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Oszkár Varga, violinist and violist, was born in 21 December 1989 in Novi Sad into a family of musicians and began playing the violin at the age of four. In 1999, due to the wars in former Yugoslavia, he moved with his family to Budapest, where he continued his studies first with Erika Tóth and then with Judit Szászné Réger. In 2004 he was accepted into the Szent István Secondary School of Music in György Lendvai's class. He graduated in 2009 and continued his studies at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2015 he graduated from the class of Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen, then continued his studies at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music. His DLA final concert took place on September 5, 2023, in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Music. In the meantime, he regularly attended masterclasses with Barnabás Kelemen in Kaposvár, Dejan Bogdanovich in Italy, and Alexander and Albert Markov in France, at whose invitation he spent a year in New York as a full scholarship student at the Long Island Conservatory. He also played for Maxim Rysanov and Ivry Gitlis. He made his orchestral debut in 2009 with the Zugló Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. He has appeared several times at Kaposfest, collaborating with artists such as Zoltán Kocsis, Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, Alina Ibragimova and Alexander Rudin. In 2013 he represented the Academy of Music in Jerusalem in a week-long program.

He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in New York, Boston, Jerusalem, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, as well as in major concert halls in Hungary, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Beaux Artes in Brussels, Wigmore Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna.

In 2017 he won the Junior Prima Award.