Szalai Antal
violin
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1981
Antal Szalai, the promising Hungarian violinist, studied for seven years at the Budapest Academy of Music where he was the student of Péter Komlós, the primarius of the Bartók String Quartet. He has been playing the violin since the age of five; in musical school and college he was a pupil of László Dénes. He took part in the master courses of Loránd Fenyves, Tibor Varga and György Pauk, and his talent was praised by Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern. He has won several musical competitions and gives concerts regularly both in Hungary and abroad. He has performed at the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Unesco Hall in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, and at Kensington Palace in London where he played in the presence of Prince Charles. In 2001-2002, he was a scholarship holder at the Manhattan School of Music, New York, as a student of Pinchas Zukerman, the world famous violinist.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 |
Petrovics Emil: Vonósnégyesek és rapszódiák
(String quartets and rhapsodies) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 017 | |
| 1999 | Weiner Leó album | BMC Records | BMC CD 018 | |
| 2000 | Bach, J. S. - Revisited | BMC Records | BMC CD 043 | |
| 2001 | Bach / Kreisler / Ysaye / Petrovics | BMC Records | BMC CD 047 |
Own |
| 2003 |
Auer Lipót: Magyar rapszódia
(Auer, Leopold: Rhapsodie hongroise) |
Hungaroton | HCD 32156 |
Own First recordings |
| 2003 |
Bach, J.S.: Oboaversenyek
(Complete oboe concertos) |
BMC Records | BMC CD 089 |