The Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra is a professional Hungarian

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

History

The orchestra was founded in 1977 by graduates of the

Franz Liszt Academy of Music The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several ...

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, beginning life as a

septet A septet is a formation containing exactly seven members. It is commonly associated with musical groups but can be applied to any situation where seven similar or related objects are considered a single unit, such as a seven-line stanza of poetry ...

. It subsequently developed into a sixteen person string orchestra, which was awarded first prize at the International Chamber Orchestra Competition in Belgrad in 1982. Since 1983, the orchestra has performed regularly in the most important concert halls in Hungary. In 1995 it founded the International Haydn Festival in

Fertőd Fertőd () is a town in the Győr-Moson-Sopron county of Hungary, not far from Austria. Fertőd was formed when the towns of Eszterháza and Süttör were unified, in 1950. It is the location of one of Hungary's best known palaces, Eszterháza, w ...

. Besides playing the standard

repertoire Repertory or repertoire () is the list or set of works a person or company is accustomed to performing. Whether the English or French spelling is used has no bearing, but it was the French word, with an accent on the first e, , that first took ho ...

for string orchestra, it performs compositions by Hungarian composers, including

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

and Leó Weiner. In March 2013, the orchestra performed the world premiere of Robert Gulya's '' Nutcracker-Variations'' for guitar and strings at Palace of Arts in Budapest. The chamber orchestra has worked with such notable soloists as Peter Frankl,

Johanna Beisteiner Johanna Beisteiner (born 20 February 1976) is an Austrian classical guitarist, Singing, singer, Acting, actress and Arrangement, arranger. Life Johanna Beisteiner received her first guitar lessons at the age of nine at the Josef Matthias ...

and Irena Grafenauer, and has recorded numerous CDs for

Hungaroton Hungaroton is the oldest record and music publisher company in Hungary. Hungaroton was founded in 1951, when its only competitors in the Hungarian music market were record labels like Melodiya, Supraphon and from other socialist countries. P ...

Naxos Records Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres. The premier label is Naxos Records, which focuses on classical music. Naxos Musical Group encompasses about ...

and other labels.

References

External links

Official website
of the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra.

on the Website of

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