Borsos Katalin
violin
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1988
Orchestra
Kata Borsos was born in Budapest in 1988. She began learning the violin at elementary school under the guidance of Júlia Rákosiné Fodor. In 2002, she was accepted into the Leó Weiner Secondary School of Music, where she became a student of Zsuzsanna Németh. In 2006, she began her studies at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in the class of Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen, and in the 2009/10 academic year, she studied with Gyula Stuller in Switzerland as a scholarship student at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. She obtained her doctorate in 2022 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, writing her dissertation on neoclassical solo sonatas, focusing on the works of Honegger, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Sándor Veress. Her DLA final concert took place on January 25, 2022, in the Solti Hall.
She has won prizes in several competitions: in 2003, she was awarded a special prize at the National Ede Zathureczky Memorial Competition, and she was also a prize winner at the Szeged Chamber Music Competition. In 2010, she won first prize at the Dénes Kovács Violin Competition, as well as all three special prizes. She was the winner of the MMA Art Scholarship Program in 2025.
She has participated in masterclasses with Oleg Kaskiv, Valery Gradow, Eszter Perényi, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Simon Standage, and Kristóf Baráti, as well as orchestral and chamber music courses with András Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. She also plays the Baroque violin and, until 2014, was a regular performer with the Orfeo Orchestra led by György Vashegyi, as well as principal violinist with the Concerto Budapest orchestra led by András Keller.
She is a founding member of the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, established in 2010, and her husband, László G. Horváth, is the artistic director of the ensemble, with whom she regularly performs. In 2018, they co-founded the Flamma Cordis Duo and the annual Budapest Quartet Weekend string quartet festival. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Kaposvár Chamber Music Festival, the Ars Sacra Festival, and the Budapest Spring Festival, playing with artists such as Ditta Rohmann, Andrea Vigh, the Kelemen-Kokas couple, Gábor Csalog, and Zoltán Fejérvári.
As a member of the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, she has received several awards: the Artisjus Prize (2020), the title of National Youth Orchestra (2018 and 2020), and the Junior Prima Prize (2012). As a member and section leader of the ensemble, she has played on several CDs of Hungaroton Records.
She has won prizes in several competitions: in 2003, she was awarded a special prize at the National Ede Zathureczky Memorial Competition, and she was also a prize winner at the Szeged Chamber Music Competition. In 2010, she won first prize at the Dénes Kovács Violin Competition, as well as all three special prizes. She was the winner of the MMA Art Scholarship Program in 2025.
She has participated in masterclasses with Oleg Kaskiv, Valery Gradow, Eszter Perényi, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Simon Standage, and Kristóf Baráti, as well as orchestral and chamber music courses with András Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. She also plays the Baroque violin and, until 2014, was a regular performer with the Orfeo Orchestra led by György Vashegyi, as well as principal violinist with the Concerto Budapest orchestra led by András Keller.
She is a founding member of the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, established in 2010, and her husband, László G. Horváth, is the artistic director of the ensemble, with whom she regularly performs. In 2018, they co-founded the Flamma Cordis Duo and the annual Budapest Quartet Weekend string quartet festival. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Kaposvár Chamber Music Festival, the Ars Sacra Festival, and the Budapest Spring Festival, playing with artists such as Ditta Rohmann, Andrea Vigh, the Kelemen-Kokas couple, Gábor Csalog, and Zoltán Fejérvári.
As a member of the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, she has received several awards: the Artisjus Prize (2020), the title of National Youth Orchestra (2018 and 2020), and the Junior Prima Prize (2012). As a member and section leader of the ensemble, she has played on several CDs of Hungaroton Records.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra: String Serenades, Volume 4 (Reinecke, Hugo Wolf, Karlowicz, Kalinnikov) | Hungaroton | HCD 32853 |