{"id":4051,"date":"2025-07-29T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/teacher\/barnabas-kelemen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:22:48","slug":"barnabas-kelemen","status":"publish","type":"teacher","link":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/teacher\/barnabas-kelemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen"},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"instrument":[45],"class_list":["post-4051","teacher","type-teacher","status-publish","hentry","instrument-violin-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"name":"Kelemen","first_name":"Barnab\u00e1s","photo":777,"instrument":[45],"teacher_biography":"Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world with his virtuoso technique and dynamic, passionate playing style. Versatile and open-minded, he is an outstanding soloist and chamber musician, as well as an Artistic Director of various festivals, and a teacher at renowned institutions. In recent years, he has also worked professionally as a conductor.\u00a0Due to his exceptional sense of style and his comprehensive technical proficiency, Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen navigates with confidence through the entire catalog of music written for violin. His repertoire is thus extremely diverse, and he performs early Baroque, Classical, and Romantic works with just as much authenticity as twentieth-century pieces. He is additionally a devoted advocate of contemporary music, with world or Hungarian premieres of works by Kurt\u00e1g, Ligeti, Schnittke, Gubajdulina, Steve Reich, and Ryan Wigglesworth to his name.\u00a0He regularly performs at the world\u2019s most prominent concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Royal Festival Hall, the Palais de Beaux Arts, Suntory Hall, and the Berliner Philharmonie. Furthermore, he is a frequent guest of such eminent ensembles as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Hannover\u2019s NDR Radiophilharmonie, to name but a few.\u00a0Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen has worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Marek Janowski, Michael Stern, Krzysztof Urbanski, Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis, P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, and Iv\u00e1n Fischer. He is also an avid conductor himself \u2013 in recent seasons he has directed the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Ensemble, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, and the symphonic orchestras of the Hungarian cities of Szombathely, Gy\u0151r, and P\u00e9cs. On top of all this, he is a sensitive and experienced chamber musician who has played with artists of the calibre of Dezs\u0151 R\u00e1nki, Steven Isserlis, Mikl\u00f3s Per\u00e9nyi, Alina Ibragimova, Vilde Frang, Jos\u00e9 Gallardo, and Andreas Ottensamer.\u00a0Additionally, Kelemen has recorded all of Bart\u00f3k\u2019s works for violin in the series of albums produced under the aegis of Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis, many of which received international acclaim, especially his CD comprised of Sonatas for Violin and Piano No. 1 and 2 (featuring Kocsis) and Sonata for Solo Violin, which won the 2013 Gramophone Award. In 2001, his album of Liszt\u2019s complete works for violin and piano with Gergely Bog\u00e1nyi was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the International Liszt Society.\u00a0Diapason magazine paid tribute to Kelemen and Tam\u00e1s V\u00e1s\u00e1ry\u2019s recording of Brahms\u2019 Sonatas for Violin and Piano with its influential Diapason d\u2019Or. So far, he has released a total of 20 albums \u2013 17 solo and three with his quartet \u2013 as well as a double DVD of live performances of Mozart\u2019s complete violin concertos.\u00a0His album, which was released in 2020 under the care of Alpha Records - featuring S\u00e1ndor Veress's String Trio and B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k's Piano Quintet in C, won its category at the BBC Music Magazine Awards.\u00a0Regarding prizes, Kelemen has achieved outstanding results in prestigious contests, including First Prizes at the 1999 International Mozart Violin Competition in Salzburg and the 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis; as well as Third Prize at Brussels\u2019 2001 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition. His artistry has been recognized with the highest professional and state honours: he has been awarded Liszt, Bart\u00f3k-P\u00e1sztory and Kossuth Prizes and Prima and Gramophone Awards, and is the holder of the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit issued by the Republic of Hungary.\u00a0Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen began studying the violin under Val\u00e9ria Baranyai as a student of Eszter Per\u00e9nyi, he graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in 2001. He was enormously influenced by his later teachers, Isaac Stern, Ferenc Rados, and Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis. He studied conducting from two giants of the Finnish tradition, Leif Segerstam and Jorma Panula. Furthermore, he is currently a professor at two illustrious institutions: Budapest\u2019s Liszt Academy and the University of Cologne.\u00a0Together with Katalin Kokas, he is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival Academy Budapest Chamber Music Festival, which regularly features artists such as Vilde Frang, Maxim Rysanov, Shlomo Mintz, and Joshua Bell. From 2010 to 2018, he was the leader of the Kelemen Quartet, which returned to the stage after three years of hiatus.\u00a0Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen performs on the \u201cex-D\u00e9nes Kov\u00e1cs\u201d Guarneri del Ges\u00fa violin of 1742, generously loaned to him by the Hungarian State.","accomplishments":[{"text_accomplishments":"He won first prize at the Salzburg International Mozart Violin Competition in 1999 and at the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2002."},{"text_accomplishments":"He win the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2002."},{"text_accomplishments":"He won the third prize at the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels in 2001"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teacher"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"instrument","href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}