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Organized by the Liszt Institute New York a captivating classical music recital will take place on January 22, 2025 from 7pm at the Consulate General of Hungary in New York celebrating the Day of Hungarian Culture. The evening will feature Liszt-Award winning flutist Gergely Ittzés and flutist Dóra Szabó as well as pianist Péter Ittzés.
PROGRAM DETAILS (approximately 75 minutes)
- J. S. Bach: Trio Sonata in F major BWV 1028 (arranged by G. Ittzés)
- Francois Devienne: Sonata in E minor
- Niccolo Paganini-Ittzés: Capriccio No.15, 10
- Franz Liszt: Paganini-etude no.2
- Paganini-Ittzés: Capriccio no.4
- András Hamary: Tiny World (world premiere)
- Aleksander Tansman: Sonatina
- Ferenc Doppler: Hungarian Duettino

About the artists
Gergely Ittzés, Flute
Born in Hungary (1969) and a graduate of the Budapest Liszt Academy of Music, Gergely Ittzés is one of the most proactive personalities of the flute scene. While being a researcher of his instrument and composer of many experimental flute works applying the most up-to-date flute techniques, especially polyphonic playing, he does not specialize in contemporary music only but tries to connect it with tradition.
His large repertoire includes all the important works written for his instrument and a great number of rarities from the past centuries and today. In addition to classical and modern music, several other styles have also influenced his musical idiom, like jazz, ethnic music, and free improvisation.
Mr. Ittzés has given concerts and led master classes in most European countries, Brazil, Canada, China, Taiwan, South-Korea, Japan, and the United States, being invited here by the most prestigious institutions such as Juilliard, Manhattan School, Mannes, Eastman, Oberlin, Yale, NEC etc. He gave the first performance of Anthony Newman’s Flute Concerto at the Budapest Spring Festival, 2005, and many other new concertos, chamber works, and solos have been dedicated to him. He has been invited to perform at the world’s major flute festivals (Beijing, Brazília, Paris, New York, Manchester, Freiburg, Tokyo, and many others) and debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2014.
Mr. Ittzés has been flute professor at the Széchenyi University in Győr since 1995. In 2017 he spent one semester at the Boston University as a Fulbright guest professor. In 2019 August he joined the faculty of the new branch of The Juilliard School founded in Tianjin, China (tianjinjuilliard.edu.cn). As a devoted teacher he has been working and lecturing on his comprehensive flute methodology ‘Flautology’ for decades. The Hungarian version of the book was published in 2018.
Dóra Szabó, Flute
Dóra Szabó was born in Szombathely, Hungary. She started playing flute at the age of 8 in her hometown. During her high school years, she was selected to play with the local orchestra as a soloist. She received her bachelor degree from the Széchenyi University in Győr and studied one year at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium, studying with Aldo Baerten. Later she finished her master studies in Győr again. She attended master classes by Peter Verhoyen, Christian Studler, Jørn Schau, Erwin Klambauer, Olga Ivusheikova, Klara Novaková, and Sanqing Chen. In 2023 she reached the semifinals of the International Flute Competition in Bratislava.
In 2020, Dóra relocated to China. There, she has performed in various concert halls with her husband, Gergely Ittzés, flute faculty at The Tianjin Juilliard School, and his colleagues such as Akio Koyama (bassoon), Xiangyu Zhou (clarinet), and Li-Ya Huang (harp). She has also subbed in the orchestra of the school under the baton of Chen Lin, Jing Huan, and Yu Long, and toured with the Musica Aeterna Orchestra led by Teodor Currentzis. She frequently plays principal flute in the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra.
Péter Ittzés, Piano
After his years at the Premonstratensian High School in Gödöllő, Péter Ittzés enrolled in the English Studies programme of the Eötvös Loránd University simultaneously with his piano studies at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. In 2016-2017 he studied two semesters at Bard College with Peter Serkin. After returning to Hungary, he finished his English BA, receiving recognition for his essay about Charles Ives and 19th century American philosophy, and went on to study piano at the Liszt Academy of Music with András Kemenes and Imre Hargitai. In his degree recital in 2023, he played a lesser known piano concerto by Hummel followed by Frederic Rzewski’s monumental variations "The People United Will Never Be Defeated".
Péter is also an active improviser. In 2023 he won the Vukán Creative Art Competition for piano improvisation. Currently he is teaching at the Chopin Music School in Gödöllő and participates in the Hungarian music scene as a soloist and chamber musician.