Csaba Onczay

Hungarian cellist born in Budapest in 1946. Onczay was a pupil of Antal Friss at the Budapest Academy, where he won the Grand Prize on graduation in 1970. He was subsequently awarded the Liszt Prize, then won the 1973 Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest, followed by first prize in the Rio de Janeiro Villa-Lobos International Competition in 1976. He went on to distinguish himself in Andre Navarra’s masterclass at Siena and continued his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.