Concerto Budapest The Violin Festival in January is cancelled due to technical reasons, the orchestra will hold the festival at a later date, in early summer. On January 18, Concerto Budapest will hold a Violin Gala, which will feature several of the Violin Festival artists.

“Unfortunately, the realization of the Violin Festival has encountered serious logistical obstacles due to several technical problems and international program coordination. Since this festival is of outstanding importance, we would like to adhere not only to its content but also to its artistic ideas, so we have decided to postpone the program series to a later date. "On January 18th, we will hold a Violin Gala, featuring Abouzahra Mariam, Kristóf Baráti, Barnabás Kelemen and Lilia Pocitari, who will perform concertos by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Bartók," said András Keller, Chief Music Director.

Tickets purchased for the Violin Gala can be refunded until December 31st, and the orchestra will provide advance purchase opportunities for ticket holders until midnight on Sunday, December 15th, in the order of registration. You can register by emailing jegy@concertobudapest.hu.

Concerto Budapest will be holding its three-day violin festival featuring Hungarian violinists for the first time in 2025. In addition to showcasing the inexhaustible range of possibilities the instrument has to offer, the Violin Festival also provides an opportunity to encounter our nation’s finest violinists, including several combinations of teachers and students. Joining Kristóf Baráti, Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas and Júlia Pusker on the programme will be some representatives of the younger generation of Hungarian violinists, such as Teo Gertler, Amira Abouzahra, Mariam Abouzahra and Gáspár Kelemen, along with artists from other countries like Lilia Pocitari, the winner of the 2023 Bartók World Competition. As it is the objective of Concerto Budapest to celebrate this wonderful instrument in as much of its full diversely as possible over the course of three entire days, we will hear it played in trios, string quartets and other chamber music configurations, as well as in chamber orchestral works and concertos accompanied by a large orchestra.