Hungarian violist Máté Szücs has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player.
Born into a musical family, he began playing the violin at the age of five, studying with Ferenc Szecsődi in Szeged before switching to the viola at seventeen to study with Erwin Schiffer. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Royal Conservatory of Flanders in Antwerp with the highest distinction, and also obtained a diploma with the same distinction from the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo, Belgium.
As an orchestral musician, Máté has served as solo violist with the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders. From 2011 to 2018, he was Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where he also appeared as a soloist performing the Bartók Viola Concerto in September 2017.
As a chamber musician, he has been a member of ensembles such as the Mendelssohn Ensemble, Con Spirito Piano Quartet, Trio Dor, Enigma Ensemble, and Fragments Ensemble. He has collaborated with leading musicians including Janine Jansen, Frank-Peter Zimmermann, Christian Tetzlaff, Vadim Repin, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Kristóf Baráti, István Várdai, Camille Thomas, Kirill Troussov, and Julien Quentin.
Máté is also a highly renown pedagogue. He has been a regular professor at Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, and the Music Academy of Budapest.
He has given masterclasses worldwide, including New York, Los Angeles, Michigan, London, Berlin, Brussel, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo.