Hungarian musician
Edvin Marton
(born Lajos Edvin Cs?ry, 17 February 1974,
Vylok
, Ukraine) is a
Ukrainian
-born
Hungarian
composer and
violinist
. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because
Evgeni Plushenko
,
Stephane Lambiel
,
Yuzuru Hanyu
(as a tribute to Plushenko), and other famous skaters often skated to his music.
Biography
[
edit
]
He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by ethnic
Hungarians
. He was born into a musical family and by the age of four was already learning the violin from his parents. He was eight years old when accepted into that alma mater for the most talented musicians of the Soviet Union, the Central Tchaikowsky Music School in
Moscow
to study under Leo Lundstrem.
He continued his studies with Eugenia Tchougaeva. He gave his first important concert at the age of twelve, with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. At the age of seventeen he became a student at the
Liszt Ferenc
Academy of Music
Budapest
, in the class of Geza Kapas. He took part in a masterclass given by
Ruggiero Ricci
, where he won the prize for the best participant. He was also the Grand Prize winner of the International Course Competition in Berlin, after having been invited by Ruggiero Ricci. Since 1993 he has been a "young soloist" for the National Philharmonic Concert Agency in
Hungary
.
He has performed with almost all the main Hungarian orchestras, and given concerts in
Austria
,
Italy
,
Germany
and
Switzerland
. In May 1994 the famous violin teacher
Dorothy DeLay
invited him to the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. where he gave a concert with Rohan de Silva. In New York he won a scholarship and was admitted to the class of Dorothy Delay at the
Juilliard School
of Music. His studies in
New York City
at the Juilliard School of Music brought professional contacts which meant changes in his musical style. There, in one of the most revered classical music environments of Juilliard, he mingled with DJs and jumped from high level classical to what is referred today as crossover.
While still in his twenties, Marton had traveled to more than thirty countries and played in such renowned concert halls as the
Berliner Philharmonie
and
Vienna's
Konzerthaus
. But he was looking for a change. A former classmate said of him, "After he graduated from the music academy the talented, jovial and rotund Lajos disappeared, only to return as a slim, easy listening, music playing Edvin Marton."
[1]
Marton participated for Russia at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
and won the event in collaboration with singer
Dima Bilan
and the
2006 Olympic champion
in
figure skating
,
Evgeni Plushenko
.
[2]
In 2010, they performed together at the first edition of the annual Japanese touring ice show
Fantasy on Ice
in
Fukui
.
[3]
: chpt. 5
Education
[
edit
]
- In 1983 Tchaikovsky Academy,
Moscow
for Prof. Leo Lundstrem
- in 1991 Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (
Zeneakademia
[1]
),
Budapest
- In 1994 Juilliard School of Music in
New York
- In 1995 graduating at Music Academy in
Vienna
Awards
[
edit
]
- At the Gala exhibitions of the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Marton played violin and performed together with figure skating Gold Medal Winners Evgeni Plushenko ("Tosca Fantasy"), and Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin ("Romeo and Juliet").
- 2008 Eurovision Song Contest
? featured performer and co-writer of
Dima Bilan
's winning song "
Believe
"
Discography
[
edit
]
Edvin Marton has released five albums to date:
- Sarasate
(1996)
- Strings 'N' Beats
(2001)
- Virtuoso
(2004)
- Stradivarius
(2006)
- Hollywood
(2010)
Notes
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
|
---|
Main
cast
| |
---|
Guest
artists
| Male
singers
| |
---|
Female
singers
| |
---|
Pianists/
violinists
| |
---|
Groups
| |
---|
|
---|
|
---|
International
| |
---|
National
| |
---|
Artists
| |
---|