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Corvinus Quartet are:

Toth Valeria violinist-teacher had got her honored degree of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy of Budapest in 2002. Her violin teacher was Eszter Perenyi, who was awarded many times for her effective activity. Toth Valeria had participated in many master courses, the most important ones are: Denes Zsigmondy, Eszter Perenyi, Sandor Devich, Tibor Varga, Dora Schwarzberg, Michael Bolliny, Marta Gulyas and Lorant Fenyves. Chamber music courses: Reichenau, Santander, Bayreuth, Regensburg, Koszeg. She took part of the Italian concert trip of the Symphony Orchestra of Miskolc as concertmaster.

Contests, prizes:

1996-Nivo prize at National Chamber Music Festival
2001-finalist of the National Bach Competition
After her studies of the Music Academy of Budapest she had been admitted to Audsburg, to the class of Denes Zsigmondy-who is a recognized authority on teaching the violin in Europe as well as the USA. She is the member of the National Youth Orchestra, the Erdody Chamber Orchestra, and performed in such famous orchestras as the String players of Budapest, and with the Budapest Opera House orchestra.

Gulyas Emese started to play the violin at age of 7 in Budapest, at the class of Dr. Skultety Antalne. She had her intermediate studies in the Weiner Leo Music High school and she attended the human class of Illyes Gyula High school. After a long thinking period she decided to play the violin so she continued her violin studies in the class of Laszlo Kote in the famous Bela Bartok Conservatory of Budapest. In 1999 she was the concertmaster of the conservatory's symphony orchestra. At the present she is the student of Istvan Kertesz at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy. Her chamber music teachers are Geza Hargitai (Bartok Quartet) Sandor Devich, and Karoly Botvai. She is interested in many other things except playing the violin, from piano sonatas until choir conducting, what she is practicing actively for many years.
She took part of many master courses, the most important ones are the courses of Denes Zsigmondy and the Brahms Master course of Gyorgu Kurtag. She is performing in string quartets for 4 years, in 2003 she won 1st prize at the National Weiner Leo Chamber Competition, their teacher was Sandor Devich. In 2004 she won the 1st prize of the Yamaha International Scholarship for Strings at Budapest. Since 2000 she is performing in the Danubia National Youth Orchestra, Dohnanyi Erno Symphony Orchestra and Erdody Chamber Orchestra.

Eniko Magyar received her Master degree for performing and teaching on the violin with honors from the Hungarian National Music Academy in Budapest in 2003.  Her teacher in the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy was Eszter Perenyi. During her studies she received lessons from world famous musicians as Lorant Fenyves, Mikulas Jelinek, Denes Kovacs, Tibor Varga, Katalin Sebestyen and Ervin Schiffer. She participated 3 times (1998,1999,2003) in the International Master Course of Morges Switzerland, where she successfully performed for many times. During her studies in the academy she studied with Geza Hargitai of the famous Bartok Quartet, with Bela Banfalvi of the Budapest Strings and Sandor Devich. In 1998 she won 1st prize at the Violin Competition of the Music Conservatory of Szeged, and as the winner she performed in Sepsiszentgyorgy in Transylvania, at the Gala of 1st prize winners from Europe. The concert was broadcasted live in the National Romanian Radio. At the last years of her studies in the Music Academy she was the concertmaster of the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy's Symphony Orchestra, and also she is the concertmaster of the Ventoscala Chamber Symphony Orchestra of Budapest. At the present she is the member of the Danubia National Youth Orchestra, and performs with the famous Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra and took part in the orchestra's concert trip in the USA in 2003. She started to play the viola in the Corvinus Quartet and immediately she fell in love with this special and touching instrument.

Andrea Pákolitz  is a forth year student at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy in Budapest. Her teacher is Miklós Perényi. She started to play the cello when she was 8 at the Liszt Ferenc Music School of Baja, she was the student of Belleiné H. Györgyi. In 1996 she won the 3rd prize at the National Friss Antal Cello Competition and in the same year she was chosen to play at the Christmas concert of the Hungarian Embassy in London. She got accepted into the Kodály Zoltán Conservatory without entrance examination, where her teacher was Márta Agócs. She was 14 when she participated at the National Gaspar Cassado Cello Contest, where she won the 5th prize. In 2000 , at the National Starker János Cello Contest she won 1st prize, in 2002, at the National Popper Dávid Cello Competition she got the 3rd prize. She took part in the masterclass of  János Pothoranszky and Róbert  Nagy many times.

