Pal Szomora

° Budapest (Hungary)

Pal Szomora was born into a family of Gypsy musicians, who have passed down the violin tradition from father to son for many generations. At the age of six, he began touring the world with various Gypsy bands as a soloist, including the Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra (commonly known as "One Hundred Gypsy Musicians"). He is one of the leading members of the Gypsy Philharmonic Orchestra.

In Budapest, he studied at the Rajkó Orchestra, a school orchestra dedicated to preserving Hungarian Gypsy music, and at the Ferenc Liszt Conservatory. In 1996 he moved to Belgium, where he continued his violin studies with Mikhail Bezverkhny and later with Rudolf Werthen at the Royal Music Conservatory of Ghent.

He now performs in a wide variety of musical settings.