
Pavol Varga - 1st violin
Pavol Varga was born in Slovakia in 1989. He received his first violin lessons at the age of 6. After studying at the Conservatory in Bratislava, he enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Prof. Eszter Haffner and at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts (MUK) with Prof. Dalibor Karvay.
He has also participated in several masterclasses – at the L'Académie française-tchèque in Telč (2008), where he was the best student (with Jan Talich), and at the Neuberg Cultural Days (Veronika Schulz). He has also received further artistic inspiration from Gerhard Schulz, Benjamin Schmidt, and Thomas Brandis.
Pavol Varga has also participated in various competitions, including the Joseph Szigetti International Violin Competition and the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition. In 2010, he won first prize at the Žilina Chamber Music Competition (string quartet).
He is a founding member (2008) and first violinist of the Varga Quartet Vienna.
He has performed internationally as a chamber musician and soloist on various stages, including the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, Gasteig, Munich, the Teatro dell'Aquila (Fermo), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the House of Music (Moscow), and many others.
He regularly performs with artists such as Dalibor Karvay (First Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Gottfried Boisits (Vienna Philharmonic), Mario Hossen, Lilliana Kehayova, Florian Eggner, Othmar Müller, Filip Strauch, and Christopher Divine.
Since 2023, he has been the musical director of the HerzTakt Festival in Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser in Tyrol.
