BARNABAS KELEMEN

Barnabás Kelemen, born in Budapest in 1978, started his violin studies with Valeria Baranyai at the age of 6. He entered Eszter Perenyi's class at the Franz Liszt Music Academy at the age of 11. In 2001, he received his diploma and was also awarded the Sándor Vegh Prize by the Sándor Vegh Foundation in Budapest.

Barnabás has won several international competitions, winning 2nd at the Szigeti Competition, 1st Prizes at the Mozart Competition in Salzburg, the International Piano Trio Competition in Kuhmo, 3rd at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and 1st Prize and six of the eight special prizes at the Indianapolis International Violin Competition.

Well regarded performances at many of the world's music festivals in Colmar, Cambridge, Delft, Capetown, Budapest, Prague, and Salzburg, and collaborations with conductors and artists such as Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Zoltan Kocsis, Michael Stern, Tamas Vasary, and Steven Isserlis, Barnabás regularly performs in Europe's distinguished concert halls with prominent orchestras. Next season he can be heard at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore Hall, and New York's Carnegie Hall.

Barnabás Kelemen has released four solo records under the label Hungaroton. His first double CD, the Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Franz Liszt, with pianist Gergely Bogányi, won the International Liszt Society's Grand Prix du Disque.

Since 2005, Barnabás he has been teaching at the Liszt Férenc Academy of Music in Budapest.