Márta Ábrahám & László Borbély
Biography Márta Ábrahám & László Borbély
Márta Ábrahám
Versatile musician: Bach researcher, violinist, chamber musician, concertmaster, teacher.
He graduated Summa cum Laude in 1996 from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, as a student of Dénes Kovács and Ferenc Rados. He later studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Ruggiero Ricci and later with David Takenko at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Between 1984 and 1994 he won all the violin competitions in Hungary and was awarded medals and special prizes in several international competitions. He has made numerous CD and radio recordings and premiered several contemporary works, which have been enthusiastically praised by many music critics. He has released five solo CDs, including one on Philips Classics as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in North and South America, China, South Korea, most major European cities and is a regular guest artist at prestigious international music festivals.
As a soloist, he has performed in world-famous concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palais de Beaux - Arts Bruxelles and the Philharmonie Berlin.
As a baroque violinist he played with the Orfeo Orchestra, Wiener Akademie, Anima Eterna, Clemencic Consort and early music ensembles.
For many years he led the Concerto Armonico, a chamber orchestra playing period instruments, and was awarded the Gramophone Prize in 2014.
Currently, he is Professor of Violin at the Liszt Academy of Music and Artistic Director of the early music ensemble Ábrahám Consort.
