Prize winners' concert of the Concours Géza Anda 2025 - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Ilya Shmukler, piano
Daumants Liepiņš, piano
Rico Gulda, piano

Recital Ilya Shmukler

Joseph Haydn: Variations in F minor Hob. XVII:6
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas op. 59
Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major op. 60
Sergei Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 1 in D minor op. 28

During the interval: panel discussion with Rico Gulda

Recital Daumant's Liepiņš

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826
Enrique Granados: from: "Goyescas": No. 1 "Los requiebros"
Manuel de Falla: from the opera "El amor brujo": "Ritual Fire Dance"
Enrique Granados: from "Goyescas": No. 4: "Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor"
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor op. 36
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Valse" and "Romance" for piano six hands

The Concours Géza Anda occupies a special place among the many international piano competitions - and not only because of its jury, which is always made up of outstanding figures from the world of music. What's more, the Concours Géza Anda is not just about the prestigious final concert and considerable prize money: the Géza Anda Foundation undertakes to mentor the winners for three years and provide them with performance opportunities, among other things. Thus, classic.Esterházy warmly welcomes two outstanding prizewinners of the 16th Concours Géza Anda: the Moscow-born pianist Ilya Shmukler (winner of the First Prize, the Audience Prize, the Mozart Prize, the Junior Jury Award and the Special Prize of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra) and his Latvian colleague Daumants Liepiņš (winner of the Second Prize ex aequo and the Prix Fondation Thiébaud-Frey). They will demonstrate their technical brilliance and musical expressiveness not only as soloists, but also together with Rico Gulda, General Director of the Esterhazy Private Foundation.

Subject to change without notice.