Photo: Marco Borggreve
University position: associate professor, Head of Strings Department
Born: 17 May 1979, Budapest
Studies:
Colegio Emil Friedman, Caracas, Venezuela
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, School for Exceptional Young Talents (professors: Miklós Szenthelyi, Vilmos Tátrai)
University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts
Recordings:
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos
Various: The Soul of Lady Harmsworth
Korngold: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Violin Sonatas
Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Ysaÿe: Sonatas for Solo Violin
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
Bartók, Bowen & Ravel: Violin and Piano Sonatas
Visiting lectureships, master classes:
2001– : master classes in France, included summer festival of the Sorbonne
2004 July: master classes in Modena and Puigcerda
Memberships:
2014–2022: Hungarian Academy of Arts, corresponding member
2023– : Hungarian Academy of Arts, regular member
Major concerts:
He regularly performs at venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Salle Pleyel (Paris), Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus (Berlin), Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), Teatro Teresa Carreño, (Caracas), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Symphony Hall (Osaka), Palace of Arts (Budapest), and has performed in Chicago, Shanghai, and Verona, St. Petersburg, and Australia, among other cities. In 2015, he made a highly successful debut at Carnegie Hall in New York. He has appeared at the Berliner Festspiele, Santander Music Festival, Colmar International Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad and the Elba Festival, where he won the Best Performer Award in 2006.
Among his chamber music partners we find the names of Richard Goode, Enrico Pace, Mischa Maisky, Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Mikhail Mouratch, Michel Portal, Mario Brunello, Evgeni Koroliov, Kim Kashkashian, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Ning Feng, Klára Würtz, Imre Rohmann, Miklós Perényi, Zoltán Kocsis, Dénes Várjon, István Várdai, Gergely Bogányi. He performs with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Russian National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, NHK Symphony Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española.
Conductors he has worked with: Kurt Masur, Marek Janowski, Charles Dutoit, Jiří Bělohlávek, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Yuri Bashmet, Zoltán Kocsis, Mikhail Pletnev, Gilbert Varga, Iván Fischer, Yuri Tyemirkanov, Eiji Oue, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Arthur Fagen, Yoel Levi, Andrew Manze, Paul Mann, Robert Houlihan, Kirill Karabits, Ariel Zuckerman, Vasily Petrenko.
Together with István Várdai, he is artistic director of the Kaposvár International Chamber Music Festival.
Awards and honors:
1996: Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition – II. Prize
1995: Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition – I. Prize
1997: Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels – III. Prize and Audience Prize
2009: Junior Prima Prize
2010: Paganini International Violin Competition, Moskow – I. Prize
2011: Liszt Ferenc Prize
2014: Kossuth Prize
2014: Bartók–Pásztory Prize
2015: Prima Prize
Website:
kristofbarati.com
Contact:
kristofbarati.com/contact