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MÓNIKA TÓTH

Born in 1974, in Hungary. She received her degree with distinction in violin pedagogy and chamber music performance at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Szeged, in 1997.

In 1999, she received grants from the Soros Foundation and the Marco Fodella Foundation, which allowed her to study baroque violin and specialize in ancient music at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, under the guidance of Enrico Gatti. Later, she received a master’s degree cum laude in baroque violin at the Conservatoire Vincenzo Bellini of Palermo, in 2007, as a student of Enrico Onofri.

She also attended masterclasses with Simon Standage, Lucy van Dael, Jaap Schröder, Bart Kuijken, and Malcolm Bilson.

She won the second prize at the Bonporti Rovereto International Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and the third prize at the International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg (Germany) in 2001. On both occasions, the president of the international jury was Gustav Leonhardt.

She performs regularly with avant-garde chamber groups and ensembles, including I Barocchisti, Imaginarium Ensemble, Ensemble Zefiro, Accademia Bizantina, Il Giardino Armonico, Dolce and Tempesta, Europa Galante, Capella Leopoldina Graz, Barucco Wien, Neue Hofkapelle Graz, Accentus Austria, L’ Eclisse, Ensemble Castor, and Stella Matutina.

She is regularly invited as a chamber musician, leader or soloist to prestigious international festivals, such as the Regensburg, Berlin, Barcelona, Leipzig, Vienna, Salzburg, Trigonale, Mantua, Milan, Krakow, Stockholm, Cuopio, Mexico City, Crete and Jerusalem.

She recorded for Decca, EMI, Sony, Archiv, Naïv, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Arts, Chandos, Hungaroton, RTSI, Symphonia, Amadeus, Taktus, Erato, Querstand, Panclassics, Passacalia, Arcana, Preiser Records, Brilliant Classics and Virgin labels.

She works with renowned singers such as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva, Max Cencic, Gemma Bertagnoli, Klaus Mertens, Silvia Frigato and Roberta Mameli; with conductors such as Diego Fasolis, Giovanni Antonini, Alain Curtis and Gustav Leonhardt; and with instrumental soloists such as Andreas Staier, Enrico Onofri, Balázs Máté, Gabriele Cassone, Alfredo Bernardini, Malcolm Bilson, Bahrt Kuijken and Elisa Citterio.

She teaches baroque violin at various summer music academies in Hungary, as well as in Italy and Poland.

She is the founder of Miszla Baroque Early Music Academy, which takes place twice a year in the Baroque village Nemeskéry, in Miszla, Hungary.

Since 2012, she has been a tutor in the young Baroque Orchestra I Talenti Vulcanici, at the Centro di Musica Antica della Pietà de’Turchini, in Naples. Since 2018/19, she is a professor of baroque violin at the University of Ljubljana.

In 2019, Mónika Tóth was awarded the Betty Wager Prize for the City of Heves, her hometown, for her achievements in ancient music.