Biography

Anatol Toth was born in Switzerland in 2003, of Hungarian and German descent. He spent a large part of his childhood in Spain and the Basque Country. Since 2013 he has been taught the violin by Barbara Doll (Basel Music Academy), and since 2017 also by Gyorgy Pauk (London) and Gyulla Stuller (Lausanne Music Academy). 

Anatol received master classes and important impulses from Leonidas Kavakos, Ana Chumachenco (String Academy-Menuhin Festival Gstaad), Nora Chastain, Alf Richard Kraggerud, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Ernst Kovacic, Boris Kucharsky, Maurice Steger and Marco Postinghel (Barock Academy Gstaad). He is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks there.

Anatol received numerous 1st prizes with distinction and special prizes as a finalist in the “Swiss Youth Music Competition” and “Jugend Musiziert” in Germany. He and his siblings have won several awards for the best ensemble and have been invited to the International Chamber Music Festival in Mantua, Italy. In 2018 Anatol was a semi-finalist at the renowned “International Menuhin Competition”. He was awarded the WDR Classic Prize of the City of Münster and the Hermann J. Abs Prize for the best Beethoven interpretation. Both concert appearances were broadcast by WDR. Furthermore, he won the 3rd prize at the “9. International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists” in Weimar. 

Anatol made his debut as a soloist at the age of eleven with the New Zurich Orchestra, among others at the Tonhalle Zurich. He regularly gives concerts as a soloist and as a chamber musician in Switzerland and other European countries. Appearances at various festivals such as the Arosa Klassik Festival, the Mantova International Chamber Music Festival, Lavaux Classics, Week-End Musical de Pully as well as his involvement in fundraising events for Medico International contribute to his diversity. He received the highest praise from critics for his performance in front of sold-out audiences in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich's Residenz with the Mozart Violin Concerto in A, accompanied by the Bavarian Philharmonic. In 2013 he played the Dvorak trio in a trio with the well-known violist Miguel Da Silva and his sister in Saint-Jean-De-Luz, which received a great response in the French media. In 2019 he played a widely acclaimed award winners concert in the Handel Hall in Halle, which was broadcast live by MDR. 

Anatol is a scholarship holder of the LYRA Foundation and the Fritz Gerber Foundation. He plays a 1796 Lupot violin on private loan.