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She is a first prize - winner in several competitions including the János KonczNational Violin Competition, Szombathely, Károly Flesch National Violin Competition, Mosonmagyaróvár, and fourth prize at Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, England. Ábrahám holds a Doctor of Liberal Arts Degree from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, where she is a professor teaching violin and fugue-analysis.
Currently, she is Artistic Leader and concert-master of the Ábrahám Consort early music ensemble.
Many of her CD's and radio-recordings received enthusiastic praise, several of them also contain new discoveries and world premieres on labels such as Hungaroton, Belgian Radio 3, Philips Classics.
Since 2005, Márta Ábrahám is a violin professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest, in 2013 she gained her DLA degree.
She has participated in masterclasses of world-renowned artists such as Elisabeth Gilels, Nathan Milstein, György Pauk, Loránd Fenyves, György Kurtág, Dénes Zsigmondy, and Vladimir Spivakov. S. Bach: Fugue in g minor BWV 1001 - Sheet Music Poster, edited by Márta Ábrahám, Barnabás Dukay & Eveline Meier, 2021, BioBach-Music LP
Discography
- Sibelius, Ysaÿe, Sarasate, Balassa, Kurtág: Show Pieces, Rode Pomp 1997
- Bartók, Comitas, Lachert, Marx sonatas for violin: VRT/ Radio3, Rode Pomp 1998
- Dirk Brossé: Black, White and in Between, London Philharmonic Orchestra, PHILIPS 1999
- Sándor Balassa: Violin Concerto Op.
3. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Márta Ábrahám. In 2009, together with György Schweigert, double-bass player, they founded the early music ensemble Ábrahám Consort, in which she is concertmaster and artistic director. In addition to winning the Gold Medal at the 1994 National Memorial Violin Competition of Ede Zathureczky, she won two special prizes and also the loan of the Ex-Ede Zathureczky violin and Sartori bow for four years.
Márta Ábrahám is an internationally established leading Hungarian violinist performing and teaching extensively around the world.Soloist and concertmaster activity
Ábrahám performs as a soloist regularly, and her previous seasons include performances in concert halls such as Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, and Brussels Palais de Beaux-Arts; appearances with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Belgian Radio Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, European Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, and Budapest Strings; and performances under the baton of leading Hungarian and international conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamás Vásáry, Helmuth Rilling, Sakari Oramo and Ádám Fischer.
Between 1981 and 1990 she attended the Bartók Béla Music High School in Budapest in the class of Russian violin professor Natasa Sós. After receiving a personal invitation from the legendary virtuoso, Ruggiero Ricci, she continued her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Their aim is to investigate and analyze these works, filling a gap not only in national, but also in international context.
She won her diploma “Summa Cum Laude” in 1996 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest as the pupil of Natas Sós, Dénes Kovács and Ferenc Rados.
Education
Ábrahám began her violin studies at the age of six under the tutelage of her mother. Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Hungaroton 2005
- Sándor Balassa: Pastorale and Rondo Op.
66. Between 1992 and 1994 she pursued her musical education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she became a pupil of the internationally acclaimed violin professor David Takeno.
Publications
Books:
- Barnabás Dukay-Márta Ábrahám: Excerpts from Eternity "The Purification of Time and Character, the Fulfilment of Love and Cooperation with the Celestial Will in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaccona for Violin." 2017.
She currently lives in Budapest, Hungary.
- Barnabás Dukay-Márta Ábrahám: Excerpts from Eternity "The Purification of Time and Character, the Fulfilment of Love and Cooperation with the Celestial Will in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaccona for Violin." 2017.
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For years, she led the Concerto Armonico chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, her work was recognized in 2014 with Gramofon Award. From the age 17 she studied with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, and with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.An active chamber musician, she is regularly invited to orchestras and ensembles as the guest concertmaster, such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Every year, she gives master-classes in Hungary and other countries, including the creation since the summer of 2009 of “Zebegény Workshop for violin soloist and chamber music”.
Since 2011 Marta Ábraham - together with composer Barnabás Dukay - is intensively researching the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach research
Since 2011 Márta Ábrahám – together with composer Barnabás Dukay – has been intensively researching the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. She has worked as a guest leader with orchestras, such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
Márta Ábrahám is invited regularly to join for chamber-music around the world and has established herself as a usual partner with Alex Szilasi, Tamás Vásáry, Gergely Bogányi, Péter Nagy, Enrico Dindo.