Julianna Kiss was born in Hungary, she started her musician studies at the age of 5. She has received her first teacher Degree from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Miskolc in Hungary. She has a concert diploma in piano from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs in Hungary. From 2012 to 2015 she studied Mentor teacher program and Kovács-method at the Budapest ELTE-PPK University. She has received her Postgraduate Degree (Piano, Art Song, Chamber Music Repertoire) in Universitát für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Her Professors: Thomas Kreuzberger, Eun Ju Lee, Yuko Batik. She received further impulses from professors of piano, such as Sándor Falvai, Gyöngyi Keveházi, László Gyimesi, Attila Némethy, Tamás Vásáry, Dénes Varjon, Csaba Király. Who are famous teachers of the Hungarian piano school.

She studied heritage of Liszt and Bartók and Russian piano school method from them.
She studied the fortepiano music on the Masterclass of legendary Prof. Malcom Bilson.
She studied chamber music at the Music University of Padua.
She won on several National and International Music Competition. Her repertoire is vast: it includes piano solo and several chamber music pieces.
She is a piano accompanist for several choirs.

She works in Budapest as a sought-after piano teacher and is also employed by the Hungary as a piano mentor and piano consultant.
She is an enthusiastic representative and advertiser of Kovács-method, which takes an important part in her work.

In 2013, EMMI (Ministry of Human Resources, department of Hungarian Government) adjudicated her the „Bonis Bona – For the Talents of the Nation” award, because of her prominent work in music teaching and talent management. From 2014 she is a member of „Nemzeti Pedagógus Kar” (National Teacher Faculty). She became consultant for music teachers in 2015.
Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit state award in 2023. The Hungarian Order of Merit is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. The degrees of the Order of Merit are awarded to persons who carry out exemplary activities in the field of culture, science, art, as well as in their own field of expertise - in order to promote the interests of Hungary and increase universal human interests. The awards are granted by the President of the Republic.
Her piano students have already won close than 500 prizes at national and international
competitions.

Julianna is the founder and artistic director of the Danubia Talents International Music Festival and Competitions. She hold several masterclasses in Hungary and abroad.
She is also jury president or member at various national and international competitions in (Catania, Rome, Ischia, Orbetello) – Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary.

As a concert pianist she tours all over Europe. She has given many charity concert in Hungary and abroad. Her artistic work includes hundreds of concerts.
She has invited to play with Daniel Lugosi clarinetist he performed live for TV broad casting. (VirtuososTalent Show) Daniel Lugosi won on the Virtuosos Talent Show.
She organized the first Casio Festival in Hungary Roma Vienna gave a concert. She has organize concerts and exhibitions for young talents and supports young talents in many ways form.

She participated with four Hungarian young students in an ERASMUS program in ITALY (2018. Music, a bridge among cultures).

Publications: dr. Kovács Géza Memory book: Kovács-method in professional piano education.

Source: http://www.hetek.hu/interju/201402/zenelni_csak_szivvel_lehet

Contacts: kissjuli.info@gmail.com, zongorilla7@gmail.com
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Graduated in piano studies with full marks under the guidance of Pavla Pokojna at the Conservatory of Bratislava, her hometown.

Specialised in piano studies in Belgium with Jacques Genty, winning the Premier Prix at the Conservatory of Mons, at Bonn with Stefan Askenase and in Rome with Fausto Zadra, Carlo Zecchi, Tito Aprea and Guido Agosti.

Specialisation courses at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Carlo Zecchi and Enrico Mainardi, and at the Centro Internazionale di Studi Musicali with Nikita Magaloff. Winner of the First Prize at the Brussels “F. Chopin” Contest in 1969, since then she has held numerous concerts for major concert organisations, both as soloist and with chamber orchestra, in Czechoslovakia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, South Africa, Turkey and Italy.

She has taken part in international festivals, including the XXI Festival dei Due Mondi at Spoleto. For Italian television, she recorded a commemorative concert for the 50th anniversary of the death of Leos Janacek. She has recorded for RCA, as well as participating in the sound tracks of Nino Rota, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli and Carlo Crivelli. In December 2003 she took part in the Manifestazione Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea “Corpi del Suono”, performing “Plus Minus” by Stockhausen. She holds specialisation courses regularly in Italy and abroad, and has sat on the jury of numerous Italian and international contests. She holds the principal chair for pianoforte at the Conservatory “A. Casella” at L’Aquila, Italy.

Heir to the chamber music tradition of Eugenio Bagnoli (renowned pianist disciple of  A.Casella with multifaceted activities in duo with N.Milstein, H.Szeryng, Y.Menuhin, Z.Francescatti, J.Starker and many others) to which he owes his training, he graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory "B. Marcello" in Venice. Follows the courses of Franco Gulli, Marco Zuccarini and of the New York University-Department of Music, also studying conducting. Performs at the Seoul Arts Center, the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, at the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and so on.

