Coming from a musical family, Gergely Bogányi is one of the youngest ever pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.

Education

He was born in 1974 in Vác

Vác

Vác is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spellings of the name are Vacz and Vacs.-Location:...

, Hungary

Hungary

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 (his father is Tibor Bogányi), and started playing the piano at the age of four.
He continued his studies at the Liszt Academy

Franz Liszt Academy of Music

The Franz Liszt Academy of Music is a concert hall and music conservatory in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875...

 in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, the Sibelius Academy

Sibelius Academy

The Sibelius Academy is a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities...

 in Helsinki

Helsinki

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 and at Indiana University in Bloomington with professors László Baranyay, György Sebök

Gyorgy Sebok

György Sebők was an internationally renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington USA....

, Matti Raekallio

Matti Raekallio

Matti Raekallio is a Finnish pianist.He has performed in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, having debuted at the Carnegie Recital Hall in 1980...

.

Awards

Gergely Bogányi has had success in several national and international competitions.

• In 1996 he won the International Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest. The name of other competition winners may be seen on the official "Filharmonia Budapest" webpage. http://www.filharmoniabp.hu/en/node/171
• Gergely Bogányi was appointed a citizen of honour in his native town Vác at the age of 22.
• In 2000 he was awarded the Liszt Prize by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
• In 2000 the Cross Merit of the White Rose of Finland by the President of the Finnish Republic.
• In 2001 his series of "Chopin's complete piano works" received the Hungarian Gramofon Prize in the category of "Best concert event and performing artist in Hungary".
• On March 15, 2004 he received the highest artistic award of Hungary, the Kossuth Prize :hu:Kossuth-díj.

Gergely Bogányi has performed worldwide, and performs as a soloist with leading orchestras, for example the London Philharmonic in 2004 http://www.lpo.co.uk/performances/rfh_nov19.html.

On November 27–28, 2010 he performed all the compositions of Frédéric Chopin at Palace of Arts (Művészetek Palotája in Hungarian) in Budapest.

Repertoire

Pieces for piano solo

• Mozart: Sonatas
• Beethoven: 10 Sonatas
• Schubert
  • Sonatas
  • Impromptus
• Schumann
  • Sonatas: F sharp minor, G minor
  • Fantasie C major
  • Papillons op.2.
  • Karneval op.9.
  • Kreisleriana op.16.
• Chopin: Complete
• Liszt
  • Sonata B minor
  • 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante
  • Zwei Konzertetüden
  • Annees de pelerinage
  • 6 Consolations
  • Rapsodies hongroises
  • Rapsodie espagnole
• Brahms
  • Variation and Fuge on a Theme by Handel op.24.
  • Zwei Rapsodies op.79
• Bartók
  • Study for Left Hand
  • 3 Burlesque op.8.c
  • Allegro barbaro
    Allegro barbaro
    Allegro barbaro, BB 63 , composed in 1911, is one of Béla Bartók's most famous and frequently performed solo piano pieces. The composition is typical of Bartók's style, utilizing folk elements...
    
    
  • Sonatine
  • Suite op 14.
  • Etudes op18.
  • Improvisations op.20
  • Piano Sonata
    Piano Sonata (Bartók)
    The Piano Sonata BB 88 of Béla Bartók was composed in 1926. It is tonal, but is highly dissonant. It uses the piano in a percussive fashion.The work is in three movements, with the following tempo indications:*Allegro moderato...
    
    
  • Out of Doors

Concertos

• Haydn:G major
• Mozart
  • C major K. 467.
  • C major K. 246
  • C minor K. 491.
  • D major K. 451
  • D major K. 537. "Krönungskonzert"
  • D minor K. 466
  • G major K. 453
  • A major K. 414
  • A major K. 488
  • B flat major K. 595

Konzertrondos

• D major K. 382.
• A major K. 386

• Beethoven Nr.4. G major
• Mendelssohn: G minor
• Schumann: A minor
• Chopin:
  • Nr.2. F minor
  • Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise brillante
• Liszt:
  • Malediction
  • Nr.1. E flat major
  • Nr.2. A major
  • Dance of Death (Totentanz)
  • Hungarian Phantasy
• Brahms:
  • Nr.1. D minor
  • Nr.2. B flat major
• Csajkovszkij: B flat minor
• Grieg: A minor
• Rachmaninov:
  • Nr.2. C minor
  • Nr.3. D minor
• Petrovics: Piano Concerto

More about Gergely Bogányi, reviews

• Gergely Bogányi official website
• Gergely Bogányi plays Faure Sonata
• Herend Herald http://www.herend.com/herald/019/eng/main.php?page=portre
• Kelemen Barnabas official website http://www.barnabaskelemen.com/index_en.htm
• Hoertnagel.com http://www.hoertnagel.com/html/boganyi.htm
• WienInternational http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/1223?PHPSESSID=a0d05259784de126f897640b36497fa8
• BMC http://info.bmc.hu/site/muvesz/found_page.php?l=en&table=ZENESZ&id=158
• Tiszadob Piano Festival http://www.tiszadob-piano-festival.com/en_curic/boganyi.html