Edvin Marton

Edvin Marton (born February 17, 1974, Tiszaújlak, Ukraine) is a Hungarian composer and violinist. His original name is Csűry Lajos Edvin (Lajos Edvin Csűry in English). He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.

Biography

He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. He was born into a musical family and at age of five was already learning the violin from his parents. He was eight when accepted into that alma mater for the most talented musicians of the Soviet Union, the Central Tchaikowsky Music School in Moscow. 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 Géza Kapás. He took part in a masterclass given by Ruggiero Ricci, where he won the prize for the best participant, and he was also the Grant Prixe winner of the International Course Competition in Berlin invited by Ruggiero Ricci too. 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 internationally famous 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 at the Juilliard School of Music brought professional contacts which meant changes in his musical style. Here, in one of the most revered classical music environments of Juilliard, he mingled with DJ's and jumped from high level classical to what is referred today as crossover.Still in his 20s, Marton had traveled to more than 30 countries, and played in such renowned concert halls as the Berliner Philharmonie and Vienna's Koncerthaus. But he was looking for a change. 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.

He was always more interested in playing his own music, and this doesn't mean that he wouldn't play Mozart or Vivaldi, it's just that today it is more exciting to perform these works with electronic sounds, since we live in the 21st century.

He won chance to play on Stradivarius on World competition in Canada in 1996, where was another 350 violinists.

Education

* In 1983 Tchaikovsky Academy, Moscow
* in 1991 Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Zeneakadémia [http://www.lfze.hu/hp/nyitolap/index.html] ), Budapest
* In 1994 Juilliard School of Music in New York
* In 1995 graduating at Music Academy in Vienna

He plays a Stradivarius violin, lent to him for his life by a Swiss Bank. "The violin I'm using is from 1697, it's a Stradivarius and was actually played by Paganini over 300 years ago. I won the chance to play it when I won a competition in Montreal in 1996, and now it's in Belgrade with us." [ [http://www.eurovision.tv/page/interviews-2008?id=995 Eurovision tv interview, 18 May 2008] Accessed 25 May 2008. Marton was being a little enthusiastic about Niccolò Paganini's dates, (1782-1840). ]

Awards

* In 2006 Emmy Award winner
* In 2008 Eurovision Song Contest — featuring in Dima Bilan's winning song "Believe"

Discography

1996 "Sarasate"

# Eight Spanish Dances: Malaguena Op.21 No 1.
# Habanera
# Romanza andaluza
# Jota Navarra
# Playera
# Zapateado
# Spanish Dance
# Spanish Dance
# Caprice Basque: Moderato
# Allegro moderato
# Zigeunerweisen: Moderato. Lento
# Un poco piú lento
# Allegro molto vivace
# Concert Fantasy on Carmen: Introduction. Allegro moderato
# Moderato
# Lento assai
# Alegro moderato
# Moderato

2001 "Strings 'N' Beats"

# King Of The Forest
# Miss You
# Bitter Sweet Symphony
# Una furtiva lagrima
# Magic Stradivarius
# Birdman /Hungarian Folk Song
# Secret Emotions
# Fire Dance
# Gloomy Sunday
# First Date
# Wind Of Spring
# Panis Angelicus
# Spaces Of Freedom
# Sarabande
# Art On Ice

2004 "Virtuoso"

# Gypsy Dance
# Beethoven 5
# Love Story
# Hibi-Haba
# Aura
# Guitarra Latino
# Romeo and Juliet
# Irish
# Hungarian Rhapsody
# India
# Virtuoso
# Dark Angel
# Oda of Joy
# Carmina Burana

2006 "Stradivarius"

# Tosca Fantasy
# Vivaldi Spring
# Rio Carneval
# Badinerie
# Romeo and Juliet
# Dramatico
# My Love is Deep
# Bellydance
# Love in Venice
# Tchaikovsky Remix
# Ibiza
# C'est la Vie- Instrumental Version
# Ice Symphony
# O Sole Mio
# Crazy Violin
# Hungarian Rhapsody No.6
# Fireworks
# Paganini
# Bonus- C'est la Vie feat. Lou Bega

Notes

External links

* [http://www.edvinmarton.com/index.php Official homepage]
* [http://www.edvinmartonforum.co.nr/index.php Unofficial Edvin Marton's Fan Forum]