The artistic work includes hundreds of concerts in Italy, Europe, Russia, South Korea, Malaysia and Africa. He collaborates with musicians such as the violinist Felix Ayo and Georg Monch, the tenor Luigi Alva, the soprano Katia Ricciarelli, the mezzosoprano Sara Mingardo, the violinist Giuliano Fontanella, the first flute of RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin Dante Millozzi and others. He gets great success with concerts of Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, etc. together symphony complex of fame such as the Orchestra of Radio and Television in Ljubljana.

The repertoire is vast: it includes songs from the eighteenth century to the present day and complete cycles of various authors  which all the Mozart sonatas for piano and violin, the work for piano duet by Mozart and Brahms, the Sonatas by Hummel with flute, etc.

He is invited to play in honor to the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, the mezzosoprano Giulietta Simionato and others bigs artists; he performs live for domestic and foreign TV broadcasting. Makes recordings for the labels Decca, Newton Compton, Rivo Alto, Idyllium, Inedita CD e Metis Film. He Is often jury president or member in national and international piano and chamber music competition, regularly gives courses and masterclasses in Italy and abroad (Paderewski Academy of Poznan - Poland, Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Mannheim - Germany, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn - Estonia, State Conservatoire in Kazan - Russia, etc).

The last year he receives the Rotary International’s Prize “Agape 2020” for the Arts. His students are often rewarded in various Italian and international competitions. By years is artistic director of several concert seasons and music performance competitions: actually he is member of the National Artistic Direction of A.Gi.Mus. and the President of A.Gi.Mus Fano. He is Professor of Chamber Music at the Statal Conservatory of Music "S. Cecilia" in Rome and institutional member of the “European Chamber Music Teachers Association”. He is the pianist of the “S.Cecilia Piano Quintet”.

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Her artistic and pedagogical career includes a degree in piano, during which she obtained the 3rd place in the Bartók National Piano Competition (Hungary, 1996).  Between 1996 and 1999 she worked as an accompanist for the percussionists of the Franz Liszt Conservatory; and for flutists and bassoonists in national competitions. She holds a Masters Degree in Piano Performance at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Debrecen, Hungary.  Later she travels to the United States of America to carry out her doctoral studies in music performance.  In 2002 she recorded the CD of original compositions "Swimming in Dark Water". In May, 2004 she received a Doctorate in Music (DMA) from the University of North Texas (UNT), in Denton, Texas, where she studied piano with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul and music theory with Dr.Timothy Jackson. She has lived in Cancún, Mexico since 2004. In that year she played live on the Hungarian national radio; as well as in Japan and USA in concerts and festivals (Liszt International Festival where it has a couple of world premieres).

Dr. Ujj's career includes the production and organization of first level cultural events such as the Hungary Cultural Festival in Cancún, that since 2006 is carried out annually, with the support of the Embassy of Hungary in Mexico and since 2010 with that of the Ministry of Culture of the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. She is the founder of the Chamber Music Festival in Cancún in 2012 and the Piano Festival in Cancún in 2023. In 2007 she participated in the Agustín Lara Festival in Veracruz and in the VIII Symposium organized by the CENCREM (National Center for Musical Creation) in Querétaro, where she premiered an original work written especially for her (Heberto Alcázar Leyva). In spring 2008 she recorded a CD of contemporary music for piano four hands with the Japanese pianist Eri Yoshimura (www.fourhandspiano.com). In 2009 she produced the radio program Los pianistas más grandes del siglo XX on Radio Ayuntamiento de Cancún. More than 200 concerts in Mexico: didactic concerts with the music of Wolfgang A. Mozart, chamber music concerts, vocal accompanying, orchestra and choir accompanying throughout the State of Quintana Roo: Cancún, Isla Mujeres, Tulum, Chetumal, Playa del Carmen, José María Morelos, Kantunilkín, Bacalar and Cozumel. In 2010 her article: Study on Bartók' Rhythm was published in the Journal of Piano Music in Korea (Official Journal of the South Korean Piano Association).

Throughout her fruitful career she has taught piano to about 400 students, several of whom have entered prestigious universities in the United States (Berkeley, Boston), Hungary (Franz Liszt Conservatory) and Mexico (Morelia, Colima and Xalapa). In 2010 she developed as pianist accompanist of the State Chamber Ballet, since 2011 as soloist of several orchestras such as the Quintana Roo Symphony, Sonora Philharmonic Orchestra OFS, Symphony Orchestra of the State of Puebla. She presented only concerts in numerous important halls: at the Conservatory of Music of the State of Mexico in Toluca; at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City; at the AUKA School of Music in Mexicali and at the School of Arts of La Piedad, Michoacán.

For her, living in Mexico gives her new opportunities to develop as a pianist, organizer and pedagogue of the new Mexican generation. She gives master classes and online and face-to-face classes in three languages: Spanish, English and Hungarian.