Chamber music concert by Mariann Kerényi, pianist and Bence Ábrahám, violinist

Date: 12 September
Time: 17:00
Venue:  Liszt Institute Brussels
10 Treurenberg, 1000 Brussels

Bence Ábrahäm /violin/
He was born in 1979 in Hungary. He obtained his diploma at the University of Szeged (Hungary) as a student of Ferenc Szecsődi and eamed a master - degree at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he studied with Kati Sebestyén and Marc Kowalski. As a chamber musician he gave concerts in Hungary, Serbia, Switzerland, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium. Since October 2006 he is an artist of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. /Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen/

Mariann Kerényi /piano/
She obtained her diploma at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Music in 2002 and continued further studies as professional accompanist and repetitieur at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Ms. Kerényi won several prizes and scholarships as pianist: Special Prize at The 3rd International Jean Francaix Piano Competition in Paris in 2000, 1st Prize Winner of The National Mozart Piano Competition and 2nd Prize Winner of The National Schumann Piano Competition in Hungary, two-part Winner of Hungarian Republic Scholarship. In 2003 Ms. Kerényi received the Szeged County Town Art Fellowship, in 2012 received Artisjus- Prize for her teaching activity. Currently she work as assistant professor at University of Szeged Bartók Faculty of Art, she is the répétiteur at the Voice Department, where she also teaches at the Vántus István Music Secondary School. Subjects taught by Mis Kerényi: piano main subject, chamber music. She was a piano acommpanist for the singing master courses of Éva Marton, Éva Bátori, István Andrejcsik and Krisztina Laki. Piano accompanist for prestigious international singing competitions. She regularly gives concerts at home and abroad in solo and with chamber-music partners. She regularly accompanies singers on concerts organized by the Hungarian Bartók Radio. She completed her doctoral studies at the Doctoral School of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest in 2019. Title of her doctoral dissertation: The Role of Piano in 49 Deutsche Volkslieder by Johannes Brahms.

Programme :
Franz Schubert: Sonata in G minor
César Franck:  Sonata in A major
Manuel de Falla: Suite of Spanish Folksongs
Bartók Béla:  lst Rhapsody