BANFALVI, BELA Bela Banfalvi, violin
The Hungarian violinist Béla Báinfalvi was born in Budapest
in 1954 and on completing his studies at the Liszt Academy there joined the
teaching staff. He spent three years, from 1979, as leader of the Hungarian
National Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited in 1982 to join the Bartók String
Quartet. In 1985 he left the quartet in order to lead the Budapest Strings,
a chamber orchestra with which he has made a number of tours. As a soloist,
chamber music player and leader of a chamber orchestra, he has given over 700
concerts, appearing throughout Europe, in Japan and in America, with a number
of recordings for various companies. He teaches at the Budapest Academy and
in 1985 was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize.
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