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| Janos Starker |
Janos Starker , who was born in Budapest in 1924, was given the certificate along with the academy's plaque in honour of his life career in music, and as a teacher and artist at a gala dinner in the city on Wednesday, said Viktor Polgar.
Receiving the title, Starker said he was honoured since he had nourished the closest ties with Hungary through the Liszt Academy.
Starker graduated at the Liszt Academy at the age of 15. He was principal cellist of the Hungarian State Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic for a couple of years after WWII. He left Soviet-occupied Hungary in 1946 and emigrated to the US in 1948. He later was principal cellist of the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has been teaching as professor at the Indiana University in Bloomington since 1958.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
