Other participants

• 1. Lionel Martin, Germany
• 2. Mikhail Makhnach, Belarus
• 3. Arsenii Stavytskyi, Ukraine
• 4. Ivan Pshenichnikov, Russia
• 5. Augustas Gocentas, Lithuania
• 6. Che-Wei Kuo, Taiwan
• 7. Bence Bánkövi, Hungary
• 8. Raphaela Paetsch, Switzerland
• 9. Megan Yip, United States
• 10. Mingyue Zhao, China
• 11. Kamil Mukhametdinov, Switzerland
• 12. Anna Skladannaya, Russia
• 13. Krystyna Wiśniewska, Poland
• 14. David Ezhov, Russia
• 15. Aihao Zheng, China
• 16. Serafim Volkov, Russia
• 17. Florian Pons, France
• 18. Kotryna Šiugždinytė, Great Britain
• 19. Mara Lobo, Portugal
• 20. Gaudas Paulius Krištaponis, Lithuania
• 21. Kyung Jun Lee, South Korea
• 22. Timur Kolodyazhny, Russia
• 23. Despond Zoltan, Switzerland
• 24. Constantin Macherel, Switzerland
• 25. Christine Caroline Lamprea, United States

Participant data

Name of the educational insititution	Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest
Accompanist	Yes

Bence Bánkövi comes from a family of musicians and has been playing the cello for 15 years. His secondary school was the Béla Bartók Conservatory, studying under Rezső Pertorini and Ágnes Kállay. In 2016 Bence got accepted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and his current teacher is Csaba Onczay. During his studies, Bence has participated in several master courses, among which the most prominent were with Mikós Perényi, István Várdai, Marcio Carnero, and Steven Isserlis. As a soloist, Bence has worked with many orchestras, including the National Philharmonic of Hungary, the Radio Philharmonic, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, and the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra and with conductors such as Tamás Vásáry and János Kovács. Bence has won second prize at the David Popper International Cello Competition and the fourth prize at the 3rd International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition.

I ROUND

1. Carlo Alfredo Piatti | "12 Caprices for Solo Cello" · Op. 25
   • No. 3
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 6 · D major · BWV 1012
3. Arvydas Malcys | Narcissus for Solo Cello

II ROUND

1. Dmitri Shostakovich | Sonata for Cello and Piano · D minor · Op. 40
2. Vladas Jakubėnas | Serenade for cello and piano
3. Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov—Efrem Zimbalist | ''The Golden Cockerel Fantasy'' for Cello and Piano

III ROUND

1. Robert Schumann | Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (A. H. Lilienthal version for string orchestra) · A minor · Op. 129