Andrea Rost, Andrea Vigh & Barnabás Kelemen

Harpist Andrea Vigh, winner of the Liszt Prize and Prima Prize, has taught at the Liszt Academy since 1996 and has been its president since 2013. From 1993 to 1996 she participated in concerts arranged by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and from 1993 she has held solo recitals at the Liszt Academy annually. She has been a member of the jury of international harp competitions in Wales, Arles, Belgrade, Gödöllő and Szeged. She is founder and artistic director of the Gödöllő International Harp festival. For this evening she performs the finest arias by Händel, Fauré and Ravel, and rarely played chamber works by Spohr and Saint-Saëns, in the company of her two guests, Andrea Rost and Barnabás Kelemen. ▪ After being awarded her degree, Kossuth and Liszt Prize laureate singer Andrea Rost became solo singer with the Wiener Staatsoper (1991), where the Viennese audience saw her in all the important roles, then she won plaudits in the top opera houses of the world, plus she appeared (and still does to this day) on the biggest and most prestigious concert podiums as a concert and lieder singer. ▪ Violonist Barnabás Kelemen was awarded the Kossuth and the Liszt Prizes. He is considered one of the most outstanding and multifaceted violinists, chamber musicians, string quartet first violinists and conductors of his generation. Furthermore, he teaches at two world-class institutions, the Liszt Academy and the University of Cologne, plus he is the founder and artistic director of the Festival Academy.