Kalman “Öcsi” Magyar is widely regarded as North America’s premier Hungarian folk violinist. Classically trained at Manhattan School of Music’s Preparatory Division, Kalman is a former soloist with the Duquesne University Tamburitzans and has performed and recorded with most of the top folk musicians in Hungary and Transylvania. A lawyer by trade, he is the host of Tanchaz Talk, the world’s only English-language program focusing primarily on Hungarian folk music, and a co-director of the Hungarian Folklife Association. You can read more about him here.