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Highlights of Ninas career were performances with many of the greatest Symphony Orchestras of Europe. She has danced with the Vienna Philharmonic in Musikvereinssaal Vienna, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Dresden Philharmonic in the Semperoper, and in a sell out concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London performing with soloists José Carreras, and Maxim Vengerov. Nina Corti was on stage with James Last, Los Reyes, Gipsy Kings, Manolo Gimenez, Mario Regis, Chico & the Gypsies, Manitas de Plata, Vasili Saleas, „José Luis Carmona, José Miguel & Juan & Antonio Carmona, (Ketama), Potito, Ruben Dantas, Jorge Pardo, Peter Erskine, Steve Khan, Carles Benavent, Ramon el Portuges, Enrique Morente, Guadiana, Pepe Habichuela, Luis Pastor, José Maria Molero, Gerardo Nuñez, José Mercé, Miguel de la Tolea, José Soto, Enrique Soto, Chaleco, Pepe Justicia, Manuel Palacin, El Mimbre, Ignazio Vidaechea, PEDRO PEREZ ONTIVEROS, Nippy Noya, Karoly Puka, Kalman Balogh, Daniel Schnyder, Ana Ibarra, Vince Mendoza, Libor Sima, Klaus Graf, Obi Jenne, Klaus Wagenleiter, Mini Schulz, Andi Maile, Axel Kühn, Jörg Kaufmann, Shao-Chia Lü, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Héctor Sandoval, Steven Sloane, Gerd Albrecht, Achim Fiedler, MarioVenzago, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunksinfonieorchester des NDR und des BR, Wiener Sinfoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie Hamburger Staatsor¬chester, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Bochumer Symphoniker, NWD Philharmonie, WDR Big Band, Sinfonietta Basel, Heilbronner Kammerorchester, SWDKammer Orchester, Cappella Istropolitana, Stefania Verita, Rolf Lislevand, Carmina Quartet and so on...

Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally comfortable performing classical music as he is playing jazz and in his own Hungarian folk idiom, Lakatos is the rare musician who defies definition. He is referred to as a gypsy violinist or devils fiddler, a classical virtuoso, a jazz improviser, a composer and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback, and he is actually all of these things at once. He is the kind of universal musician so rarely encountered in our time—a player whose strength as an interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and composer. He has performed at the great halls and festivals of Europe, Asia and America.

Born in 1965 into the legendary family of gypsy violinists descended from Janos Bihari, King of Gypsy Violinists, Roby Lakatos was introduced to music as a child and at age nine he made his public debut as first violin in a gypsy band. His musicianship evolved not only within his own family but also at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Budapest, where he won the first prize for classical violin in 1984. Between 1986 and 1996, he and his ensemble delighted audiences at "Les Atéliers de la grande Ille" in Brussels, their musical home throughout this period. He has collaborated with Vadim Repin and Stéphane Grappelli, and his playing was greatly admired by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who always made a point of visiting the club in Brussels to hear Lakatos. In March 2004, Lakatos appeared to great acclaim with the London Symphony Orchestra in the orchestras Genius of the Violin festival alongside Maxim Vengerov.

Robys Ensemble:
Lászlo Bóni - 2nd violin
Jeno Lisztes - cimbalom
Laszlo Balogh - guitare
Robert Fehér double bass
Frantisek Janoska piano