Kristof Barati

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Kristof Barati

Professeur

Instruments:

Violin
He is Artistic Director of the Kaposvár International Chamber Music Festival.

Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti is recognised increasingly across the globe as a musician of extraordinary quality with a vast expressive range and impeccable technique. Applauded repeatedly for the poetry and eloquence that he brings to his playing, he has been described as “a true tonal aesthete of the highest order”.

In recent seasons, Baráti has performed at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at London’s Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2019 he was the featured soloist in the opening concert of the the Verbier Festival. Baráti has played with orchestras such as Zurich Tonhalle, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and Hague Philharmonic orchestras. He performs regularly with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra both in Russia and on tour around the world including in the US and China. Highlights of his 2020/21 season include performances with the Budapest Festival and Bern Symphony orchestras, and debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras amongst others.

A regular recital and chamber music player, Baráti has performed with partners such as Mischa Maisky, Yuri Bashmet, Enrico Pace, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Zoltán Kocsis and Kim Kashkashian amongst others. He performs every year at the White Nights Festival and in 2019 made his debut at the Seattle Chamber Music and Aspen Festivals. In 2016 he made a sensational debut at the Verbier Festival when he performed the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach and has since been back every year.

Baráti has an extensive discography which includes the five Mozart concerti, the complete Beethoven and Brahms sonatas with Klára Würtz, and Ysaÿe solo sonatas for Brilliant Classics, and Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo violin on the Berlin Classics label. Of his disc of encores ‘The Soul of Lady Harmsworth’ recorded in 2016, Gramophone magazine said “for those who like to hear the violin played at its sweet and acrobatic best, then Baráti is out of the top drawer.”

Having spent much of his childhood in Venezuela where he played as soloist with many of the country’s leading orchestras, Baráti returned to Budapest to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and was later mentored by Eduard Wulfson, himself a student of Milstein and Menuhin. Still resident in Budapest, Baráti performs regularly across Hungary and together with István Vardái, he is Artistic Director of the Kaposvár International Chamber Music Festival. Baráti plays the 1703 “Lady Harmsworth” Stradivarius, by kind arrangement with the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.

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Masterclasses of Kristof Barati

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Photo of content Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven
In this masterclass, professor Kristóf BARÁTI and student are taking on Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 2.
Photo of content Violin Partita No.2 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Partita No.2 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
In this masterclass, professor Kristóf BARÁTI continues to work on Bach's Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, the Sarabande.
Photo of content Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 by Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 by Johannes Brahms
In this violin masterclass, professor Kristóf BARÁTI and his student are taking on Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108.
Photo of content Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 by Gabriel Fauré
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 by Gabriel Fauré
In this violin masterclass, professor BARÁTI and his student are taking on Fauré's violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13.
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