‘Chopin is most important to me,’ stated Ivett Gyöngyösi unequivocally in an interview. The talent of this pianist in her early twenties is breathtaking: she won admission to the Special School for Young Talents of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music at the age of 11, then she naturally progressed to the piano department, she won the 10th Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition in 2013, then a year later she came top in her category at the hit TV classical music talent show Virtuózok. She has already proven herself at several appearances abroad and is proud holder of the Junior Prima Prize.

Gyöngyösi takes to the stage in partnership with Concerto Budapest headed by András Keller and Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their foundation and recruited from musicians from the Baltic states. So, if Chopin is the most important, then let him open the programme! The energetic (or at other times gently poetic) bars of the second piano concerto are followed by Mussorgsky’s dignified eclecticism – naturally, in Ravel’s brilliant orchestration.