Kállai String Quartet Presented by Liszt Academy

Nothing is lost, just transformed, goes the saying. This has happened with the Kállai String Quartet celebrating their fourth birthday this year, who debuted under this name in the Liszt Academy’s Solti Hall in 2015, although in fact they were established as the Nyári Quartet in 2009. The reason for the renaming? A change of first violinist. Despite their relative youth, Kállai Quartet have made several concert appearances and won prizes at several chamber music competitions with a repertoire spanning the ages from Haydn, father of the string quartet, to the 20th century. The programme tonight also reflects their openness to different eras since a century separates the composition of the Bartók string quartet and the Beethoven piece. Bridging these in time is the Brahms piano quintet which was composed between the two works. Pianist József Balog, holder of the Liszt Prize, joins the quartet in the performance of the latter work.