DIGNITY AND PASSION

George Frideric Handel-Johan Halvorsen: Sarabande
Mariam Abouzahra - violin
Máté Szűcs - viola

Franz Schubert: Death and the Maiden for a capella choir (arr. Soma Dinyés)
Voces Angelicae
Conductor: Soma Dinyés

Franz Schubert: String Quartet in D minor No. 14 "Death and the Maiden", D. 810
Motus Quartet (Tim de Vries, Karla Križ - violin, Erin Pitts - viola, Domonkos Hartmann - cello)

3 p.m.
Venue: Franz Liszt Music School
Lecture of Dániel Dinyés (in Hungarian)

6 p.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
SCHUMANN/BRAHMS

Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano
Júlia Pusker - violin
Amira Abouzahra - viola
István Várdai - cello

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Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Julien Quentin - piano
Roman Simovic - violin
Máté Szűcs - viola
István Várdai - cello

9 p.m.
Venue: Open Air Stage of the Dorottya House
BUDAPEST JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Mariann Falusi, Viktor Király - singers

13 AUGUST 2025, WEDNESDAY

11 a.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
COLOURS AND SHADOWS

Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata in D minor, op. 27 No. 3 Ballade
Abigél Králik - violin

Giacomo Puccini: Four Songs
Morire?; Terra e Mare; Sole e Amore; Avanti, Urania!
Ildikó Megyimórecz - soprano
Julien Quentin - piano

Claude Debussy: Petite Suite
Julien Quentin - piano
Onutė Gražinytė - piano

Rebecca Clark: Viola Sonata
Máté Szűcs - viola
Onutė Gražinytė - piano

3 p.m.
Venue: Franz Liszt Music School
Lecture of Zsolt Körmendy (in Hungarian)

6 p.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
DVOŘÁK/MENDELSSOHN/WEINBERG - CONCERT of the FRANZ LISZT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mieczysław Weinberg: Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra, op. 43
Featuring:
Ella Schmalzl - cello

Felix Mendelssohn: Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in D minor, MWV O4
Featuring:
Amira Abouzahra - violin
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano

Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22

9 p.m.
Venue: Open Air Stage of the Dorottya House
GLOBETROTTNG MELODIES

Petar Balaban - accordion
Elemér Duka and his Band
Sárközy Collective

14 AUGUST 2025, THURSDAY

11 a.m.
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace
REFRESHING CONTRASTS

Sergei Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119
Jonathan Roozeman - cello
Julien Quentin - piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516
Roman Simovic - violin
Júlia Pusker - violin
Máté Szűcs - viola
Milena Simovic - viola
Jonathan Roozeman - cello

3 p.m.
Venue: Franz Liszt Music School
Talk with Ádám Bősze (in Hungarian)

7 p.m.
FINAL CONCERT
Venue: Szivárvány Cultural Palace

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano
Roman Simovic - violin
Júlia Pusker - violin
Milena Simovic - viola
Jonathan Roozeman - cello

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Carte Blanche
Featuring the Artists of the Festival

Carl Bohm: Perpetuum mobile
Amira Abouzahra - violin
Mariam Abouzahra - violin

Neapolitan songs:
Ernesto De Curtis: Non Ti Scordar Di Me (Don't forget me)
Agustin Lara: Granada
Paolo Tosti: 'A Vucchella (That little mouth)
Eduardo Di Capua: ’O sole mio (My Sunshine)
Ildikó Megyimórecz - soprano
Júlia Pusker - violin
Mariam Abouzahra - violin
Máté Szűcs - viola
István Várdai - cello

Niccolò Paganini: V. Caprice
Pablo de Sarasate: Gipsy songs
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Sárközy Collective
Lajos Sárközy jr. - violin
Rudolf Sárközy - double bass
Julius Csík - cimbal
Bango Drahoslav - piano

Supported by the Nemzeti Kulturális Alap