Ádám Jávorkai

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Ádám Jávorkai (* 1977 in Győr ) is a Hungarian cellist .

Career

Ádám Jávorkai attended the Hans Richter Conservatory in his hometown and the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest . He then studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the classes of Angelika May and Reinhard Latzko. He then attended master classes with Miklós Perényi , Ina-Esther Joost, Tobias Kühne, Ferenc Rados and Anner Bylsma . Jávorkai was a scholarship holder of the Annie Fischer Foundation in Budapest, the Herbert von Karajan Center Vienna and the Nippon Foundation, Tokyo .

Jávorkai was Austria's representative at the International Jeunesse Festival 2005 in Brussels and at the EU Music Festival in Warsaw on the occasion of the EU's eastward expansion . In 2003 he accepted an invitation from the Tokyo Foundation and took part in the 2003 Sylff Africa / Europe Regional Forum in Cairo as a representative of the Vienna University of Music.

He has also given concerts in Tokyo Opera City, the " Forbidden City ", Beijing, Suntory Hall , Tokyo, the Wiener Musikverein , Wiener Konzerthaus , Berlin Konzerthaus, at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival , in the New Philharmonic in Luxembourg, with the Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, at the Chopin Festival Gaming, Varna Summer Festival, at the Liszt Academy Budapest , in the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest .

Awards

As a youngster, Jávorkai won the Hungarian Emil Vajda String Instrument Competition for three years in a row, and in 1990, 1993 and 1996 first prize at the National Cello Competition in Hungary. In 1998 he received the Bohuslav-Martinů-Prize of the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest and in 2000 the recognition prizes “Cellist of the Year” and “Best interpreter of Slovenian compositions”, awarded by the Association of Slovenian Composers. In 2002 he was awarded the Bartók Prize in Semmering, Austria, and in 2003 the Kodály Prize for the duo with Sándor Jávorkai, Austria. In 2008 he and Clara Biermasz won first prize at the international competition “Premio Città di Padova”, Italy, category: chamber music, and there, together with Clara Biermasz, was awarded the Primo Premio assoluto as the overall winner in all categories. In the same year he won first prize at “Soloist and Orchestra”, Italy. In 2009, Sándor and Ádám Jávorkai were jointly named “Artist of the Year” by Jeunesse and Bank Austria.

Honorary membership

In 2014 Baruch Tenembaum made him an honorary member of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation for his work against discrimination and for international understanding .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hazánkat képviselik a világban .
  2. ↑ Overall for the discography see Gramola.at .
personal data
SURNAME Jávorkai, Ádám
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Győr