Violinist Marta Murvai, currently living in Berlin, is an outstanding, highly valued soloist and chamber musician.


Her concerts with Gille Apap, Radek Baborák, Ruha István or Szűcs Máté have taken Marta Murvai to the stages of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Berlin Konzerthaus or the Apollo Hall of the Berlin State Opera. She regularly plays concerts all over Europe at chamber music festivals with musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic, the German Opera, the Gewandhaus, professors from the Schools of Music in Berlin, Frankfurt, Rostock, Hamburg, and Freiburg, as well as with soloists, chamber musicians and members of many State Philharmonics and Universities from Romania and Hungary.

“We're going to witness a great concert tonight. The invited guest artist, violinist Marta Murvai, is the guarantee for this.” profess the columnists of the concert previews prior to Marta Murvai's concerts. She performs on a regular basis as a soloist with the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestras and has collaborated with many of the country's great conductors, including Emil Simon, Ilarion Ionescu-Galați, Bács Lajos, Tiberiu Soare and Jankó Zsolt. Her repertoire includes all major violin concertos, numerous sonatas and virtuoso works for violin solo, violin with piano and a wide variety of chamber music literature from duo to octet. For this outstanding concert career, she received the "Sándor Végh" award from the Romanian Mozart Society.

As a regular guest in the first violin section of the Staatskapelle
Berlin, the Dresden Philharmonic, the German Radio Orchestras from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne, Marta Murvai has played numerous concerts and opera performances under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Simon Rattle, James Levine, András Schiff, Paavo Järvi and Andris Nelsons.

Marta Murvai started violin lessons in her native Bucharest, and won numerous prizes at national and international competitions at a young age. She was the winner of the Romanian “Young Musicians Contest” for several years in a row and also received, among other accomplishments, the 1st prize at the "Jeunesses Musicales" competition, as well as the 2nd prize and the special prize of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth at the "Jaroslav Kocian" competition in the Czech Republic.

Her musical education then led her to the United States. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and received Magna cum Laude from the Conservatory of Lynn University while studying in the violin studio of Prof. Sergiu Schwarz. During this time, she won 1st prize at the "Concerto Competition", the Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the “Mizner Competition” and the Robert Campton Award for the Best Musician of the year.

Marta Murvai completed her Concert Exam Degree with excellence in the Violin Class of Prof. Werner Scholz at the Rostock University of Music and Theater. "We witnessed an emotional euphoria during A.Glasunov's a minor violin concerto. Marta Murvai convinced us of her secure technical violin skills and beautiful sound " , wrote the review of the Ostsee Newspaper after her Exam Concert with the North German Philharmonic Rostock. At the "Queen Sophie-Charlotte" competition she received 1st prize and the special prize of the jury for the best performance of a virtuoso work.