Frédéric Chopin
Mazurkas Op 17

Claude Debussy
l'Isle Jeyeuse

Sergei Rachmaninov
10 Preludes Op 23
Prelude No 5 in G minor
13 Preludes Op 32
Prelude No 12 G sharp minor : Allegro

Myroslav Skoryk
Burlesque

Béla Bartók
Sonata 1926

Syuzanna Kaso is a Hungarian pianist who was born in the Ukraine. She began her musical education at the age of six at the Uzhgorod State Music School and continued her studies at Kiev's Special Secondary Music Boarding School, studying under Professor Valery Kozlov, with whom she also graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine. She has had masterclasses with such reknowned musicians as Josef Ermin, Vadim Rudenko, Vladimir Viardo, Vladimir Krainev, Aanatoly Zatin, Bernd Geotzke and Sergio Perticaroli, and has also gained much inspiration from great artists such as Andras Schiff , Peter Donahoe, Malcolm Bilson, and Balazs Szokolai amongst others.

Syuzanna has taken part in numerous competitions, winning first prize at the A. Zatin International Piano Competition, the Grand Prix at the XXIst Century Hopes International Competition in the Ukraine and was awarded a Medalla in the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona (2006). In 2008 and 2010 she won the Dunaffer Award which gave her the support she needed to continue her higher education. Due to this award, in the spring of 2010 she had the opportunity to work with Hungary’s most reknowned violinist, Maga Zoltan. In the same year Syuzanna was granted a scholarship by the RNCM, as well as the FW Wright Piano Scholarship to continue her studies with Graham Scott.

Syuzanna has participated in well-known festivals such as the Zemplen Festival in Hungary, Bartok Festival in Budapest, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Tbilisobo in Tbilisi, Regina & Vladimir Horowitz Presents and Summer Music Evening in Kiev, and Pianotexas supported by Cliburn Foundation in Forth-Worth.

She has subsequently given solo recitals and performed concertos and chamber music throughout Europe, including appearances in the Purcell Room in London, Petit Palau in Barcelona and Sala Sao-Paolo in Brazil.She has performed on  Hungarian National TV,  has made  several CD recordings and was the subject of a documentary for the Hungarian TV station Zemplen.

Syuzanna Kaso appears by kind permission of the RNCM