Young Star

The youngest participant in the Telekom Beethoven Competition 2025, 19-year-old Hungarian pianist Idikó Roszonits, won the prize by an overwhelming majority in the audience vote during the semi-final and expressed her gratitude with a solo recital in the Chamber Music Hall.

Idikó Roszonits was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 2006 and began studying piano at the age of five. At the age of ten, she was accepted into the school for exceptionally talented young musicians at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Her professors are Dr Gábor Farkas and Attila Némethy. Since 2020, she has been regularly attending masterclasses with Professor Philippe Raskin in Vienna. She has won 17 first prizes at international piano competitions in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Russia, Belgium, France, Spain, Romania and Hungary. She is the 2020 winner of the TV classical talent show Virtuosos V4+, received third prize at the renowned international Concertino Praga competition in Czechia in 2021, and won third prize at the International Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar, Germany, in 2023. She is a prize winner at competitions such as the 15th International EPTA Belgium Competition in Brussels, the 2nd International Carl Maria von Weber Competition in Dresden and the International Geneve Musicale Competition in Switzerland.

The programme will be announced at a later date.

In cooperation with the Telekom Beethoven Competition