CONFESSIONS

With the first piece of our program, we commemorate one of the most tragic days in our history, the anniversary of the execution of the martyrs of Arad. In memory of the heroes executed, Liszt composed a great piano piece titled Funérailles , or Funeral, which was transcribed for symphony orchestra by the great composer Ferenc Farkas. Bartók composed his Violin Concerto No. 1 at a young age; it is the musical reminiscence of an unfulfilled love. Mahler composed his Symphony No. 5 in 1901, a record of his romantic state of mind as he wavered between joys, disappointments, illness and many other overwhelming experiences. It is a lengthy work for a large orchestra that will captivate its listeners from the first minute to the last.

Júlia Pusker born into a family of musicians in Hungary, Júlia began her musical education at the Liszt Academy in Budapest before moving to England to study with György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she received her Master of Music degree with distinction in 2016. Between 2016 and 2021, she was Artist-in-Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, working with Augustin Dumay. The evening is conducted by Róbert Farkas who the chief conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra since 2021.