Jury of the clarinet competition:

Jury president: Balázs Rumy

Balázs Rumy earned his degrees at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, the Geneva Conservatoire, and the Juilliard School in New York, studying under Béla Kovács, Thomas Friedli, Jean-Michel Bertelli, Romain Guyot, and Charles Neidich. He is currently the principal clarinetist of the Hungarian State Opera. His most notable international competition results include a special prize at the 2007 Geneva International Music Competition and fourth prize at the 2009 Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition. In 2013, with his program titled “Music Inspired by Folk Traditions from Central and Eastern Europe,” he won Juilliard’s grant competition, which led to a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. In recognition of his work, the Opera awarded him the Vilmos Komor Memorial Plaque in 2017.

Tötös Krisztina

Krisztina Tötös graduated as a clarinet teacher from the Liszt Academy of Music in 2005. From 1996 to 2022 she was principal clarinet of the St. Stephen's Philharmonic Orchestra. Founding member of the Pentaerophonia Budapest Wind Quintet and the Sinfonietta Erudita chamber ensemble.In 2012, she obtained a DLA doctorate. She currently works as an education management and training development specialist at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

Péter Szűcs

Artisjus award-winning clarinet artist, senior lecturer at the Bartók Béla Faculty of Music, University of Miskolc. After completing his studies at the musical institutions of Karcag and Békéscsaba, he studied clarinet at the Budapest Academy of Music and bass clarinet at the Conservatoire in Paris. He won the Fischer Annie scholarship twice, which has led him to promote Hungarian 20th century and contemporary music, which he has since made one of his missions. He has a regular working relationship with the UMZE chamber ensemble, the Schallfeld Ensemble (Austria) and with several national orchestras. He and his chamber music partners have performed in several major cities around the world. Concert audiences in Rome, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bombay, Beijing, Helsinki and several other cities could hear his playing.

Jury of the saxophone competition:

Jury president: Dr. Levente Puskás

Clarinet and saxophone artist, associate professor, teacher of saxophone at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Music and the Egressy Béni Reformed Secondary School of Arts, alto saxophonist of the Budapest Saxophone Quartet.

Tamás Szitás

Saxophone Artist-Teacher, Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen, saxophone teacher at the Pászti Miklós Primary Art School in Biatorbágy and the Ádám Jenő Primary Art School in Szigetszentmiklós, soprano saxophonist of the SiLuMoNa Saxophone Quartet.

Viktor Nagy

He began his musical studies in 1996 at the Leó Weiner Music School in Kisvárda as a student of István Badó. Between 2002-2006 studied at the Leó Weiner Music Secondary School in Budapest in the class of Nándor Götz. In 2006, he continued his studies in the department of Christian Wirth at the Maurice Ravel Conservatoire in Paris. He obtained his Master's degree in the Classical Saxophone Department of Dr. Levente Puskás at the University of Debrecen. During his studies, he had the opportunity to attend courses by renowned professors such as Claude Delangle, Vincent David and Lars Mlekusch. Education plays an important role in his life. In his everyday life, he is a saxophone teacher at the Vujicsics Tihamér Music School in Szentendre and a chamber music teacher at the Béla Bartók Music and Instrumental Training Secondary School of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.