NIGUN TRIO

Vilmos Csikos

Vilmos Csikos obtained his Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. A laureate of numerous international violin competitions, in 2007 he won First Prize at both the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition and the Remember Enescu International Violin Competition, and was awarded First Grand Prize at the 2017 Leonid Kogan International Competition for Young Violinists and the 2020 Henri Vieuxtemps International Violin Competition respectively. He is also a laureate of the 2013 International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists (Weimar, Germany). In 2018 he was invited onto the jury for the fourth edition of the Young Belgian Talent competition in Brussels, and since 2019 has served as a jury member for the Leonid Kogan International Competition for Young Violinists. He is regularly invited to perform at international music festivals in Europe and Asia. As a concert soloist he has appeared with the Aria chamber orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the Brussels Sinfonietta, among others, with renowned conductors such as Etienne Rappe, Dmitry Filatov, Nicolás Pasquet, Hans Casteleyn and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Pal Laszlo Szomora

Pal Laszlo Szomora is an incredibly talented violinist who impresses not only by his unbelievable virtuosity and amazing stage presence, but also by sensitivity of his sound and incomparable gypsy temperament. He is a 21 years old gypsy violinist living in Belgium. Pal started to play violin at the age of 4 with his first teacher and his father - Pal Szomora, later he was following lessons with Szasz Jozsefne in Budapest. From 2013 he has been studying with Mikhail Bezverkhny (winner of Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1976). In his early age he is a 1st prize winner of numerous national and international competitions: the Thrid Rados Deszo Violin Competition (Budapest, Hungary), International Competition Jonge Solisten aan Zee (Oostende, Belgium), Soloists Competition Jong Symfonisch Gent (Gent, Belgium), International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition (Brussels, Belgium).

Laszlo Racz

Pal Laszlo Szomora is an incredibly talented violinist who impresses not only by his unbelievable virtuosity and amazing stage presence, but also by sensitivity of his sound and incomparable gypsy temperament. He is a 21 years old gypsy violinist living in Belgium. Pal started to play violin at the age of 4 with his first teacher and his father - Pal Szomora, later he was following lessons with Szasz Jozsefne in Budapest. From 2013 he has been studying with Mikhail Bezverkhny (winner of Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1976). In his early age he is a 1st prize winner of numerous national and international competitions: the Thrid Rados Deszo Violin Competition (Budapest, Hungary), International Competition Jonge Solisten aan Zee (Oostende, Belgium), Soloists Competition Jong Symfonisch Gent (Gent, Belgium), International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition (Brussels, Belgium).