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Bettina Racz

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Bettina is an award- winning solo, chamber and orchestral musician.
Violist
London

Hungarian violist Bettina Racz was born in Békéscsaba. She started playing the violin at the age of 6 and in 2006 started studying with Erika Toth at the Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. She was 18 when she decided to play the viola and continue her studies in London with Jon Thorne. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2015, having received the Maurice Loban Prize for the best viola final recital. Presently she is completing her MA at the RAM in London studying with Roger Chase. She is the winner of the Pál Lukács Hungarian Viola Competition and has also received numerous awards including the Award of the Hungarian Minister of Human Resources and the RAM Alec Rowley and Leverhulme Scholarship awards. As a keen solo viola player she attended masterclasses with such musicians as Maxim Vengerov, Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko, Yuko Inoue, János Rolla and Mihály Várnagy. As a former member of the RAM Bliss Prize and Craxton Prize winner Halcyon Quartet, she is currently supported by the prestigous Royal Academy of Music Davey- Poznanski scheme and has perfomed at the Wigmore Hall, the Halesworth Music Festival and Regent Hall, Oxford Street. As an orchestral instrumentalist she has played under the baton of such conductors as Edward Gardner, Semyon Bychkov, Mark Elder, Yan-Pascal Tortelier and Zoltan Kocsis. She has appeared in London's major venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall. She is a passionate violin and viola teacher and has been educating pupils of all ages for 4 years. Bettina is currently playing on a Capela viola kindly on loan by Jonathan Sparey.

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