A tribute to the Hungarian violin school at its Alma Mater over a long weekend.

9+1 Violin Concertos Dedicated to 7 Hungarian Violinists
May 1–3, 2026, Liszt Academy

Conductors:

Andreas Ottensamer, Gergely Madaras, András Keller, Michael Stern, Maxim Rysanov, Gábor Káli, György Vashegyi

Orchestras:

Concerto Budapest, Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic, Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, Kodály Philharmonic, Saint Stephen Philharmonic

Violin Concertos:

Brahms, Bruch, Schumann, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Bartók Violin Concertos
Ravel: Tzigane
Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1 & No. 2
Brahms: Double Concerto

Barnabás Kelemen, Violinist, is This Season’s Artist at Müpa Budapest!

The Müpa audience will have the opportunity to hear him and his fellow musicians in three concerts.

Details and ticket purchase:

Season’s Artist Series 1
November 12, 2024 – 7:30 PM

Program:
Mozart: Violin Sonata in G major, K. 379
Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70, No. 2
Intermission
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60

Barnabás Kelemen(violin), Katalin Kokas (viola), Miklós Perényi (cello), Shai Wosner(piano)

Tickets purchase:
[https://mupa.hu/program/komolyzene-opera-szinhaz/kelemen-barnabas-kamarakoncertje-2024-11-12_19-30-bbnh](https://mupa.hu/program/komolyzene-opera-szinhaz/kelemen-barnabas-kamarakoncertje-2024-11-12_19-30-bbnh)

Season’s Artist Series 2
March 4, 2025 – 7:30 PM

Program:
Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Op. 67, No. 5
Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Op. 30, No. 6
Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77
Intermission
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Barnabás Kelemen, Gáspár Kelemen (violin), Katalin Kokas (viola), László Fenyő (cello), Zsolt Fejérvári (double bass)
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)

Tickets:
[https://mupa.hu/program/komolyzene-opera-szinhaz/kelemen-barnabas-andreas-ottensamer-es-muvesztarsaik-kamarakoncertje-2025-03-03_19-30-bbnh]

In 2020 the Gramophone Classical Music Awards Chamber category was secured by players Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, Nicolas Altstaedt, Vilde Frang, Lawrence Power and Alexander Lonquich.

Their recording of Béla Bartók’s Piano Quintet and Sándor Veress’s String Trio on Alpha Classics was deemed​ “unmissable” by Gramophone on its release in 2020.

‘I think it fair to say that Kelemen, Frang, Katalin Kokas, Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich sell this lovable product of youthful creative excess more securely than any of their predecessors on disc, certainly any that I have encountered’.

(The Gramophone review)

The BBC Music Magazine Awards celebrate the very best of the classical recording world, from ambitious symphony and opera releases to imaginative and intimate chamber and solo albums.

The winners of the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2020 were announced in mid-May 2020. It was presented in seven categories, with a list of 21 nominees compiled by a professional jury out of the 170 best recordings of the previous year (only recordings that received a five-star rating from one of the magazine’s critics could be included in the list). The chamber category winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award was ultimately decided by an audience vote.

Among the chamber music recordings, the record featuring Sándor Veress’s 1954 string trio and Béla Bartók’s 1903 piano quintet in C major, which was released under the auspices of Alpha Records, deserved recognition.

The founding members, Barnabas Kelemen and Katalin Kokas, introduce two new members to the quartet. Jonian Ilias Kadesha will be a violinist and Vashti Hunter will be their new cellist.

After a three-year hiatus the Budapest-based chamber group returns to the stage with two new members. At their debut concert at the Budapest Spring Festival they will perform Béla Bartók’s six string quartets in two concerts.

source: theviolinchannel.com