Concert inaugural du piano

Name: Concert inaugural du piano
Start: 2025-06-03T19:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-03T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Gustave Moreau

avec le pianiste Benedek Horváth

3 juin 2025

19h30

Type(s) de public Tout public

Présenté par L'Association Les Amis du musée Gustave Moreau

resa@musee-moreau.fr

Le musée Gustave Moreau inaugure un nouvel instrument d’exception : un piano Pleyel de 1910, offert par l'association Les Amis du Musée Gustave Moreau.

Ce don remarquable – qui fait écho à la passion musicale de Gustave Moreau lui-même – ouvre une nouvelle page pour la programmation culturelle du musée perpétuant l'engagement fidèle et essentiel de l'association Les Amis du musée Gustave Moreau à son rayonnement.

Pour célébrer cette belle acquisition et à l’occasion de son nouvel album chez Hungaroton, le pianiste Benedek Horváth donnera un concert autour d’œuvres composées à l’époque de Moreau et du piano.
Au programme : Ravel, Scriabine, Sibelius, Liszt – un voyage musical aux accents symbolistes, sur les touches du piano restauré.

En savoir plus sur l'association Les Amis du Musée Gustave Moreau

photographie d'un piano en bois dans le grand atelier du musée — © Musée Moreau

Benedek Horvath (c) Ana Tena

Benedek Horváth inherited his parents' love of art. While his mother fostered his musical development, his interest in the visual arts was passed on to him by his father. In addition to the piano, he played several instruments, including the violin and various percussion instruments. At the age of 13, he recorded his first CD with the MATÁV orchestra, performing two concertos by Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee. During this period, he also won excellent results in several national competitions in Hungary.

Parallel to his musical achievements, he remained receptive to other intellectual fields. In high school, he devoted himself mainly to literature and the various media arts. He continued his musical studies at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where he was deeply inspired by the musical visions of Rita Wagner, Márta Gulyás and András Kemenes. After obtaining his Master's degree, he decided to continue his studies in Basel in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner. During his university years, he learns from many other outstanding artists, such as András Schiff, Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados and Zoltán Kocsis.

Benedek Horváth has given concerts in over 20 countries worldwide. He has notably given a solo recital at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center and performed Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto in A major at New York's Merkin Hall. In 2019, he performed with his Trio Eclipse at the prestigious Lucerne Festival.
He has won numerous prestigious international competitions. Among the most important are the 2016 Clara Haskil Competition and the prestigious Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition. In 2018, he won the Junior Príma Award in Budapest.

In 2025, Benedek Horvath released an album devoted to Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Ravel on the Hungaroton label.
In 2023, he released two solo albums: Bach's Goldberg Variations, accompanied by a short film entitled "The Fourth Voice", and a Bartók-Janáček-Kurtág album on the Artalinna Records label.
Since September 2021, he has held the position of assistant professor at the Basel Academy of Music, where he shares his knowledge with new generations.