Barnabás Kelemen – violin

Barnabás Kelemen has to his credit premieres of works by Kurtág, Ligeti, Schnittke, Gubajdulina, Steve Reich. He frequently performs at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, Palais de Beaux Arts, Suntory Hall and the Berliner Philharmonie. He is a frequent guest of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Helsinki, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Hong Kong, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Radiophilharmonie of Hanover. He has worked with Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Marek Janowski, Michael Stern, Krzysztof Urbanski, Zoltán Kocsis, Péter Eötvös and Iván Fischer.

He conducted the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Szombathely, Győr and Pécs (Hungary). As a chamber musician he has played with Dezső Ránki, Steven Isserlis, Miklós Perényi, Alina Ibragimova, Vilde Frang, José Gallardo and Andreas Ottensamer.
He is founder and artistic director of the Budapest Academy Chamber Music Festival. He was the leader of the Kelemen Quartet, which enjoyed an incredible international career.

He plays the 1742 “ex-Dénes Kovács” Guarneri del Gesù violin, generously loaned by the Hungarian State.