Gabor Homoki

25 November 1989

Hungary

Hungarian violinist Gábor Homoki was born in 1989 and entered his first violin class when he was six. From 2002, he was in the Preparatory Class of the Bartók Conservatory as László Dénes’s student. At the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music he was taking classes with Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas and Miklós Szenthelyi. As a founding member of the Kelemen Quartet, he has collaborated with worldwide renowned artists, Joshua Bell, József Lendvai, Pekka Kuusisto and Nicholas Alstaedt. In 2011, the quartet won the 4th Beijing International Music Competition, and the Second Prize, Audience Award and the 'Musica Viva' Special Award of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. In 2015, they debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Repertoire:

Preliminary

Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1, BB 94 – 1. Moderato

J. S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 G minor, BWV 1001 – 1. Adagio

Semi-final

Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, BB 84

Final

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216

Grand Final

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77