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Márta Ábrahám is an internationally established leading Hungarian violinist performing and teaching extensively around the world. She is a a concertmaster and artistic director of the early music ensemble Ábrahám Consort, and a Bach-researcher and professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, DLA.

“...Márta Ábrahám is one of the most talented instrumentalists I have seen in my many years of teaching...a born violinist.” 

Ruggiero Ricci

Education
Ábrahám began her violin studies at the age of six under the tutelage of her mother. She attended Bartók Béla Music School in Vác, Hungary. Between 1981 and 1990 she attended Bartók Béla Music High School in Budapest in the class of russian violin teacher Natasa Sós. After receiving a personal invitation from the legendary virtuoso, Ruggiero Ricci, she continued her study at the Salzburg Mozarteum for two years, between 1990 and 1992 with scholarship. Between 1992-1994, she continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she became a pupil of the internationally acclaimed violin professor David Takeno. In 1996, she graduated her master’s with cum laude as a pupil of Dénes Kovács and Ferenc Rados from Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. She has participated in masterclasses of world-renowned artists such as Elisabeth Gilels, Nathan Milstein, György Pauk, Loránd Fenyves, György Kurtág, Dénes Zsigmondy and Vladimir Spivakov.

Competitions
Between 1984 and 1994 she has won 1st prize at every Hungarian violin competition, and numerous prizes and a number of special awards at international competitions.
 * 1984 –  1st prize János Koncz National Violin Competition, Szombathely
 * 1987 –  1st prize János Koncz National Violin Competition, Szombathely
 * 1991 –  1st prize Károly Flesch National Violin Competition, Moson.óvár
 * 1993 –  4th prize Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, Folkestone, England
 * 1994 –  1st prize Jenő Hubay National Violin Competition, Budapest
 * 1994 –  1st prize Ede Zathureczky Memorial Competition,  Budapest

In the Ede Zathureczky Memorial Competition besides first prize she has won also the four-year right to play on the original italian master violin, Giovanni Battista Rogeri of Ede Zathureczky.

Concertmaster activity
In 2009 together with György Schweigert violone player they founded the early music ensemble Ábrahám Consort in which she is concertmaster and artistic director. In 2014, Ábrahám was recognized with Gramofon-prize for her years of work with the chamber orchestra of Concerto Armonico. An active chamber musician, she is regularly invited to world-famous orchestras and ensembles as the guest concertmaster such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was the first concertmaster of Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Hungary and Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in the Netherlands.

Soloist activity
Ábrahám performs as a soloist regularly and her previous seasons include performances in concert halls such as Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, and Brussels Palais de Beaux-Arts; appearances with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Holland Radio Orchestra, Belgian Radio Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, European Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra,  MÁV Symphony Orchestra, and Budapest Strings; and performances under the baton of leading Hungarian and international conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamás Vásáry, Helmuth Rilling, Sakari Oramo and Ádám Fischer. She has performed at international festivals, such as Budapest Spring Festival, Stresa Festival, Italy, Festival “From Easter to Ascension” Tbilisi, Kaposfest, Zemplén Festival, Börzsöny Baroque Festival, Bach-Week Festival, Budapest.

Teaching activitiy
Recent receipient of DLA Degree from Liszt Ference Academy of Music, she is currently a violin professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. She has celebrated their 7th year anniversary of the Zebegény Soloist Workshop she started with her pianist Marianna Tóth in 2011. She is regularly invited to teach at masterclasses and international festivals in Hungary, China, USA, Holland, and Israel. She had been a jury member at several international violin competitions.

Bach research
Ábrahám’s four year research with composer and musicologist Barnabás Dukay on Bach’s music was finally published in May 2017. Their book, Excerpts from Eternity on J. S. Bach’s Partita in D Minor is in Hungarian and English and comes with Ábrahám’s recording of the work. A new remarkable discovery made by Barnabás Dukay and Márta Ábrahám is unique in the field of art history: a time-code which has been lying dormant for almost 300 years. She has given lectures on this topic at the FUGA, Chamber of Hungarian Architects and at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. They are currently teaching a fuge-analysis class at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest.

Discography
Sibelius, Ysaye, Sarasate: Show Pieces, Rode Pomp Bartók Béla: 1st Sonata VRT/ Radio3, Rode Pomp Dirk Brosse: Black, White and in Between, London Philh. Orchestra, PHILIPS Balassa Sándor: Violin Concerto Op. 3. Hungarian Radio Orch., Hungaroton Luigi Boccherini: Chamber Music with Gergely Ittzés, Hungaroton Viski János: Violin Concerto Hungarian Radio Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach: D minor Partita (BWV 1004) BioBach-Music

Web
http://www.martaabraham.com/hu/

http://abrahamconsort.com/

http://biobach.com/hu/

http://zeneakademia.hu/hu/kezdolap