Márta ÁBRAHÁM

Violinist, soloist, concertmaster and artistic director of the Ábrahám Consort chamber orchestra. She is a violin professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.
She obtained her diploma Cum Laude in 1996 as a pupil of Natasa Sós, Dénes Kovács and Ferenc Rados at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest. From the age of 18 she studied with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Later she was accepted in the class of David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She attended masterclasses by Nathan Milstein, Loránd Fenyves, György Kurtág and Vladimir Spivakov. During her student years, she won the 1st prize in all Hungarian violin competitions and won several special awards. Among others, she has won at the János Koncz National Violin Competition, Carl Flesch National Violin Competition, Jenő Hubay National Violin Competition and the Ede Zathureczky Memorial Contest, as well as the four-year right to use the Italian masterviolin of Ede Zathureczky. In 1993 she was awarded a special prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in England. Between 2005 and 2009, she was the first concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as soloist with Hungarian and world leading conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamás Vásáry and Ádám Fischer. Since 2005, she has been a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, obtaining her DLA degree in 2013. She regularly holds masterclasses in Hungary, China, USA, the Netherlands and Israel.
Her book Excerpts from Eternity, written together with composer Barnabás Dukay, was published in 2017. It is the first ever detailed analysis of the well known Ciaccona by Bach in English and in Hungarian, together with CD recording and sheet music.