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The contest, held every four years, took place on July 9-17.
?I consider the result sensational,? said Liszt University of Musical Arts rector András Batta, who likened the contest to the ?Olympics of string quartets?.
In addition to the silver medal, the quartet also took the prize for audience favourite as well as the Musica Vviva special prize, which establishes a long-term relationship between the ensemble and Australia?s and New Zealand?s most important concert halls, Batta said.
The quartet was founded by its first violinist Barnabás Kelemen and played its first concert at the Liszt Academy of Music, where Kelemen is a docent, this February.
The quartet?s second violinist is Gábor Homoki, a third-year student at the academy. It?s violist is Homoki?s teacher, Katalin Kokas, and the cellist is Dóra Kokas, a first-year pupil at the academy under the tutelage of Miklós Perényi.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
