Florin SZIGETI is a founding member of the prestigious ENESCO Quartet, with which he settled in France in 1979. With the quartet, he won the First Grand Prize at the Paris International Chamber Music Competition and the Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Française du Disque, followed by several ‘Diapasons d’Or’ and ‘Chocs de la Musique’ awards for the Enesco Quartet’s recordings. With the Enesco Quartet, he is regularly invited to play at the most important festivals and on the most prestigious stages around the world.
Violin professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM), the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris (CRR), and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Florin SZIGETI has also taught as a lecturer at the Sorbonne University – Paris IV, combining a rich artistic and pedagogical career. Recitals and concerts as a soloist, four decades as concertmaster of several chamber and philharmonic orchestras, and more than two thousand quartet concerts mark Florin SZIGETI’s musical career.
A highly renowned teacher, Florin SZIGETI is regularly invited to sit on juries and give masterclasses in violin and chamber music at leading music venues in France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Finland, alongside some of the biggest names in music.
