Fauré 100 concert by Ágnes Langer and Marcell Szabó

On the 100^th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest figures in French music literature, Gabriel Fauré, two outstanding talents of their generation, violinist Ágnes Langer and pianist Szabó Marcell, will give a concert at 6 pm on the 5^th of February 2024 in the Chamber Hall of the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen (82 Nagyerdei boulevard).

FAURÉ 100 – „French masters” Ágnes Langer’s violin concert and Marcell Szabó’s piano concert program:

• Saint-Saens: Introduction and rondo capriccioso
• Ravel: violin-piano sonata in A minor
• Debussy: violin-piano sonata in G minor
• Fauré: Violin-piano sonata in A major

Entry is free!

The concert is supported by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.

Gabriel Fauré, who lived to be 79 years old, left behind a prestigious work as a composer and composition teacher. When he was born, Liszt and Chopin were still composing, and when he died, Bartók and Schönberg were already composing. Fauré studied in the class of Saint-Saëns. He influenced such later greats as Boulanger or Ravel and Debussy.

The concert will tour the French greats of the era, focusing on the masterpiece of the composer, who died 100 years ago, from his youth, the A Major Sonata, which was a favorite of Marcel Proust, among others.

Ágnes Langer became known in Hungary at the Bartók World Competition, which was held for the first time in 2017, where she received third prize and several special prizes. A dedicated chamber musician and soloist, she has given concerts in Germany, England, Italy, Austria, Spain, Russia, and Canada. She was a participant of the IMS Prussia Cove and regularly performs in concerts at the Casalmaggiore International Festival, where she participated in master classes by Gerhard Schulz, Taras Gabora, NaiYuan Hu, and Roger Chase. She appeared on stage together with artists such as Jose Gallardo, Maximilian Hornung, István Várdai, Kelemen Barnabás and Kristóf Baráti. In 2017, Ágnes performed for the first time in Taiwan, at the Colmar festival in France, and made her debut in Moscow with The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia (NPR) conducted by Mihhail Gerts. In 2018, she was a soloist in the „Spivakov invites” concert series in Russia, performing Brahms’s violin concert under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov. She completed her university studies in Germany at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in the class of Anne Shih, then continued at the Conservatorium Maastricht as a student of Boris Belkin. Courtesy of the Peter Eckes Kulturstiftung, she plays an instrument made in 1782 by Nicolo Gagliano.

Marcell Szabó began his studies at the Nádasdy Kálmán Art School in Budafok as a student of Márta Batke. By the age of twelve, he was studying in the Liszt Academy’s Special School for Exceptional Young Talents under the tutelage of Gábor Eckhardt. At the Liszt Academy of Music, he continued his studies under the tutelage of András Kemenes and György Nádor. In 2010/11, he was a visiting student at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. He participated in the master classes of Dmitrij Bashkirov, Zoltán Kocsis, Imre Rohmann, Gergely Bogányi, Sándor Falvai, Balázs Szokolay, Jan Michiels, Gottlieb Wallisch, and performed in the concert halls of Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, Madrid, Nagoya, Hamburg, Brussels, and Luxembourg in addition to several Hungarian cities. In 2005, he received the Sari Biro Memorial Award. In 2014, he took 1^st prize and the contemporary music and orchestra special prize at the International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Szeged. In the same year, he returned home from Madrid and Paris with a prestigious award: he took a prize in the 33^rd International Delia Steinberg Piano Competition in Madrid and 1^st prize and a special prize in the 16^th International Île de France Piano Competition in Paris. In 2015, he took 2^nd prize at the 20^th Carl Filtsch International Piano Competition and was awarded the Junior Prima Award in November. In 2016 and 2017, he received the Annie Fischer Scholarship.