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• Visiting Professor of Music (Cello), Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• D.M. , Liszt University of Music Budapest, 1973
• Artist Diploma , Liszt University of Music Budapest, 1970

Background:

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Mr. Csaba Onczay has been distinguished in receiving the Kossuth Prize, the highest award given to any performing artist in all of Hungary.

Mr. Onczay has been awarded with the prestigious Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 2004. He was awarded the Liszt Prize and Distinguished Artist in Hungary.

He secured the position of Professor at the Liszt University of Music in Budapest, Hungary where he remains today. In 2001, he was a Visiting Professor at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin and at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington in 2006-2007.

Mr. Onczay has won first prize at the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest, Hungary (1973), first prize at the International Villa Lobos Competition of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1976).

He appears as a soloist in some of the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, America, Korea, and Japan.

In addition to numerous recordings of concerts for radio and television, Mr. Onczay has recorded numerous CD's: concertos of C.P.E. Bach, Schumann, Lalo,Villa Lobos, Dohnányi and all the sonatas of Beethoven and solo suites of Bach.

He regularly holds master-courses in Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Japan and Hungary.

He has been invited as a soloist and chamber musician to many international Festivals. They include: Pablo Casals Festival Prades, Kronberg, Springfestival Budapest, Beaumaris Festival, Bergamo, and Springfestival in Prague, and in Japan Gifu and Ishikawa.