Pannon Philharmonic

Márta Deák was born in 1982. Her first teachers were her father, György Deák and János Sándor, and then in 2005, after studying with Eszter Perényi she gained an excellent diploma and graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. In the same year she was admitted to London's Royal Academy of Music, where she learnt under the guidance of György Pauk, graduated with honour and gained the DipRAM title in 2007.



Since childhood, she was the winner of national competitions, such as János Koncz Violin Competition (1995, 1998) and Zathureczky Memorial Competition (1998), and finalist competed in international competitions (Károly Flesch International Violin Competition, Mosonmagyaróvár, 2001). The highest awards were given to her on chamber music contests: at the Leó Weiner National Chamber Music Competition in 2003 and most recently in 2010, where she won the string quartet, string trio and sonata categories. She attended the master classes of Eszter Perényi, György Pauk, Péter Frankl, György Kurtág, Vilmos Szabadi, Michael Frischenschlager, Wolfgang Güttler, Thomas Brandis, Zakhar Bron, Sylvia Rosenberg, Maxim Vengerov, the Tallis Quartet and the Michelangelo Quartet. On several occasions were she broadcasted live by the Hungarian Radio. Márta appeared as soloist with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Danube Symphony Orchestra playing Mozart’s, Dvorak’s and Beethoven’s Violin Concertos. She was invited as guest at cultural festivals in cities like Graz (Austria), Budapest, Szombathely (Bartók Seminar and Festival), Celldömölk, Tapolca, Nyíregyháza, Stuttgart (Germany), Pécs and Debrecen.



During her UK studies she have successfully won the Musicians Benevolent Foundation’s Myra Hess Award, the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Professional Preparation Master's Scheme, many scholarships within the institution (like Clarence Myerscough, the Wilfred Parry, the Gladys Hays and the Rose Roitman Award), and in April 2007, she received the Sándor Kiss Award offered by the Rotary Club, Szombathely. The Royal Academy of Music’s symphony orchestra had her as the leader on several occasions like under the baton of Yan Pascal Tortellier, Ignat Solhenitsyn, and Edward Gardner. She had the opportunity to play the Romance in F major by Beethoven as a soloist with the renowned and celebrated Sir Colin Davis. Márta gave concerts in the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London and in Stuttgart and was a member of the Academy’s elite chamber orchestra, the Royal Academy Soloists, led by Clio Gould, the concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where Márta worked in 2007.



Back in Hungary she is a regular participant in chamber musical life. Since September 2007, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra - Pécs has her as concertmaster, and she formed and led the Villányi String Quartet since 2008. Márta have appeared with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra several times as the soloist of Bartók’s Violin Concerto op. posth. and of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto in F major. In 2010, she won the Annie Fischer State Scholarship, within which she gave concerts in Zalaegerszeg, Budapest and Pécs. In 2011 the Hubay Society has awarded her with a membership. Márta plays on a violin made by Sámuel Nemessányi in 1867 owned by the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra – Pécs.