Erno Kallai plays Ravel: Piece en forme de habanera

M. Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera (arr.Catherine)

Erno Kallai, violin
Evan Solomon, piano

Recorded in New York, 2010

Photo by Nick Granito

Biography

Winner of the Eleventh Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, Erno Kallai is establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic young violinists today.

In December 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no. 2 with the Juilliard Orchestra, under James DePreist. He has performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman and members of the Perlman Music Program in venues such as Chicago's Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the McCarter Theater. He has played for Hungarian radio and Television and appeared on the McGraw-Hill Company's "Young Artists' Showcase" with host Bob Sherman on WQXR. Erno's regular recital partners include Rohan DeSilva and Janos Balazs, pianists and he has also collaborated with Mattias Jacobsson, guitarist.

He has won numerous awards and prizes, including first prize at the Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2003, awards from the Semmering Music Festival in 2004 (which included the best interpretation of a work by Kodaly, and award for the best interpretation of a Viennese Classic work with his performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto No.5), a Valerie Beth Schwartz Career Grant from Salone de Virtuosi in 2007, first prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 2008, among others.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Kallai began early violin training with his father. At age of twelve, he had been admitted to the Exceptionally Talented Children's class of the Franz Liszt University of Music where he studied with Andras Csontha and Eszter Perenyi. In 2006 he moved to the United States to study with Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School, where he still continues his studies as a full scholarship student.

Erno Kallai is playing a 1723 Petrus Guarnerius violin, a generous gift from the Juilliard Rare Instrument Collection.

For more information please visit www.ernokallai.com

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