Pianist

Hungarian-American pianist Julia Hamos presents a program that bridges centuries and styles and features two of the most important composers from Hungary. Beginning with a selection from Kurtág’s Játékok, she navigates through Haydn’s Sonata in E minor, Ligeti’s Études (Arc-en-ciel, Der Zauberlehrling, Fanfares), and Mozart’s Sonata in A minor, culminating in Schumann’s beloved Fantasie in C Major. Hamos’s adventurous spirit and compelling artistry promise an evening of compelling musical exploration.

Julia Hamos, piano

Washington Performing Arts

It was in the evening on 23rd May 2022 that the COE set foot for the first time in the newly-built, not yet open, Casals Forum, a concert hall commissioned by the Kronberg Academy for its students to perform in a hall that truly showcases the outstanding level of music education provided by the Academy. For a number of years, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Kronberg Academy have been working in Partnership, with the COE being invited to perform a number of times in Kronberg, including for the celebration of the Academy’s 25th anniversary in 2018. We are thrilled that this partnership has resulted in an invitation to become orchestra-in-residence at the Casals Forum where we can rehearse ahead of tours as well as perform smaller scale concerts with some of the Kronberg Academy students and teachers.

Kronberg Festival 2024

Casals Forum

The exceptional young instrumentalists of the Kronberg Academy perform with one of the academy’s renowned professors: violist Tabea Zimmermann, recently appointed chair of the Hindemith Foundation. Brahms’s Clarinet Trio, here performed by viola, piano, and cello, is one of the composer’s transcendent final works and a mainstay of the chamber music repertoire. Hindemith was a gifted violist as well as a highly innovative composer, and his fourth string quartet—a work of great contrasts—is arguably his most popular (though still a rare treat in concert). Korngold’s Piano Quintet is a lavish and idiosyncratic early work, composed at the height of his popularity in Germany.

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Soloists of the Kronberg Academy Tabea Zimmermann, Viola

Carnegie Hall

Abigel Kralik: Chamber Music Concert

Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo

Julia Hamos’s debut album, including Bartók’s Hungarian Peasant Songs together with works by Ligeti and Schubert, prompted Gramophone’s reviewer to praise the ‘sheer finesse, innate musicality and total commitment informing every note she plays.’ The Hungarian American artist, Sir András Schiff’s assistant at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, offers an equally satisfying lunchtime repertoire menu with her vibrant programme.

Pianist

Julia Hamos

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 25, 2026

Julia Hamos piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

May 16, 2026

Julia Hamos, piano · Washington Performing Arts

Sep 25, 2024

Kronberg Festival 2024 · Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Sonata No. 8 by Mozart

Washington Performing Arts

Piano in Études by Ligeti

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Piano Sonata No. 4 by Beethoven

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Hungarian Peasant Songs selections by Bartók

Wigmore Hall

Piano in Ungarische Melodie by Schubert

Wigmore Hall

Piano in 3 Hungarian Folksongs by Bartók

Wigmore Hall

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