MÁV Symphony Orchestra

Gábor Takács-Nagy rose to fame as a violinist and as the founder of the world-class string quartet that bears his name. He is currently a professor of chamber music and conducting in Switzerland, and he is actively conducting. His ars poetics as a conductor is to bring classical pieces to life in the way they were presumably performed in the composer’s time. Driven by this aspiration, he has recently recorded all of Beethoven’s symphonies. In this concert, he will pay tribute to the immortal master with two of his works. Alexander Malofeev, a Russian guest musician, will be the soloist of the highly virtuosic and challenging piano concerto composed by the greatest Russian composers of the 20th century, Sergey Prokofiev. At the age of 13, Malofeev won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow and has since toured the world, giving concerts to great acclaim.