Cellist András Fejér was born in 1955 into a musical family. His father was a cellist and conductor, and his mother was a pianist. At the age of seven he began playing the cello, apparently because his father was unwilling to listen to an upstart-violinist practising. András was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1975, and that year he founded the Takács Quartet with three fellow classmates. Although the quartet has been his sole professional focus since then, he does occasionally perform as a soloist. András is married with three children, and lives in Boulder, Colorado. When he is not on tour, he enjoys reading, photography, tennis and hiking. During the summer he is a member of the faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.