Treurenberg 10, 1000 Brussels
Flutist Rebeka Pethő is a doctoral student at the Academy of Music Budapest under the guidance of Dr. Veronika Oross. She was born in 2000 in Targu Mures. From 2023, she continues her studies at the Leipzig Academy of Music with an Erasmus scholarship, where she learns from the artists of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 2022/21, she won a scholarship from the New National Excellence Program (the topic is the relationship between Hungarian folk music and classical music), during which she created an independent concert series: she performed at the House of Hungarian Music, the Academy of Music and several Hungarian Institutes abroad. As a regular performer of Müpa's Chamber Concerts, she performed in the Valley of the Arts, Kapolcs in 2022. She attended several orchestra academies, such as EUYOA-Mannheim, EMCO-Grafenegg. In 2022/23, she won the audition of the Encuentro Festival and spent a month studying and performing in Spain. In January 2024, she played as flute leader of the German-Scandinavian Youth Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonic. Rebeka also collaborated with the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra and the Máv Symphony Orchestra, and as an orchestral solo flutist, she appeared in Kodály's Peacock Variations and Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony. She worked with Hungarian conductors such as Ádám Medveczky, János Kovács and Péter Csaba. In 2021, she won the prize of the Bucharest Hungarian Music Festival, thanks to which she was invited to a solo evening in Italy, at the Hungarian Institute in Rome. In 2019, she received an award at the Jastrzębie-Zdrój International Flute Competition in Poland. She participated in the master classes of prestigious flautists such as Emmanuel Pahud, Berten D'Hollander and András Adorján.
Katalin Gál is a hungarian classical pianist, born in Eger in 1999. She gained her Masters Diploma in 2022 at the Liszt Academy of Music Budapest under the tutelage of Professors András Kemenes and István Gulyás, and her Postgraduate Masters Diploma (Teacher of Music Performance) in 2023. She has frequently given solo and chamber music recitals at Müpa, the national concert hall of Hungary's Glass Hall, the Liszt Academy's chamber music hall and the Óbudai Társaskör. In 2024 she presented her thematic concert series called "Mesmerized by dances" in Budapest and Eger as part of the "Bach for Everyone" national festival. Among her competition successes are 3rd place in the Dabubia Talents International Music Competition in 2018 and a special award in the 2017 Béla Bartók national composition competition. In 2017 she wrote an article for Fidelio.hu about positive confirmation in the musical upbringing of children. In 2023 she was accompanied by the Era Nova Chamber Orchestra at the Old Liszt Academy where she also played her own compositions. In 2024 she performed at various theaters around Hungary in the Caracol flamenco band, including the Budapest Fém Arts&Cafe and the Spinoza Theatre. During the autumn concert season this year upcoming performances include concerts at Vigadó Budapest as part of the Hungarian Painters Day opening and on invitation of the Club Pannonia a solo and duo concert in Vienna. Next to her performing career her passion is teaching and solfeggio pedagogy and since 2021 she teaches at the Járdányi Music School in Budapest. She sees it as her calling through her performing and teaching to bring music to as many people as possible and has a special affinity for the compositions of Bach and Chopin.
Implementation of the «Duo concerts by the young talents of the Liszt Ferenc Liszt Academy» professional program in 2024 was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
The patron of the concert is János Balázs MMA academic pianist.