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Nádor Quartet

Gyula Gabora Violin
Nándor Farkas Second Violin
Emil Csonka Viola
Marcell Vámos Cello

Nador Quartet was founded in autumn 2004. Its members graduated at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Their first big performance was at the International Joseph Joachim Chambermusic Competition in Weimar, Germany, in November 2005. The Quartet won the 3rd prize there. In April 2006 they took part in the Tenth London String Quartet Competition. They were selected there by very famous international professional jury-members and got there among the twelve best Quartets of the World. The Quartet received a lot of course invitations from famous string artists from abroad in London. In October 2006, the Quartet took part in the International Geneve String Quartet Competition.

They also took part the music festivals in Bourdeux and Reggio Emilia in 2008.

The Quartet gives concerts regularly. In their repertoire they have both the Classicists (Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) and the Romanticists (Schubert, Brahms, Verdi and Dohnányi) but also the quartetmusic of today's componists plays an important role in their programmes (Kurtág, Webern, Bolens, Bujtás). They plan on putting Bartók's quartets on their programme soon.

Their concerts are regularly broadcast by Television Duna and Radio Bartók. Their professional work is helped by famous professors and artists, like János Devich (Kodály Quartett), Sándor Devich (Bartók Quartett), András Keller (Keller Quartett), György Konrád (Tátrai Quartett), Gábor Takács-Nagy (Takács Quartett), Barnabás Dukay (Componist) and György Kurtág (Componist), Eberhardt Felz.

In 2009 they have got already 3rd time the artist Fischer Annie-scholarship of the Hungarian Culture Department.

József Horváth doublebass

József Barcza Horváth was born in 1974 in Budapest. At the beginning of his career for some time he played in both symphonic orchestras and various jazz bands. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado, and from 1997 to 1999 he played in concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. At the same time, still young, he achieved success in the area of jazz, for instance in the 1995 international Jazz Juniors Competition he won Best Bassist Prize.

In recent years he has been one of the influential bass players in the Hungarian jazz scene, and his playing can be heard on over 25 discs. He has recorded with Gábor Gadó ( One glimpse is not enough , 1999; Greetings from the Angel , 2000), Off Course, and Erik Truffaz ( Street of secrets , 1999; Tales from the lighthouse , 2002), the Kaltenecker Trio ( Rainy Films , 2001; Triangular Expression , 2002), the Trio Yengibarjan, and Frank London ( Tango Passion , 2001; Pandoukht , 2003), Gábor Winand ( Corners of my mind , 2002; Agent spiritual , 2003; Different garden , 2004), as well as Gábor Juhász and Palle Mikkelborg (60/40, 2003). He has performed with well-known musicians such as Kirk Lightsey, Benny Bailey, Erik Truffaz, Ray Anderson, Palle Mikkelborg, Frank London, Eivind Aarset, Ferenc Snétberger, Tony Lakatos, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, etc. 

In addition to jazz he regularly participates in productions in other genres: he has played in bands with famous folk performers (Ági Szalóki, Mitsoura), he has made pop music recordings (Klári Katona, Caramel) and has composed music to the puppet play Nádi, Paca, Kóc. In 2008 he participated in the recording of two albums: Tau by the Zoltán Lantos’ Mirrorworld, and Golden Earrings by Nikoletta Szőke. 

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