14 November 7 pm City Hall
Balázs Piri Soma (Hungary) piano recital
Program
Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque
I. Prélude
II. Menuet
III. Clair de lune
IV. Passepied
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major op. 9, no. 2
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 31
Balázs-Piri Soma
20-year-old Balázs-Piri Soma sat down to the piano for the first time eleven years ago, and since then he has won first place in sixteen international and national piano competitions.
In 2018, he became the winner of the Hungarian televised classical music competition, Virtuózok.
Soma is Hungary’s Classical Music Ambassador and was awarded the Junior Príma award in 2021.
He first played as a soloist with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine, and since then he has had the opportunity to work with Hungarian and foreign orchestras on numerous occasions: conducted by, among others, Maestro Placido Domingo, Ádám Medveczky, Gábor Hollerung, Eugene Kohn, Howard Shelley, András Keller and Yoon Kuk Lee.
He is a regular performer in Hungary’s major concert venues, among others he has performed in the Palace of Arts, Vigadó and the Great Hall of the Academy of Music. He has also given concerts abroad: in New York, London as a soloist of the world-famous London Mozart Players and in the O2 Arena with Hauser , in Doha, Strasbourg, Dubai on the main stage of the EXPO, Washington, Forte dei Marmi in Andrea Bocelli’s villa, Düsseldorf.
In 2020, a recording was made, he played Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Placido Domingo.
In 2023, Forbes made a big interview with him.
He is currently a second-year student at the Mozarteum University of Music in Salzburg, where his teacher is the well-known Canadian pianist Connie Shih.
His teachers agree that his greatest strength is his exceptional musicality, which is combined with a humble and natural personality.
