As a child, Ádám Banda took an interest in everything from mathematics to rock music. He would drum or bang together anything that came into his hands, and so his parents decided to enrol him in a music school at the age of seven. There he met with Auntie Klári, who took his hand, showed him a violin and told him: from now on this will be your instrument! At the age of 13, he entered the class for extraordinary young talents at the Liszt Academy of Music, and was accepted as a full student at the Academy in 2005, from where he graduated in autumn 2009 as a student of Eszter Perényi. He has triumphed at numerous competitions since, among them the Szigeti-Hubay International Violin Competition, earning a whole string of concert invitations. Thus a hyperactive kid from Balassagyarmat has become one of the most promising violinists working today, and one of the outstanding “results” of the Liszt Academy’s endeavours as an institution that nurtures and cultivates talent. Almost 20 years after his childhood meeting with the teacher at the music school, Ádám Banda can say that he has already appeared in many of the world’s major concert halls. It was no coincidence that the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) has selected him among the six remarkable musicians in its Rising Stars programme for the 2012/13 season. As a result, he will get the chance to perform at some of the most illustrious venues across Europe, such as the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London’s Barbican Centre and Budapest’s Palace of Arts. Müpa has been a member of ECHO since 2010, so this season the Hungarian public will be able to savour the music of this young home-grown talent within the framework of the Rising Stars series.

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