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Zsolt Kalló acts as the concertmaster, soloist and artistic director of Capella Savaria. He was born in Győr in the 6th of March 1967. He studied violin as Eszter Perényi’s student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest and graduated in 1990 as an honoured violin artist. He also studied with Sándor Végh in Salzburg between 1988 and 1989.

As a concertmaster, he has played with several acclaimed chamber orchestras including Sonora Hungarica, Aura Musicale, Concerto Armonico, and the Orfeo Ensemble but he has also impressed audiences as a soloist via his numerous CD, radio and TV recordings. He is also renowned for founding the Trio Antiqua and the Authentic Quartet. He is also known as the first artist to play the violin concertos of Tomasini, Kraus and Michael Haydn for Hungarian audiences.

He has been invited as a professor to various early music courses. He had been a teacher at the Szombathely Conservatory of Music until 2019 and he is a professor at the ’Varga Tibor’ Institute of Musical Art, Széchenyi István University in Győr.

He was honoured with the Halász Ferenc Prize for his outstanding educational work in 2008. He earned his DLA degree in 2010. In 2012, he was awarded with the prize “For the Culture of Vas County”. In 2014 he received the Liszt Prize, and in 2018 he habilitated. He became Merited Artist of the Republic of Hungary in 2022.