Baráti Kristóf
violin
Kristóf Baráti was born in Budapest in 1979 into a family of musicians (his mother is a violinist, his father a cellist). He spent a large part of his childhood in Venezuela and, at the age of 8, gave a concert with the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra. He began studying violin with his mother and Emil Friedman in Caracas, then he studied with Miklós Szenthelyi and Vilmos Tátrai in Budapest at the Liszt Music Academy.
Professor Eduard Wulfson, director of the Stradivarius Society, discovered Baráti at the Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1996. Since then he became his musical advisor and mentor. Wulfson is an heir to the great tradition of Russian violin playing.
He relays to Baráti the knowledge of his own teachers: Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng. Kristóf has participated, as guest professor, alongside Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin, and Natalia Gutman, at the master-classes organized by Eduard Wulfson, initially at the Château de Champs-sur-Marne and at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
He regularly performs with great success in Hungary and worldwide with major orchestras and outstanding conductors. Kristóf has the privilege to play on a 1703 Stradivarius named Lady Harmsworth, kindly donated by the Stradivari Society.
He has appeared on major stages all around the world: the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Salle Pleyel (Paris), the Berliner Philharmonie, the Teatro Teresa Careńo, the Sala Rios Reyna (Venezuela), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Symphony Hall Osaka, the Palace of Arts (Budapest), Verona, Chicago, Shanghai, and has been invited to the festivals Gstaad Sommets Musicaux, Elba Musical Festival (awarded the Best Performer Prize), Berliner Festspiele, Santander Music Festival, Colmar International Festival.
In 1997 he received third prize and Audience Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Brussels, and the Second Prize at the Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris in 1996. He won the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia in 1995.
Among his chamber music partners should be mentioned Natalia Gutman, Mikhail Mouratch, Michel Portal, Mario Brunello, Evgeny Koroliov and Imre Rohmann. He has played under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Kurt Masur, Gergely Vajda, Jiří Bělohlávek, Arthur Fagen, Yoel Levi, Andrew Manze, Paul Mann, Robert Houlihan, Kiril Karabits, Vasily Petrenko, Zoltán Kocsis, Ariel Zuckerman, Iván Fischer, Yuri Temirkanoff, Marek Janovski and Eiji Oue. Since 2002 he has recorded chamber works and concertos by Paganini, Ravel, Bartók and J. S. Bach.
Prizes
2011 Liszt Prize
Professor Eduard Wulfson, director of the Stradivarius Society, discovered Baráti at the Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1996. Since then he became his musical advisor and mentor. Wulfson is an heir to the great tradition of Russian violin playing.
He relays to Baráti the knowledge of his own teachers: Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng. Kristóf has participated, as guest professor, alongside Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin, and Natalia Gutman, at the master-classes organized by Eduard Wulfson, initially at the Château de Champs-sur-Marne and at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
He regularly performs with great success in Hungary and worldwide with major orchestras and outstanding conductors. Kristóf has the privilege to play on a 1703 Stradivarius named Lady Harmsworth, kindly donated by the Stradivari Society.
He has appeared on major stages all around the world: the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Salle Pleyel (Paris), the Berliner Philharmonie, the Teatro Teresa Careńo, the Sala Rios Reyna (Venezuela), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Symphony Hall Osaka, the Palace of Arts (Budapest), Verona, Chicago, Shanghai, and has been invited to the festivals Gstaad Sommets Musicaux, Elba Musical Festival (awarded the Best Performer Prize), Berliner Festspiele, Santander Music Festival, Colmar International Festival.
In 1997 he received third prize and Audience Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Brussels, and the Second Prize at the Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris in 1996. He won the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia in 1995.
Among his chamber music partners should be mentioned Natalia Gutman, Mikhail Mouratch, Michel Portal, Mario Brunello, Evgeny Koroliov and Imre Rohmann. He has played under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Kurt Masur, Gergely Vajda, Jiří Bělohlávek, Arthur Fagen, Yoel Levi, Andrew Manze, Paul Mann, Robert Houlihan, Kiril Karabits, Vasily Petrenko, Zoltán Kocsis, Ariel Zuckerman, Iván Fischer, Yuri Temirkanoff, Marek Janovski and Eiji Oue. Since 2002 he has recorded chamber works and concertos by Paganini, Ravel, Bartók and J. S. Bach.
Prizes
2011 Liszt Prize