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Istvan Vardai (Cello)

István Várdai, the 31 year old Hungarian cellist was honoured with several important international prizes: in 2008 he won the 63th Geneva International Music Competition. He took the third prize of the International Tchaikovsky Music Competition, Moscow, in 2007. In 2006 he was awarded with the special prize of the Emanuel Feuermann Cello Competition at the Kronberg Academy and received first prize at the 13th International Brahms Competition in Austria. He was winner of the David Popper International Cello Competition three times (2000, 2003, 2004). In 2012 he received the Prix Montblanc awarded to the world's most promising young musician. In 2014 he won the prestigious ARD Cello Competition in Munich.

Since his debut concert in 1997 in the Hague, he has performed in New York, Washington, Vancouver, London, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Frankfurt, Munich, Geneva, Dublin, Moscow, St Petersburg, Florence, Tokyo, Beijing with great success. In 2010 he made his debut, among others, in Carnegie Hall and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Along his starting career, he played with world-famous musicians and orchestras: András Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Zoltán Kocsis, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Till Fellner, Shai Wosner, the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra. He has been invited to Santander Festival, the Casals Festival (Spain), the Festival of Radio France (Montpellier), the Bellerive Festival (Switzerland), the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Flanders Festival, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Budapest Spring Festival.

From 2004 István Várdai studied in the class of special talents at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, from 2005 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Between 2010 and 2013 he continued his studies at Kronberg Academy in Germany. From 2013 he is on the staff of the famous Academy. His first CD containing pieces of Janáček, Prokofiev and the Elgar cello concerto was released in 2009 by Ysaye Records. In 2010 he recorded the cello concerto of Johann Baptist Vanhal. On his CD released by the Hännsler label in 2013 he plays works by Mendelssohn, Martinu, Paganini, Beethoven and Popper. His CD with both versions of Tchaikovsky's Rococo variations was released in 2014, his most recent CD (Singing Cello Hungaroton) in 2015.

Várdai is, together with violinist Kristóf Baráti, artistic director of the Kaposfest International Chamber Music Festival in Hungary. He plays a Montagnana cello from 1720 and the legendary „Ex Du Pre-Harrell” Stradivarius from 1673. 
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