'Collection Violins' Festival at the Radio Hall
Saturday, 26 November 2011 , 19.00

With great emotion, violinist Stefan Horváth returns on the stage in Bucharest after almost a decade. In 2001 he won the George Enescu International Competition, when he was still maestro Ştefan Gheorghiu's disciple at the University of Music in Bucharest, after having studied in Cluj and afterwards at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon, with Peter Csaba. He has also collaborated with Adelina Oprean at the Basel Academy of Music and with the class of virtuosity at the Freiburg State Conservatory of Music. Maybe this is the reason why this artist's name is so little known by our audience, even more so as in the past years his activity was connected to the musical life of Basel, as he is one of the concertmasters of the Symphony Orchestra in this Swiss city.

Stefan Horváth speaks with great warmth about the special 'intercommunion' between the performer and his instrument (you will listen to him in an interview during the break). He played for a while an excellent Stradivari violin ‒ in the 'company' of which he did not feel himself ‒ as he felt no sympathy for the sonorous personality of this instrument. Now he is utterly charmed by the spirit of the Guarneri violin which he has the opportunity to play, as he will also do in this recital, together with pianist Horia Mihail.