Founding member, artistic director and leader of the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1969 as a student of Dénes Kovács. In the same year he won third prize at the Hungarian Radio Violin Competition. From 1967 to 1974 he was a member of the Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. He is well known in concert halls around the world primarily as a chamber musician, with Maurice André, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alexander Schneider, Henryk Szeryng and Tamás Vásáry among his partners. For his achievements in promoting Hungarian music culture at home and abroad, he has been awarded the title of Meritorious Artist, the Ferenc Széchényi Medal, the Kossuth and Bartók-Pásztory Prizes, and the Hazám (My Country) Prize, which is awarded by the 21st Century Society in recognition of lifetime achievements of value and inspiration. In 1991, the French government awarded him the Knight of the Order of Honour in the arts category, and in 1994, President Árpád Göncz awarded him the Central Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. In 2004, he was awarded the Central Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary with the Star.