From 1986-1997 Janos Selmeczi was the first violinist of the world famouse Eder Quartet, which lead him to many concert tours and several CD recordings, the Complete Mozart’s String Quartets and Quintets Edition and the Complete Shostakovich’s Quartet Edition,which won the BBC Music Magazine’s „five star review” in 1998 . In his concert appearances he has performed music ranging from the renessaince to the present, and works closely together with contemporary composers, often giving the first public performance of their works (Veress, Kurtág, Eötvös,Lajtha,Kocsár, Orbán, Vajda, Csemiczky etc..) As a professor , Janos Selmeczi has given annual master classes in Hungary,Romania and Japan. Janos Selmeczi has many years of experience as a concertmaster. He was the concertmaster of world leading orchestras including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, The NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, The Hungarian National Philharmonie, The Hungarian State Opera, Orchestre National de Lyon, etc… Born in Transsylvania in a family with long musical tradition, he received a wide ranging musical training from his father, who was a pianist and conductor .Janos Selmeczi soon started his studies at the Music Academy in Kolozsvár (Klausenburg) where he graduated with summa cum laude.