The Tokyo-Budapest Ensemble has been performing in Hungary almost each summer since 2003, this concert being the ninth occasion that they are playing in the BMC Concert Hall. The Ensemble's artistic director is Kálmán Berkes, former music professor at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan for 25 years, and the artistic director of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary since 2009. The ever-changing members of the Ensemble are selected each year from Japanese artists and the musicians of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, to present beloved pieces from the chamber music repertoire for strings.