Julianna Kiss was born in Miskolc (Hungary), she started her music 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. And received her Postgraduate degree from the Mdw Universita¨t fu¨r Musik und Darstellende Ku¨nste Wien and is holding a concert diploma in piano from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pe´cs in Hungary. From 2012 to 2015 Julianna studied Mentor teacher program and Kova´cs-method at the Budapest ELTE-PPK University and received further impulses from professors of piano, such as Sa´ndor Falvai, Gyo¨ngyi Keveha´zi, La´szlo´ Gyimesi, Attila Ne´methy, Tama´s Va´sa´ry, De´nes Varjon, Csaba Kira´ly, Thomas Kreuzberger , Eun Ju Lee.
She studied the heritage of Liszt and Barto´k and Russian piano school method from them. She studied the fortepiano music on the Masterclass of legendary Prof . Malcom Bilson, Chamber music at the Music University of Padua. Julianna is the winner of several National and International Music Competitions, for example: 10th. International Music Competition “Musica Insieme” 5th Concorso Internazionale “ Don Vincenzo Vitti “.
Her repertoire is vast: it includes piano solo and several chamber music pieces.
She works in Budapest as a sought-after piano teacher and is also employed as a piano mentor and piano teacher consultant. She is an enthusiastic representative and advertiser of Kova´cs-method, which takes an important part of 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 for her prominent work in music teaching and talent management. From 2014 she is a member of „Nemzeti Pedago´gus Kar” (National Teacher Faculty). She became the consultant for music teachers in 2015 and head of the Keyboard Department in the A´da´m Jeno? music school since 2012.
Her piano students have already won close than 250 prizes at national and international competitions.
Julianna is the founder and artistic director of the Danubia Talents International Music Festival and Competitions and holds 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, Xabia – Spain, Wien – Austria, and Budapest - Hungary.
I. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2016.
7th. International Competition “Youth Academy Awards” Rome 2017.
II. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2017.
8th. International Competition “Youth Academy Awards” Rome 2018.
VI. Concorso Internacional de Piano “Vila de Xabia” Spain 2018.
I. Wiener Danubia Talents International Music Competition Wien 2018.
III. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Va´c 2018.
I. Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition Rome 2018.
5th. Concorso Musicale Nazionale “Nellina Cappellani Costa” Catania 2019.
7th. International Piano Competition “ISCHIA” Ischia 2019.
IV. Danubia Talents International Music Competition Budapest 2019.
II. Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition Rome 2019.
II. Wiener Danubia Talents International Music Competition Wien 2020.
Danubia Talents International Online Music Competition 2020, Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition 2021,
Orbetello Piano Competition Orbetello 2021.
As a concert pianist she tours all over Europe, playing concerts in Italy, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary. Julianna 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 where he performed live for the TV broadcasting Virtuosos Talent Show). She organized the first Casio Festival in Hungary & Roma & Vienna and gave a concert.
She has organized concerts and exhibitions for young talents and supports young talents in many different ways.
Julianna participated with four Hungarian young students in an ERASMUS program in ITALY (2018. Music, a bridge among cultures).
She collaborates with AIMART (Accademia Internazionale di Musica e Arte Rome) and Accademia d’Ungheria Rome, Shanghai Conservatory of music among others.