Korossy-Khayll Csongor
violin
Csongor Korossy-Khayll was born on September 2, 1998. He began playing the violin in 2006, at the age of 8, at the László Lukin Music School in Érd, under the tutelage of Benedek Részegh. In 2009, he continued his studies in the class of Éva Ácsné Szily at the Aladár Tóth Music School, and three years later, at the age of 13, he was accepted into the Preparatory Department of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where he studied under Eszter Perényi and Ádám Banda, and from the 2015-2016 academic year, he continued his studies in the class of Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen. He began his university studies with Miklós Szenthelyi and continued under the guidance of renowned professors such as Péter Kováts, Kristóf Baráti and Márta Gulyás. He is currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music.
He has won and been awarded prizes at several national and international competitions: in 2011 he won first prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition in Italy, winner of the grand prize and scholarship at the 25th International Music Camp Without Borders in Balassagyarmat, second place at the Talents for Europe international string competition in Slovakia, and fourth place at the Telemann International Violin Competition in Poland in 2013.
As a soloist, he has worked with renowned artists and ensembles such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Budapest and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at the Liszt Academy of Music, the Solti Hall, the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, the Szeged Synagogue, the Budapest Congress Center, the Pesti Vigadó, the Duna Palace, and the Budapest Music Center, among others.
He is active not only as a soloist but also as a chamber musician. He is a founding member and first violinist of the Korossy Quartet, with which he won the string quartet category of the national Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition in 2019 and reached the finals of the Bartók World Competition in 2021, where they were awarded five different special prizes for their performance. In addition, they regularly participate in numerous domestic classical music festivals, such as the Budapest Festival Academy, Bartók Spring, kamra.hu and the Auer Festival in Veszprém. In 2022 the Korossy Quartet was accepted into Günter Pichler's class at the Reina Sofía University in Madrid.
In 2019 he were awarded the Junior Prima Prize and the Annie Fischer Music Performance Scholarship.
He has won and been awarded prizes at several national and international competitions: in 2011 he won first prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition in Italy, winner of the grand prize and scholarship at the 25th International Music Camp Without Borders in Balassagyarmat, second place at the Talents for Europe international string competition in Slovakia, and fourth place at the Telemann International Violin Competition in Poland in 2013.
As a soloist, he has worked with renowned artists and ensembles such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Budapest and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. He has performed at the Liszt Academy of Music, the Solti Hall, the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, the Szeged Synagogue, the Budapest Congress Center, the Pesti Vigadó, the Duna Palace, and the Budapest Music Center, among others.
He is active not only as a soloist but also as a chamber musician. He is a founding member and first violinist of the Korossy Quartet, with which he won the string quartet category of the national Leó Weiner Chamber Music Competition in 2019 and reached the finals of the Bartók World Competition in 2021, where they were awarded five different special prizes for their performance. In addition, they regularly participate in numerous domestic classical music festivals, such as the Budapest Festival Academy, Bartók Spring, kamra.hu and the Auer Festival in Veszprém. In 2022 the Korossy Quartet was accepted into Günter Pichler's class at the Reina Sofía University in Madrid.
In 2019 he were awarded the Junior Prima Prize and the Annie Fischer Music Performance Scholarship.