The New Haydn Quartet was formed in 1994 as successor to the Haydn Quartet originally created in 1989. The quartet has since appeared in Finland, France, Austria and Germany. The present leader is János Horvath, a Moscow trained violinist, who since 1979 has been a principal of the Hungarian State Orchestra. Second violinist, Péter Sárosi, was born in 1971, and from the age of ten studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where the violist of the quartet, György Porzsolt, graduated in 1980, later to serve in the Hungarian State Orchestra. The cellist Gábor Magyar completed his studies at the Liszt Academy in 1988, winning second prize in the prestigious Popper Competition in the same year. Since1990 has also been a member of the Hungarian State Orchestra.
