József Lendvay
violin
József Lendvay was born in 1974, to a family of musicians. His father, József Csócsi Lendvai, is one of the most popular interpreters of Gypsy folk music in Hungary and abroad, and has won several awards.
József Lendvay Jr. began his classical musical education at an early age, and won the first of many violin competitions at the age of 7. He studied first at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and then at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. The vibrant and brilliant folk music and the virtuosity acquired during his intensive musical training remain the trademarks of the internationally renowned soloist. Over the past few years, he has gained significant concert experience as the leader of the Philharmony of the Nations and the permanent guest soloist with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He performs regularly in the Hague, Berlin, St. Etienne, Bern, Los Angeles, Aspendos and Shanghai with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. In addition to several other accolades, he received the ECHO Klassik Award in both 2005 and 2014.
He uses a Stradivarius violin made in 1691, loaned to him by the Reinhold Würth Foundation.
For more information, please visit www.lendvay.eu
