Professors

Music Master Classes

Violin:

Kati Sebestyén violinist - Belgium

Kati Sebestyén, a native of Hungary, is Professor of Violin and head of the string-department at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Graduated and later professor at the prestigious Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. She is ta member of the artistic commission of the "Concours International Reine Elisabeth de violon". She is regularly invited as a member of the jury or to hold master classes: Mozarteum Salzburg, Jong Talent Amsterdam, Hannover, Lübeck, University of North Carolina, etc. Ms Sebestyén is an active concert artist and performs in recitals for Radio-TV recordings in the most of European lands and in the USA. She is the founder and director of the Sebastian Strings, member of the Haydn Quartet and Contrasts Ensemble. With these ensembles she has made several CD recordings.

Viola:

Gergely Kóta violinist and violist - Belgium

Hungarian-born violinist and violist Gergely Kóta has built a career as a versatile chamber musician and educator across Europe. Since 2022, he has been teaching chamber music at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. After studying violin in Hungary, he moved to Brussels to continue his studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel under Katalin Sebestyén, graduating in 2005. He joined the Quatuor Coryfeye, which studied with the Artemis Quartet at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and with members of the Alban Berg Quartet at ProQuartet in France. In 2017, he co-founded the BECEL Trio (flute, viola, harp), which received the Octaves de la Musique award from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in 2023. Gergely performs as a member of Ensemble Mendelssohn and as principal violist of the Ataneres string orchestra in Belgium, appearing at major venues and festivals throughout Europe. He has released several critically acclaimed CD recordings with his various ensembles.

Cello:

Zoltán Onczay cellist - Hungary

Zoltán Onczay is an Artisjus Award-winning cellist who considers it his mission to spread Hungarian music at home and abroad, and to teach and support young talents. He graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, and then obtained his soloist diploma as a Hindemith scholarship holder at the UdK University in Berlin. Among his awards are the Fischer Annie, the Hindemith and the Flesch Károly scholarships. He won the Wiener-Klassik and Kodály prizes at the Semmering Summer Academy, and was a prizewinner at the European Music for Youth international competition in Oslo. Between 2004 and 2015, he was the cellist of the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra and the artistic director of the “Turmsaal” concert series. Since 2015, the principal cellist of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. As a founding member of the Fejes Academy, he is a teacher and supporter of young talents. He regularly gives master classes in Hungary, Hong Kong, Italy and the USA, and regularly performs concerts at home and in many parts of the world. Several composers have written cello works for him. His CD recording SOLONCELLO, released in 2024, includes Bach's Suite in C major as well as solo works by seven Hungarian composers.

Piano:

István Lajkó pianist - Hungary

István Lajkó is graduated from Budapest, Hanover University and New York's Juilliard School of Music with numerous diploma's "summa cum laude" and titel of Ph.D. He is currently a lecturer at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, as well as a professor at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Weimar. He has been awarded from numerous national and international competitions, including Junior Prima Award, and won the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship for his postdoctoral research, most recently he was the winner of the Liszt Ferenc Society's 40th "International Record Grand Prix".