THE GREAT CHACONNE BY J. S. BACH - XAVER VARNUS (ORGAN) & PETRA KISS (PIANO)

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Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004
Arranged by Mendelssohn (two pianos) and Varnus (organ and piano)

Xaver Varnus plays the first organ recital after the re-opening of the legendary Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
With the participation of Petra Kiss (piano).

Recorded live in November, 2014.
Filmed by Máté Vargha and Marton Solymosi.

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Petra Kiss was born in Budapest in 1990. She started to play the piano in the age 8. In 2002 she participated in the National György Ferenczy Piano Competition and won the first prize and a special prize. In 2004 she won the second prize at the Hungarian National Piano Competition in and a special prize called „the best interpretation of Chopin’s pieces”. She won the Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic twice for her excellent studies.
In 2012 she finished her Bachelor degree in the Liszt Academy of Music with the highest honours. She played many solo recitals all over Europe. Miss Kiss debuted in 2013 in the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China, with a concert tour included two solo recitals and Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E flat major with the Orchestra of the National Chinese Ballet. She has been accepted for special concert pianist master in the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of the famous piano professor Jacques Rouvier.