Professor Ágnes Molnár has passed away
The former professor of the Chamber Music Department passed away on 26 April, at the age of 95.
Ágnes Molnár was born 24 March 1925 in Budapest. Between 1933 and 1946 she studied violin at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest as a student of Imre Waldbauer and Ede Zathureczky, also studying with Leó Weiner, Zoltán Kodály, Antal Molnár, Jenő Ádám and György Kósa. From 1946 to 1984 she was a section leader in the State Concert Orchestra, and from 1986 to 1997 she taught string chamber music at the Liszt Academy. Together with her husband, Endre Kemény, she founded the Molnár–Szilvásy String Quartet, and was the concertmaster of the Béla Bartók Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist and chamber musician, she often performed at the Liszt Academy's Concert Centre, the Semmelweis Street Chamber Hall of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, and studio concerts of the Hungarian Radio. She was awarded the Order of Merit in 1982 and the Bartók–Pásztory Prize in 1987.
Her funeral is held 26 June, Friday, at 9:45 in the Makovecz funeral home of the Farkasréti Cemetery.
