Charity Work

Mariann Peller has always placed great emphasis on supporting and sponsoring the young talents of the show in their career. So in 2015 she founded the Young Virtuosos Foundation together with Erika Miklósa, the Batthyány family, Levente Molnár opera singer and Nicholas Marko, the manager of Plácido Domingo. Since, as the producer of Virtuosos, she believes that Virtuosos is not simply a show, it is a movement and actual work starts after the television show.

The talent show has provided concert opportunities to its winners in the most important venues of classical music, such as the Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, played at the Covent Garden and the Royal College of Music in London and the Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonics. Some of the young talents discovered in Virtuosos had travelled round the world and got the chance to perform in Qatar (Katara Opera), Dubai (Expo 2020 grand stage), Shenzhen China (in the local Sports Arena in front of 40.000 viewers), In Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Strasbourg (Council of Europe), Bern, Munich, Stuttgart, Prague, Warsaw, Milan, Pakistan, Tokyo – just to mention a few. The young musicians discovered in the show also get the chance to perform with the biggest names, such as Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli and HAUSER.
 
The foundation helps young artists with scholarships, instrument purchases, organising national and foreign concerts, music- and video recordings. Such an activity comes with unforgettable moments like the one in 2014 when a terminally ill contestant, Vanessza Kormányos has been gifted with a valuable violin and a charity auction was organised to financially help her medical treatment. Many other young talents coming from disadvantaged social and financial background have been donated instruments. One of the contestants, Anna-Sofia Bonino, who battles with Multiple Sclerosis, was not only donated violin, but a charity auction was also held to benefit her medical treatment, where a Formula One helmet was actioned, that was signed by all of the drivers on Hungaroring in 2019. The Young Virtuosos Foundation, – since 2015 – furthermore, awards 3 outstanding music professors with the Best Music Teacher Award every year.