The Capella Savaria are a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 ensemble

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 that perform chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 on original instruments (and instruments based on original designs).

Established in 1981, in Szombathely

Szombathely

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, they most often perform music from the 17th and 18th centuries, and have performed around Europe

Europe

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, as well as making a number of recordings, and in 1991, they received the Liszt Prize.

Their current artistic director is Zsolt Kalló.