Duo Domo with Tim de Vries

DUO DOMO is the 1st prize and Audience Prize winner of the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in France, 2022. In November the same year, they went on winning 1st prize in the Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition as well. The duo enjoys performing a wide range of classical and contemporary or newly discovered repertoire all across Europe. They regularly perform at Europe’s prestigious concert venues, such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the National State Opera in Lyon and the Palazzetto bru Zane in Venice.

DOMONKOS HARTMANN (cello) and DOMONKOS CSABAY (piano) first met in 2019 as Annie Fischer scholars, having been specially selected by Philharmonia Budapest to perform a series of chamber recitals. This had involved a ‘journey home’ for both: Hungary’s rich musical traditions as their background, both artists went on building an international career, and are now emerging as successful performers in different countries: Hartmann as a student of István Várdai at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, Csabay as a junior fellow at the Royal College of Music, London. However, trained by iconic professors at the renowned Liszt Academy, shared principles in their education, taste and musical way of thinking, as well as their mutually keen commitment towards chamber music, led Domonkos & Domonkos to collaborate. Despite their fairly short history as an ensemble, the duo have performed in numerous renowned festivals and concert venues (such as Lyon Opera House, Palace of Arts Budapest or Bradshaw Hall Birmingham, Altes Rathaus Vienna, Palazzetto bru Zane Venice) Besides programming some substantial works of the romantic sonata literature and contemporary curiosities, such as Bach Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, Beethoven Variations and Sonatas, chamber music pieces of Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Franck, Brahms, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Debussy, R. Strauss, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Britten, Kodály, Bartók, they have also experimented with undiscovered masterpieces of the romanticism, such as Rita Strohl’s Great Dramatic Sonata which they firstly performed at the Solti Hall of the Hungarian Franz Liszt Music Academy. They often got in touch with the French musical repertoire, with pieces from Fernand de la Tombelle or Nadia Boulanger, but they also gave a French evening in Venice with works of Gabriel Fauré and those of his pupils. Next to the romantic repertoire, Duo Domo is well known of supporting contemporary music. On can find Thomas Adès’ extremely demanding piece written for cello and piano, the Lieux Retrouvés, which they also played to the composer himself and whit which they already won two first prizes at international competitions. A Hungarian Society of 5 composers invited the duo to perform their pieces at the Solti Hall of the Hungarian Liszt Academy of Music, where they performed pieces of Kecskés D. Balázs, Kutrik Bence, Virágh András Máté, Bella Máté és Szentpáli Roland.

Their first album will be recorded during the upcoming season by the UK label Resonus Classics.

Domonkos Peter Hartmann is a 25-year-old cellist, winner of plenty international competitions among others in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia, in France, in the United Kingdom and in Hungary. 1st prize and Audience Prize winner of Lyon International Chamber Music Competition for cello-piano duos 2022 and 1st prize winner of Birmingham International Chamber Music competition, where he has been awarded the concert invitation of Wigmore Hall London. Domonkos has received the Junior Prima Prize from State Hungary among 10 young musicians in November 2022. Graduated at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in the cello class of Ditta Rohmann and current student of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien tutored by István Várdai. He is the owner of Zoltán Kocsis prize in category chamber music. He often played chamber music with internationally well-known musicians such as Kirill Trussov, Liisa Randalu, Lars Anders Tomter, Jennifer Stumm, Kristóf Baráti, José Gallardo, Máté Szűcs and István Várdai. He is regularly a soloist at many great concert halls, the Opera Lyon, Müpa Budapest, the great hall of the Music Academy in Budapest, where besides the classical cello concerto repertoire, he was also invited to perform and discover new, not often played pieces. That’s how he played the national premiere of Nino Rota’s first Cello Concerto. Domonkos has already in Tunisia, Taiwan, Denmark, Italy, at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London, at Palazzetto bru Zane in Venice. He is going to record his first album with Domonkos Csabay in the upcoming season with Resonus Classics in the United Kingdom.

Domonkos Csabay is a Hungarian concert pianist, chamber musician and accompanist. He studied with András Kemenes and István Lantos at the Liszt Academy Budapest, and is a graduate of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where his professors were Pascal Nemirovski and John Thwaites. Besides pursuing a solo carreer, he has worked as a répétiteur with renowned opera companies and co-operated with diverse chamber ensembles. He has made several concerto appearances and has been invited to many prestigous venues and festivals, such as the Budapest Spring Festival or the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival. Competition successes include 1st prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition in 2016 and special award in the Budapest Liszt Competition in 2021, as well as prizes won as a composer in Romania and as member of a Lied duo in Wales. His performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and in the Hungarian Radio. His debut CD was issued by Naxos in 2021. Domonkos was a collaborative piano fellow at the Royal College of Music, London and since 2023 chamber music professor at the National Academy of Music Győr and PHD student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

Tim de Vries, born in 2000 in Haarlem (The Netherlands) started playing the violin at the age of seven. In 2015 he got accepted into the class of Ilya Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservatory, after which he joined the class of Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in 2018. Afterwards he studied with Christian Altenburger at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he currently studies with Johannes Meissl. He has won 1st prizes and audience awards at several national and international competitions and participated in countless masterclasses with renowned artists such as Pavel Vernikov, Christian Tetzlaff, Vineta Sareika and Liviu Prunaru and Itzhak Perlman. Tim has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls such as the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Liszt Ferenc Hall in Budapest. He is the primarius and a founding member of the Motus Quartet. The quartet studies with Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet) at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Further musical impulses have come from Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Peter Schuhmayer (Artis Quartet) and Avedis Kouyoumdjian. He performs on a violin made by Lorenzo Storioni (Cremona, 1793).