Pannon Philharmonic

At the series starting “encounter No. zero” in November, featuring a legendary cellist Jerome Pernoo, our cellist and conductor, Tibor Bogányi is going to conduct a concert, which might be unforgettable; and at the January concert, the Bogányi brothers play together again, continuing that was a huge success last year. This year in January, Gergely Bogányi played Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 under the baton of his brother, Tibor Bogányi. After the concert praised as excellent by both the audience and critiques, they felt that this just should be repeated! In January 2013, you can listen to the Bogányi brothers performing Bartók’s Piano Concerto No.2 and works by Ravel and Scriabin.

This time, Fazil Say is going to play Ravel. In 2010, the music lovers of Baranya County could already meet Fazil Say, the Turkish-born pianist and composer, who played his own composition. Fazil Say has since become popular worldwide; he is considered as a dominant person in the 21st century music; he gets invitations to Hungary every six months. His career began in Ankara; he studied in the Berlin Conservatory, Germany; and he is a frequent soloist of the Vienna, the New York, the St. Petersburg and the BBC Philharmonics. He made a world tour with Maxim Vengerov, he is a permanent guest artist of prestigious festivals; and writes outrageous, new jazz compositions as well. Also his contemporary compositions are popular all around the world; he has written concertos, an oratorio, and film music. In the next season, in Budapest and Pécs, he is playing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.

Peter Frankl (1935) is one of the most famous Hungarian pianists in the world, although he has earned a significant part of his success abroad. In 1957, he received his degree from the Academy of Music (where Zoltán Kodály, Leó Weiner and Lajos Hernádi were his teachers), and then won the international competitions in Paris, in Munich, and in Rio de Janeiro. In 1958, at the age of 23, he got a Liszt Prize and in the same year he immigrated to Paris; since 1962, he lives in London. He has a world-wide reputation as a soloists; their internationally renowned chamber trio with György Pauk and Ralph Kirschbaum had been working for 28 years. Since 1989, he is a visiting professor at Yale University in the U.S. His wife is also Hungarian, and also a pianist, Annie Feiner. For more than the three last decades, Peter Frankl has been always coming home for a concert a year.

Dezső Ránki was the first who tried the sound of the Hall of the Kodály Centre in Pécs; then with Maxim Vengerov as a conductor. Now, our renowned pianist is going to be on stage with the Pannon Philharmonic at the Palace of Arts, as well, notably with Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor. The soloists often assert that it’s easy to choose Mozart, but it’s harder to play Mozart easily and well. The 1951-born Ránki Dezső’s career ran for a long time parallel to Zoltán Kocsis’s; he also won a Liszt Prize at 22, twice the Kossuth Prize; at a young age, he won several international competitions, then toured the globe with the world's best orchestras but he has ever been faithful to its instrument. In addition, chamber music plays a prominent role in his life: for three decades, he has been regularly giving concerts all over the world with his wife, Edit Klukon; they have performed the major part of the four-hand and two-pianos-literature.