- Antal Szalai
Antal Szalai is a Hungarian
violin ist.Biography
He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1981 . A product of the Bela Bartok Conservatory, Franz Liszt University of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, Szalai started his musical career at the age of five. In 1987 he began his studies with Laszlo Denes, continuing with him at the Bela Bartok Secondary School of Music. Since 1995, Szalai has been a pupil of Peter Komlos (first violin of the Bartok String Quartet). In 2001-2002,after a personal invitation from Pinchas Zukerman, he spent one year in New York as his private student at the Manhattan School of Music.
Antal Szalai has already compiled extensive experience as a soloist with orchestra. He made Berlin debut in March 2008 at Berilner Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, and he has also appeared with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, the Orchestre National d’ile de France, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kosice Philharmonic Orchestra (Slovakia), the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), the Naumburg Orchestra (New York), the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra (Sweden), the "Mihail Jora" Philharmonic Orchestra (Bacau,Romania), the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, the Pécs Symphony Orchestra, the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, the Szombathely Symphony Orchestra , and worked with great conductors Yoel Levi,Gilbert Varga, Paul Goodwin, Rico Saccani, Paavo Järvi, Shlomo Mintz, Gregory Vajda, Romolo Gessi,Ovidiu Balan, I.Ionescu Galati , Alexandru Lascae, Emil Simon etc.
In addition to an accomplished career performing with orchestras, Szalai has given recitals in some of the most prestigious venues in the world. In February 2003 he made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall. In addition, he has given recital performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Moscow Conservatory, Kensington Palace in London(in the present of Charles,Prince of Wales), Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles, Victoria Hall in Geneve ,the Opera House in Budapest and at the Budapest Spring Festival, the "Russian Spring" Music Festival of Moscow, and the Sion-Festival in Switzerland. In 2002 March,as a recipient of the Sir George Solti Foundation he had the possibility to play a part in the aria recital of José Carreras in Lausanne,Switzerland.
His Bach/Kreisler/Ysaye/Petrovics CD became “Editor’s Choice” at the Gramphone Magazin in November 2002.
Discography
*"The Leo Weiner Album" [ [http://www.bmcrecords.hu/pages/tartalom/index_en.php?kod=018/ BMC Records] ] (BMC Records, 1999)
**Personnel: Janos Starker –cello , Melinda Felletar –harp , Gyorgy Sebok –piano , Antal Szalai –violin , Budapest Chamber Symphony, Tibor Varga -conductor , Zsolt Hamar – conductor*"Bach/Kreisler/Ysaye/Petrovics Solo-Album" [ [http://www.bmcrecords.hu/pages/tartalom/index_en.php?kod=047/ BMC Records] ] (BMC Records, 2001)
*"Leopold Auer - Rhapsodie hongroise" [ [http://www.hungaroton.hu/hu/node/3156/ Hungaroton Records] ] (Hungaroton Records)
**Personnel: Antal Szalai – violin, Jozsef Balog – piano*"J.S.Bach: Complete Oboe Concertos" [ [http://www.bmcrecords.hu/pages/tartalom/index_en.php?kod=089/ BMC Records] ] (BMC Records)
**Personnel: Laszlo Hadady –oboe , Antal Szalai – violin, Borbala Dobozy –harpsichord , Budapest Chamber SymphonyReferences
External links
* [http://www.antalszalai.net/ Official website of Antal Szalai]
*myspace|antalszalai
* [http://www.antalszalai.extra.hu]
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