5. Wiener Klassiker International Music Online Competition 2026

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

Contacts: kissjuli.info [at] gmail.com, zongorilla7 [at] gmail.com
 https://www.facebook.com/juli.kiss.520

Organist, chamber musician, PhD (Germany), Associate Professor of Organ at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music Library. Principal Investigator for the 2024 National Arts Fund Small Stage Project, member of the National First-Class Undergraduate Course Programme. Studied under Professor Ludger Luman, a leading authority in organ performance and pedagogy. At the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany, she attained the highest doctoral degrees in organ solo performance and chamber music available in Germany, recognised by China's Ministry of Education as a dual-specialisation doctorate. Prior to this, she earned dual master's degrees in organ performance and harpsichord from the Freiburg University of Music, studying under renowned organist Professor Martin Schmieding and harpsichordist Professor Robert Hill. Li Yihua has collaborated with ensembles including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Brass Quintet, the Mannheim Brass Ensemble, and Friedrich, Principal Trumpet of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

During her studies in Europe, following her first prize win at the International Organ Competition in Łódź, Poland, Li Yihua presented organ recitals and chamber music concerts in renowned concert halls and churches across Germany, Austria, and Poland.

She has frequently performed organ works with renowned conductors Zhang Yi and Zhang Guoyong, alongside orchestras including the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, and Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra.

In recent years, she has comprehensively dedicated herself to promoting and popularising the development of organ art in China through organ education, solo concert tours, organ concertos, organ chamber music, and workshops. Her students have repeatedly won awards in international and domestic music competitions. Since 2021, Li Yihua has successfully toured major concert halls across China for three consecutive years with her organ recitals. Furthermore, her organ albums Blossom and Colours from China were published by People's Music Publishing House in late 2021, serving as tributes to the motherland and the centenary of the Communist Party of China. She participated in recording the latest instalment of the NCPA Classics ‘Stroll Through Classics’ series – a collection of organ masterpieces, officially released in May 2023. This marks the first formally recorded and released album from the National Centre for the Performing Arts organ since its inauguration in 2007. Li Yihua was invited to serve as a judge for the 7th Alexander Gordik International Organ Competition hosted by the Moscow Conservatory of Music in Russia. Participated in the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra's 2025-2026 ‘Back to the Future’ concert season, making his NCPAO debut alongside young conductor Lai Jiajing. Together, they successfully performed works by Bach, Mozart and Handel under the theme ‘Resonant Echoes’.

Wei Yun, violin instructor at the Affiliated Primary and Secondary School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and council member of the Shanghai Musicians Association's Violin Committee. Formerly served as concertmaster of the Shanghai Oriental Symphony Orchestra. Has taught at the Affiliated Secondary School since 2006, during which time she received the Ministry of Culture's Outstanding Instructor Award and the third prize in the He Luting Foundation Award from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In recent years, her teaching engagements have extended to national summer programmes including the Zhuhai International String Masterclass and Qingdao International Violin Masterclass. Additionally, she has served as a judge for numerous international and domestic music competitions, including the Qingdao National Violin Concerto Competition, the Zhuhai Hengqin Cup National Violin Sonata Competition, the Magnolia International Music Festival Violin Competition, the China Good Violin Sound Competition, the Hummingbird Music Award for Chinese Youth Competitions, the Asian Art Competition, and the Hong Kong International Violin Competition.

Oboist, cultural art organizer

He’s Director at “Pollini” Padova's State Conservatoire. He started to study music at Asti’s local music school, where he was violin teacher for nearly 20 years. He went on studying with Camillo Grasso (first violin at Rome’s Opera Theatre), Corrado Romano (teacher of Uto Ughi) and Franco Gulli (concert performer and teacher at Bloomington University- USA). Before getting his degree in violin he started to work for some of the most important National Orchestras (RAI national television, “Carlo Felice” Theatre in Genova, Opera Theatre in Rome, Regio Opera Theatre in Torino and some others…).

