Réka Matuska
Réka Matuska started her first lessons on the violin at the age of 5 and advanced to the Kodály Conservatory in Kecskemét at 11. She graduated from the Music Faculty of the Pécs University in 2011, her professor was Béla Bánfalvi. Réka was a member of the Budapest String Chamber Orchestra and founder of the 2011 established Hungarian Chamber Orchestra. She is concertmaster of the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021, as well our first violin soloist in our quartet.
Árpád Attila Fejér
Árpád Attila Fejér was born in 1994 in Târgu Mureș, România. He started his violin studies first in this city, and later he graduated from the National Music University in Bucharest in 2019. He was a diligent participant of many masterclasses in Romania and Hungary, as well a regular extra player of the Bucharest Philharmonic and the Romanian National Radio Orchestra. Árpád was a section member of the Timisoara Philharmonic and since 2021 he is first violinist in the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra in Pécs, Hungary.
Attila Szőcs
Attila Szőcs was born in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania in 1985. He studied viola in Oradea where he graduated later in 2008 as Master of Arts in Viola. From his early years Attila was an enthusiastic chamber musician, taking part in various projects from baroque through classical to folk music. He was viola section leader in the Oradea State Orchestra from 2007. In 2023 Attila joined the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra and right away the Philomela Quartet.
Péter Palotai
Péter Palotai is a double bass player born in 1979 in Budapest, Hungary. He started music on the cello at the age of 9 and switched to double bass at 14. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Music College and Academy, Budapest in 2004. Peter participated in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1998 and 99 and worked together with Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa etc. He was a member of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra between 2001 and 2007, then he moved to Norway to work with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He returned to Hungary in 2021 to start in the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra as Double bass section leader. Peter was very busy at the same time in chamber music as well: he is a member of the Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra since 2001 and guest solo bass in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since 2009.