Zsolt Burai

My name is Zsolt Burai. I was born on the 26th of August 2004 in Kecskemét, Hungary. From 2019 I’m studying in Debrecen at the Zoltán Kodály Secondary Music school in the violin and composition class. I’m interested in classical music since I was very young. When I was 5 I started to play the violin and the piano in a self-taught way. Later, when I was 6, my parents enrolled me into the János Palotásy music school of Jászberény to learn violin. Some years later I started to learn piano as well at the same place. My first violin teacher was Andrásné Bernhardt, and after in Debrecen dr. Tamás Ittzés (violinist, composer, conductor, university associate professor) became my violin teacher. I’m learning composition from Dániel Dobos, who won the Béla Bartók World Competition in 2019. In my freetime I usually compose, play the piano, or read about the lives of composers. With my friend, Péter Szilágyi, (who learn in the organ and composition class) we learn chamber music from Máté Nagy who is a conductor and music history teacher in our school. When we have time we play four-handed piano pieces together, for example Mozart symphonies, Debussy and Ravel orchestral pieces, and analyze masterpieces in order to understand what the composer wanted to express with the music. My goal is to become a musician who knows all areas of music well, not just his own instrument.

Some of my competition results and prizes: • 2013. November: XlV. National János Koncz Violin Competition: 3rd prize • 2014. November: Adj teret a tehetségnek! (Give space to talent!): Concert opportunity at the IBS OC stage in Budapest. (The president of the jury was dr. András Batta who is an Erkel and Széchenyi award-winning music historian). • 2014. December: Vl. National Baroque Competition Hatvan: 2nd prize • 2015. December: Vll. National Baroque Competition Hatvan: 1st prize • 2015 March: Vl. International Violin Competiton Törökszentmiklós: Gold prize • 2016. April: ll. National Competition for the works of Hungarian composers in Kiskunfélegyháza: 1st prize • 2016. May: l. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County String Competition: 1st prize • 2016. October: lll. National János Bihari Violin and String Chamber Music Competition: Gold medal • 2016. December: XV. National János Koncz Violin Competition: 3rd prize • 2016. June: Klebelsberg Institute Maintenance Center Certificate of Merit. • 2016. December: XV. National János Koncz Violin Competition: Third prize • 2017. December: lX. National Baroque Competition Hatvan: 1st prize • 2017. April: V. International Violin Competition Törökszentmiklós: Gold medal • 2017. June: l. Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition: Special prize • 2018. April: National chamber music Competition Cegléd: 1st and special prize • 2018. April: ll. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County String Competition: 1st prize • 2018. April: lll. National Competition for the works of Hungarian composers in Kiskunfélegyháza: 2nd prize • 2019. April: National hamber music Competition Cegléd: 1st and special prize. • 2019. December: Vll. National Violin Competition in memory of Tibor Varga: 2nd prize • 2020. February: University of Nyíregyháza’s Music Competition for high school students: 1st and special prize. • 2020. June: Excellence Award from the Education Center of Debrecen.