When 2 geniuses meet, something extraordinary must happen
Back in 1999, we had a cassette of a concert of the great 3 tenors at home. Then I could not even imagine that years later I would work as a member of the jury of the most exciting television show in Europe “Virtuosi” together with the great Placido Domingo. This is a great opportunity for young talented contestants to become real stars. Good luck to all the contestants and us jury members. Thank you for the invitation!
Dimash Qudaibergen, December 9 2023

If I rest, I rust®
- Singer and conductor, tenor and baritone, eclectic artist with more than 150 roles, acclaimed by the public on stages all over the world
- Defined Renaissance man, awarded with honorary titles and prizes also for his humanitarian commitment
- Promoter of young talents and founder of Operalia. Worldwide Ambassador of Spanish Culture and Zarzuela
- Extraordinarily versatile, he has been general director and promoter of opera with Carreras and Pavarotti – The Three Tenors
- Performer of world premieres of operas, starred in opera movies, pioneer of crossover and winner of 12 Grammy Awards
- Conductor with more than 600 performances
- His career has continued for more than half a century and for this he has been celebrated at the Operas of New York, Vienna, Verona, Milan and Buenos Aires
Virtuosos Theme Music | Composed by Plácido Domingo Jr., Conducted by Maestro Domingo


Among the many events always scheduled in the busy life of the famous Domingo, one of them is the Virtuosos Talent Show – a classical music talent competition where talent and performance skills are recognized, encouraged and rewarded.
Contestants are required to be excellent performers of a classical instrument or be an outstanding classical singer. The mission of the television show is to discover genuine talent, and to present the beauty of classical music to the widest audience possible. The show has only one ultimate winner, the person whom the expert panel and the audience selects.
The winner will be able to perform in the world’s most famous concert halls, and receive a scholarship to one of the most prestigious music institutions.
Thus, a fabulous career opens up in front of the winner at the moment of victory.
Broadcast first time in 2014, the total reach of the program was 3.1 million people, close to third of the population of Hungary.
Contestants (6-19 years old) from Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and England have all details and applied HERE.
The Virtuosos Mission is being encouraged and mentored by world- renowned artists such as Maestro Placido Domingo, Hans Zimmer, Lang Lang, Hauser, Andrea Griminelli, Andrea Bocelli, Seia Lee, Juan Antonio Cuellar and Gergely Bogányi.
Dimash Qudaibergen will be part of this list as well.
The best moments of Virtuosos V4 + and a little insight into the next season! Virtuosos is a classic musical talent show going on air each year in 5 countries. The format of Virtuosos is unique, focusing on the discovery of young classical music talent, and then providing the talent discovered with opportunities for development and advancement that are otherwise given to few.
Premiered April 4, 2022

