Szőcs Henrik
piano
Henrik Szőcs was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 2014 (after graduating from the Hermann László Vocational High School in Székesfehérvár), where he studied with Jenő Jandó, Balázs Kecskés, Balázs Fülei, Gábor Csalog and Márta Gulyás, among others. He graduated in 2017. During his university years, from 2016 to 2017, he was also a student at the Musik-Academie Basel under Claudio Martínez Mehner and Francois Benda. He then studied again at the Liszt Academy of Music until 2019 and at the Royal Conservatoire Birmingham from 2020 to 2021 with Pascal Nemirovski and Alasdair Beatson.
In 2013, he was awarded 3rd prize at the 3rd International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Vienna and two years later he was awarded first prize at the 4th International Béla Bartók Piano Competition. In 2014, he was a special prize winner of the Pro Bartók Society at the VI International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Szeged. He is the recipient of several scholarships (Bank of China Scholarship, 2018 / National Higher Education Scholarship, 2018/19 / Weingarten Scholarship, 2020/21 / Thank you, Hungary! scholarship, 2020, 2021) and in 2023 he was awarded the Artisjus Performing Arts Prize.
Since graduating he has toured much of Europe and has also performed in China. He is a committed contemporary music pianist and has a continuous working relationship with composers such as Máté Bella, Viktor Molnár, Roland Szentpáli, András Gábor Virágh and Abigél Varga. He is a member of the chamber group Variart Ensemble and a regular performer in chamber music concerts.
In 2013, he was awarded 3rd prize at the 3rd International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Vienna and two years later he was awarded first prize at the 4th International Béla Bartók Piano Competition. In 2014, he was a special prize winner of the Pro Bartók Society at the VI International Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Szeged. He is the recipient of several scholarships (Bank of China Scholarship, 2018 / National Higher Education Scholarship, 2018/19 / Weingarten Scholarship, 2020/21 / Thank you, Hungary! scholarship, 2020, 2021) and in 2023 he was awarded the Artisjus Performing Arts Prize.
Since graduating he has toured much of Europe and has also performed in China. He is a committed contemporary music pianist and has a continuous working relationship with composers such as Máté Bella, Viktor Molnár, Roland Szentpáli, András Gábor Virágh and Abigél Varga. He is a member of the chamber group Variart Ensemble and a regular performer in chamber music concerts.