Participant data

Ádám Király has been playing the piano since the age of 6. After the successful admission, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and after the bachelour studies, he graduated in there receiving masterʼs degree in June 2023. During his studies at the academy, his teachers were professors Dénes Várjon, András Kemenes, Balázs Szokolay, Rita Wagner,

Gábor Csalog, László Tihanyi and László Borbély. In addition to his piano studies, he had the opportunity to start his composition studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 2021, where he is currently studying with prof. Martin Lichtfuss. He has performed in Poland, Germany, France and Italy, among other countries, and in several concert halls in Budapest. He has won 1st prize in the 2023 Great Piano Master Online International Piano Competition. He also was a finalist in the B. Bartók World Competition for Composers in 2020 with his own piece named Elindultam. He has participated in masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Boaz Sharon, Jeffrey Cohen, Imre Rohmann, György Pauk, Zoltán Fejérvári, Giovanni Guzzo and Gábor Farkas, among the others.

I ROUND

1. Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 18 (''The Hunt'') · E flat major · Op. 31/3
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | WTC Book 1: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor · BWV 853
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · F sharp major · VL 184
4. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B flat minor · VL 169
5. Frederic Chopin | Etude No. 12 · C minor · Op. 25

II ROUND

1. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B major · VL 186
2. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B minor · VL 182a
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "Autumn" · VL 264
4. Vidmantas Bartulis | "Hanami"
5. Béla Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra BB123 (arranged for piano solo by Béla Bartók) · Sz. 116

III ROUND

1. Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto · A minor · Op. 54