29/11/2025
🎉Now that almost a week has passed since the final notes of the 7th International Harp Competition in Szeged faded, we are delighted to look back and once again honour the outstanding achievements of our U14, U19, and U25 participants. It is with great joy and pride that we share the results of this year’s edition. Each of you displayed remarkable dedication, artistry, and courage on stage, making last week in Szeged truly unforgettable.
🎉A warm congratulations to all the prize winners:
🌟Category U14
🥇First Prize: Evelin Greblo (Slovenia)
🥈Second Prize: Pei Xi Saoirse Pu (Ireland)
🥉Third Prize ex-aequo: Dan Kim (Korea) & Barbora Sedlonova (Czech Republic)
🎶Sebők György Special Prize ex-aeqo for the best performance of Ákos Zarándy’s “Leaves”, offered by Florence Sitruk:
Bíró Boglárka (Hungary) and Lili Zsófia Dobrocsi (Hungary)
🌟Category U19
🥇First Prize: Valentine Correani (France)
🥈Second Prize: Kalina Nowaczek (Poland)
🥉Third Prize ex-aequo: Naomi Drew (UK) & András István Horváth (Hungary)
🎶 Sebők György Special Prize for the best performance of Márton Levente Horváth’s “Versets for an Imaginary Vesper”, offered by Florence Sitruk:
Kalina Nowaczek (Poland)
🌟Category U25
🥇First Prize: Letizia Lazzerini (Italy)
🥈Second Prize: Heather Brooks (UK)
🥉Third Prize: Pauline Elkaim (France)
🎶Special Prize from Fondazione Gualtiero Marchesi (ex-aequo):
Gao Yizhu (China) and Martin Sadilek (Czech Republic)
🎉To all participants: thank you for your courage, dedication and passion that brought you to Szeged. Every performance you gave had your personal story in the background and was filled with heart. We hope you carried home valuable experiences, inspiration, and beautiful memories. Keep playing, keep growing, and keep believing in your artistry! We also extend our sincere gratitude to all pedagogues and parents for their invaluable support.
🤗A heartfelt thank you as well to our wonderful jury for their care, dedication and tireless work throughout the competition. Thank you for the guidance, feedback and comments to the contestants.
🎶Our sincere gratitude goes to the members of the Szeged Symphony Orchestra - Péter Zoltán (clarinet) and Krisztina Lanczkor-Kocsis (flute) - as well as to the Elara String Quartet - Kata Szöllősi, Villő Kovács (violin), Emese Bohus (viola), and Sándor Bálint (cello) - for performing alongside the three U25 finalists in Ravel’s Introduction et Allegro.
🥰Our heartfelt thanks go to all the VOLUNTEERS whose dedication and hard work supported us throughout the past week.
✨We are especially grateful to our main sponsor, Camac Harps, for the unwavering commitment to the competition since its beginning and for standing by us for the seventh consecutive edition. ✨
☺️We also extend our appreciation to the Reök Palace for graciously hosting the competition for the fourth time.
Thank you to Alexander Rider for his humour, constant support, cheerful energy, and for the photos 📷
Wishing everyone peace, love, and fulfilment of you harp dreams: Anastasia, Natalia, Dmitrij ✨❤️✨