Then, he devoted himself to the study of chamber music and founded the  Athenaeum Piano Quartet that made him win several prizes in different competitions. He also performed concerts for important associations and attended Siena’s Chigiana Academy (tnanks to a grant) where he got a merit degree. He played in a quartet with Bruno Canino and Pier Narciso Masi, two of the most important Italian pianists. Besides, he often performed solo concerts and he was first violin in many Italian orchestras. He founded Asti’s Chamber Ensemble and promoted Asti’s Symphony Orchestra, whose first concert, conducted by Orio himself,  took place at the “Alfieri”  Theatre in Asti.

After taking a public examination he became a  conservatoire teacher.

He has been giving summer proficiency courses since 1999 and Masterclasses in Malaga and Oviedo, (Spain), Cyprus, Banska Bystrica (Slovak), Porto and Braganca (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey), Timisoara (Romania), Thessaloniki (Greece), Francisco Beltrao (Brazil), China (Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuhan, and others), Kazakistan (Astana and Almati).

He played in Italy, Swisserland, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Slovak, Chek Republic, Brazil, China, Kazakistan, Cyprus, Syria.

Invited by State Conservatory in St. Petersburg for an educational meeting.

In addition, he got a degree in viola.

He was often invited as a member of the Tekfen Filarmonyc Orchestra in Istanbul, formed by the best musicians of more than 20 different countries.

From november 2009 to 2015 he was director of the “Buzzolla” Conservatory of Music in Adria.

Multi-intrumentalist, Composer, Conductor, Professor

Dr. Kim is invited to be a Grammy Awards Voting Member from 2024-2028! Also, she was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London this year.

She has ten upcoming projects. She will conduct the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela in a world premiere concert while performing as a soloist, playing 2 instruments. Also, she will perform Reinhold Glière Harp Concerto with Orchestra Filarmonica Campana in Italy.

For this summer, she is invited to judge at the World Championships of Performing Arts in Hollywood, invited as a piano and harp faculty to give masterclasses in the International Music Festival in Bucharest, Romania, and conduct the Tallin Philharmonic -the festival orchestra at the International Music Festival in Estonia, in addition to holding a piano and harp faculty position. Her orchestra composition Rendezvous is invited to have its European Premiere this July in Estonia, and the New music festival in Nebraska invited her for her compositions to have World Premiere this fall.

Currently, she is composing several harp ensemble music to be premiered in Texas, and composing a dual concerto for piano and harp, to be premiered in London.

Her music is plan to be aired in WLRH Huntsville Public Radio, and Texas Public Radio where she is also invited to have an interview at a live show “Classical Connections”.

She earned her university degree at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Debrecen Conservatory. In her final year of studies, she won a singing competition in Florence, after which she received scholarships from the State University of New York and the Greater Buffalo Opera Company in the United States.

After returning from America, she sang for a year with the Hungarian Radio Choir, then was awarded the Budapest Opera Lovers’ Scholarship. She made her debut at the Hungarian State Opera as Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, later performing in productions such as Bizet’s Carmen, Britten’s Peter Grimes, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Vajda’s Leonce and Lena, and Kacsóh’s János vitéz. At the same time, she appeared at the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen, singing Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Carolina in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. For ten years she was the leading prima donna of Interoperett, first at the Pesti Vigadó and later at the Belvárosi Színház.

She has worked with renowned conductors and artists including Ervin Lukács, Ádám Medveczky, János Kovács, Tamás Pál, Péter Oberfrank, Géza Köteles, Géza Török, Balázs Kocsár, Gergely Kesselyák, Ilona Tokody, Bernadett Wiedemann, Attila B. Kiss, Ingrid Kertesi, Mária Temesi, and Attila Fekete, among others. Her teachers included Júlia Pászthy and Krisztina Laki.

As a guest artist, she has performed throughout nearly all of Europe — in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Romania — as well as in the United States.

Alongside her singing career, teaching has always been equally important to her. For nearly ten years she led the Vocal Department in Újpest. She is the founder and artistic director of the Erkel Opera Studio, which was included in the Hungarian Repository of Basic Arts Education in 2018.

She also conducts highly acclaimed vocal masterclasses.

Since 2015, she has been teaching at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen as a senior lecturer.

Since 2022, she has also been a faculty member of the University of Theatre and Film Arts.