Opening concert with Gergely Szurgyi (Hungary)
Gergely Szurgyi was born in Hungary in 1994. He began playing the guitar at the age of nine, took private lessons for four years and attended Ede Roth's class at the Egressy Béni Conservatory from 2008. In 2013, he was accepted to the Széchenyi István University, where Ede Roth remained his teacher. In 2017, he completed his training as a guitar teacher and was accepted into the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in András Csáki's class. Gergely completed his artistic guitar studies there in 2019 and began his master's degree at the University of Music in Nuremberg, which he completed with distinction in 2021.
Gergely Szurgyi has been successful in numerous national and international competitions and has been playing a "Hanika Lattice-Meister" since the first year of his studies. In addition to solo playing, Gergely attaches great importance to chamber music. Together with friends, he founded the "Tritonus Guitar Trio" in 2014, which has had many successes since then. Their greatest success was winning the "Guitar Foundation of America Ensemble Competition" in Miami in 2019.
Program:
A "scordatura" is a change to the traditional tuning of an instrument.
Based on this "trick", which is usually used in concerts for a single piece, Gergely Szurgyi undertakes an exciting experiment and plays almost every piece on the program in a different tuning.
He has selected works ranging from Renaissance dances to French chansons and 21st century Hungarian music, resulting in a very varied and diverse program thanks to the different tunings (scordaturas).
