7. Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition

Julianna Kiss was born in Hungary, she started her musician studies at the age of 5. She has received her first teacher Degree from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Miskolc in Hungary. She has a concert diploma in piano from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs in Hungary. From 2012 to 2015 she studied Mentor teacher program and Kovács-method at the Budapest ELTE-PPK University. She has received her Postgraduate Degree (Piano, Art Song, Chamber Music Repertoire) in Universitát für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Her Professors: Thomas Kreuzberger, Eun Ju Lee, Yuko Batik. She received further impulses from professors of piano, such as Sándor Falvai, Gyöngyi Keveházi, László Gyimesi, Attila Némethy, Tamás Vásáry, Dénes Varjon, Csaba Király. Who are famous teachers of the Hungarian piano school.

She studied heritage of Liszt and Bartók and Russian piano school method from them.
She studied the fortepiano music on the Masterclass of legendary Prof. Malcom Bilson.
She studied chamber music at the Music University of Padua.
She won on several National and International Music Competition. Her repertoire is vast: it includes piano solo and several chamber music pieces.
She is a piano accompanist for several choirs.

She works in Budapest as a sought-after piano teacher and is also employed by the Hungary as a piano mentor and piano consultant.
She is an enthusiastic representative and advertiser of Kovács-method, which takes an important part in her work.

In 2013, EMMI (Ministry of Human Resources, department of Hungarian Government) adjudicated her the „Bonis Bona – For the Talents of the Nation” award, because of her prominent work in music teaching and talent management. From 2014 she is a member of „Nemzeti Pedagógus Kar” (National Teacher Faculty). She became consultant for music teachers in 2015.
Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit state award in 2023. The Hungarian Order of Merit is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. The degrees of the Order of Merit are awarded to persons who carry out exemplary activities in the field of culture, science, art, as well as in their own field of expertise - in order to promote the interests of Hungary and increase universal human interests. The awards are granted by the President of the Republic.
Her piano students have already won close than 500 prizes at national and international
competitions.

Julianna is the founder and artistic director of the Danubia Talents International Music Festival and Competitions. She hold several masterclasses in Hungary and abroad.
She is also jury president or member at various national and international competitions in (Catania, Rome, Ischia, Orbetello) – Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary.

As a concert pianist she tours all over Europe. She has given many charity concert in Hungary and abroad. Her artistic work includes hundreds of concerts.
She has invited to play with Daniel Lugosi clarinetist he performed live for TV broad casting. (VirtuososTalent Show) Daniel Lugosi won on the Virtuosos Talent Show.
She organized the first Casio Festival in Hungary Roma Vienna gave a concert. She has organize concerts and exhibitions for young talents and supports young talents in many ways form.

She participated with four Hungarian young students in an ERASMUS program in ITALY (2018. Music, a bridge among cultures).

Publications: dr. Kovács Géza Memory book: Kovács-method in professional piano education.

Source: http://www.hetek.hu/interju/201402/zenelni_csak_szivvel_lehet

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Graduated in piano studies with full marks under the guidance of Pavla Pokojna at the Conservatory of Bratislava, her hometown.

Specialised in piano studies in Belgium with Jacques Genty, winning the Premier Prix at the Conservatory of Mons, at Bonn with Stefan Askenase and in Rome with Fausto Zadra, Carlo Zecchi, Tito Aprea and Guido Agosti.

Specialisation courses at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Carlo Zecchi and Enrico Mainardi, and at the Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali with Nikita Magaloff. Winner of the First Prize at the Brussels “F. Chopin” Contest in 1969, since then she has held numerous concerts for major concert organisations, both as soloist and with chamber orchestra, in Czechoslovakia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, South Africa, Turkey and Italy.

She has taken part in international festivals, including the XXI Festival dei Due Mondi at Spoleto. For Italian television, she recorded a commemorative concert for the 50th anniversary of the death of Leos Janacek. She has recorded for RCA, as well as participating in the sound tracks of Nino Rota, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli and Carlo Crivelli. In December 2003 she took part in the Manifestazione Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea “Corpi del Suono”, performing “Plus Minus” by Stockhausen. She holds specialisation courses regularly in Italy and abroad, and has sat on the jury of numerous Italian and international contests. She holds the principal chair for pianoforte at the Conservatory “A. Casella” at L’Aquila, Italy.

was born and currently resides in Rome. She teaches piano at the Conservatorio  Santa Cecilia in Rome.

She studied with Franco Medori at Rome Conservatory where she graduated with honors. Later she studied with Vincenzo Vitale and Bruno Canino. 

At the Ecole Internationale de Piano in Lausanne she attended  the  Piano Masterclass Course held by Fausto Zadra . After receiving her diploma she worked beside the maestro as his assistant.

She attended music analysis classes with Aldo Clementi  and chamber music classes with Pavel Vernikov.

She received a degree in DAMS (Humanities) from Rome University of Tor Vergata presenting a  thesis on the history of music interpretation.

She has won top awards in many national and international competitions.

For RAI, the public Italian media station,  she has recorded pieces composed by contemporary Italian composers: G. Turchi, S. Cafaro, G. Chiti.  She has also recorded for EDI-PAN and Radio Vaticana.

She has played  as a soloist and  with chamber ensembles for a variety of top musical institution in different European countries, in particular in Italy : Musicus Concentus Firenze, Ass. B. Barattelli L’Aquila, Sala Verdi Conservatorio di Torino, Conservatorio S. Cecilia Roma, Conservatorio L.Perosi Campobasso, Ass. Amici della  musica Palermo, Ass. Orpheo Spoleto, Accademia Musicale Napoletana, Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Pontificio Istituto Musica Sacra Roma, RAI Roma, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Roma, Università Tor Vergata Roma, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Società dei Concerti Ravello. 

She has played in duet  with Luca Sanzò (viola), Enrico Perigozzo (flute), Georg Mönch and Luigi De Filippi (violin), Aldo D’Amico (cello) and, for lieder repertoire,  with Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano).

She has a keen interest in the interpretation of 19th and 20th century French music and she is planning to perform  the whole piano production by C. Debussy by Radio Vaticana.

She was awarded the prestigious Grolla D'Oro in Treviso in 2002.

In 2009 she published the biography of  Fausto Zadra, talented pianist and teacher.  Namely "No me interesa ser solo pianista" Fausto Zadra: l’interprete il didatta, l’uomo (Ipotesi di studio- Florestano Edizioni- Bari).The biography was presented at Conservatorio  Santa Cecilia and  it also received some appreciative recognition at other Italian conservatories.

Sponsored by the Campobasso conservatory L. Perosi  where she was teaching piano and with the support of the University of Molise In 2009 she conceived and directed "TRIBUTE TO DEBUSSY at 150 years since his birth", a project based on Debussy's compositions to be performed by young players of all instruments, soloist, in chamber ensemble and orchestra. One objective of the Tribute to Debussy was also to disclose the relation between music and painting as an important source of musical inspiration for the composer.