Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Krulik Eszter


violin, viola

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth

 
Eszter Krulik was born in Budapest, Hungary. She started to play the violin at the age of seven. After completing her studies at the Béla Bartók Conservatory – where also studied composition as well – she spent one year at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna under the direction of the leader of Wiener Filharmoniker, prof. Rainer Kuchl. She graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2004 with distinction.

In her last year at the Liszt Academy she won the Scholarship of the Hungarian Republik. In the same year she won the RSAMD Trust International Instrumental Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow where she graduated in 2005 with distinction. After she spent one year as a guest-chambermusic-student in Basel.

She took part masterclasses at IMS in Prussia Cove, England, at International Bartok Seminar in Hungary, at Holzhauser Musiktage in Germany. Her main professors were András Keller, György Pauk, Dénes Zsigmondy, Imre Rohmann and Gábor Csalog.

Recently her main interest have turned towards contemporary and chamber music. She was already three times invited to perform at the famous Lucerne Festival Academy, under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez. Eszter also used to play at the most famous Hungarian Contemporary Music Festivals.

She performed at the Budapest Spring Festival and the 12th National Young Musicians’ Festival in Halifax, England. As a soloist she played with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Glasgow Chamber Orchestra and the Dutch Symphony Orchestra.

Her other musical activities included playing and singing with the Makam Ensemble between 2000-2005. She performed with them in almost all of the European Countries and India as well. In 2006 she became the concertmaster of Budapest Hillside Chamber Orchestra and the Rondino Ensemble. In the same year she started to play the viola. Since 2006 she started to arrange own chamber-music projects in Háló Community Center and in the Festetics Palace. Eszter Krulik is playing on an 17th centurian Italian violin.