Tamás Vargawas born in Budapest in 1969, where he began his musical education at the age of
seven, graduating later at the Franz Liszt Academy. His teachers were László Mező, Ferenc Rados
and György Kurtág. He received special artistic impulses in masterclasses with Miklós Perényi,
Menahem Pressler and Uzi Wiesel, where he also studied as a scholarship holder at the Rubin
Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv.
Numerous solo and chamber music concerts take him to almost every country in Europe, as well
as to the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Japan.
Tamás Varga is solo cellist of the Wiener Philharmoniker and the orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper. He regularly works with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Michael
Tilson-Thomas, Christoph Eschenbach and Ádám Fischer.