“With impeccable intonation and intoxicating passion, she enthused the audience and the press alike.”
The only musician listed in the 2020 Forbes Hungary “30 under 30” list, Hungarian & Nicaraguan-American Abigél Králik is quickly gaining attention as “a shooting star in the truest sense of the word” (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Kultur). Her musical journey taking her from Dublin to Budapest, eventually to Juilliard and now to Brussels, Abigél frequently performs with orchestras, most recently with the Mexico City Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Casco Philharmonic as well as the MÁV Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her solo appearances, Abigél is a passionate chamber musician, appearing as a featured artist at the Verbier, Clasclas, Budapest, Krzyzowa, Moritzburg and Prussia Cove Festivals, as well as the Perlman Music Program and Festival Mozaic. She collaborates with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Guy Braunstein, Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann, Barnabás Kelemen, Maxim Rysanov, Benedict Kloeckner, and Gary Hoffman amongst others.
Abigél began her studies with Éva Ácsné-Szily and continued with Eszter Perényi and Kristóf Baráti in Budapest. Soon after, she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Laurie Smukler. She was awarded the highest merit-based scholarship, the Kovner Fellowship for all six years.
2024-25 will be an exciting season. Abigél will release a recording of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2 and Laurent Couson’s Yiddish Concerto, with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra and Robert Farkas. She will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto with the Casco Phil, Kachaturian’s Violin Concerto with Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Benjamin’s Romantic Fantasy with Timisoara Philharmonic as well as BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In the Spring she will record a series of works by Saint-Saens for violin and Orchestra for the CPO label with ORF Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien and Howard Griffiths. Through all this, she will continue her work towards the next edition of the TARA Concerts Festival in Belgium, of which she is Founder and Co-Artistic Director.
