VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists

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VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists

0. Kristóf Tóth, Hungary

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Accompanist Jonė Punytė-Svigarienė
Education Franz Liszt Academy of Music

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Kristóf started his violin studies at the age of four. Currently he is a student of Kristóf Baráti and Péter Kováts at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He has won numerous national and international violin competitions, including the Mladi Virtuozi International Violin Competition in 2015, and the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition in 2017. In 2021, as a member of the Korossy String Quartet, he became a laureate at the Bartok World Competition. Ever since he have made his orchestral debut with the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra at the age of thirteen, he is regularly performing with both Hungarian and other European orchestras, such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, he both premiered and recorded the Violin Concerto of the great contemporary composer Miklós Csemiczky. He is also an active chamber musician, regularly taking part in festivals such as the Budapest Festival-Academy, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, IMS Prussia Cove, NUME Academy & Festival, KaposFest, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and the Auer Festival. He is a regularly attending masterclasses of highly acknowledged artists, such as Andras Keller, Mihaela Martin, Shlomo Mintz, György Pauk, Pavel Vernikov, Augustin Hadelich. In 2019, he received the Junior Prima Prize.

I ROUND

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 1 · G minor · BWV 1001
    • III. Siciliana
    • IV. Presto
  2. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)
  3. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 10 · G minor

II ROUND

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
    • I. Allegro
  2. Béla Bartók | Violin Rhapsody No.1 · Sz. 87
    • 1. Lassú. Moderato
    • 2. Friss. Allegretto moderato
  3. Claude Debussy — Jascha Heifetz | "Beau Soir" (Beautiful Evening) · transcription for Violin and Piano

III ROUND

  1. Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto · D minor · Op. 47
    • I. Allegro moderato
    • II. Adagio di molto
    • III. Allegro ma non tanto

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