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16.09.2026 18:00

Franz Liszt International Piano Competition - Preliminary Round 2

Pécs, Kodály Központ

Music-Harvest Festival

Competition Festival concert
Prices
3 900 HUF

Tickets can be purchased at the Kodály Centre (Pécs, Breuer Marcell sétány 4., +36 72 500 300), at Ticket Express offices, and at the following information points of the Diocese of Pécs during opening hours: Rózsakert Shop (Pécs, Janus Pannonius Street 10), Pécs Cathedral (Pécs, Dóm Square 1), as well as online at www.jegymester.hu

Ticket discounts:

We offer a 20% discount for students and pensioners.

PTE Alumni members receive a 15% discount, while Tüke Card holders receive a 10% discount.

We provide a 50% discount to all season ticket holders of Filharmonia Hungary. The discount applies to one ticket per subscription, per concert.

If tickets are purchased for four different events of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, the buyer receives a 30% discount; the discount is deducted from the total price of the tickets.

Individual discounts cannot be combined.

The event is open to the press, and photographic and audio recordings may be made for marketing purposes.

We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances, and ticket prices may change accordingly.

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At the official opening ceremony, the draw was held in the presence of a notary public, determining that the competitors’ performance order will begin with the letter D.
Accordingly, on September 16, 2026, the young pianists will perform in the following order in the semifinal round of the competition:

 

18:00 – Second part

Sebestyén Pellet 

György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "Prelude and Chorale", No. 14 
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée", No. 7 
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 6. "András Hajdú is 60!", No. 26 
Liszt: Csárdás macabre, S. 224 
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, No. 11 in D-flat major ("Harmonies du soir") R. 2/b, S.139 
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, No. 10 in F minor (Allegro agitato) R. 2/b, S.139 


Ildikó Rozsonits  

György Kurtág: Games, Vol.  5. "Hommage tardif à Karskaya", No. 40
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée", No. 7 
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, "Feux follets", R. 2/b, S. 139, No. 5
 
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, "Chasse-neige" R. 2/b, S. 139, No. 12 
Liszt: Years of Pilgrimage – Second Year: Italy, "Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata", S. 161, No. 7 


Attila Szaniszló 


György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. “La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée”, No. 7
Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini, "Theme and Variations" in A minor, R. 3/b, S. 141, No. 6
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "Waltz" No. 35
Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini, “La Campanella”, R. 3/b, S. 141, No. 3
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "Les Adieux" No. 10
Liszt: Mephisto-Walzer, “Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke”, S. 514, No. 1

— INTERMISSION —

Barbare Tataradze

Schubert–Liszt: Erlkönig, S. 558, No. 4 
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. "La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée", No. 7 
György Kurtág: Games, Vol.  6.  "Les Adieux", No. 25 

Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, " Chasse-neige"
R. 2/b, S. 139, No. 12 
Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini, "La Campanella", R. 3/b, S. 141, No. 3  
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S. 244, No. 6 

Calvin Abdiel

Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, “Chasse-neige” R. 2/b, S.139, No. 12
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 5. “La fi lle aux cheveux de lin – enragée”, No. 7
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, “Feux follets”, R. 2/b, S. 139, No. 5
György Kurtág: Games Vol. 7. “ Fugitive Thoughts on an Alberti Bass”, No. 2
Mozart – Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan, R. 288, S. 418


Cai Huiping

Liszt: Zwei Konzertetüden, "Gnomenreigen" S. 145, No. 2
Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, "Chasse-neige" R. 2/b, S.139, No. 12
György Kurtág: Games, Vol. 7.  " Flowers We Are – For Miyako", No. 5
Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171 
ARTISTS:

Competitors in the Semifinal Round


PROGRAMME:

Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, R. 2/b; S.139
Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini, R. 3/b; S. 141
Liszt: Zwei Konzertetüden, S. 145
György Kurtág: Games Volume