The story of the ensemble

The Corpus Trombone Quartet was founded in 2001 by young students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with the help of Tivadar Stan. On the same year, the quartet entered their first international competition, the 7th Brass Chamber Competition, Passau, Germany.

As a result of their three-month ensemble playing before, they won the jury's special prize, thus they fastly worked up their repertoire. Thereafter their activity embraced a common workshop of two years. During these two years, the ensemble acquired a homogenous sonority and virtuoso technique, thus they confirmed their faith in continuing the common work.

In 2003, the quartet achieved its first victory at the 32nd International Trombone Festival's trombone quartet competition. They won another competition, the 5th Philip Jones International Brass Chamber Competition in the same year, enhancing the fame of the Hungarian brass culture. In 2004, they again attended the 4th Jan Koetsier International Trombone Quartet Competition, where they won the first prize. Afterwards, they made a lot of concert tours, among others several times in the USA and Japan. They also played in Egypt, in numerous countries of Europe, as well as at a number of concerts in Hungary.

Those years, they made three CDs as well that have been sold continually from the USA to Japan in many countries. In 2005, the British musical instrument maker Michael Rath – who experienced the quartet's success – invited them to the UK, and since then, he has supported the ensemble with his master trombones. In 2006, they won the Hungarian Star Prize as well as the prize Chamber Ensemble of the Year. They acquired the Artisjus Prize (Hungarian music copyright agency) in 2008 and 2011 for their interpretation of Hungarian contemporary pieces. In 2010, the quartet won the 11th International Brass Chamber Competition, Passau, Germany.

In 2012, the ensemble organized for university students the 1st Hungarian National Trombone Competition called "Corpus" Trombone competition. They organized this competition from year to year, extended it for secondary school students, and developed it to an international level, i.e., for students from foreign countries. After the ITF Valencia 2015, the quartet made a CD called "Live" from their ITF concert. In the last two years, they created an International Competition – with Michael Rath's help – as part of the Hungarian Trombone Bootcamp. Also, they made two more CDs: "Contemporary" in 2018 and a Hungarian folk music CD in 2019 called "Madarka."

In 2021, the ensemble received the Artisjus Prize once again, and in 2024, they were honored with the Hungarian state Liszt Ferenc Award.

The quartet has played with such world-famous artists like Steven Mead, James Morrison, Vincenzo Paratore, Brandt Attema, Mark Nightingale, Marshall Gilkes, Zoltán Kiss, and many more...