Broadcast in several European countries (Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland – the Visegrad Four – and selected guest countries), this television format reaches hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. In Hungary, it is broadcast by Duna TV on Friday evenings from 29 December.
This year’s international show has added new judges and mentors. Maestro Plácido Domingo, opera singer, Erika Miklósa, opera singer, András Keller, violinist, conductor, music director of Concerto Budapest, HAUSER, cellist, Plácido Domingo Jr., singer, composer, DIMASH, singer, Pablo Sáinz Villegas, classical guitarist, Gabriela Rachidi, cultural director and Harvey Goldsmith, music promoter.
This year, the contestants will be mentored by pianist Gergely Bogányi, opera singer Tamás Bátor, oboist Clara Dent Bogányi, singer Elina Nechayeva, guitarist Petar Culic, pianist Peter Valentovic and musicologist András Batta.
This year’s international broadcast will also feature a Hungarian presenter, alongside polish Ida Nowakowska, Misi Boros, who has gone from Virtuosos discoverer to internationally renowned artist, and will also try his hand at presenting for the first time this year, partnering Anna Bátor in a backstage chat with the contestants.
This year, three new judges will join the show. First of all, Plácido Domingo Junior, who has helped the Virtuosos programme as a mentor and composer of the Virtuosos theme song, and who will now have the chance to try his hand at judging. Plácido Domingo Jr. has been involved in the show as a composer and mentor for the fourth year running, and this year he will be on the jury.
Also new to the jury is internationally renowned Kazakh singer Dimash Qudaibergen.
Kazakh superstar Dimash Qudaibergen is widely viewed as one of the world’s greatest vocalists. A classically trained yet genre-defying singer and composer, he fills arenas world-wide with his global audience of devoted fans, his most recent show drawing nearly 30,000 people from 68 countries. He is an active humanitarian who endorses multiple charities and particularly supports children in the arts.
It was announced that this year, in addition to talented young people from the V4 countries, young people who have fled Ukraine and were forced to leave their homeland because of the war will be invited to take part, in a show of support for peace.
It was also announced that in 2024 there will be two concerts in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy, where audiences will be able to meet new discoveries from the past and present: on 7 January with Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra and on 1 March with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
From the end of December, viewers can watch the new season of Virtuózok V4+ on Duna TV.
Please use the large list of social icons below to reach all the show accounts, channels and websites. Make sure to subscribe / follow them, to be first row when they start to upload videos or photos with the Edition this year.
BROADCAST ON
Hungarian Semifinal
10 of Hungary’s top young talents from the youngest kids to young adults competing for a place in the international final episodes of Virtuosos V4+. You will find out who will be the 3 of the 10 young Hungarian talents who will represent Hungary in the international final episodes.

FINALS
EPISODE 1

FINALISTS
Ádám Balogh (11, piano) from Hungary
Ali Lugosi (24, clarinet) from Hungary
Małgorzata Cieszko (18, oboe) from Poland
Nina Bočkajová (14, violin), from Slovakia
Tymofii Zherebtsov (20, piano), from Ukraine
Kateřina Švecová (18, violin), from the Czech Republic
EPISODE 2

FINALISTS
Amelia Anisovych (9, singer), from Ukraine
Ondřej Toman (18, clarinet), from the Czech Republic
Zarina Zaradna (12, harp) from Poland
Teo Gertler (15, violin), from Slovakia
Abouzahra Mariam (15, violin) from Hungary
JURY
Maestro Placido Domingo – Chairman of the Jury, opera singer, conductor
Dimash Qudaibergen – singer, songwriter
HAUSER – cellist
Pablo Sainz Villegas – classical guitarist
Placido Domingo Jr. – singer, songwriter
András Keller – violinist, conductor
Harvey Goldsmith – producer and promoter
Erika Miklósa – opera singer
Gabriela Rachidi – Artistic Director of the International Music Festival in Cesky Krumlov
HOSTS
Ida Nowakowska
Misi Boros
Anna Bátor
MENTORS
Gergely Bogányi – pianist
Elina Nechayeva – soprano
Tamás Bátor – opera singer
Clara Dent-Bogányi – oboist
Peter Valentovic – pianist, conductor
Petar Čulić – classical guitarist, composer
PRODUCER
Mariann Peller
Amelia Anisovych, the 9 year-old child from Ukraine who became the symbol of hope by singing the song Let it snow in a bomb shelter during the city has been bombed. Now she’s on stage of Virtuosos V4+ performing with worldstars and spread the world with hope and love with her appearance.
Three judges of Virtuosos talent show: Erika Miklósa, Dimash and Plácido Domingo Jr., as well as three contestants: the two young Ukrainians, Amelia Anisovych and Timofii Zherebtsov (piano) as well as clarinetist Ali Lugosi and guitarist Petar Čulić, accompanied by the Pannon Philharmonic, petforming Péter Pejtsik’s composition Heal the World. Song, which is a cover version of Michael Jackson’s famous composition.

“Heal the World” by Michael Jackson
Arranged, orchestrated and conducted by Péter Pejtsik
Post-production team leader: Péter Pejtsik
Sound engineers:
Gergely Lakatos – Lead sound engineer
András Ádám Horváth – Transparent Sound Studio
Bence Bobák
Final cut by Zsolt Hajós and Dávid Dörögdi
Executive producer : Emese Kalmár
Recorded at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary
With much love,
for Dimash