Lendvay József
violin
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1974
József Lendvay began playing the violin at the age of four, his first teacher was his father, the well known violinist József Csócsi Lendvay. He began performing publicly at a young age and entered the class for outstanding talents at the Music Academy where he was a student of Professor Ferenc Halász and Miklós Szenthely. He attended masterclasses by Yehudi Menuhin, Ida Haendel, Igor Oistrakh, Jaap van Zweeden and Sándor Végh.
He has been the winner of the international violin competitions in Budapest, Czechoslovakia and in Amsterdam. In 1993 won the prize of the Summer Academy in Salzburg, and in 1994 he won the award for high quality of the Society of Hungarian Music Performers. He has been the winner of the Scheveningen violin competition; also he has been awarded by the International Music Critics. In 1996 he won the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Switzerland, and received the Bronze Cross of Distinction of the Republic of Hungary. In 1997 he won the first prize at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, earning the Paganini Prize, and the Prize of the Audience as well. In 1998 he was an Annie Fischer scholarship holder, and received the Lyra Award of the Hungarian Performing Arts Foundation. He was awarded by Ferenc Liszt Award in 1999.
He has performed in many countries, and been a soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Holland Radio Orchestra, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Suisse Romande. He regularly plays with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and contributed to their CD of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies and Brahms Hungarian Dances (Philips.) He is a soloist and concertmaster of the National Orchestra, founded by Justus Franz and Leonard Bernstein, and has played several times at the Vatican: he was given a Papal bronze medal for his artistic activities. In 2016 he named Artist of Merit of Hungary. He plays on an instrument made in 1777 by Giovanni Tesstore.
He has been the winner of the international violin competitions in Budapest, Czechoslovakia and in Amsterdam. In 1993 won the prize of the Summer Academy in Salzburg, and in 1994 he won the award for high quality of the Society of Hungarian Music Performers. He has been the winner of the Scheveningen violin competition; also he has been awarded by the International Music Critics. In 1996 he won the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Switzerland, and received the Bronze Cross of Distinction of the Republic of Hungary. In 1997 he won the first prize at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, earning the Paganini Prize, and the Prize of the Audience as well. In 1998 he was an Annie Fischer scholarship holder, and received the Lyra Award of the Hungarian Performing Arts Foundation. He was awarded by Ferenc Liszt Award in 1999.
He has performed in many countries, and been a soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Holland Radio Orchestra, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Suisse Romande. He regularly plays with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and contributed to their CD of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies and Brahms Hungarian Dances (Philips.) He is a soloist and concertmaster of the National Orchestra, founded by Justus Franz and Leonard Bernstein, and has played several times at the Vatican: he was given a Papal bronze medal for his artistic activities. In 2016 he named Artist of Merit of Hungary. He plays on an instrument made in 1777 by Giovanni Tesstore.