Miranda Liu & László Borbély
Biographie Miranda Liu & László Borbély
Miranda Liu
is one of the most dynamic and versatile musicians of her generation. She studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2024 she earned her Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA) in Violin Performance.
Her repertoire encompasses more than seventy works for violin and orchestra.
As a soloist, she has appeared in major venues including Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, New World Center in Miami Beach, Liszt Academy of Music, Müpa Budapest, Vigadó in Budapest, Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, Kodály Center in Pécs, Romanian Radio Hall in Bucharest, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, and Philharmonic Hall in Kraków. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Barbican Centre in London, the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw, the Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș, and the Primatial Palace in Bratislava, among many others.
Miranda Liu tours internationally and records regularly as the Primarius of the V4 String Quartet. Since 2013 she has been based in Budapest, where she became Hungary’s youngest concertmaster at the age of 19 after winning the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster audition under András Keller.
As a dedicated educator, she has led violin and chamber music master classes across Europe, including in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.
In 2019, she established the MiraTone Festival and Academy, which under her artistic direction has grown into one of Europe’s most prestigious international festivals, bringing together leading artists from around the world.
László Borbély
He was born in 1984. In 2007 he got his diploma with honours (Master of Music in Performance and Teaching) then his doctoral degree (Doctor of Liberal Arts) at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he is an assistant professor of Piano Faculty.
He played concerts at international festivals such Collegium Musicum Pommersfelden (Germany), Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander (Spain), International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen (The Netherlands), TCU/Cliburn Institute in Fort Worth (USA), FestivaLiszt in Grottammare (Italy), Liszt Festival in Raiding (Austria), Liszt Festival in Bayreuth (Germany), International Bartók Festival Ankara (Turkey), International Conservatory Week Festival Saint Petersburg (Russia), Festival der Klänge in Vienna (Austria), CAFe Budapest Festival, Budapest Spring Festival, Beethoven Festival Martonvásár (Hungary), International Bartók Festival Szombathely (Hungary).
He played concerts with prestigious artists such Zoltán Kocsis and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Lajos Lencsés (oboe), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Lajos Rozmán (clarinet), Judit Rajk (voice), etc.
He took master classes in Geneve (Switzerland), Würzburg (Germany), Tbilisi (Georgia) and gave podium-lectures in Izmir (Turkey) and Saint Petersburg (Russia).
He is member of Metrum Ensemble.
He won numerous prizes at national and international competitions including the 2nd Prize and a special prize for the best performance of the set piece at the EPTA International Piano Competition in Osijek (Croatia), the Yamaha Scholarship Award of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the special prize of the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the „Educational Award” at the London International Piano Competition, the 2nd prize at the International Liszt-Bartók Piano Competition in Budapest, the Annie Fischer Performers’ Scholarship (three times: in 2008, 2009, 2010), the „Junior Prima Prize” of Hungary.
