About the Artist Violinist Eszter Haffner was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1969. She studied for 13 years in the Gifted Musician Class at the Budapest Liszt Ferenc Music Academy with Andras Kiss, Ferenc Rados, and György Kurtag. After the completion of her studies in Hungary, she came to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, to study with Gerhard Schulz and Josef Sivo. She earned her Diploma with unanimous distinction and prize from the Department of Culture Vienna. She has also been prizewinner in numerous international competitions: Concertino Praha, Koncz Violin Competition Hungary, Stephanie Hohl Vienna, International Chamber Music Competition Trapani, and Caltanissetta Italy. As a result of her successful career in the arts, she received Austrian citizenship. She has performed at countless Music Festivals such as the Menuhin Festival Blonay, Festival Sion, Montana Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Schubertiade, St. Gallen Festival, Klangbogen Wien, Styriarte Graz, Macau Festival, Taipei Festival, Casals Festival in Prades, and Villa Musica/Rheinland-Pfalz. As soloist and chamber musician (violin and viola), she has appeared with such artists as Clemens Hagen, Alexander Lonquich, the Altenberg Trio, Haydn-Trio, Artis Quartett, Wiener Streichsextett, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Nicolas Chumachenco, and conductors including Marko Letonja, Loris Tjeknavorian, and Adam Medveczky. Her recordings reflect her unusually extensive musical range, covering chamber and concerto works from Haydn to Eisler. Since 2002, she has been professor of violin at the KUG University of Music Graz, Austria, and since 2010 also at the Royal Academy of Music Copenhagen, Denmark. She is member of Haffner Strings, Haffner Trio, and Aurora Chamber in Sweden.