From the CD of the show Duo Esencias
Energetic duo performance by the talented flamenco-spanish dancer (Sharon Lopez) and the multiple competition winner violinist (Mate Racz). This show will bring you passionate spanish dancing, virtuosic gypsy, classical, and flamenco-fusion music and much more.
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Máté Rácz is a Hungarian-born violinist. He started to play the violin at the age of 4 in Szeged. In 2001 he began his studies at the Kodály Conservatoire in Kecskemét and then continued at the Conservatoire of Győr with Professor Svikruha Marta. In 2007 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London studying under Jan Repko and Dona Lee Croft with whom he studied for 6 years and gained his Masters degree in 2013. In 2011 he also won the Sir Charles Mackerras Scholarship in Orchestral Leadership which enabled him to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music. Since graduating, as a soloist he has played with prestigious orchestras, such as The Havilland Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Maestros, Gyori Szimfonikus Zenekar, London-Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de España. In 2014 Máté moved to Madrid to work with the Orquesta Santa Cecilia playing in some of the largest auditoriums in Spain. He has been awarded several international and melissa mccarthy national prizes for his craft, such as winner of the Lipitzer International violin competition in Gorizia, Kloster; Schöntal International Violin Competition; Zaturecky Hungarian National Violin Competition; Kingston upon Thames Festival of the Performing Arts; Ealing Festival Concerto Competition; the Bach Prize and Hatfield Music Festival. garmin forerunner 70 170 launch Máté is Cofounder, Musical Director and Composer of Duo southampton fc Esencias. He is also a member of London’s well known comedy string quartet Graffiti Classics who perform weekly in some of the most renowned theatres and festivals around the world. He attended master classes with venerated violinists such as György Pauk, Eszter Perényi, Béla Katona, Peter Esswood, Barnabás Kelemen, György Somogyi, András Kis and Dénes Kovács and has lead many youth and professional European orchestras such as RCM Symphony Orchestra, RCM Sinfonietta, Gyor, Kecskemet and Szeged Symphony Orchestras, Viennese Mozart Orchestra and RWCMD Chamber orchestra; under the batons of Ashkenazy, Salonen and Jurowsky, performing throughout the UK, Eurpoe and Asia.
