Bela Horvath was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1982. When he was thirteen years old, he got into the Bela Bartok Secondary School of Music in Budapest with the highest rank. He studied with Istvan Kertesz, who is the first violinist of the famous Festetics String Quartet. Bela played a lot of concerts with the school orchestra as a soloist. He won a couple of awards from the school for the appreciation of being an excellent student. During the five years he studied at the Bartok School, he won the National Janos Koncz competition in 1998. In 1999, Bela was one of the finalists of the International Carl Flesch competition as the youngest participant. He also got a special prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece, which was written for the competition by Miklos Csemiczky. Bela also won the 1st prize of the National Weiner Leo Chamber music competition in the same year. Bela got into the Franz Liszt University of music with the highest score and studied with Hungarian concert violinist Miklos Szenthelyi. After one year of studying at the Liszt University, he transferred to the Manhattan School of Music to study with the world-famous violinist, violist, conductor and teacher Pinchas Zukerman and with his associate Patinka Kopec as well.Bela has been working on his bachelor of music degree at the Manhattan School of Music since 2002 with full scholarship.
Horvath has already benefited from the tutelage of such great violinists as Gyorgy Pauk, Dora Schwarzberg, Boris Kuschnir, Zakhar Bron, and Joseph Silverstein. He has also played a great deal of chamber music and worked with many chamber music coaches such as Sylvia Rosenberg, Daniel Avshalamov, Steven Dann, and Michael Tree.
In addition to an accomplished career performing with orchestras, Horvath has given recitals in some of the most prestigious venues in the world. He has played in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Canada, France, and the USA. In March 2004 he made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall.
He will be the viola soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertane with the Musica Bella Orchestra on October 30, 2005.
This bio last updated August 14, 2005