Fanatico edvin marton biography
- Edvin Marton is a Hungarian composer and violinist, (born February 17, 1974, Tiszaújlak, Ukraine).
- Edvin Marton (born Lajos Edvin Csűry, 17 February 1974, Vylok, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist.
- At 8 years old, Marton was accepted to the Central Tchaikovsky Music School in Moscow.
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Liberace of the fiddle: Rebel violinist brings his dance club music — and $3 million instrument — to Houston
It may have been an early childhood romance that first inspired Edvin Marton to pick up the violin, but his tryst with the fiddle wasn't love at first sight.
When he was 5 years old, Marton (née Lajos Csűry) had eyes for a little girl he met in kindergarten class, but as luck would have it, she wouldn't give him the time of day. He approached his mother for advice. She suggested that he learn a delightful little tune to serenade his crush on her birthday. Marton practiced and practiced in hopes of winning her heart — and he did.
After his performance, Marton received a peck on the cheek.
Marton, in Houston to perform his "Stradivarius Show" on Friday night at Wortham Theater Center as part of the Brilliant Lecture Series, comes from a family of musicians. His father is a violinist. His mother is a violinist. His grandparents, violinists. His younger sister, he says, having grown up in such an immersive environment, believed that everyone — ever
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