Eszter Kruchió

Violin

Born in 1993 in Budapest and brought up in Vienna, Eszter Kruchió started playing the violin at the age of five. She studied with Ernst Kovacic (Vienna), Tanja Becker-Bender (Hamburg) and Ulf Schneider (Hanover), currently in the postgraduate Solo Performance Class. She received further important musical impulses from Oliver Wille, Eberhard Feltz, Ralf Gothóni, Rita Wagner, Ferenc Rados and Péter Eötvös.

As winner of several national and international prizes, Eszter has had the chance to perform as a chamber music partner of Thomas Riebl, Tanja Becker-Bender, Péter Nagy, István Várdai, Nicolas Baldeyrou and Claudio Martínez-Mehner, as well as with the Castalian, Berlin-Tokyo and Van Kuijk String Quartets. She was a finalist of the Berlin Prize for Young Artists, received the Maria Ladenburger Award and was awarded a scholarship by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

She is a frequent participant of festivals and masterclasses such as Encuentro de Santander, the Davos Festival - Young Artists in Concert, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker and IMS Prussia Cove.

Eszter is a member of the award-winning Chaos String Quartet and plays on a violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner, a generous private loan.