Winner of the 2019 Bartók World Competition and a Junior Prima Prize recipient, Ádám Szokolay has given concerts throughout Europe and North America, in such venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, the Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Palace of Arts in Budapest. A passionate chamber musician, he has participated in international festivals like the Villa Musica Festival in Mainz; Encuentro di Música in Santander, Spain; with such eminent partners as Boris Garlitsky, Zakhar Bron and Dénes Várjon. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Savaria-, Győr- and Miskolc Symphony Orchestras, the Budapest Strings and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra among others, with such conductors as János Kovács, Domonkos Héja, Zsolt Hamar and Mátyás Antal.​

Szokolay is regularly invited for solo recitals in the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and the Béla Bartók Memorial House in Budapest. In 2022 the BBC Radio broadcasted his recital with a program of works by Béla Bartók. His concerts in Paris, Vilnius and Batumi with renowned French composer-pianist Michel Sogny have been broadcasted by Mezzo TV worldwide. In 2017 he assembled his own orchestra with fellow students of the Bard Conservatory, performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

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Born in 1996, Ádám Szokolay completed his university studies at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in New York, the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in the classes of Peter Serkin, Grigory Gruzman, Imre Rohmann, Dénes Várjon and András Kemenes. He has participated in the master classes and took lessons of extraordinary artists like György Kurtág, Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, Zoltán Kocsis, Márta Gulyás, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Péter Csaba, Richard Goode, Milana Chernyavska, Mūza Rubackytė, Mikhail Voskresensky, Martin Helmchen, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Ruben Dalibaltayan and Eldar Nebolsin. His uncle, pianist Balázs Szokolay, has been a mentor to him and has supported his musical growth since early childhood.

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As a prizewinner of numerous international competitions - the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, the Stecher & Horowitz New York International Piano Competition, the Carl Filtsch International Competition in Romania and the György Ferenczy International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest -, Szokolay was awarded the Sári Bíró Memorial Award, the Fischer Annie Scholarship and the Kocsis-Hauser Foundation's Prize in Hungary for his artistic work.

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International awards and prizes:

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• Bartók World Competition, Budapest: I. prize, 7 special prizes (2019)

• Pro Musicis International Award, Paris - with violinist François Pineau-Benois (2019)

• Danubia Talents International Music Competition, Hungary: I. prize (2018)

• Stecher and Horowitz New York International Piano Competition: Finalist prize (2016)

• Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition: Honorable Mention (2016)

• Svirél International Chamber Music Competition, Slovenia: I. prize - with Eszter Kruchió (violin) and Fanni Fekete (clarinet) (2015)

• Piano Talents International Piano Competition, Milan: I. prize (2014)

• Crescendo Summer Institute, International Liszt Piano Competition: I. prize (2011)

• Kosice International Piano Competition: II. prize, Katarina Gurska's special prize (2011)

• Zlatko Grgosevic International Piano Competition, Zagreb: I. prize, Special prize for the best interpretation of a classical work (2010)

• György Ferenczy International Chopin Piano Competition, Budapest: I. prize, Special prizes for the best interpretation of Chopin and Schubert works (2008)

• Mozart International Piano Competition, Brno: II. prize (2006)

• Carl Filtsch International Piano Competition, Romania: II. prize (2005)