Viktor Soos
Viktor Soos (born June 9, 1996 in Backnang ) is a German pianist .
Life
Viktor Soos received his first piano lessons at the age of six at the Backnang Music School. In 2006 he received organ lessons from Hans-Joachim Renz. At the age of 13 Viktor Soos switched to the Backnang pianist and lecturer Jochen Ferber at the Stuttgart Music Academy . In 2014/2015 he was a young student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main in Oliver Kern's piano class. Viktor Soos studies piano with Konrad Elser at the Lübeck University of Music .
His concert activities led him a. a. to Chile, Finland, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. He played at the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Donaueschinger Musiktage and other festivals, had appearances in the Philharmonie Essen , the Donauhallen in Donaueschingen, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle or the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar. Radio recordings were made at NDR , WDR and SWR . He played with orchestras such as the Lübeck Philharmonic under Ryusuke Numajiri, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Kristiina Poska and the Waiblinger Chamber Orchestra under Knud Jansen. He attended master classes a. a. with Andrzej Jasiński , Felix Gottlieb, André Marchand, Lilya Zilberstein, Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Alexeev, Olivier Gardon and Eric le Sage.
Prices
Viktor Soos received the special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Franz Liszt . In “Jugend musiziert” he won not only the 1st Federal Prize with the highest number of points with the cellist Rebecca Falk, but also the “Eduard Soering Prize” from the Musikleben Foundation.
In 2011 Viktor Soos won the 1st Music Prize from the Kreissparkasse Waiblingen Foundation and in 2014 the WDR -3-Klassikpreis of the City of Münster for the "Best Interpretation of a Work of the Viennese Classic" and twice in the competition "WESPE" (Weekend of Special Prizes) in Neubrandenburg for the "best interpretation of a work of ostracized music" and for the "best interpretation of a work by a composer".
He is an eight-time national prize winner from Jugend musiziert and in 2012 won 1st prize at the Tonkünstler Competition in Baden-Württemberg. In the same year he won the audience award at the international piano academy in Murrhardt.
Soos won 3rd prize at the Kissinger Piano Olympics in 2017 and 2nd prize at the TONALi piano competition in Hamburg in 2016 , whereupon he played in the final with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.
Viktor Soos is a scholarship holder of the Live Music Now Foundation and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben .
Web links
- Official homepage of Viktor Soos
- Viktor Soos at the Tonalisten-Agentur
- Viktor Soos at arte
- Viktor Soos at klassik.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soos, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Backnang |