Récital exceptionnel de Soma Balázs-Piri en hommage à 1956

On 22 October, the Liszt Institute Paris invites you to an exceptional piano recital in the prestigious setting of the grand salon of the Mairie of the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

This evening brings together two symbolic anniversaries: the 215th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Liszt, born on 22 October 1811, and the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. On this occasion, Soma Balázs-Piri, a young talent of the new generation of Hungarian pianists, will pay tribute, through the music of Liszt, to the heroes of the 1956 Revolution and to all those who fought for the freedom and independence of Hungary.

This recital is part of the "Budapest-Paris Z Connection" project of the Liszt Institute, which showcases young talents from the Hungarian artistic scene to French audiences.

SOMA BALÁZS-PIRI

Aged 20, Soma Balázs-Piri first sat down at a piano eleven years ago. Since then, he has won sixteen first prizes in national and international piano competitions. In 2018, he won the Hungarian televised classical music competition Virtuózok. Soma is an Ambassador of Classical Music of Hungary and received the Junior Prima Prize in 2021. In 2025, he was also honoured with the Szeged Culture Prize. He first performed as a soloist at the age of nine with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has had the opportunity to collaborate on numerous occasions with Hungarian and international orchestras. He has been conducted by renowned conductors such as Maestro Plácido Domingo, Ádám Medveczky, Gábor Hollerung, Eugene Kohn, Howard Shelley, András Keller, as well as Yoon Kuk Lee, artistic director of the Saint-Gellért Festival.

Regularly invited to Hungary's major concert halls, he has performed notably at the Palace of Arts in Budapest (Müpa), at the Pesti Vigadó and in the Grand Hall of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, as well as at the Dome in Szeged as part of the Saint-Gellért Festival.