2025 Spring Concert Musicians
Photo by Eva Ravel
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The only musician listed in the 2020 Forbes Hungary “30 under 30” list, Abigél Králik is quickly gaining attention as “a shooting star in the truest sense of the word” (MRK). Her musical journey taking her from Dublin to Budapest, eventually to Juilliard to study with Itzhak Perlman and now to Brussels, Abigél frequently performs with orchestras, most recently with the Mexico City Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Casco Philharmonic as well as the MÁV Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her solo appearances, Abigél is a passionate chamber musician, and even founded a chamber music festival in Belgium called TARA Concerts, of which she is co-Artistic Director.
Abigél began her studies in Budapest, after which she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Laurie Smukler. She was awarded the highest merit-based scholarship, the Kovner Fellowship for all six years.
2024-25 will be an exciting season. Abigél will release a recordings featuring Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Couson’s Yiddish Concerto, Arthur Benjamin’s Romantic Fantasy, and a series of works by Saint-Saens for violin and Orchestra with ORF Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien. She will perform all around the world, with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, ORF Radio Symphony and Timisoara Philharmonic.
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Raphael Bell enjoys a varied career as a principal cellist, chamber musician, teacher, and festival director. He is currently principal cello of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, co-Artistic Director of La Loingtaine in Montigny-sur-Loing, France, co-founder of the Camerata Fontainebleau, and co-founder and Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival.
As a chamber musician he has performed at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Salle Gaveau, Berlin Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Luzerner Theater, Tokyo Suntory Hall, and Kyoto Concert Hall, and at festivals including Seattle Chamber Music, Ferrara Musica, Wiener Festwochen, Elba Festival, Ravinia, Verbier and Resonance Festival Belgium. He was part of the IMS Prussia Cove tour that won the Chamber Music Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, and has collaborated with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, James Ehnes, Martha Argerich, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis, and with quartets including Brooklyn Rider, Dante, Taurus, Orpheus, and Oxalys Ensemble.
Raphael gave the world premiere of Olli Mustonen's Triptych for three cellos with Steven Isserlis and Steven Doane. Solo performances include concertos with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Nagaokakyo Ensemble, Tokyo Luft Ensemble, and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Edo de Waart and the Brahms Double Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe. As a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for many years, he played in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s celebrated Mahler Symphony Cycle with Claudio Abbado. He has been guest principal in Les Dissonances, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and worked with the Munich Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique.
Raphael studied at The Juilliard School with Harvey Shapiro, and later with Mario Brunello, Steven Isserlis and Ferenc Rados.
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Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Prague’s Rudolfinum, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.
Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have encompassed a vast repertoire of more than 60 concertos with orchestra. He has performed with such conductors as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has appeared in solo recitals and in chamber music concerts with the Ehnes, Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.
Recent and upcoming seasons find Andrew continuing to perform as soloist and chamber musician around the globe, from London to Geneva and Tuscany, from Australia to Hong Kong and Singapore, across Canada and the United States, while continuing to build and grow the flourishing chamber music series he directs in New York City (Fabbri Chamber Concerts), Beaufort and Columbia, SC and in New Canaan, CT.
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