A virtuoso display
Two prizewinners of the Liszt Competition make their debut with works from Scarlatti to Skrjabin
Two winners of the Weimar Liszt Competition for young pianists from around the world will make their debut at the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. The Cypriot pianist Anna Avramidou won first prize in the 14-17 age category in 2023, while the Indonesian Collins Tanujaya won second prize.
The ‘Debut’ concert as part of the Weimar Master Classes will take place on Wednesday, 31 July at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office for 15 euros, concessions 10 euros.
The two young talents will be showing all the facets of their pianistic artistry: from the sparkling sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti to the nostalgic and poetic dances of Frédéric Chopin, to Franz Liszt's rousing rhapsodies and Anton Scriabin's haunting and stirring soul pictures.
The varied programme includes two mazurkas, the first ballade and the second sonata by Chopin, as well as the 12th Hungarian Rhapsody and the Tarantella from ‘Venezia e Napoli’ by Liszt. The evening will be rounded off with Scriabin's Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand op. 9.
Anna Avramidou was born in Cyprus in 2008 to Greek parents. She won first prize at the Evangellia Tziarri International Piano Competition when she was just eight years old. She gave her first piano concert at the age of nine.
In 2018, Anna Avramidou made her debut with the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and in 2020 with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. A year later, she won first prize at the International Euplayy Competition at the Brunnenhof Residence in Munich – and in 2023, first prize at the Weimar Liszt Competition.
Collins Tanujaya, born in Indonesia in 2006, won 3rd prize at the Albert Piano Competition when he was just 6 years old. He later won 1st prize at the Brussels Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition. He has already performed several times at Carnegie Hall and at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
In 2023, Collins Tanujaya won first prize at the Munich Competition international piano competition in Munich and second prize at the Weimar Liszt Competition. At the age of 16, he began his piano studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the class of Prof. Yuka Imamine.
[30 July 2024]