FARKAS, Katalin (HUN)

Katalin Farkas obtained her masters degree with honors in performance violin and teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in Perényi Eszter's class in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she attended postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, in the class of Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel. In 2012, she got her DLA degree with the dictinction summa cum laude also at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. The title of her DLA dissertation is Alfred Schnittke’s Works for Violin. During her studies, she attended numerous masterclasses – for example that of Dmitry Sitkovetski, Vesselin Paraschkevov, Dénes Kovács, Stephan Ruha, Vilmos Szabadi, Dénes Zsigmondy, Eszter Perényi, János Rolla, and Barnabás Kelemen's – and participated at music competitions with success: she got special prizes in 2000 at the Jenő Hubay National Violin Competition and in 1999 at the VIII. Károly Flesch International Violin Competitions and 2nd prize and special prize in 1998 at the National Zathureczky Violin Competition.

Since 2008 she has been teaching violin and chamber music at the Béla Bartók Institute of Music at the University of Miskolc. As a member of the ensemble, she has performed extensively in Hungary and worldwide (among other places, in Spain, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Peru, Brazil, Lithuania, Slovenia). She gives concerts regularly with noted Hungarian musicians mainly in sonata, duo and trio forms. Her regular partners are Tamás Kéry and Ferenc János Szabó pianists, Anna Scholz cellist and her own husband, Csaba Fervágner contrabassist. In 2015, she got the prize of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Miskolc Regional Committee.

You can communicate with Ms. Farkas in English and a little in German.