Born: 1968, Budapest
Academic degree, university position: associate professor
Studies:
1989-1994: Liszt Ferenc College of Music – teachers: Zoltán Tibay and Péter Kubina
2014: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – DLA degree; dissertation: “A nagybőgőjáték virágkora a XVIII. században” (The Hayday of Double Bass Playing in the 18th Century)
Recordings:
1996: Bach-Beethoven-Schubert sonata album with Anikó Novák (Preludio)
2005: Sperger & Vanhal Double Bass Concertos with the Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra, concert master: Eszter Lesták Bedő (Hungaroton, HCD 32341)
2006: Bruch: Octets with the Kodály and the Auer String Quartets (Naxos, 8.557270)
Orchestral membership:
1992-1994: principal double bass player of the Munich Chamber Orchestra
1994- : leader of the double bass section of the Budapest Festival Orchestra
2000-2003: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Geneva
Other activities:
He is a regular guest performer with the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, the UMZE Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Kodály, the Auer and the Akadémia String Quartets.
In 1995 he was personally invited by Sir Georg Solti to participate in the first concert of the World Orchestra for Peace, in which selected players from the world's leading 45 orchestras celebrated the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Organization.
Passionate about chamber music, he has collaborated with extraordinary musicians such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Kristóf Baráti, Diego Chenna, Jonathan Cohen, László Fenyő, Balázs Fülei, José Gallardo, Zoltán Gál, Márta Gulyás, Giovanni Guzzo, Alina Ibragimova, Nobuko Imai, Zoltán Kocsis, György Konrád, Alexei Ljubimov, Yuri Martinov, Csaba Onczay, Mikhail Ovrutsky, Alina Pogostkina, Zoltán Rácz, Gustav Rivinius, Rafael Rosenfeld, Adam Römer, Vilmos Szabadi, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Milan Turkovic, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Alexander Rudin, István Várdai and Tamás Varga.
He has been invited to the Végh Philharmonic led by András Keller, who collected the greatest string quartet players of Hungary in his newly formed ensemble. He is also regularly invited to András Schiff's own chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, as well as to the Geneva-based Camerata Bellerive led by Gábor Takács-Nagy. In his solo recitals, he regularly performs with Mária Kovalszki, perhaps the most popular piano accompanist of the young strings generation of Hungary. He has performed several times as soloist of concertos for double-bass with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Iván Fischer, Ervin Lukács, Mark Wigglesworth and Leonidas Kavakos.
He is Co-President of the Hungarian Bassists Society and member of the International Sperger Society.
Currently, he plays a wonderful bass made by the 19th-century master Brücknert, offered to the Budapest Festival Orchestra by Lord Rothermere in 1994. On his solo appearances he plays a double bass built especially for him by the young German master Stefan Krattenmacher.
Awards and honors:
1989: Finalist and special prize winner at the International Competition of Markneunkirchen
1996: Second Prize winner of the Giovanni Bottesini International Competition in Cremona (no first prize was awarded)
2003, 2007, 2009: Winner of the Sándor Végh Competition of the Budapest Festival Orchestra
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