Zsolt Kalló acts as the concertmaster, soloist and artistic director of Capella Savaria.
He studied violin as Eszter Perényi’s student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest and graduated in 1990 as an honoured violin artist. He also studied with Sándor Végh in Salzburg between 1988 and 1989.
As a concertmaster, he has played with several acclaimed chamber orchestras including Sonora Hungarica, Aura Musicale, Concerto Armonico, and the Orfeo Orchestra but he has also impressed audiences as a soloist via his numerous CD, radio and TV recordings.
He is also renowned for founding the Trio Antiqua and the Authentic Quartet. He has beeninvited as a professor to various early music courses. He currently teaches at the Szombathely Conservatory of Music and at the ’Varga Tibor’ Institute of Musical Art, Széchenyi István University in Győr as a university professor.
He was honoured with the Halász Ferenc Prize for his outstanding educational work in 2008.
He earned his DLA degree in 2010. He is also known as the first artist to play the violin concertos of Tomasini, Kraus and Michael Haydn for Hungarian audiences.
In 2012, he was awarded with the prize “For the Culture of Vas County”.
In 2014 he received the Liszt Prize, and in 2018 he habilitated.
In 2022, he was awarded another highly prestigious state award, the Artist of Merit of Hungary.