Repertoire

Classical String quartets:

Haydn: String quartets
W.A. Mozart :String quartet in B flat major "Hunting"
W.A. Mozart: Divertimento in D major
W.A. Mozart: Divertimento in F major
W.A. Mozart: Eine kleine nachtmusic
L. van Beethoven: String quartett in F major
String quartet in c minor
Schubert: The Death and the Maiden
Dvorak: String quartet in F major "American"
F. Mendelssohn: String quartet in Es major
Dohnányi E.: String quartet in a minor
Debussy: l. String quartet in g minor
Veress: II. String quartet
Leo Weiner: III. String quartet
String quartet in F sharp minor
III. Divertimento
Dmitrij Sosztakovics: 8. String quartet

Waltzes:

J. Strauss: Blue Danube walzer
J. Strauss: Artist's life
J. Strauss: Roses of the South
P.I. Csajkovszkij:Trepak-The nutcracker
P.I. Csajkovszkij: Flower walzer-The nutcracker
P.I. Csajkovszkij: Cinderella-walzer
P.I. Csajkovszkij: Sentimental walzer
F. Chopin: Grande valse brillante
F. Chopin: Walzer in E flat majorA.
Dvorak: Two walzers

Tangos:

A. Piazzola: Libertango
A. Piazzola: Contrabajeando
A. Piazzola: Saint Louis en I’ile
A. Piazzola: Tango, tango

Classical character pieces:

F.Mendelssohn : Wedding march
R.Wagner: Wedding march
J.S.Bach: Air
E.Massenet: Thais meditation
J.Pachelbel: Kanon
F.Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin
R.Schumann: Serenade
F.Paradis: Sicilienne
Weiner L.: Dance of Foxes
W.Schröder: Eine kleine Lachmusik


Character pieces:

E.Piaf: Mylord
E.Piaf: La vie, l’amour
S.Joplin: Ragtime
L.Bernstein: America
E.Granados: Andaluza
Love story
Romeo and Juliet
New York, New York
Umbrellas of Cherborurg
Granada

G. Gershwin Selection:

Fascinating thythm
Embraceable you
The man I love
Someone to watch over me
Oh lady, be good!
Strike up the band

S. Joplin selection:

Country club
Paragon rag
Pineapple rag
Heliotrope bouquet
Maple leaf rag
Euphonic sounds
Scott Joplin’s new rag

Jazz selection:

R.Young: The dream melody
R.Young: Italian street song
R.Young: I’m falling in love with someone
D.Donnel: Serenade
G.Kanh: Carioca
O.Harbag: One alone
G.Kahn: Orchids int he moonlight
C.Porter: Begin the beguine
C.Porter: What is this thing called love?
C.Porter: Anything goes
M.Gordon: My heart tells me
L.Hart: With a song in my heart
H.Hupfeld: As time goes by
J.Mercer: Dream
H.Smith: Gipsy love song
S.Romberg: One kiss
O.Hammerstein: Softly…
I.Caesar: Tea for two
A.Dubb: Forty-second street
H.Dien: You and the night and the music
M.Bergmann: Summer of 42
J.Mercer: Days of wine and roses
 

Concerts:

2OO5

January

18: MTV channel-Mozaik-Morning concert with János Kegye

2O: National Gallery - The 400 years of French painters -Exhibition Opening Ceremony

29-30: Budapest Arena, Wedding Exhibition

February

7 : Mercure Hotel Buda, National Wine Festival and Competition

24: Skiny Fashion Show

March

18: National Fine Art Gallery - Budapest Spring Festival -Opening Ceremony

18: Golden Group Exclusive Party

2O: Vörösmarty Square, Budapest Spring Festival-Concert

23 : Studio Italia, Easter Celebration


April

11: Contemporary Concert of Katalin Pocs, Budafok

3O: Teleki Castle, Kalocsa, Hungary

Május

1O: AGB Rt.-Exclusive Party

13: Concert-Conservatory of Szeged, Hungary

22: Baptist Church of Buda

June

8: Liszt Ferenc Music Academy, Great Hall, 16h

9: Korona Mercure Hotel, Birthday Party

18: Hídünnep, Chain Bridge, Budapest

August

2O: Young Prague Festival, Srbska Kamenice, Czech Republic

23: Young Prague Festival , Prague

27: Young Prague Festival, Policka

September

26: Prague

2OO4

April

1O : Old Music Academy

18: Ferences Church of Pasarét, Budapest

28: Old Music Academy

26: Balatonföldvár, Hungary

24: Szidónia Castle Hotel

July

19: Trófea Restaurant, Budapest

November:

3: Thália Theatre

26: Ferrari-Maserati Exclusive Party, Budapest

December

8: Fészek Art Klub, Concert of Contemporary Composers

17: Rosé Music Store and Teahouse

21: Koncert with János Kegye panflute player

2OO3

 
March

13: Budapest Arena- Opening Ceremony

June

1O: Baja, Hungary