Gábor Takács-Nagy

Born in Budapest, Gábor Takács-Nagy trained with Milstein, Rados, Mihaly, Székely, Végh and Kurtág. From 1975 to 1992, he was a founding member and leader of the famous Takács Quartet, later founding the Takács Piano Trio, the Mikrokosmos string quartet, and then his own string orchestra, the Camerata Bellerive. Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata and Principal Guest Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, he is a professor at the Haute École de Musique de Genève and holds an international chair of chamber music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and has been awarded the prestigious Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory Prize and more recently the title of Emeritus Artist of Hungary.