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Bársony Péter


viola

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1975
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Péter Bársony was born in Budapest in 1975. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2000. His masters were Ferenc Balogh, Ferenc Rados, György Konrád, Dénes Kovács, György Kurtág, Dénes Zsigmondy, Pinchas Zukerman, Zoltán Tóth, Gerard Caussé.

Mr. Bársony gives regularly concerts all over the world. His chamber partners include Márta Gulyás, Péter Csaba, Zoltán Kocsis, Péter Nagy, Rivka Golani, Andreas Frölich,Vilmos Szabadi, Kristóf Baráti, Barnabás Kelemen, Wolfgang Schröder, Dezső Ránki, Lajos Lencsés, Ramón Jaffé, László Hadady, Juliana Steinbach, András Adorján, Gergely Ittzés, Miklós Perényi, István Várdai, David Grimal, among others.

He participates in prestigious internatonal festivals (such as Santander, Ravinia Festival, Amadeo, Mostly Mozart, Schubertiada, Brionnais) He presents contemporary pieces several times a year. He frequently works with György Kurtág, Péter Eötvös, Sofia Gubaidulina, Fabiano Panisello, and Steve Reich. Composers as Tamás Beischer-Matyó, Marcell Dargay, Péter Durkó, Levente Gyöngyösi, Máté Hollós, Balázs Horváth, László Tihanyi, Péter Tornyai, Gergely Vajda dedicated contemporary viola works to him.

He was the founding member of the Akadémia and Somogyi String Quartets, was member of the Keller String Quartet and he has been solo viola player of the Concerto Budapest since 2000. He has been invited as a guest principal violist to several great orchestras like Budapest Festival Orchestra, Osaka Century Orchestra. In 2004-2005 he was holder of the Annie Fischer Grant.

He has been teaching since 2004. Between 2004-2006 he taught compulsory viola at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Since 2007 he has been member of the UMZE (Chamber Ensemble for Contemporary Music). He holds masterclass frequently, he has been invited to Trinity College, London, Tihany Summer Masterclass, Hungary or Bard College, New York.

As a soloist he has been invited to wellknown orchestras like Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Erkel Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Orchestra or Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. Several cd recordings with him have appeared on Hungaroton label. Most of the CD’s contain world premier recordings. Among his other cd’s Péter Bársony has recorded the Viola Concerto and Fusions of Ödön Pártos, complete duos for violin and viola of Joseph Haydn and Carl Stamitz with Vilmos Szabadi. On his latest released cd in 2010 he performs the complete works for viola of the famous hungarian violinist and composer Jenő Hubay – including the Concerto for viola and orchestra.

In 2013 he will debut in Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein.


Prizes:
2012 Liszt Prize
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
2003 Sperger, Johannes M.: Horn Music Hungaroton HCD 32145 First recording
2004 Strauss, Richard: Don Quixote/ Sosztakovics: Jazz szvit No. 2. Magánkiadás MSHO 12
2004 Stamitz, Carl: Duók hegedűre és mélyhegedűre
(Stamitz, Carl: Duos for Violin & Viola)
Hungaroton HCD 32282 Own
2005 Haydn, Joseph: 6 szonáta hegedűre és mélyhegedűre Hob. VI:1-6
(Haydn, Joseph: 6 Sonatas for Violin & Viola Hob. VI:1-6)
Hungaroton HCD 32361 Own
2006 Dohnányi Ernő, Mosonyi Mihály: Vonós szextettek
(Dohnányi Ernő, Mosonyi Mihály: String Sextets)
Hungaroton HCD 32300
2007 Pártos Ödön: Dicsőítő ének/ Hegedűverseny/ Fúziók
(Ödön Pártos: Song of Praise/ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra/ Fusions)
Hungaroton HCD 32450
2007 Stamitz, Carl: Duók hegedűre és mélyhegedűre Vol. 02
(Stamitz, Carl: Duos for Violin and Viola Vol. 02)
Hungaroton HCD 32453 Own
2008 Giordani, Tommaso: Hat trió fuvolára, mélyhegedűre és gordonkára Op. 12
(Giordani, Tommaso: Six Trios for German Flute, Viola and Cello Op. 12)
Hungaroton HCD 32498
2008 Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: Vonósok és fúvósok
(Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: String & Winds)
Hungaroton HCD 32572 World premiere recording
2008 In memoriam - Holokauszt-áldozat magyar zeneszerzők
(In Memoriam - Hungarian Composers Victims of the Holocaust)
Hungaroton HCD 32597
2010 Ligeti and Kurtág at Carnegie Hall BMC Records BMC CD 162
2010 Hubay Jenő összes műve mélyhegedűre
(Jenő Hubay: Complete Works for Viola)
Hungaroton HCD 32626 Complete edition
2018 The Brahms Project Hungaroton HCD 32808 Own
2021 Haydn / Mozart: Flute Quartets Hungaroton HCD 32832 Own