The members of our quartet, founded in 2005, graduated from the music academies of London, Brussels, Vienna and Budapest, gave concerts at several points of the world, but are particularly connected to the homeland of quartet, i.e. the West Pannon Region. This is the reason for choosing the name Wespa Quartet for our ensemble.
The string quartet literature has been continually enriching since the Vienna Classicism. Day by day, it gives us a great pleasure to encounter with the fantastic composers’ pieces, which always have extraordinary treasures for us to share. With our concerts and performances connected to other celebrations of our everyday life, we would like to “hand on” this strengthening beauty of chamber music.

Members:

Wolfgang Göllner violin Born in 1963. Wolfgang Göllner studied violin at the University of Music and Arts in Vienna and under the guidance of the famous violinist Prof. Staar. In 1997 Göllner achieved the diploma at the Royal College of Music in London. He has won three national and international music competitions and is represented by 9 CD’s on the European and Asian market. Being a member of the Vienna Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years he decided to work as a soloist, chamber musician and leader of his own three orchestras only (the Vienna Mozart Academy, the Johann Strauß Chamber Orchestra Vienna and the National Chamber Orchestra Moldava). As a chamber musician Göllner worked together with artists such as Jörg Demus and Ernst Kovacic and performed at the music festival in Lockenhaus with Heinrich Schiff, Isabelle van Keulen, Thomas Zehetmair and the Borodin Quartet.

Anett Árvayné Nezvald violin After her studies at Richter János Conservatory in Győr, she graduated from the Royal Conservatory Brussels (Erasmus Hogeschool Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) as a student of Katalin Sebestyén, Yuzuko Horigome, Karen Aroutiounian and Charles-Andree Linale. She also took part in the violin- and chamber music-courses of Dénes Zsigmondi, Károly Botvay, Endre Hegedűs. She has been a member of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003.

Péter Kóczán viola Péter Kóczán was born in Sopron, he studied viola at the Bartók Conservatoire and at the Franz Liszt Music University in Budapest. Having obtained his diploma he moved to Vienna to the University for Music, studying with Thomas Kakuska and Siegfried Führlinger, and receiving his Master’s Degree. Since August 2004 he has been co-principal of the Györ Philharmonic, in 2007 he spent 9 months in Malta as solo viola player with the Orkestra Nazzjonali of Malta, since 2011 he has been member of the Mozart Orchestra Vienna and artistic director of the Sopron Symphony Orchestra.

Marcell Vámos cello Marcell Vámos was born on 14th April 1976 in Budapest. He started his musical studies at the age of six at Mariann Takacs. He attended Bartók Béla Conservatory between 1990 and 1995. At first Ottó Kertész, later György Déry were his teachers. He graduated summa cum laude from Liszt Ferenc Music Academy in 2001, as a student of Csaba Onczay. Besides his modern musical studies, he also took part in the courses of the festival ‘Early Music Days’ in Sopron regularly. He has been a member of the Budapest Cello Ensemble since 1998, which gave lots of successful concerts throughout Europe, several of which were broadcasted by the Hungarian Television and the Euroradio. He has also been a member of the Erdödy Chamber Orchestra since 1999, and the Voralberg Symphonic Orchestra Bregenz since 2003.

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